WEBVTT - Mike Allen in for Bill Cunningham -- 11/28/25

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Allen in four, the great American Willie Cunningham, who's

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<v Speaker 1>getting a well deserved day off here. Well, i'll tell

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<v Speaker 1>you what. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I

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<v Speaker 1>know that I did, of course. Now we've got Black

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<v Speaker 1>Friday upon us, and I just stacked my neck out

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit. You can see Kenwood Mall from the

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<v Speaker 1>studio here, and I mean it's crowded, but it doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>look that bad. Put it this way, it looks manageable. Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll be able to talk about all of that at

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<v Speaker 1>nine point thirty, but we're getting right to work here.

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<v Speaker 1>Our first guest, he describes the six Democrats that really

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<v Speaker 1>had the gall to really, I think, encourage service members

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<v Speaker 1>to disobey orders. He calls them the six donkeys, and well,

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<v Speaker 1>you could even make it worse than that. They say that, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>the individual service member, if you feel that the order

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<v Speaker 1>is illegal, you can disobey it. And our next guest,

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<v Speaker 1>he calls that. He refers to it as reckless, irresponsible,

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<v Speaker 1>and dangerous, and man, it's hard to argue with that description.

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<v Speaker 1>And here to talk about it is mister Greg Rabido.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a filmmaker, a teacher, and an attorney. He's co

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<v Speaker 1>founder of Vaalmar Films. Greg, welcome back to seven hundred WLW.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you sir, Happy belated or day after Thanksgiving?

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<v Speaker 1>You too, you too.

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<v Speaker 3>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the way I look at this thing, Greg,

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<v Speaker 1>when it came out, just when you think there's no

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<v Speaker 1>way that they can become the Democrats more irresponsible than

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<v Speaker 1>they already have been, you see something like this. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>this is incredible.

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<v Speaker 2>I tell you. It goes just about as close to

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<v Speaker 2>the line of treason as you can get. And then

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<v Speaker 2>I've been listening to some of the commentary and some

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<v Speaker 2>of the some of the walking back they're doing. But

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<v Speaker 2>then also in the same breath, whether it's Delugio or

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<v Speaker 2>Alyssa Slodkin or Kelly Senator Kelly doubling down, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>and saying, well, it's our duty to do this under

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<v Speaker 2>the Constitution as they always wrap themselves, isn't it. But

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<v Speaker 2>then I'm thinking, okay, but what was the intent? In

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<v Speaker 2>other words, if you did that and I did that,

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<v Speaker 2>I think a fair question by someone to be okay, hey, guys,

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<v Speaker 2>the you took a real tough stance here, controversial to

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<v Speaker 2>tell what are legal orders? And then if you, and

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't come up with anything specific, but it was

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<v Speaker 2>sort of as vague, Well, it was our duty. Then

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<v Speaker 2>I think you really got to ask, okay, truly, what

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<v Speaker 2>was your intention? And I've heard it referred to as

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<v Speaker 2>a soft coup. To be honest with you, the intention,

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<v Speaker 2>it's hard for me. I'm trying to be objective here,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's hard for me to see another intention other

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<v Speaker 2>than weakening any kind of loyalty or obedience that soldiers

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<v Speaker 2>and service members men and women have to the commander

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<v Speaker 2>in chief, which, once you start doing that again, puts

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<v Speaker 2>you right down the slippery slope of being treason as

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<v Speaker 2>what is your intent to do that? Because United States

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<v Speaker 2>Code of Military justices you, I'm sure you know every

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<v Speaker 2>service member men and women when they get that in.

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<v Speaker 2>There is certainly line about if you feel you've been

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<v Speaker 2>given an order that you feel you for some reason

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<v Speaker 2>you absolutely cannot execute for whatever reason, or you feel

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<v Speaker 2>as absolutely unconstitutional would break your oath you take you

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<v Speaker 2>have a judge, Advocate general JAG officer that you can

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<v Speaker 2>go to privately and explain. They know that they don't

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<v Speaker 2>need to be reminded by six Democrats who are trying

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<v Speaker 2>to make political pay out of something. They don't need

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<v Speaker 2>to be reminded of that, but that it s sure

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<v Speaker 2>weakens the structure. You can't weaken the command, the chain

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<v Speaker 2>of command, and the structure of loyalty in the military.

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<v Speaker 2>You simply cannot. You're asking for chaos. Is that what

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<v Speaker 2>they want? I guess is my quaer, is that what

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<v Speaker 2>they wanted to see happened? If they want to uprising

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<v Speaker 2>in our military at this point, is that what they want?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I just think they didn't think it through.

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<v Speaker 1>And the guy that surprises me is Kelly. I mean

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<v Speaker 1>he's got prior Well, they all had prior service, I guess,

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<v Speaker 1>but his was somewhat I mean celebrated.

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<v Speaker 4>I guess.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't get it. I spent ten years in the

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<v Speaker 1>Army Reserve, in the jag Corps. And the one thing

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<v Speaker 1>that one of the things they beat through our head

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<v Speaker 1>is all military orders are presumed to be legal and

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<v Speaker 1>all service members are required to obey them. And like

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<v Speaker 1>you just said, Greg, none of them could come up

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<v Speaker 1>with a specific law that they were trying to persuade

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<v Speaker 1>these people to ignore, because it's all just a bunch

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<v Speaker 1>of crap. I don't think they've helped themselves with this.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you No, I absolutely don't. And you make a

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<v Speaker 2>really good point about the presumption of legality. You have

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<v Speaker 2>to presume the laws. That's why the Supreme Court presumes

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<v Speaker 2>every law in every case that's brought to them. They

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<v Speaker 2>have to presume that, if it's a congressional law, that

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<v Speaker 2>it is constitutional, because we don't have, like other countries,

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<v Speaker 2>this sort of non binding advisory opinion that some courts do,

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<v Speaker 2>like in France for example. So if you and I

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<v Speaker 2>were thinking of making a law we had questions about

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<v Speaker 2>maybe what the commander in chief was saying to a

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<v Speaker 2>military we could write up almost like a hypothetical and say,

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<v Speaker 2>well that if this was the case, and if we

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<v Speaker 2>challenge right with, what would the court do. We don't

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<v Speaker 2>have that system, and thank goodness we don't, because it's

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<v Speaker 2>just it so's doubt. If you have that system, you

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<v Speaker 2>have to presume it's signal. Now, if these sick the

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<v Speaker 2>capital six, the six donkeys, the seditious sick, pick which

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<v Speaker 2>one you like, really had deep sincere doubts. There are

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<v Speaker 2>many other avenues that they can do as lawmakers to

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<v Speaker 2>question it. They can question on the floor of the Senate,

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<v Speaker 2>the floor of the House. They can send letters to

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<v Speaker 2>the Secretary of Defense, they can demand a meeting public private.

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<v Speaker 2>They a lot of paths, but they chose this, And

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<v Speaker 2>so you got again say, well, what was your intention.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't think of any other intention other than it

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<v Speaker 2>was to do what they always are doing, which is

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<v Speaker 2>try to weaken and undermine President Trump, which is very dangerous.

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<v Speaker 2>Whoever the president.

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<v Speaker 1>Is exactly And speaking of that, I looked it up.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, in the oath that service members take enlisted.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't able to find the officers one, but the

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<v Speaker 1>enlisted oath they swear that they will quote obey the

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<v Speaker 1>orders of the President of the United States and the

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<v Speaker 1>officer who the officer appointed over me. I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 1>pretty damn clear. The president says, you do it, you

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<v Speaker 1>do it.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, well, because it's not for them

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<v Speaker 2>to question, as you well know, having a military background,

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<v Speaker 2>you cannot have a system of obedience loyalty in the

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<v Speaker 2>military if everything's put to a vote. That's not how

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<v Speaker 2>it works. That's also why they're not considered a civilian.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't have a choice. Now if the president does

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<v Speaker 2>issue some sort of absolutely unconstantently prima facie case on

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<v Speaker 2>its face, unconstitutional.

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<v Speaker 5>Illegal order.

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<v Speaker 2>The enlisted won't be the one necessarily the questioning it.

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<v Speaker 2>It'll be the officer, to be the generals, it'd be Congress,

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<v Speaker 2>It'll be someone else in a position of authority that

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<v Speaker 2>can question it. It'll be reviewed and then guess what

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<v Speaker 2>if it is, then it won't necessarily be followed, or

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<v Speaker 2>it can be rescinded. But that's not it built in

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<v Speaker 2>this we in other words, we have safeguards built in

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<v Speaker 2>the system. And the safeguard we have built in the

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<v Speaker 2>system is not six democrats going public on social media

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<v Speaker 2>and TikTok basically reminding wink wink in a nod. If

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<v Speaker 2>you think it's illegal, you don't have to follow it.

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<v Speaker 2>In other words, gee, join us in being disobedient and

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<v Speaker 2>disloyal to the president, because you know, wink wink, nod, nod,

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<v Speaker 2>he's not really the president. It's the same stuff, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's the same playbook as you know that they started,

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<v Speaker 2>my goodness, the minute after he was sworn in the

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<v Speaker 2>first it's the same playbook. Don't beat them on popy,

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<v Speaker 2>don't beat them on issue, don't try to find better solutions.

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<v Speaker 6>Just try to attack.

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<v Speaker 2>Them that way. And I'm telling you what, it doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>help anybody.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't and you know, and all the crazy stuff

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<v Speaker 1>that they do. You think, man, there's got to be

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<v Speaker 1>some consequences. But there has to be some consequences for this. You,

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<v Speaker 1>being the good lawyer that you are, you found eighteen

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<v Speaker 1>United States Code twenty three eighty seven, which makes it

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<v Speaker 1>a federal crime. And I'm quoting here from the statute

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<v Speaker 1>to advise urge or attempt to create insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny,

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<v Speaker 1>or refusal of duty among members of the United States

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<v Speaker 1>Military with the intent to interfere with American operations. I'll

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<v Speaker 1>tell you what. Applying the law to the facts, as

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<v Speaker 1>we're taught to do as lawyers, pretty damn clear to me,

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<v Speaker 1>isn't it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's hard to find a gray area there. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's pretty much that is the code and that is

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<v Speaker 2>the language. And then you have your fact pattern here

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<v Speaker 2>and you simply apply it now politics being politics and

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<v Speaker 2>social media and then sort of walking it back and

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<v Speaker 2>them saying no, no, that's not what we meant, and

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<v Speaker 2>keeping it vague enough, right, they kept keep it vague enough,

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<v Speaker 2>so that if I had to bet, And I'll tell

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<v Speaker 2>you what, I'm not a big betting man, although I

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<v Speaker 2>will say, for the record, I did beat my brother

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<v Speaker 2>in law yesterday on the Chiefs Cowboy game. But I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not going to glow too much over that. But I

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<v Speaker 2>tell you what, if I if I was a betting

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<v Speaker 2>man that way, I would say, sadly, I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>there are going to be consequences. There should be. There

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<v Speaker 2>should be, because you know, if I'm sitting in China,

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<v Speaker 2>if I'm sitting in North Korea, if I'm sitting in Russia,

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<v Speaker 2>if I'm sitting in Iran, I'm going, oh, look, it's

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<v Speaker 2>my goodness. We couldn't I think I put in my blog,

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<v Speaker 2>you couldn't buy that kind of negative propaganda against you.

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<v Speaker 2>If my goodness that the leaders of America are trying

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<v Speaker 2>to turn the military against their own leader. Gosh, you

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't buy that kind of propaganda against your enemy. And

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<v Speaker 2>here it is the Democrats are handing it to him.

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<v Speaker 1>And you're right about that. I mean, I presume the

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<v Speaker 1>statute's probably a felony. I think it applies, but there's

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<v Speaker 1>no way that they're gonna get charged. But I guess

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<v Speaker 1>with Trump, you never know, I mean a letter of

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<v Speaker 1>censure or something, because Kelly, I think my understanding is

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<v Speaker 1>Greg is that if you are active duty and you

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<v Speaker 1>violate the UCMJ, you can be recalled the active duty

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<v Speaker 1>and technically prosecuted. I don't think that's going to happen either,

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<v Speaker 1>but by god, something has to happen, because you just

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<v Speaker 1>can't have this with the military, and the military is

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<v Speaker 1>going so good now with Trump, you know, the recruitment

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<v Speaker 1>is through the ceiling loyalty. It's a shame.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, I agree. I think I think to your point,

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's probably the only one, Kelly, we're talking

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<v Speaker 2>about Mark Kelly Senert Arizona. I think he's the only

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<v Speaker 2>one that's vulnerable in terms of getting any kind of

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<v Speaker 2>sanctions or punitive action because being the most outspoken, being

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<v Speaker 2>the highest profile, being the one who's come out the strongest.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they could bring him back, put him put

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<v Speaker 2>him back an active duty, but you know what, at

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<v Speaker 2>most probably just some sort of inebstensive type ruling, some

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<v Speaker 2>sort of letter. So maybe they could knock off metal

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<v Speaker 2>or downgrade do something in terms of the status, but

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<v Speaker 2>it will just be dismissed and blown off by by him.

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<v Speaker 2>In the Democratic Party, they'll just say, oh, it's just

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Trump's administration, and they've already attacked uh, the

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<v Speaker 2>Secretary of Defense, he said, as he's not really THEGITIMENTI with.

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<v Speaker 2>They'll find a way, in other words, in the public

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<v Speaker 2>opinion the arena to somehow diminish it anyway. But I

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<v Speaker 2>tell you what, it really such a terrible precedent, and

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<v Speaker 2>I hope people are. I hope people are restrained enough

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<v Speaker 2>and see to your point though, that's why there needs

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<v Speaker 2>to be some accountability, so we don't just keep doing

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<v Speaker 2>this now because they've done it to the Supreme Court

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<v Speaker 2>as you know. You know, they constantly hurt their credibility,

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<v Speaker 2>talk about expanding it and how they're just back of

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<v Speaker 2>its judges and terrible judges of course, unless it's decisions

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<v Speaker 2>they like. I don't like it when they either party

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<v Speaker 2>attacks the judicial system like and the Supreme Court that way,

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<v Speaker 2>because it really does hurt the credit in the institution

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<v Speaker 2>far too, far too much. So whatever political gain you

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<v Speaker 2>make today is going to be hurting the country long term.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm not crazy about that either way. And so

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<v Speaker 2>here I hope neither party thinks this is a good

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<v Speaker 2>strategic move to do because they get away with it.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, Greg, that's the thing that really worries

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<v Speaker 1>me is that if the United States people, if the

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<v Speaker 1>citizens do a collective shrug with this, then I think

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<v Speaker 1>we're in trouble. And again I'm not saying lock them

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<v Speaker 1>up in jail, although you know it probably would be deserved.

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<v Speaker 1>But the American people have to be concerned about this,

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<v Speaker 1>especially those with prior military which is a hell of

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people in this country.

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<v Speaker 2>No, they should, to your point, which I think is

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<v Speaker 2>spot on, they absolutely should. And that's why I hope

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<v Speaker 2>that the Department of War under heccept does not just

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<v Speaker 2>let it go. It doesn't seem like they're going to.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just not sure politically speaking, how far they can

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<v Speaker 2>take it until there's such a backlash again that any

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<v Speaker 2>then it looks so politically colored and so much politicized

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<v Speaker 2>that then you've got, you know, again, half the country

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<v Speaker 2>just saying oh, it's all about politics, and not looking

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<v Speaker 2>a little further and trying to be rational and going no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>this is not good for anybody, And it wouldn't be

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<v Speaker 2>good if the Republicans did it to a democratic president.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's why the impeachment they ruined. Impeachment they

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<v Speaker 2>took out with the founders, you know, as you know

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<v Speaker 2>believed was this is the safeguard and you know kind

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<v Speaker 2>of like, don't hit it unless it's a true emergence,

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<v Speaker 2>don't break the glass unless it's emergency. And they're breaking

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<v Speaker 2>the glass because you know, they don't like a phone call.

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<v Speaker 1>No question about it. One more question and then I

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<v Speaker 1>want to find out what's going on with you? What

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<v Speaker 1>you got cooking? But it's probably an impossible question. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I asked a question, what will they do next? I'll

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<v Speaker 1>ask you that, Greg Rabido, do you have any idea

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<v Speaker 1>how they can top this one?

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<v Speaker 2>That's that's tough, that's question, boyd. I'd have to get

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<v Speaker 2>into mind. I think they're honestly, I think they're looking

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<v Speaker 2>closely at this to see if there's accountability, and I

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<v Speaker 2>think if there's not really any kind of accountability, I

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<v Speaker 2>think they will both keep up the attacks on the military,

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<v Speaker 2>whether it's the bombing of the Narco terror's boats coming

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<v Speaker 2>out of Venezuela or any other thing. Keep in mind

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<v Speaker 2>Trump President Trump Briesey said that would take the war

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<v Speaker 2>against the narco terarifs to land. So I got to

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<v Speaker 2>believe with the strategic movements they're doing that they're targeting

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<v Speaker 2>what we see as you know, a non legitimate, illegitimate

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<v Speaker 2>leader there in Venezuela. I'm sure they will use that.

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<v Speaker 2>And then my guess, if we take some action against Venezuela,

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<v Speaker 2>they'll take the side of the Venezuelan dictator, like they

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<v Speaker 2>take the side of immigrant illegal immigrant criminals, like they

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<v Speaker 2>take the side of narco terras, like they take the

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<v Speaker 2>side of sex traffickers. It sure seems like they take

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<v Speaker 2>that side, and then you'll see an impeachment. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 2>think that would be their next move, honestly, if that happens.

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<v Speaker 2>And in the meantime, they'll continue to step up a

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<v Speaker 2>tax on ice if they don't see accountability with their

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<v Speaker 2>attacks on the military.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, the American people, a lot of them

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<v Speaker 1>may be majority, they meet this with a collective shrug

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<v Speaker 1>of the shoulders, and that to me is the worst

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<v Speaker 1>news out of all of this. Hey, we got about

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<v Speaker 1>a minute left. What you got going, Greg, What are

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<v Speaker 1>you working on?

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, We're working on We're working on an original script

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<v Speaker 2>of God called The Road to Redemption. So that's about

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<v Speaker 2>an aging sheriff on a border town who's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>both crippled physically and from a police standpoint from things

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<v Speaker 2>as he did against this this sort of this gang

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<v Speaker 2>that's taken over town. So he calls in a Native

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<v Speaker 2>American woman, borrows her from a reservation, and she kind

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<v Speaker 2>of takes the rein, so to speak, to try to

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<v Speaker 2>fight against this drug gang and sex trafficking this border town.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll get that going. And then we got a documentary

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<v Speaker 2>that we're working on in terms of campus radicalization and

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<v Speaker 2>what our campuses are really like. So we're working on

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<v Speaker 2>those two projects. And Valmarfilms dot com or Greg Thefilmmaker

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<v Speaker 2>dot com always invite people to check us out there

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<v Speaker 2>and give us a holler and let us know what

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<v Speaker 2>we're doing or if there's something you want to see

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<v Speaker 2>us do. We're open to that too.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, we're looking forward to it. Greg has always appreciate

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<v Speaker 1>you giving us your point of view on this.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Yeah, my pleasure man. Keep up the good

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<v Speaker 2>work here.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, all right, Greg Rambadil. I love that guy, man.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, he just puts the cheese on the crackers

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<v Speaker 1>if you will. And he's, you know, a lawyer, not

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<v Speaker 1>that that matters, but filmmaker. A lot of things going on,

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<v Speaker 1>but man, you talk about some conservative common sense. That's Greg.

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway, we'll be hearing more from him. Hey, we

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<v Speaker 1>have to take a break, but we will be back.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Allen in for Willie's seven hundred WLW twelve thirty

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<v Speaker 1>seven News Radio, seven hundred WLW. Mike Allen in for

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<v Speaker 1>the Great American Willie Cunningham today. You know, I tell

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<v Speaker 1>you what I don't know about you, but I'm in

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<v Speaker 1>a bit of a food coma today. Man. I had

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<v Speaker 1>a great turkey dinner, everything else, all the fixings, as

0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.280
<v Speaker 1>they say, are in Kentucky. It was really good, really good,

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<v Speaker 1>And I walked out of the place with about a

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<v Speaker 1>shopping bag full of leftovers. Too exaggerating that a little bit,

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<v Speaker 1>but now it was a good day. It really was

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<v Speaker 1>in the Bengals, how about that? I mean the return

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<v Speaker 1>of Joe Burrow. You know, I'm one of those guys

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<v Speaker 1>I don't I might have to rear range by thoughts

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<v Speaker 1>on this, but I was one of those guys that thought, now,

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<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, they've got almost no chance of making

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<v Speaker 1>the playoffs. Why why are they playing him when Flacco's

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<v Speaker 1>playing so well and they've got virtually no chance to

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<v Speaker 1>get into the playoffs. So, just for the heck of it,

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<v Speaker 1>I googled that exact question, I guess and AI. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>starting to use AI some in my research. I found

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<v Speaker 1>it to be accurate for the most part, and pretty

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<v Speaker 1>fair too when you're looking at political issues. But at

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<v Speaker 1>any rate, according to AI, I think this is after

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<v Speaker 1>last night, but there's a chance it could have been before.

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<v Speaker 1>It says the Cincinnati Bengals have a slim chance of

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<v Speaker 1>making the playoffs, with various analyzes giving them between a

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<v Speaker 1>two point two percent and eighteen percent chance of a

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<v Speaker 1>wild card spot. I don't know. I think that might

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<v Speaker 1>be a little bit too optimistic, but I mean, it

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<v Speaker 1>would be nice to see the season salvaged.

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<v Speaker 4>But Burrow looked sharp.

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<v Speaker 1>What was he twenty four or forty six passes for

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<v Speaker 1>two sixty one yards? Good numbers. He's capable of a

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<v Speaker 1>lot more than that. There's just so much riding on

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<v Speaker 1>that guy, though, but he doesn't seem to be affected

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<v Speaker 1>by the pressure of it. But anyway, great to have

0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.960
<v Speaker 1>him back again. Reading between the lines. A lot of

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<v Speaker 1>the things I heard was there were some of the

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<v Speaker 1>Bengals management that thought, you know, like I was just saying,

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<v Speaker 1>Flacco's doing okay, you know, we don't want to risk it,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't want to risk it with Burrow. But then

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<v Speaker 1>one of the commentators that I heard, I forget who

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<v Speaker 1>it was, said that they heard that Joe Burrow is

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<v Speaker 1>the one that's pushing it and the Bengals management needs

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<v Speaker 1>to stand up and say, Joe, you're too valuable. I

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<v Speaker 1>kind of amend my thinking on that. I'm glad he's

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<v Speaker 1>in and we'll see what happens. What a story it

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<v Speaker 1>would be if they make the playoffs like the Cincinnati

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<v Speaker 1>Reds did. At any rate, though, you know, talking about

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<v Speaker 1>some serious things, and it doesn't get any more serious

0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.720
<v Speaker 1>than this. A sad day on Wednesday, of course, with

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<v Speaker 1>the death of one West Virginia National Guard member and

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<v Speaker 1>the serious wounding of another. And that soldier is hanging

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<v Speaker 1>on from everything I've been able to see, very very

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<v Speaker 1>critically wounded, and you just scratch your head and ask

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<v Speaker 1>yourself why. I mean, I think I know the reason

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<v Speaker 1>get there in a minute. But the soldiers are army.

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<v Speaker 1>The decedent Army specialist Sarah Beckstrom, all of twenty years old.

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<v Speaker 1>She died yesterday. She was an Army Military Police soldier.

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<v Speaker 1>She volunteered to work in d C. Again, she's West

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<v Speaker 1>Virginia National Guard, but they got a unit up there.

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<v Speaker 1>They do worked volunteered to work in DC over the

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<v Speaker 1>Thanksgiving holiday so that others could be with their family.

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds to me like a typical American soldier putting self

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<v Speaker 1>before everybody else. And the soldier that is still struggling

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<v Speaker 1>actually not a soldier, Airman Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf.

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<v Speaker 1>He is twenty four, remains in critical condition, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>fighting for his life after undergoing surgery for multiple gunshot wounds.

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<v Speaker 7>You know, she is.

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<v Speaker 1>Dead and Staff Sergeant Wolf is in critical condition because

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't have any compunction saying this, because of

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<v Speaker 1>the Biden administration, because they let just about anyone into

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<v Speaker 1>this country and we are paying for it, and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>telling you we're going to be paying for it for

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<v Speaker 1>a long long time now.

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<v Speaker 7>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>The deal with this one is, I guess these are

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<v Speaker 1>Afghan or the guy that they caught is an Afghan

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<v Speaker 1>national who was led into the country under some I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, potential parole program. You'll remember the botched pullout

0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.040
<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty one that the Biden administration. It was

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<v Speaker 1>their production and I watched that thing and I had

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<v Speaker 1>just made me sick, you know. And people said, well, Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>Trump wanted to get out too. Yeah he did, and

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<v Speaker 1>I support him on that, and I think just about

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<v Speaker 1>everybody did. But do it in an orderly fashion. That

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<v Speaker 1>was awful. I mean, in addition to the loss of

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<v Speaker 1>life and the serious wounding of individuals, how many billions

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<v Speaker 1>of dollars of military equipment did we leave behind because

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<v Speaker 1>of that? And you know that should have been enough

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<v Speaker 1>for Joe Biden's legacy right there. And I'm not just

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<v Speaker 1>saying that because I'm partisan, I am, but that was

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<v Speaker 1>actually inexcusable, inexcusable. Well, what they're saying now is that

0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:01.800
<v Speaker 1>those people were, including the the guy we're talking about here.

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<v Speaker 1>His name is you know what, I don't really care

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<v Speaker 1>what his name is. I probably couldn't even here. It

0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:15.399
<v Speaker 1>is Ramanola Romanola Lalkandal, probably mispronouncing that. I'll probably be

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<v Speaker 1>called islamophobic for it. Good pile it on. I'll where

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<v Speaker 1>it does. A badge of honor. I don't care. He's

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nine years of old. Just not properly vetted at all.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's just such a sloppy process that they

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<v Speaker 1>put into play with this thing. And again we're all

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<v Speaker 1>paying the price for it. Now, we're paying the price

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<v Speaker 1>for it. You know, by some estimates, and I don't

0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:44.000
<v Speaker 1>know what's actually accurate or not, but by some estimates,

0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:50.760
<v Speaker 1>Biden let twenty million people into this country illegally. I

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<v Speaker 1>just sat there while it was happening. I read something

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't get a chance to see if I could

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<v Speaker 1>find it again a couple of years ago, right after

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<v Speaker 1>this happened, that they thought that there may be twenty

0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:09.159
<v Speaker 1>thousand Chinese men, Communist Chinese men and women of military

0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:13.760
<v Speaker 1>age that got into this country. Where are they? What

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<v Speaker 1>are they doing? Like I said, We're going to be

0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:21.040
<v Speaker 1>paying for this with our blood as Americans for a

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<v Speaker 1>long time to come. Just the height of irresponsibility. Well

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<v Speaker 1>there's an arklond Fox. He's really good. One that I

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<v Speaker 1>saw this morning. You may recognize the name of Nicole Parker.

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<v Speaker 1>She is the former FBI special agent who is a

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<v Speaker 1>commentator now on Fox. She talked about this. Apparently she

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<v Speaker 1>must have been involved in it when she was in

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI, and she referred to the so called screening

0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:52.520
<v Speaker 1>process that they had after the bungled withdrawal as I'm

0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:55.760
<v Speaker 1>quoting her a free for all. I think she's probably

0:24:55.840 --> 0:24:59.320
<v Speaker 1>being charitable there. It goes on to say tens of

0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:02.679
<v Speaker 1>thousand of Afghans were evacuated to the US in the

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<v Speaker 1>wake of the withdrawal and subsequent Taliban takeover of the country.

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<v Speaker 1>The chaotic nature of the operation raised concerns at the

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<v Speaker 1>time from Republicans and in official reports that some evacue's

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<v Speaker 1>were not being properly vetted and could have and that

0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:29.840
<v Speaker 1>could have catastrophic consequence. You think, you think, just awful. Well, anyway,

0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:32.399
<v Speaker 1>Josh Holly got involved in the thing. In the story,

0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:37.920
<v Speaker 1>he revealed that a whistleblower said three hundred and twenty

0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.520
<v Speaker 1>four individuals had entered the country with what he refers

0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:46.040
<v Speaker 1>to as derogatory information, while a twenty twenty two report

0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:50.400
<v Speaker 1>by the Department of Homeland Securities Office of Inspector General

0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:55.440
<v Speaker 1>separately found that the Department failed to properly vet Afghan

0:25:56.160 --> 0:26:00.480
<v Speaker 1>evacuees entering the US, creating a potential national secure risk.

0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:02.919
<v Speaker 1>Now I'm gonna be honest with you. At the time,

0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.320
<v Speaker 1>you know, it was an abomination. But I was saying,

0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:08.920
<v Speaker 1>and a lot of other Americans were saying, Hey, if

0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:13.160
<v Speaker 1>there are Afghan citizens that helped us, that were helpful

0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.280
<v Speaker 1>to the United States of America, and those people are

0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:20.520
<v Speaker 1>going to truly be in danger with the regime change there,

0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:23.479
<v Speaker 1>we ought to help them. And I stand by that.

0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:27.440
<v Speaker 1>But my god, the willy nilly nature apparently, and that

0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:32.879
<v Speaker 1>just abject sloppiness and negligence within which they did this.

0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:38.080
<v Speaker 1>It's just unbelievable. Let me get back to former Special

0:26:38.080 --> 0:26:41.560
<v Speaker 1>Agent Parker. She says, there were individuals that were not

0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:44.800
<v Speaker 1>being recommended to come to the United States, yet they

0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:48.200
<v Speaker 1>were being this is this speaks volumes. Let me read

0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.320
<v Speaker 1>it again. This is her quote. There were individuals that

0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:54.080
<v Speaker 1>were not being recommended to come into the United States,

0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:58.280
<v Speaker 1>yet they were being overridden by the Biden State Department.

0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:03.160
<v Speaker 1>It was a free and no one was being vetted. Well,

0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:06.240
<v Speaker 1>you know, what do you think is gonna happen when

0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:09.040
<v Speaker 1>you do things like that? And this is gonna be

0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:14.359
<v Speaker 1>the last one either. Just the height of negligence, and

0:27:14.720 --> 0:27:20.000
<v Speaker 1>that's being charitable. You just can't have that. She goes

0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:23.400
<v Speaker 1>on to say that records were scattered, databases were in complete,

0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:27.560
<v Speaker 1>Screening teams were processing people at a pace that made

0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:31.359
<v Speaker 1>perfect vetting impossible. I get that, I get that, and

0:27:31.400 --> 0:27:35.439
<v Speaker 1>it can't be perfect. But apparently this situation, it was

0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:40.719
<v Speaker 1>almost no vetting at all. Many times it felt like

0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:44.240
<v Speaker 1>anyone was allowed to come into the United States from Afghanistan,

0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:48.840
<v Speaker 1>regardless of who they were. What happened to our National

0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:53.800
<v Speaker 1>Guard service members is a direct result of vetting, or

0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:57.600
<v Speaker 1>let me just kind of put a punctuation, or direct

0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:02.680
<v Speaker 1>result of lack of vetting. And that is an absolute,

0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:08.320
<v Speaker 1>one true statement because of the negligence of the Biden administration.

0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:13.000
<v Speaker 1>Those two service members one died, Pray to God that

0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:16.560
<v Speaker 1>the other one doesn't. But that airman is, if he

0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:20.240
<v Speaker 1>does survive, is going to be seriously injured. Just a

0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:22.560
<v Speaker 1>couple more things here, because I really think she put

0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:25.600
<v Speaker 1>the cheese on the crackers here, so to speak. She

0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:26.920
<v Speaker 1>went on to say, oh, no, wait a minute, this

0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:30.560
<v Speaker 1>is Jeanine Piro. Oh man, she's not somebody to be

0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:34.040
<v Speaker 1>messed with. She is the US attorney now for the

0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:37.080
<v Speaker 1>District of Columbia. This is what Judge Piro has to say,

0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:40.920
<v Speaker 1>and she was a judge before she got the fox,

0:28:40.960 --> 0:28:44.280
<v Speaker 1>I guess. But anyway, whatever their cause or motive may be,

0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:47.920
<v Speaker 1>we should not have to live in fear in the

0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:52.960
<v Speaker 1>nation's capital, especially by one who came here from a

0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:57.080
<v Speaker 1>foreign country and though and through a process that was

0:28:57.200 --> 0:29:02.920
<v Speaker 1>so absurd that he came through and was released into custody.

0:29:03.320 --> 0:29:06.880
<v Speaker 1>This is what happens in this country when people who

0:29:06.880 --> 0:29:11.920
<v Speaker 1>are not properly vetted get in. And then the last

0:29:11.920 --> 0:29:14.160
<v Speaker 1>one in the story at LISTA had to say, he

0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:17.760
<v Speaker 1>puts a pretty bow on this thing. Is Cash Pattel,

0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:21.440
<v Speaker 1>who I think is doing an incredible job as an

0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:26.360
<v Speaker 1>FDI director. This is what Cash Ptel said. Quote this individual,

0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:30.480
<v Speaker 1>the person that murdered these two service members. This individual

0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:33.800
<v Speaker 1>is in this country for one reason and one reason alone,

0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:38.800
<v Speaker 1>because of the disastrous withdrawal from the Biden administration and

0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:42.560
<v Speaker 1>the failure to vet in any way, shape or form

0:29:43.000 --> 0:29:48.440
<v Speaker 1>this individual and countless others. So there again, you know this.

0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:52.240
<v Speaker 1>I'm surprised we haven't had one of these specific type

0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:56.600
<v Speaker 1>of situations before, but I guarantee you it ain't going

0:29:56.680 --> 0:30:00.200
<v Speaker 1>to be the last one. Then, just to close this out,

0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:05.800
<v Speaker 1>Alejandro Mayorcus the former Homeland Security secretary. If you follow

0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:09.160
<v Speaker 1>these things, just ask yourself this question. Have you ever

0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:14.440
<v Speaker 1>seen an elected official, now he's an appointed official, lie

0:30:15.120 --> 0:30:20.400
<v Speaker 1>so much as him. I mean direct, look in the camera,

0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:25.480
<v Speaker 1>look at it, and just lie, not exaggerate, not fabricate,

0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:31.440
<v Speaker 1>just lie. Okay. Twenty twenty one, after this withdrawal debacle,

0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:38.040
<v Speaker 1>had Senate hearings, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcus insisted that,

0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:41.280
<v Speaker 1>and I'm quoting him here, well over ninety nine percent

0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:46.720
<v Speaker 1>of evacuees were screened and vetted before boarding flights. But

0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:51.920
<v Speaker 1>then he later acknowledged, under questioning, apparently under oath, that

0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:57.520
<v Speaker 1>he couldn't guarantee that standard applied in every case. The

0:30:57.560 --> 0:31:02.920
<v Speaker 1>man's capacity to lie is credible. I mean to stand

0:31:02.920 --> 0:31:07.880
<v Speaker 1>there and say that ninety nine percent of our vacuees

0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:13.360
<v Speaker 1>were screened and vetted before boarding flights. You know, obviously

0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:15.360
<v Speaker 1>I don't need to tell any of you, but I

0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:20.360
<v Speaker 1>am a partisan. But even still if I weren't, you

0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:23.880
<v Speaker 1>can't have this. You just can't have it, And doesn't

0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:27.880
<v Speaker 1>it seem to you? And you know, we just talked

0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:32.479
<v Speaker 1>before to our guest about what the situation is with

0:31:32.560 --> 0:31:36.320
<v Speaker 1>the six Democrats. What do he call them, pack a

0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:39.200
<v Speaker 1>six or something like that, the six Democrats who are

0:31:39.600 --> 0:31:44.840
<v Speaker 1>telling and as far as I'm concerned, encouraging service members

0:31:45.320 --> 0:31:48.680
<v Speaker 1>to ignore orders, what do you expect when that's the

0:31:48.760 --> 0:31:52.760
<v Speaker 1>kind of attitude that you get from these people, the Democrats.

0:31:53.080 --> 0:31:56.200
<v Speaker 1>You know, none of this should come as any surprise

0:31:56.280 --> 0:32:00.280
<v Speaker 1>to anyone. Everyone knows that under the Biden miss tration,

0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:04.840
<v Speaker 1>anyone was allowed to come into this country. Just a

0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:10.680
<v Speaker 1>complete and total, pure open border policy, you know, And

0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:13.200
<v Speaker 1>we'll be seeing the fruits of this, if you will,

0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:17.320
<v Speaker 1>for years to come. And again, I'll say this, and

0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:20.480
<v Speaker 1>I mean it. When you got a Democrat party who's

0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:25.200
<v Speaker 1>more concerned about the quote rights unquote of illegal aliens,

0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:29.240
<v Speaker 1>criminals that trespassed into their country, when they're concerned more

0:32:29.240 --> 0:32:33.920
<v Speaker 1>about their rights than true Americans, we got a problem

0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:36.680
<v Speaker 1>in this country. But I just worry that, you know,

0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:40.240
<v Speaker 1>we're just kind of giving a collective shrug of the

0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:42.600
<v Speaker 1>shoulders to this kind of stuff. And you know, we

0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:45.680
<v Speaker 1>got a service member dead who did not need to

0:32:45.680 --> 0:32:49.120
<v Speaker 1>be dead and should not have been dead. It's just sad. Hey,

0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:51.800
<v Speaker 1>we got to take a break. But when we get back,

0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:54.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna talk to Jay Ratliffe. It is the busiest

0:32:54.600 --> 0:32:57.520
<v Speaker 1>travel weekend of the year. Gonna talk to Jay and

0:32:57.760 --> 0:32:59.960
<v Speaker 1>see how everything's going. We'll do that when we get back.

0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:04.240
<v Speaker 1>Mike Allen in for Willy seven hundred WLW oh seven

0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:08.680
<v Speaker 1>hundred WLW Mike Allen in for the Great American Willie

0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:13.840
<v Speaker 1>Cunningham on the day after Thanksgiving. Well, I'll tell you

0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:17.080
<v Speaker 1>you already know this, but anyway, it's the busiest travel

0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:21.880
<v Speaker 1>weekend of the year. And you couple that with the hangover,

0:33:22.000 --> 0:33:24.760
<v Speaker 1>if you will, from the shutdown, and want to find

0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:28.600
<v Speaker 1>out how things are going with our aviation expert. iHeart

0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:32.920
<v Speaker 1>aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. But Jay, before I do that,

0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:35.640
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to ask you. I see your day trading

0:33:35.680 --> 0:33:38.600
<v Speaker 1>fund billboards all over town, and I just want to

0:33:38.600 --> 0:33:40.160
<v Speaker 1>ask how November went.

0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:43.280
<v Speaker 8>November pretty good? You know, most of the time I

0:33:43.320 --> 0:33:46.840
<v Speaker 8>spend my time teaching students versus trading, but had a

0:33:46.840 --> 0:33:50.040
<v Speaker 8>pretty good month. Started with fifty thousand and made thirty four,

0:33:50.560 --> 0:33:52.680
<v Speaker 8>five hundred and fifty six dollars and eighteen cents for

0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:54.680
<v Speaker 8>the month. So does that worked a month for me?

0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:59.080
<v Speaker 8>It Does'll that'll pay for the Thanksgiving food that Sherry

0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.560
<v Speaker 8>my wife prepares and you've eaten some of that, so

0:34:01.600 --> 0:34:04.400
<v Speaker 8>you know what about But yeah, I'm really excited for

0:34:04.440 --> 0:34:07.280
<v Speaker 8>our January class start. And yeah, when you got two

0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:10.920
<v Speaker 8>passions like I'm blessed to have professionally with aviation and stocks,

0:34:10.960 --> 0:34:13.759
<v Speaker 8>it's a lot of fun and obviously it's a fun

0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:15.120
<v Speaker 8>time to talk aviation as well.

0:34:15.160 --> 0:34:17.920
<v Speaker 1>Brother, Yeah, you're not kid. And I'll tell you the

0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:19.759
<v Speaker 1>question I kind of threw out there. I mean, you

0:34:19.880 --> 0:34:23.520
<v Speaker 1>couple the busiest trading weekend excuse me, travel weekend of

0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:27.799
<v Speaker 1>the year, then with the hangover from the shutdown, it

0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:29.680
<v Speaker 1>seems to me and I watch a lot of news,

0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:32.239
<v Speaker 1>it seems like things are going okay. What is it

0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:33.839
<v Speaker 1>from the experts perspective?

0:34:33.920 --> 0:34:35.719
<v Speaker 7>Jay, you know it is.

0:34:35.880 --> 0:34:38.719
<v Speaker 8>And one of the things that I was asked was

0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:41.120
<v Speaker 8>coming out of the shutdown, the question was, Okay, it's

0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:42.560
<v Speaker 8>the middle of November.

0:34:43.120 --> 0:34:44.800
<v Speaker 7>We've got the busiest travel week.

0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:46.120
<v Speaker 8>Of the year coming up in a couple of weeks,

0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:48.920
<v Speaker 8>will the airlines be ready? And to the surprise of

0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:52.200
<v Speaker 8>some but not necessarily to me, within a few days

0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:54.680
<v Speaker 8>they had pretty much everything back in line. It's a

0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:57.560
<v Speaker 8>lot like if we've got a severe weather storm that

0:34:57.680 --> 0:35:00.920
<v Speaker 8>comes through let's say the northeast sor it's a blizzard

0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:03.560
<v Speaker 8>and it shuts down a lot of the airports in

0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:07.600
<v Speaker 8>the Northeast. Once the storm passes, it's a matter of

0:35:07.640 --> 0:35:09.680
<v Speaker 8>just three or four days before the airlines are back

0:35:09.719 --> 0:35:12.120
<v Speaker 8>on full schedule. They've got all the you know, the

0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:16.520
<v Speaker 8>pieces in the proper place, and they're able to resume

0:35:16.719 --> 0:35:19.880
<v Speaker 8>a normal operation. And that's exactly what the airline officials

0:35:19.920 --> 0:35:21.160
<v Speaker 8>were saying right after the.

0:35:22.760 --> 0:35:24.600
<v Speaker 7>Shutdown was ending.

0:35:24.920 --> 0:35:27.320
<v Speaker 8>They said, look, we anticipate being you know, all hands

0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:30.239
<v Speaker 8>on deck back to a full schedule. And certainly it

0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:33.160
<v Speaker 8>was nice because we had more of the air traffic

0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:36.000
<v Speaker 8>controllers that were reporting for work. And you know, Mike,

0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:39.120
<v Speaker 8>what's important to remember is prior to the shutdown, we

0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:41.600
<v Speaker 8>were averaging because we had that you know that we

0:35:41.680 --> 0:35:44.600
<v Speaker 8>still are short on air traffic controllers. We were averaging

0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:47.600
<v Speaker 8>about thirty nine hundred delayed flights a day. That was

0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:50.959
<v Speaker 8>normal for us because the fact that when you would

0:35:51.000 --> 0:35:53.439
<v Speaker 8>have too many flights in the specific area, we didn't

0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:56.319
<v Speaker 8>have enough air traffic controllers. The FAA has a very

0:35:56.360 --> 0:36:00.239
<v Speaker 8>good traffic management system that slows things down out a

0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:01.880
<v Speaker 8>lot of times you might be on a ground stop

0:36:02.160 --> 0:36:04.239
<v Speaker 8>where you're on a flight in Cincinnati, you're on the plane,

0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:06.200
<v Speaker 8>they're ready to take office. They no, we've got a

0:36:06.200 --> 0:36:08.239
<v Speaker 8>ground stop for twenty minutes before we can leave for

0:36:08.320 --> 0:36:11.520
<v Speaker 8>Dallas or for New York. And what's happened is they

0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:14.000
<v Speaker 8>kick something in. It might be a weather that's caused it,

0:36:14.120 --> 0:36:17.160
<v Speaker 8>or it may be just from a traffic mansip. At standpoint,

0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:19.840
<v Speaker 8>there's too many planes, so they thin that out just

0:36:19.880 --> 0:36:23.120
<v Speaker 8>a bit. It's very safety oriented and it's designed for

0:36:23.160 --> 0:36:27.040
<v Speaker 8>a specific purpose. So you know, we're still dealing with that.

0:36:27.320 --> 0:36:29.799
<v Speaker 8>You know, the average of three to four thousand flight

0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:33.400
<v Speaker 8>delays a day, but it's not being compounded by the

0:36:33.440 --> 0:36:35.719
<v Speaker 8>fact that we have so many more air traffic controllers

0:36:36.040 --> 0:36:38.520
<v Speaker 8>that are you know, calling in because they're going to

0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:41.080
<v Speaker 8>work a job that they can get paid for, versus

0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:42.000
<v Speaker 8>showing up for.

0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:43.200
<v Speaker 7>A job they don't get paid for.

0:36:43.440 --> 0:36:45.960
<v Speaker 8>So, you know, and that's why I was glad President

0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:48.000
<v Speaker 8>Trump came out and said, we'd like to give these

0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:50.600
<v Speaker 8>people a ten thousand dollars bonus, those that were here

0:36:51.000 --> 0:36:53.400
<v Speaker 8>without caught. But Mike, you know, some of the people

0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:54.279
<v Speaker 8>were insulted by that.

0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:57.440
<v Speaker 1>Why, I mean, I thought they deserve it. As far

0:36:57.480 --> 0:36:58.280
<v Speaker 1>as I'm concerned.

0:36:58.360 --> 0:36:58.960
<v Speaker 7>Oh, they do.

0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:01.480
<v Speaker 8>But they're saying's got to sign on bonus of one

0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.479
<v Speaker 8>hundred thousand dollars. We should be getting more than ten.

0:37:04.840 --> 0:37:07.480
<v Speaker 8>And you know, I was reading these reports and I'm thinking, Okay,

0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:09.080
<v Speaker 8>I know how I was raised.

0:37:09.080 --> 0:37:10.600
<v Speaker 7>I got a pretty good yea how you were raised.

0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:13.359
<v Speaker 8>If my boss skipped in the door and says, Jay,

0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:15.400
<v Speaker 8>I'd like to give you a ten thousand dollars bonus

0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:18.560
<v Speaker 8>for a job well done, the last words coming out

0:37:18.600 --> 0:37:21.160
<v Speaker 8>of my mouth are going to be is that all?

0:37:21.680 --> 0:37:24.560
<v Speaker 8>But you know, I think some of this is unfortunately

0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:27.800
<v Speaker 8>rooted in politics. I think that had this been something

0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:30.799
<v Speaker 8>coming from President Biben, Oh yeah, I think some of

0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:34.600
<v Speaker 8>these people complaining maybe what have said it now not

0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:37.040
<v Speaker 8>all and I may be reading way too much into it.

0:37:37.560 --> 0:37:39.319
<v Speaker 8>And I will be the very first to say, these

0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:42.520
<v Speaker 8>men and women for the last eight nine years and

0:37:42.680 --> 0:37:46.319
<v Speaker 8>longer have not known what a five day work week is.

0:37:46.320 --> 0:37:48.839
<v Speaker 8>Because the fact that we are three thousand plus air

0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:52.480
<v Speaker 8>traffic controller shorts. They're working five, six, seven day weeks

0:37:53.160 --> 0:37:57.160
<v Speaker 8>at length, and they're exhausted. And I recognize some of

0:37:57.200 --> 0:37:59.560
<v Speaker 8>them are saying, look, I appreciate the ten thousand dollars,

0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:02.440
<v Speaker 8>but you know, we're exhausted. And the two things that

0:38:02.480 --> 0:38:06.719
<v Speaker 8>Donald Trump among many when he took into office saying,

0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:09.759
<v Speaker 8>we've got to address the air traffic controller shortage. But

0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:11.960
<v Speaker 8>it's not like walking over to us sink and turning

0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:15.040
<v Speaker 8>up the spicket where more water comes out, because brother,

0:38:15.120 --> 0:38:16.840
<v Speaker 8>only so much water comes out of that spicket, and

0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:19.680
<v Speaker 8>it's already cranked all the way up. We've got as

0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:23.920
<v Speaker 8>many training facilities as we can, we're maxing those out.

0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:27.839
<v Speaker 8>We've got a specific number of air traffic controller trainers

0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:31.800
<v Speaker 8>and we're maxed out there, and we're pushing fifteen, sixteen,

0:38:31.880 --> 0:38:34.320
<v Speaker 8>seventeen hundred a year through this, and we've got to

0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:37.440
<v Speaker 8>increase the facilities we've got, increased the number of instructors

0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:40.960
<v Speaker 8>to push that number high so that we can get

0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:44.600
<v Speaker 8>caught up. And sadly, as most people know, you want

0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:46.200
<v Speaker 8>the day you sign on to be an air traffic

0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:49.080
<v Speaker 8>controller and training it maybe five years before you're on

0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:52.120
<v Speaker 8>the job, working by yourself. It's a long process. So

0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:56.279
<v Speaker 8>hopefully President Trump can get that fixed before he leaves office.

0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:56.719
<v Speaker 7>Or close to it.

0:38:57.120 --> 0:38:59.200
<v Speaker 8>And also, the technology that you and I've talked about

0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:02.839
<v Speaker 8>so many times over the years that so antiquated. He's

0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:04.359
<v Speaker 8>saying we're gonna update that as well.

0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:06.359
<v Speaker 7>And you know, if he does those two things as.

0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:09.399
<v Speaker 8>He leaves office, it will impact aviation for the next

0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:11.719
<v Speaker 8>ten or fifteen years. I like it a lot to

0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:16.320
<v Speaker 8>him selecting a Supreme Court justice. He puts somebody in place,

0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:18.799
<v Speaker 8>and it's going to have an impact for the next

0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:22.239
<v Speaker 8>twenty years. And if he can make this stuff happen, Mike,

0:39:22.719 --> 0:39:25.279
<v Speaker 8>I will be thrilled because other presidents have talked about

0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:26.440
<v Speaker 8>it and done nothing.

0:39:26.680 --> 0:39:26.839
<v Speaker 7>Yep.

0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:29.279
<v Speaker 8>So if he follows through on this, there will be

0:39:29.320 --> 0:39:32.920
<v Speaker 8>a big time benefit to aviation where we'll see a

0:39:32.960 --> 0:39:35.840
<v Speaker 8>lot more flights. And if aviation does double over the

0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:37.920
<v Speaker 8>course the next ten to fifteen years, as we expect it,

0:39:37.960 --> 0:39:40.239
<v Speaker 8>will will be in a position to handle it, you know.

0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:44.160
<v Speaker 1>Kind of dubtailing on that question, Jay Ratliffe in watching

0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:45.799
<v Speaker 1>this and that's all I do is watch it, and

0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:48.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm not an expert like you, but it sure seems

0:39:48.560 --> 0:39:52.560
<v Speaker 1>like Sean Duffy has done a bang up job as

0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:56.000
<v Speaker 1>the director of the Transportation Department on this thing. I mean,

0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:59.520
<v Speaker 1>at least he was front and center during this whole thing,

0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:02.320
<v Speaker 1>and I was impressed. But again, I'm not on the ground.

0:40:02.360 --> 0:40:04.120
<v Speaker 1>I don't know for sure. I wanted to kind of

0:40:04.120 --> 0:40:04.960
<v Speaker 1>see what you thought.

0:40:05.880 --> 0:40:08.720
<v Speaker 7>Oh, I'm a big Sean Duffy fan. I'll be honest.

0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:10.839
<v Speaker 8>There have been some things the Department Transportation has done

0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:11.640
<v Speaker 8>recently that.

0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:12.960
<v Speaker 7>I've not agreed with.

0:40:13.080 --> 0:40:15.840
<v Speaker 8>But you know, he was always trying to keep everybody

0:40:15.920 --> 0:40:18.120
<v Speaker 8>update on what was going on. He was telling the

0:40:18.120 --> 0:40:20.040
<v Speaker 8>good or the bad, whatever it was. I don't think

0:40:20.040 --> 0:40:22.520
<v Speaker 8>too many things were sugar coated. Sometimes you got that

0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:25.040
<v Speaker 8>political spin on things. I didn't feel like a lot

0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:26.920
<v Speaker 8>of that was coming from him. And you know, it

0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:29.040
<v Speaker 8>was last week he said, now, you know, people need

0:40:29.040 --> 0:40:31.839
<v Speaker 8>to stop wearting the pajamas to the airport. Well, that's

0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:34.480
<v Speaker 8>really not the place of government to step in and

0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:36.040
<v Speaker 8>say it would be nice if you dressed up and

0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:39.680
<v Speaker 8>showed a little bit more respect to when you dress

0:40:39.760 --> 0:40:42.120
<v Speaker 8>coming to the airport, because that's not the job of government.

0:40:42.200 --> 0:40:45.760
<v Speaker 8>So please, let's go deal with more important things. Because

0:40:45.840 --> 0:40:48.840
<v Speaker 8>you know, you know, every time I see somebody shuffling

0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:51.759
<v Speaker 8>into an airplane and their slippers and their pajamas and

0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:54.400
<v Speaker 8>their pillow to get on an airplane, it's January and

0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:56.840
<v Speaker 8>I'm thinking now, if we have to do an emergency

0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:59.920
<v Speaker 8>evacuation in Detroit on the ramp when it was thirty degrees,

0:41:00.600 --> 0:41:03.280
<v Speaker 8>you're going to wish you to warn something a little

0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:05.759
<v Speaker 8>bit more than those little jammis that the wind will

0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:09.360
<v Speaker 8>go right through. But you know it's but yeah, I'm

0:41:09.360 --> 0:41:12.120
<v Speaker 8>a big Sean Duffy fan. I think the Department Transportations

0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:13.960
<v Speaker 8>doing a good job. And if you will, I'll tell

0:41:13.960 --> 0:41:15.759
<v Speaker 8>you something they did recently that kind of take.

0:41:16.480 --> 0:41:18.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I want to I'm want to ask you about that.

0:41:19.040 --> 0:41:22.279
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, there was a delayed compensation rule that just a

0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:25.600
<v Speaker 8>while back that the it was announced that the Department

0:41:25.600 --> 0:41:30.120
<v Speaker 8>Transportation is not going to be pursuing And the thing

0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:34.040
<v Speaker 8>that bothered me on that was that, you know that

0:41:34.120 --> 0:41:36.359
<v Speaker 8>this was something that was about a year ago that

0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:39.600
<v Speaker 8>Joe Biden, the Biden administration came out with a cash

0:41:40.000 --> 0:41:43.200
<v Speaker 8>compensation rule and basically it meant that if you were

0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:46.360
<v Speaker 8>iirre delayed by more than three hours on a flight

0:41:46.640 --> 0:41:48.600
<v Speaker 8>and it's there and it's the fault of the airline,

0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:51.480
<v Speaker 8>not weather or anything like that, we could be entitled

0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:54.440
<v Speaker 8>to some cash compensation that would be several hundred dollars.

0:41:54.800 --> 0:41:58.600
<v Speaker 8>The rule would have also guaranteed meals, lodging when needed,

0:41:58.680 --> 0:42:02.680
<v Speaker 8>in ground transportation when appropriate. And even though I was

0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:06.120
<v Speaker 8>never a fan of the Biden administration in any regard Mike,

0:42:06.160 --> 0:42:08.840
<v Speaker 8>I was very very appreciative of how the Bide deministration

0:42:08.880 --> 0:42:11.560
<v Speaker 8>went after airlines, especially the last two years. If the

0:42:11.560 --> 0:42:14.080
<v Speaker 8>airlines were kind of doing things they shouldn't be doing.

0:42:14.120 --> 0:42:16.560
<v Speaker 8>I mean, they were getting hammered, and I loved it.

0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:20.279
<v Speaker 8>Boeing was getting hammered, as was the airlines. So then

0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:23.840
<v Speaker 8>the Trump administration comes into power, all the airline stocks

0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:26.240
<v Speaker 8>go up, and people said, now, Jay, you trade stocks.

0:42:26.239 --> 0:42:29.279
<v Speaker 8>Why did the stocks go up? I said, because it's

0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:31.680
<v Speaker 8>going to be a real cozy relationship between the airlines

0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:33.919
<v Speaker 8>and the Trump administration. It was the first time around,

0:42:34.000 --> 0:42:36.680
<v Speaker 8>it will be now. A lot of these airlines and

0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:41.080
<v Speaker 8>Bowing donated a million dollars each to the Trump indaugural

0:42:41.120 --> 0:42:43.920
<v Speaker 8>fund when it's yeah.

0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:45.000
<v Speaker 7>I f all of the money, right, brother.

0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.440
<v Speaker 8>So what happens here is now the airlines have a

0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:52.239
<v Speaker 8>very very powerful lobby. They're telling the government, look, this

0:42:52.360 --> 0:42:56.799
<v Speaker 8>cash compensation rule is not really good for us. So

0:42:57.480 --> 0:43:01.840
<v Speaker 8>the dot yeah, put it and drawer never to be

0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:05.520
<v Speaker 8>seen again. So that bothers me because it's the airlines

0:43:05.560 --> 0:43:08.200
<v Speaker 8>telling the government what to do instead of the other

0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:11.480
<v Speaker 8>way around. And even Boeing Boeing during under the Biden

0:43:11.480 --> 0:43:18.080
<v Speaker 8>administration admitted to criminal charges in UH as a result

0:43:18.160 --> 0:43:20.640
<v Speaker 8>of the two Boeing Max crashes that killed what three

0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:23.359
<v Speaker 8>hundred and forty six people, right, and they covered they

0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:26.319
<v Speaker 8>covered things up, they lied all kinds of things, and

0:43:26.360 --> 0:43:29.680
<v Speaker 8>they admitted you know, criminal UH in a criminal court,

0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:33.160
<v Speaker 8>you know, responsibility, right. Donald Trump's get gets elected and

0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:35.760
<v Speaker 8>what do they do. They go back into the DOJ saying,

0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:38.160
<v Speaker 8>you know, we'd like to walk back some of those

0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:41.719
<v Speaker 8>previous admissions, and sure enough they were allowed to do it.

0:43:42.000 --> 0:43:44.279
<v Speaker 8>And the never it's not going to go to court,

0:43:44.560 --> 0:43:47.160
<v Speaker 8>some out of court settlement that was done and the

0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:49.359
<v Speaker 8>families are just throwing a fit because they didn't feel

0:43:49.400 --> 0:43:51.600
<v Speaker 8>like it should have been. But that was also allowed

0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:55.160
<v Speaker 8>by the Department of Transportation. So that those kind of

0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:58.719
<v Speaker 8>things really bother me because when you don't have a

0:43:58.840 --> 0:44:02.400
<v Speaker 8>system in place it's going to hold airlines and Bowling accountable.

0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:06.520
<v Speaker 8>It gives them permission to keep doing the same craft

0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:08.759
<v Speaker 8>they've been doing, and airlines are going to trade this

0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:11.560
<v Speaker 8>like garbage and look Delta, I love they're my carrier

0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:13.960
<v Speaker 8>of choice. They had a quarter last year that they

0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:17.759
<v Speaker 8>reported a billion dollar profit in a single quarter, so

0:44:17.840 --> 0:44:21.359
<v Speaker 8>did unite it almost So they're making that much money

0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.359
<v Speaker 8>and they're saying this cash compensation rule.

0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:24.680
<v Speaker 7>No, let's let's not give.

0:44:24.560 --> 0:44:26.920
<v Speaker 8>Any of this to you a passenger. We'll throw them

0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:29.879
<v Speaker 8>five thousand frequent by myriles to try to appease them. Well,

0:44:29.920 --> 0:44:31.680
<v Speaker 8>thank you very much for that. That that's more of

0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:33.160
<v Speaker 8>an insult than anything else.

0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:35.120
<v Speaker 1>Now, and I agree with you on that. It kind

0:44:35.160 --> 0:44:38.719
<v Speaker 1>of surprised. I just wonder if Congress could override I'm

0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:41.200
<v Speaker 1>sure it's an executive order, but I don't know.

0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:44.520
<v Speaker 8>Dead in the water, Mike, it really is, and it

0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:47.680
<v Speaker 8>just it's unfortunate. It's like if an airline is shown

0:44:47.719 --> 0:44:50.919
<v Speaker 8>to not have done certain things, nothing serious but maybe

0:44:50.960 --> 0:44:54.040
<v Speaker 8>a maintenance type thing of a minor situation on certain

0:44:54.080 --> 0:44:57.279
<v Speaker 8>aircraft by a certain date, they're fined ten million dollars. Well,

0:44:57.320 --> 0:45:00.319
<v Speaker 8>then by the time it's done, the FAA recommended of

0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:02.920
<v Speaker 8>ten million has been negotiated down to one and a

0:45:02.920 --> 0:45:05.360
<v Speaker 8>half million, as long as they promise never to do

0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:05.840
<v Speaker 8>it again.

0:45:05.960 --> 0:45:07.080
<v Speaker 7>Oh thank you.

0:45:07.080 --> 0:45:07.839
<v Speaker 6>You know that's great.

0:45:07.880 --> 0:45:10.439
<v Speaker 8>I'm sorry, officer, I got this speeding ticket, and can

0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:12.320
<v Speaker 8>you cut it in by ninety percent if I promise

0:45:12.400 --> 0:45:14.120
<v Speaker 8>never to do it again. Those are the kind of

0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:16.640
<v Speaker 8>games that have been going on for decades with the

0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:18.759
<v Speaker 8>airline industry. It bothered me when I was a part

0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:21.040
<v Speaker 8>of it, and it bothers me now, and every single

0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:22.640
<v Speaker 8>time I see it, I'm going to speak out about

0:45:22.640 --> 0:45:25.000
<v Speaker 8>it because I just don't like it. It doesn't mean I'm

0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:27.600
<v Speaker 8>against the Trump administration. Anybody knows me knows that's not

0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:30.600
<v Speaker 8>the case. But I believe in holding airlines accountable. And

0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:33.879
<v Speaker 8>if people are saying, Jay, why is it that we're

0:45:33.920 --> 0:45:37.120
<v Speaker 8>treated like garbage every time we fly and airlines don't

0:45:37.160 --> 0:45:39.600
<v Speaker 8>do any better? Because there's no incentive. As long as

0:45:39.600 --> 0:45:42.480
<v Speaker 8>we keep coming back and flying packing airplanes like we're

0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:45.280
<v Speaker 8>doing right now, there's zero incentive for airlines to ever

0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:48.280
<v Speaker 8>change what they're doing. And as a result, what takes

0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:50.719
<v Speaker 8>place is they're going to continue. That's why when these

0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:52.960
<v Speaker 8>surveys come out about the best airlines in the world,

0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:55.279
<v Speaker 8>people want to know how many airlines from the US

0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:56.200
<v Speaker 8>made the top twenty.

0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:58.280
<v Speaker 7>I laugh. Zero.

0:45:58.840 --> 0:46:02.799
<v Speaker 8>We never make those look because, yeah, customer service is

0:46:02.880 --> 0:46:05.720
<v Speaker 8>non existent in the in the in this country because

0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:08.800
<v Speaker 8>of how we're treated. Go fly another carrier as in coach,

0:46:09.120 --> 0:46:10.680
<v Speaker 8>and you'll see the difference and it.

0:46:10.600 --> 0:46:11.680
<v Speaker 7>Will blow you away.

0:46:11.719 --> 0:46:15.120
<v Speaker 8>On wow, I actually feel appreciated when I fly Airlines

0:46:15.160 --> 0:46:18.279
<v Speaker 8>such and such internationally versus how I'm treated when I'm

0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:20.160
<v Speaker 8>going from Chicago.

0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:22.200
<v Speaker 1>I get. I didn't think it was that bad. Hey,

0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:26.400
<v Speaker 1>just in past you mentioned Boeing. Are they recovering? Will

0:46:26.440 --> 0:46:29.399
<v Speaker 1>they recover? I think I asked you this last time

0:46:29.400 --> 0:46:32.400
<v Speaker 1>I talked to you. How's that going well?

0:46:32.480 --> 0:46:34.719
<v Speaker 8>I mean, if you believe what they're saying, they're they're

0:46:34.840 --> 0:46:37.920
<v Speaker 8>they're moving in the right direction. But five six years ago,

0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:39.680
<v Speaker 8>when they promised that they were going to do better,

0:46:39.760 --> 0:46:42.959
<v Speaker 8>they learned from their examples, and you know, after those

0:46:43.000 --> 0:46:45.760
<v Speaker 8>lives were lost that we talked about as an idiot,

0:46:45.800 --> 0:46:48.520
<v Speaker 8>I believe them. I believe their paragraphs of promise and

0:46:48.840 --> 0:46:51.000
<v Speaker 8>all this other garbage that they said about how they

0:46:51.000 --> 0:46:53.560
<v Speaker 8>were going to become a better, more you know, uh,

0:46:53.880 --> 0:46:57.560
<v Speaker 8>safety driven producer of aircraft. And then we had last

0:46:57.640 --> 0:47:00.520
<v Speaker 8>January the dwarf flying off the last air Airlines flight

0:47:00.560 --> 0:47:04.239
<v Speaker 8>that wasn't even secured. So I believed them before I

0:47:04.320 --> 0:47:06.759
<v Speaker 8>will not do that now. I'll tell you in four

0:47:06.840 --> 0:47:09.520
<v Speaker 8>or five years if Boeing has lived up to their promises,

0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:13.120
<v Speaker 8>Because anytime that you're pushing airplanes through the production like

0:47:13.160 --> 0:47:16.600
<v Speaker 8>they were and telling employees go to the scrap bend

0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:19.319
<v Speaker 8>and pick the best failed part so we can put

0:47:19.320 --> 0:47:21.439
<v Speaker 8>it on an airplane because we don't want to slow

0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:22.480
<v Speaker 8>the production schedule.

0:47:23.120 --> 0:47:24.080
<v Speaker 1>Mike, I don't know how.

0:47:24.200 --> 0:47:26.520
<v Speaker 8>I don't know what you can say to that that

0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:29.560
<v Speaker 8>would explain how that any of that is okay, right,

0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:32.720
<v Speaker 8>But according to the whistleblowers and the people that investigated,

0:47:33.160 --> 0:47:35.360
<v Speaker 8>that went on for a long period of time at Boeing,

0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:39.040
<v Speaker 8>and that's just wrong. So they said they've stopped doing it.

0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:42.080
<v Speaker 8>I don't know, have they I hope So I just

0:47:42.160 --> 0:47:44.640
<v Speaker 8>hope nothing happens that shows that they didn't do what

0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:45.279
<v Speaker 8>they said they were.

0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:45.560
<v Speaker 6>Going to do.

0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:46.399
<v Speaker 7>Yeah.

0:47:46.719 --> 0:47:48.239
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, it is what it is, and you

0:47:48.280 --> 0:47:51.520
<v Speaker 1>can't justify that stuff, obviously. Hey, I wanted to ask

0:47:51.560 --> 0:47:53.640
<v Speaker 1>you too. We talked a little bit about it, but uh,

0:47:53.880 --> 0:47:56.800
<v Speaker 1>what is the biggest challenge that a traveler faces during

0:47:57.160 --> 0:48:00.719
<v Speaker 1>this week, this holiday week? And what can they do

0:48:00.840 --> 0:48:03.160
<v Speaker 1>to kind of at least try to obviate it? A

0:48:03.200 --> 0:48:03.680
<v Speaker 1>little bit.

0:48:04.920 --> 0:48:08.400
<v Speaker 8>Well, I tell you the biggest thing is the busiest

0:48:08.400 --> 0:48:11.120
<v Speaker 8>travel day of the year is typically the Sunday after

0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:14.520
<v Speaker 8>Thanksgiving coming up. The second busiest was on Wednesday. We

0:48:14.560 --> 0:48:17.600
<v Speaker 8>had two point seven million people fly. The biggest thing

0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:19.359
<v Speaker 8>is if you get to the airport on time, two

0:48:19.400 --> 0:48:21.279
<v Speaker 8>hours before departure, which you have to do this time

0:48:21.320 --> 0:48:23.160
<v Speaker 8>of year, get to the gate, and if you find

0:48:23.160 --> 0:48:26.520
<v Speaker 8>out your flight is canceled with every flight being full.

0:48:26.600 --> 0:48:28.200
<v Speaker 8>If you've got a family of three or four that

0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:31.160
<v Speaker 8>are trying to get let's say to Orlando and every

0:48:31.160 --> 0:48:33.720
<v Speaker 8>flight's full, and they're telling you, I'm sorry, your flight's canceled.

0:48:33.719 --> 0:48:36.080
<v Speaker 8>We can't get you out till Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.

0:48:36.520 --> 0:48:37.920
<v Speaker 8>One of the things that you can do is tell

0:48:37.960 --> 0:48:40.200
<v Speaker 8>the agent, believe me, who's desperately trying to get you

0:48:40.480 --> 0:48:43.600
<v Speaker 8>to your destination, say, look, can you get me instead

0:48:43.600 --> 0:48:46.960
<v Speaker 8>of Orlando to Tampa Saint Pete, Daytona Beach. I mean

0:48:46.960 --> 0:48:49.799
<v Speaker 8>get me to a surrounding airport. I'll check and make

0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:51.160
<v Speaker 8>sure that I can get a rental car, and if

0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:52.880
<v Speaker 8>I do, I'll pay for that. So if you can

0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:55.840
<v Speaker 8>fly me to Daytona, I can drive to my destination.

0:48:55.960 --> 0:48:59.400
<v Speaker 8>If you can give the agent three or four good destinations,

0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:02.360
<v Speaker 8>that's great. And if you're at the airport in a line,

0:49:02.800 --> 0:49:04.560
<v Speaker 8>instead of waiting until you get up to the line,

0:49:04.600 --> 0:49:08.200
<v Speaker 8>pull out social media. If you're standing in line, stay there.

0:49:08.560 --> 0:49:11.040
<v Speaker 8>But I go to Facebook and I'll send Delta a

0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:15.120
<v Speaker 8>message through Facebook saying here's my six digit confirmation number.

0:49:15.480 --> 0:49:17.759
<v Speaker 8>My flight's been delayed. I'm worried about my connection. What

0:49:17.800 --> 0:49:20.359
<v Speaker 8>options do I have? So either the agent I get

0:49:20.360 --> 0:49:23.960
<v Speaker 8>to first, or something through that message that allows me

0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:24.840
<v Speaker 8>to book something.

0:49:25.080 --> 0:49:25.279
<v Speaker 7>Yeah.

0:49:25.840 --> 0:49:29.560
<v Speaker 8>Grow the number of agents with airlines that are addressed

0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:32.200
<v Speaker 8>to social media. If you're using the old Twitter or

0:49:32.239 --> 0:49:34.520
<v Speaker 8>you're using Facebook or any other way to reach out

0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:36.480
<v Speaker 8>to them, you don't make it a public post. It's

0:49:36.520 --> 0:49:39.480
<v Speaker 8>a private message. Nobody sees your information. But you can

0:49:39.520 --> 0:49:41.840
<v Speaker 8>just give them that six digit. Don't complain about the

0:49:41.920 --> 0:49:43.880
<v Speaker 8>last ten flights you've been on. It's got to be

0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:47.160
<v Speaker 8>very short, very brief, saying look, I'm here, here's my

0:49:47.200 --> 0:49:50.680
<v Speaker 8>confirmation number. Flight's been canceled. What are my options. Many

0:49:50.680 --> 0:49:52.440
<v Speaker 8>times they'll give you two or three. You pick one.

0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:54.160
<v Speaker 8>Long before you get to the front of the line.

0:49:54.239 --> 0:49:57.000
<v Speaker 8>The line, it's done, and you kind of go from there.

0:49:57.000 --> 0:49:58.400
<v Speaker 8>The other thing, Mike is don't show up at the

0:49:58.440 --> 0:50:00.440
<v Speaker 8>airport this time of year without to see this asignment,

0:50:00.840 --> 0:50:02.919
<v Speaker 8>because we have flights that are over sold, which means

0:50:02.920 --> 0:50:05.640
<v Speaker 8>anybody that doesn't have a seat assignment, technically you're on

0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:08.680
<v Speaker 8>standby waiting for them to clear you. I don't care

0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:11.680
<v Speaker 8>if it's a middle seat. You grab whatever seat you can,

0:50:12.000 --> 0:50:13.239
<v Speaker 8>and if you want to get to the airport and

0:50:13.280 --> 0:50:15.880
<v Speaker 8>try to move things around, you can try. But I

0:50:15.920 --> 0:50:17.719
<v Speaker 8>see so many people saying, well, Jay, they're only like

0:50:17.760 --> 0:50:19.879
<v Speaker 8>four seats, they were all middle and I didn't take

0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:21.640
<v Speaker 8>any of them. And then I hear from them they're

0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:24.160
<v Speaker 8>saying like, I almost didn't make the flight. Yeah, you

0:50:24.200 --> 0:50:26.120
<v Speaker 8>know why, because you didn't have a seat assignment. If

0:50:26.160 --> 0:50:28.600
<v Speaker 8>you're able to make it, I don't care what it is,

0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:31.239
<v Speaker 8>make sure you grab something so you've got a seat

0:50:31.280 --> 0:50:34.480
<v Speaker 8>assignment to go along with the reservation, especially over the

0:50:34.520 --> 0:50:35.439
<v Speaker 8>holiday travel seas.

0:50:35.560 --> 0:50:36.200
<v Speaker 7>You got to have it.

0:50:36.560 --> 0:50:40.240
<v Speaker 1>Good advice, Jay ratlif As is all of your advice.

0:50:40.600 --> 0:50:44.280
<v Speaker 1>Really appreciate it, and thanks for joining us today.

0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:46.160
<v Speaker 7>Looking to catch up with you soon, brother, every.

0:50:46.120 --> 0:50:49.440
<v Speaker 1>Time we will. Thanks Jay. All right, all right, I'll

0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.279
<v Speaker 1>tell you what I didn't know that about the seat

0:50:52.320 --> 0:50:57.360
<v Speaker 1>assignment I've had. That's really good information. I got to

0:50:57.360 --> 0:51:00.000
<v Speaker 1>tell you last year this time. That was a little

0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:04.399
<v Speaker 1>after that, traveled to Mexico around Christmas, and I told

0:51:04.480 --> 0:51:08.800
<v Speaker 1>Jay this at the time, I could not complain at

0:51:08.840 --> 0:51:14.400
<v Speaker 1>all about the manners, the service, the attention to detail

0:51:15.080 --> 0:51:19.200
<v Speaker 1>that TSA showed, and the booking agents at the airlines too.

0:51:19.440 --> 0:51:21.200
<v Speaker 1>You know, you go in there. I think at least

0:51:21.239 --> 0:51:23.440
<v Speaker 1>I did prepare to Oh God, what's gonna happen?

0:51:23.480 --> 0:51:23.719
<v Speaker 7>Now?

0:51:24.239 --> 0:51:27.320
<v Speaker 1>It was impressive. It's really been that way the last

0:51:27.360 --> 0:51:30.800
<v Speaker 1>couple of times I've traveled. So I'm gonna I'm cutting

0:51:30.840 --> 0:51:32.960
<v Speaker 1>them a brake for now. But at any rates, always

0:51:32.960 --> 0:51:34.960
<v Speaker 1>good to hear from Jay. Hey, listen, we are going

0:51:35.040 --> 0:51:36.640
<v Speaker 1>to take a break here, but when we get back,

0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:39.160
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna talk politics, and we are going to talk

0:51:39.239 --> 0:51:45.279
<v Speaker 1>politics with independent political analyst Kevin Burton. Kevin gives it

0:51:45.320 --> 0:51:47.399
<v Speaker 1>to you right down the line, and that's the way

0:51:47.440 --> 0:51:49.600
<v Speaker 1>I like it on these kind of things. So we're

0:51:49.600 --> 0:51:52.319
<v Speaker 1>gonna be talking about Trump and his numbers falling down,

0:51:52.360 --> 0:51:55.440
<v Speaker 1>and if the Democrats finally got interact together. We'll do

0:51:55.520 --> 0:51:58.840
<v Speaker 1>that when we get back. Mike Allen Infrawillie's seven hundred

0:51:58.960 --> 0:52:05.080
<v Speaker 1>WLW or Willie Cunningham. Well, I'll tell you what a

0:52:05.160 --> 0:52:09.320
<v Speaker 1>lot of people are asking the question after the results

0:52:09.360 --> 0:52:12.279
<v Speaker 1>of the twenty twenty five off year elections came in.

0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:17.840
<v Speaker 1>Are the Democrats actually showing a pulse? Here to talk about?

0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:23.000
<v Speaker 1>That is independent political strategist and analyst Kevin Burton. Kevin,

0:52:23.000 --> 0:52:24.600
<v Speaker 1>thanks so much for joining us today.

0:52:25.880 --> 0:52:27.880
<v Speaker 4>Mike, thanks for having me my pleasure.

0:52:28.239 --> 0:52:31.719
<v Speaker 1>Okay, your answer to that question, are they showing a

0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:35.000
<v Speaker 1>pulse after a long time of not showing a pulse?

0:52:36.200 --> 0:52:38.680
<v Speaker 3>I mean, obviously the answer is yes, you know, they

0:52:38.680 --> 0:52:42.279
<v Speaker 3>are back from the dead. I always compare it to

0:52:42.320 --> 0:52:44.239
<v Speaker 3>kind of like an NBA team where you just have

0:52:44.320 --> 0:52:46.640
<v Speaker 3>to kind of thank you know, they were in the

0:52:46.640 --> 0:52:50.280
<v Speaker 3>wilderness and now they're kind of getting back on their feet.

0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:53.560
<v Speaker 3>And we're gonna see a really interesting thing on Tuesday

0:52:53.600 --> 0:52:56.160
<v Speaker 3>that's not being talked about a lot. Is the Tennessee

0:52:56.320 --> 0:53:02.239
<v Speaker 3>seventh Congressional District. Oh okay, well knows, I know it's

0:53:02.400 --> 0:53:07.439
<v Speaker 3>very wonky. No, no, now, right now, it actually shows

0:53:07.480 --> 0:53:11.719
<v Speaker 3>that the polling could be almost equal where the Republican

0:53:11.719 --> 0:53:14.120
<v Speaker 3>candidate won by twenty two points.

0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:17.400
<v Speaker 4>Last presidential cycle.

0:53:18.080 --> 0:53:23.080
<v Speaker 3>So it's very similar to what we've talked about, you know,

0:53:23.160 --> 0:53:25.759
<v Speaker 3>me and you over the years. That's the greatest thing

0:53:25.760 --> 0:53:28.719
<v Speaker 3>about America. It's the give and take. When one side

0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:32.960
<v Speaker 3>gets too far the others, the people punch back, you know.

0:53:33.280 --> 0:53:37.120
<v Speaker 4>So for the Democrats, it's kind of amazing.

0:53:36.680 --> 0:53:42.320
<v Speaker 3>That their party leadership is just abysmal, but the last

0:53:42.400 --> 0:53:45.040
<v Speaker 3>month has been really good for them on the ballot boxes.

0:53:45.520 --> 0:53:47.360
<v Speaker 1>That one you're talking about in Tennessee, is that the

0:53:47.400 --> 0:53:51.480
<v Speaker 1>one where the Democrat candidate said something like she hates

0:53:51.640 --> 0:53:54.680
<v Speaker 1>Nashville and all kinds of things like that, and they're

0:53:54.680 --> 0:53:57.239
<v Speaker 1>trying to clabor her with it, and it doesn't look

0:53:57.320 --> 0:53:59.960
<v Speaker 1>like it's succeeding. Is that the right? The one I'm talking.

0:53:59.680 --> 0:54:02.719
<v Speaker 3>About, Yeah, it's the seventh district is kind of like

0:54:02.760 --> 0:54:08.000
<v Speaker 3>the Nashville area. Yeah, which you know, probably I'm not

0:54:08.080 --> 0:54:10.000
<v Speaker 3>involved in that race, but I would imagine that she's

0:54:10.040 --> 0:54:12.719
<v Speaker 3>probably trying to get the some rural votes. But it's

0:54:12.760 --> 0:54:15.600
<v Speaker 3>kind of a bold strategy to say you hate the city.

0:54:15.719 --> 0:54:19.040
<v Speaker 4>That really makes But so we'll see.

0:54:19.040 --> 0:54:24.400
<v Speaker 3>But you know, special elections generally always favored the opposition

0:54:24.560 --> 0:54:27.000
<v Speaker 3>party just because they're motivated.

0:54:27.160 --> 0:54:29.440
<v Speaker 4>No, I got you, so we'll keep we'll keep an

0:54:29.480 --> 0:54:30.040
<v Speaker 4>eye on that.

0:54:31.920 --> 0:54:36.840
<v Speaker 3>And also, you know, it goes to the presidential polling numbers,

0:54:36.840 --> 0:54:39.839
<v Speaker 3>which aren't very great right now. So for as bad

0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:43.239
<v Speaker 3>as the Democrats have been, they're only saving grace right now.

0:54:43.440 --> 0:54:46.520
<v Speaker 3>Is the number one issue that we heard from Zoran

0:54:46.640 --> 0:54:50.480
<v Speaker 3>Mindani affordability, and that's what they're running on.

0:54:50.600 --> 0:54:52.759
<v Speaker 1>They're all over that one. Hey, before we get into

0:54:52.800 --> 0:54:54.440
<v Speaker 1>those numbers, because I've got them here and I do

0:54:54.520 --> 0:54:57.040
<v Speaker 1>want to talk to you about them. But at its core, though,

0:54:57.160 --> 0:55:01.439
<v Speaker 1>Kevin Burton, don't the Democrats have a real, what could

0:55:01.520 --> 0:55:05.719
<v Speaker 1>be long lasting problem of identity? You know, what do

0:55:05.760 --> 0:55:07.440
<v Speaker 1>you want to be? Do you want to be moderate

0:55:07.520 --> 0:55:09.880
<v Speaker 1>or do you want to be liberal? And how do

0:55:09.920 --> 0:55:13.480
<v Speaker 1>you see that playing out with respect to the the

0:55:13.520 --> 0:55:16.560
<v Speaker 1>midterms in twenty twenty six. It sure seems like that

0:55:16.719 --> 0:55:18.120
<v Speaker 1>problem is not going to go away.

0:55:19.560 --> 0:55:22.719
<v Speaker 3>Well, but it's you know, it's exactly no different than

0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:26.520
<v Speaker 3>what the Republicans had to do after twenty twelve. You know,

0:55:27.239 --> 0:55:31.399
<v Speaker 3>the conventional wisdom told them to go keep pushing more

0:55:31.440 --> 0:55:36.880
<v Speaker 3>and more moderate because Romney lost, and you know, the

0:55:36.920 --> 0:55:41.440
<v Speaker 3>Tea Party movement and then the Maga movement basically wiped

0:55:41.480 --> 0:55:43.759
<v Speaker 3>out the establishment, and in a lot of ways, the

0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:48.120
<v Speaker 3>Democrats are feeling the exact same. They're tired of the neocons.

0:55:48.160 --> 0:55:51.400
<v Speaker 3>They're tired of you know, the Chuck Schumers. They're tired

0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:54.439
<v Speaker 3>of all these people who've been in office who sailed them.

0:55:55.040 --> 0:55:58.600
<v Speaker 3>So convinsional wisdom say that they should shift more back

0:55:58.680 --> 0:55:59.440
<v Speaker 3>to the middle.

0:55:59.800 --> 0:56:03.560
<v Speaker 4>But I just don't see that happening. I see more

0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:04.000
<v Speaker 4>and more.

0:56:04.400 --> 0:56:08.280
<v Speaker 3>You know, Nancy Pelosi retired because she had a millennial

0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:10.799
<v Speaker 3>running against her, basically just saying, what have you done

0:56:10.800 --> 0:56:12.200
<v Speaker 3>besides pocket yourself?

0:56:13.239 --> 0:56:15.520
<v Speaker 1>What do you think is gonna happen? I'm sorry with

0:56:15.600 --> 0:56:18.840
<v Speaker 1>that Schumer race, I'm just curious about that. Will AOC

0:56:19.080 --> 0:56:21.919
<v Speaker 1>take him on or will he go quietly into the night?

0:56:23.360 --> 0:56:28.480
<v Speaker 3>Well for AOC, if you know, she has it's kind

0:56:28.480 --> 0:56:31.560
<v Speaker 3>of like Lane Kiffin, She's the Lane Kiffin of She

0:56:31.600 --> 0:56:34.319
<v Speaker 3>has decided, she has decided do you want to run

0:56:34.360 --> 0:56:37.000
<v Speaker 3>for Senate, stay as a house or try to run

0:56:37.040 --> 0:56:40.240
<v Speaker 3>for president. So it's just the exact same thing where

0:56:40.640 --> 0:56:43.480
<v Speaker 3>you know, if you're advising her, there's all three avenues

0:56:43.480 --> 0:56:46.680
<v Speaker 3>that you could take. You know, if she announced that

0:56:46.719 --> 0:56:49.839
<v Speaker 3>she was running against Schumer, I mean, I don't think

0:56:49.840 --> 0:56:52.320
<v Speaker 3>it takes anyone with a political science degree.

0:56:52.880 --> 0:56:54.239
<v Speaker 4>Regardless of what you think of her.

0:56:54.400 --> 0:56:58.239
<v Speaker 3>She has the audience, she has the fandais, she has

0:56:58.280 --> 0:57:03.440
<v Speaker 3>the momentum. And you know, Chuck Schumer is he's the

0:57:03.520 --> 0:57:05.960
<v Speaker 3>other side of the coin of Mitch McConnell. You know,

0:57:06.120 --> 0:57:10.120
<v Speaker 3>for twenty plus years, these two have sold out Americans

0:57:10.160 --> 0:57:13.160
<v Speaker 3>to corporations, and frankly, people on both sides of the

0:57:13.160 --> 0:57:14.400
<v Speaker 3>aisle are just tired of it.

0:57:15.120 --> 0:57:17.560
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, you're right, I think for both parties

0:57:17.560 --> 0:57:21.000
<v Speaker 1>it's kind of a change in opinion about that. Well,

0:57:21.080 --> 0:57:24.200
<v Speaker 1>let's get into some of the numbers here public perception

0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:27.960
<v Speaker 1>of the Democrat Party, and I wanted to ask how

0:57:28.000 --> 0:57:30.160
<v Speaker 1>they get around this. And this is the Real Clear

0:57:30.240 --> 0:57:34.360
<v Speaker 1>Politics average of polls, which is supposedly the most accurate one.

0:57:35.040 --> 0:57:36.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't know when they were in the field, but

0:57:36.840 --> 0:57:41.360
<v Speaker 1>it's the most recent one that I could find. Do

0:57:41.440 --> 0:57:46.160
<v Speaker 1>you view the Democrat Party favorably or unfavorably? Favorably it

0:57:46.280 --> 0:57:49.920
<v Speaker 1>was only thirty four percent. Unfaithed is sixty percent. Now

0:57:50.000 --> 0:57:53.720
<v Speaker 1>the Republicans aren't much better. But Kevin, I just I

0:57:53.760 --> 0:57:55.560
<v Speaker 1>respect what you're saying. I don't see how they get

0:57:55.840 --> 0:57:58.760
<v Speaker 1>around that, and Republicans who are sitting on their butts

0:57:58.800 --> 0:58:02.040
<v Speaker 1>thinking we're going to cruise through the midterms. They're wrong.

0:58:02.400 --> 0:58:05.320
<v Speaker 1>They're as wrong as uh, you know, they're as wrong

0:58:05.360 --> 0:58:08.000
<v Speaker 1>as those numbers would appear to be at least people

0:58:08.040 --> 0:58:10.520
<v Speaker 1>like you think. I don't know if that makes any sense,

0:58:10.560 --> 0:58:11.320
<v Speaker 1>but what are you think of that?

0:58:12.600 --> 0:58:17.240
<v Speaker 3>It all comes down to affordability And it's that simple.

0:58:17.360 --> 0:58:20.920
<v Speaker 3>I mean, listen, look out throughout history.

0:58:21.120 --> 0:58:22.080
<v Speaker 4>You know, George H. W.

0:58:22.320 --> 0:58:26.040
<v Speaker 3>Bush lost when he was a very popular president because

0:58:26.120 --> 0:58:30.800
<v Speaker 3>inflation and the economy tanked. Joe Biden, we just saw

0:58:30.880 --> 0:58:35.320
<v Speaker 3>what happened, you know, a couple of years ago. Right now,

0:58:35.520 --> 0:58:38.640
<v Speaker 3>the majority to a two to one margin. People believe

0:58:38.640 --> 0:58:43.280
<v Speaker 3>that Trump's tariffs have caused more problems. And for the Democrats,

0:58:43.400 --> 0:58:47.200
<v Speaker 3>it's simply just being like, hey, I'm here. They're like,

0:58:48.600 --> 0:58:53.520
<v Speaker 3>you know, they don't have a message. And frankly, you know,

0:58:53.600 --> 0:58:55.640
<v Speaker 3>I think people on both sides were mad that Trump

0:58:55.720 --> 0:58:58.000
<v Speaker 3>and Mandonnie met with each other. But this is America.

0:58:58.000 --> 0:59:01.320
<v Speaker 3>That's what you're supposed to do, right, I mean, I

0:59:01.320 --> 0:59:03.520
<v Speaker 3>don't know why this is breaking news, Like you're the

0:59:03.560 --> 0:59:06.000
<v Speaker 3>mayor of the largest city and he's the president.

0:59:06.280 --> 0:59:07.200
<v Speaker 4>Of course you should meet.

0:59:09.480 --> 0:59:13.520
<v Speaker 3>So affordability is the number one issue going forward. Number

0:59:13.520 --> 0:59:19.560
<v Speaker 3>two will probably be healthcare. Immigration has really quieted down,

0:59:20.560 --> 0:59:22.920
<v Speaker 3>so it's really going to be those two things, affordability

0:59:23.720 --> 0:59:28.560
<v Speaker 3>and healthcare. And as the Democrats are the alternatives because

0:59:28.760 --> 0:59:31.080
<v Speaker 3>you're always going to blame the party in power. You

0:59:31.280 --> 0:59:35.320
<v Speaker 3>just are in Republicans control, you know, all three branches

0:59:35.400 --> 0:59:35.840
<v Speaker 3>right now.

0:59:36.080 --> 0:59:37.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And you know, for a while, and you and

0:59:37.920 --> 0:59:41.160
<v Speaker 1>I talked about it, I was somewhat optimistic that perhaps

0:59:41.960 --> 0:59:44.760
<v Speaker 1>this could be different and the party in power would

0:59:44.800 --> 0:59:48.040
<v Speaker 1>stay in power. It's such a thin majority, though, I

0:59:48.040 --> 0:59:50.600
<v Speaker 1>don't know. We'll have to see. Now. I am a

0:59:50.720 --> 0:59:53.040
<v Speaker 1>very fair individual. So we're going to talk about the

0:59:53.040 --> 0:59:58.680
<v Speaker 1>president's numbers, which are not good. Nate Silver's silver bulletin aggregator.

0:59:58.720 --> 0:59:59.600
<v Speaker 1>Are you familiar with that?

0:59:59.760 --> 1:00:03.000
<v Speaker 4>It's supposed to be pretty yeah, okay, Yeah, here's.

1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:06.919
<v Speaker 1>What it says. Trump's overall approval declined from forty four

1:00:06.960 --> 1:00:09.840
<v Speaker 1>point three percent to forty one point three percent in

1:00:09.880 --> 1:00:13.480
<v Speaker 1>the last month and change, while his disapproval rate rose

1:00:13.520 --> 1:00:17.520
<v Speaker 1>even more sharply in the same timeframe, from fifty one

1:00:17.600 --> 1:00:21.360
<v Speaker 1>point nine percent to fifty six point two percent. So

1:00:21.840 --> 1:00:24.560
<v Speaker 1>I mean you're right, his poll numbers are not going

1:00:24.600 --> 1:00:28.560
<v Speaker 1>the right way going into the midterms. And then the

1:00:28.600 --> 1:00:31.640
<v Speaker 1>other thing too, And we've talked about this, Kevin, and

1:00:31.680 --> 1:00:35.560
<v Speaker 1>this hurts Republicans. These maga voters will not get out

1:00:35.560 --> 1:00:38.320
<v Speaker 1>the vote unless Donald J. Trump is on the ballot.

1:00:38.880 --> 1:00:40.600
<v Speaker 1>That's not true of all of them, but for a

1:00:40.640 --> 1:00:43.680
<v Speaker 1>pretty good number of them. That's a problem for Republicans

1:00:43.720 --> 1:00:45.760
<v Speaker 1>when you think, well, but.

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<v Speaker 3>It's no different than the Democrats with Obama. People need

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<v Speaker 3>to realize that Donald Trump, love them or hate them,

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<v Speaker 3>is a once in a generation political figure dame as

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<v Speaker 3>Barack Obama. You have to stop trying to emulate them

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<v Speaker 3>because you're not going to You're just true.

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<v Speaker 1>Not that's true.

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<v Speaker 3>You have to figure out you have to figure out

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<v Speaker 3>a different way to win elections. Like and frankly, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>Democrats are still kind of searching for you know, I

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<v Speaker 3>would say it's kind of like how you know, New

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<v Speaker 3>England was searching for only five years and then they

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<v Speaker 3>found their other star quarterback. You know, parties latch on

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<v Speaker 3>to their generational people. But the problem is there's a

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<v Speaker 3>reason that they are generational. They don't grow on trees,

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<v Speaker 3>and Republicans are going to have to come to terms

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<v Speaker 3>with that pretty soon that you know, look at Ron DeSantis.

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<v Speaker 3>You can try to be a maga lae, try to

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<v Speaker 3>emulate you.

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<v Speaker 4>Know, Donald Trump in so many ways.

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<v Speaker 3>But when push comes to shove and it's the presidential primary,

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<v Speaker 3>he got squashed like a bug.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep. I was one of the ones I thought that

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<v Speaker 1>he would be competitive. I mean, how wrong.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know Kamala tried to basically run as Obama,

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<v Speaker 3>but the voters saw through it. So the Republicans are

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<v Speaker 3>going to have to have a come to Jesus meeting

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<v Speaker 3>after the midterms that listen, like, you can't use the

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<v Speaker 3>Trump playbook because Trump's one of one.

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<v Speaker 1>He just does true true, you know, I along those lines,

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<v Speaker 1>I need to ask you. It's just frustrating to me

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<v Speaker 1>because I don't I just don't find it important. But

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<v Speaker 1>apparently everybody else does. The whole Epstein Gate thing with Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>it seems like it's still dogging him and probably will

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<v Speaker 1>into the not too distant future. I mean, your thoughts

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<v Speaker 1>on that.

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<v Speaker 3>I know this is not your show, but I was

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<v Speaker 3>on your show what nine months.

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<v Speaker 4>Ago when this broke and what did I say, ham

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<v Speaker 4>BONDI or fire cash to.

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<v Speaker 3>Tell you gotta throw someone to the wool, right right.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean still to this day they objectively they have

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<v Speaker 3>bought this whole thing.

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<v Speaker 4>Because they put they put themselves.

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<v Speaker 3>In a corner that either the Epstein would file was

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<v Speaker 3>something or nothing. And they've put they're in a corner

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<v Speaker 3>now and now they're darned if they do, darned if

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<v Speaker 3>they don't. You know, For Trump, it's actually very just

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<v Speaker 3>fascinating because his.

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<v Speaker 4>First term, his poll numbers for the economy.

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<v Speaker 5>With sky high and it's.

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<v Speaker 3>Foreign policies people did not like. And now it's the

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<v Speaker 3>exact opposite this time around.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. And with respect to Epstein, I mean, I think,

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<v Speaker 1>what do I know. I mean, I'm not in the

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<v Speaker 1>middle of it, but they could have diffused that thing,

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<v Speaker 1>or at least tamped it down somewhat early on. It's

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<v Speaker 1>kind of the drip drip drip thing. And yes it's important.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, horrible things happened to those those victims. But

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<v Speaker 1>don't you think, though, if they had some kind of

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<v Speaker 1>smoke and gun on Trump, we'd have known about it

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<v Speaker 1>a long time ago.

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<v Speaker 4>So you are the prosecutor here.

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<v Speaker 3>So my only thing is if it sounds like a

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<v Speaker 3>duck acts like a duck at the very least, it

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<v Speaker 3>knows something about duck.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, they have botched this whole thing.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, there's there is they were friends at one point.

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<v Speaker 4>There's no way to disagree with it. I mean, when

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<v Speaker 4>you me and you've known.

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<v Speaker 3>Each other for ten years and I don't see any

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<v Speaker 3>pictures of me and you.

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<v Speaker 1>Dancing together, that's pretty good. No, And I hear that,

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't know. I think when they're teaching campaign school,

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<v Speaker 1>they're going to teach people that that ain't the right

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<v Speaker 1>way to handle it. Just let it keep dripping like.

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<v Speaker 3>That a lot of ways, in a lot of ways,

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<v Speaker 3>this is the Benghazi.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah it is, and you know.

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<v Speaker 3>The drip and how you're talking about it when it's

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<v Speaker 3>a drip, a slow stream that just ends up building

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<v Speaker 3>into a river that you can't stop.

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<v Speaker 4>Those are always the hardest thing.

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<v Speaker 3>In politics because when something bad happens right away and

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<v Speaker 3>you can counter it, people are like, Okay, yeah, you know.

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<v Speaker 4>These things happen.

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<v Speaker 3>This has been nine months and it's not going away.

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<v Speaker 3>And when frankly, they release whatever's released, we still have

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<v Speaker 3>people who think the.

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<v Speaker 4>Moon landing's not real. JFK so it's already they've already

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<v Speaker 4>lost the narrative.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, I thought, now you correct me if

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<v Speaker 1>I'm wrong, that they've released with this last go round.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, pretty much everything they can. I know the

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats will keep pounding it and I understand that that's politics,

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<v Speaker 1>but I don't know. And at the end of the day,

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't really matter because he's got beaten up enough

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<v Speaker 1>about it. But again I returned to if they were

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<v Speaker 1>a smoking gun, they would have found it already. But

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<v Speaker 1>the poll numbers indicate that people are interested in that

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<v Speaker 1>for whatever reason.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, going back to Nixon, it wasn't when

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<v Speaker 3>nexton did. It's always the cuff up big. So they're

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<v Speaker 3>redactive and that you know, and we talked about this,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, nine months ago on your show.

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<v Speaker 4>This is politics.

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<v Speaker 3>Someone needed to just go find them a nice, cushy

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<v Speaker 3>job afterwards. But you know, this problem is gonna be

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<v Speaker 3>here to stay. And what's interesting is this is actually,

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<v Speaker 3>I think going to be something that hinders jd vance

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<v Speaker 3>in you think three years well, because you know, looking

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<v Speaker 3>at Hillary Clinton with beIN Ghazi, what did what did

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<v Speaker 3>the Republicans do?

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<v Speaker 4>They kept saying the emails and ghazi.

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<v Speaker 3>So if I if you're the Democrats looking forward in

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<v Speaker 3>three years, you're gonna say, what did jd Vance know?

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<v Speaker 3>Why were any names redactive? Who are the redactive names?

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<v Speaker 3>Even if it's for the privacy, they've lost the narrative,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, it's really hard to get the narrative

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<v Speaker 3>back once.

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<v Speaker 1>It's lost, no question about it. I've only got about

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<v Speaker 1>a minute here, and you touched on it briefly. We've

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<v Speaker 1>only got a minute, but and we'll pick it up

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<v Speaker 1>the next time. The Trump Mondami meeting. Your thoughts on that,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think you gave them generally. Let me give

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<v Speaker 1>you mine real quick, because I've already gotten some crap

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<v Speaker 1>about it. I mean, I thought it was a good thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, people want to see some congeniality. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think Mandamie conducted himself completely appropriately. He was respectful to

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<v Speaker 1>the president and of course as Trump was back to

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<v Speaker 1>him there night and day on policy and everything else.

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't know, and it might hurt it probably

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<v Speaker 1>will hurt Trump somewhat with his megabase. But what are

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<v Speaker 1>your thoughts on that? In a minute?

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<v Speaker 4>This is America. You're supposed to talk to the other side,

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<v Speaker 4>right It's not.

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<v Speaker 3>That hard, Mandaonnie's the mayor of the largest city.

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<v Speaker 4>Trump's the president. And also they're both New York guys.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right.

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<v Speaker 4>There is there.

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<v Speaker 3>Is something about like you know if someone from Cincinnati

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<v Speaker 3>and you're on the opposite side and you still care

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<v Speaker 3>about your hometown. And lastly, they are both just they

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<v Speaker 3>both understand media better than anyone else.

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<v Speaker 1>Very true. Well, I'll tell you what you could You

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<v Speaker 1>could tell that just by watching them. Hey man, we

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<v Speaker 1>are out of time, but we'll definitely pick this one up.

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<v Speaker 7>Kevin.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, Hey, happy Thanksgiving and thank you once again.

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<v Speaker 7>Mike.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, Kevin, same to you. Appreciate it, right, all right?

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<v Speaker 1>Kevin Burton, Well, I like these conversations and that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of grounds you too. And the Trump thing, like I said,

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<v Speaker 1>I have gotten a little bit a grief from that,

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<v Speaker 1>but my god, with all the knives in everyone's back

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<v Speaker 1>and the and the backbiting for once, you know, people

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<v Speaker 1>were congenial, and you know, Kevin said at the very end,

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<v Speaker 1>they're both New Yorkers and I think they both love

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<v Speaker 1>New York. And we'll see. I mean, I if Montdommy

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<v Speaker 1>says what he's going to do, and if you can

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<v Speaker 1>pull it off. That is going to be a disaster.

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<v Speaker 1>But hey, we shall see. We need to take a break.

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<v Speaker 1>Butt when we come back, we're gonna check in with

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<v Speaker 1>our real estate expert, Greg Stanley, residential real estate expert,

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<v Speaker 1>on just what's going on in the real state market

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<v Speaker 1>here in the greater Cincinnati area. We'll do that when

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<v Speaker 1>we get back. Mike Allen In for Willy's seven hundred

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<v Speaker 1>WLW News Radio seven hundred WLW. Mike Allen In for

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<v Speaker 1>the Great American at Willie Cunningham. Be back tomorrow normal

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<v Speaker 1>time nine to noon for Saturday midday. But appreciate WILLI

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<v Speaker 1>giving me the shot here. Well, I'll tell you what

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<v Speaker 1>we're getting. Close to the end of the year, Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>is coming. We've done this throughout the year.

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<v Speaker 4>To get an.

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<v Speaker 1>Update on the local real estate market, we call on

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<v Speaker 1>our real estate analyst, Greg Stanley with Kobe and Shepherd Reelers. Greg,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks for joining us this say afternoon.

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<v Speaker 5>Hey Mike, thanks for having me on again. Certainly appreciate it,

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<v Speaker 5>love your show.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 5>I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

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<v Speaker 1>I did too. I'm really starting to get into that,

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<v Speaker 1>are you. It sounds like you did too. Are you

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<v Speaker 1>starting to get that oot tide filling.

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<v Speaker 5>I am starting to get that U tidde fellon.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's for sure. Okay, yeah, let me ask you.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you what is up in the local

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<v Speaker 1>real estate market. From following you, Greg and talking to you,

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<v Speaker 1>it seems like it's kind of been an up and

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<v Speaker 1>down year.

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<v Speaker 5>It has, you know what, those Cincinnati continues to defy

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<v Speaker 5>the national numbers, right, I mean really, if you I

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<v Speaker 5>was looking, I was, yeah, I mean, and it's very positive,

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<v Speaker 5>especially for existing homeowners. Right now, I was looking compared

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<v Speaker 5>to last year, same time last year, medium sales price

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<v Speaker 5>is now at three hundred and ten thousand dollars. Now

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<v Speaker 5>this is for Hamilton, Butler, Claremont, and Warren counties, which

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<v Speaker 5>is the only four that I looked at. But it's

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<v Speaker 5>now at three hundred and ten thousand dollars, which is

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<v Speaker 5>up five percent from last year at this time. So

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<v Speaker 5>prices continue, I mean, people, the price of homes continue

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<v Speaker 5>to increase on an ongoing basis, you know. And what's funny, Mike,

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<v Speaker 5>is that you know, we've got there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 5>people sitting on the sidelines right wait for interest rates

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<v Speaker 5>to drop as they do that, though, the prices of

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<v Speaker 5>homes increase, so you know, the the net net is

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<v Speaker 5>probably at least a zero in terms of, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>if they're gonna wait for interest rates to drop, prices

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<v Speaker 5>keep going up at the same time. The issue is

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<v Speaker 5>is get in now, jump in now, be there you

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<v Speaker 5>can always refinance or something like that or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So I'm sorry, go ahead, I cut you off.

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<v Speaker 5>No, No, that's okay. And and home sales have increased

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<v Speaker 5>are up three point five percent, so the price of

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<v Speaker 5>a home's up. Five home sales are up three point

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<v Speaker 5>five percent, which again defies some of the national numbers

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<v Speaker 5>that you're going to be seeing where where you know

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<v Speaker 5>they're seeing home sales drop pretty significantly. We're seeing an

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<v Speaker 5>increase of three point five bucking. Oh yeah yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you this question. I mean, and I

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<v Speaker 1>ask you this every time we talk. Based upon what

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<v Speaker 1>you're saying and getting close to the end of the year.

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<v Speaker 1>Buyer's market, seller's market? Do you buy or sell or

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<v Speaker 1>stand pat.

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<v Speaker 5>I would say, I would say it's it's still a

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<v Speaker 5>seller's market, but not like it used to be earlier

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<v Speaker 5>this year, Okay, it's not as we're not seeing the

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<v Speaker 5>over people are we're offering a lot over contract price

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<v Speaker 5>or over sale price, that kind of stuff. A lot

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<v Speaker 5>of people were over sale price, are over asking price,

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<v Speaker 5>that kind of thing. We're not seeing that as much anymore,

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<v Speaker 5>but it's still there in Cincinnati. Again, not nationally, but

1:12:48.439 --> 1:12:51.080
<v Speaker 5>in Cincinnati, it's still there. I think it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Got you now, listen. I've been wanting to ask you

1:12:53.840 --> 1:12:56.360
<v Speaker 1>this question for a couple of weeks. Here. There's a

1:12:56.400 --> 1:12:59.000
<v Speaker 1>lot of talk coming from the Trump administration, not so

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<v Speaker 1>much as they're used to be, and not only a

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<v Speaker 1>Trump administration but other places about a fifty year mortgage

1:13:05.720 --> 1:13:08.800
<v Speaker 1>home mortgage. You know, Greg, I saw that and thought,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know anything about it, but that kind of

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<v Speaker 1>sounds crazy to me. I mean, who the hell's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>want to get that fifty years tied around your neck?

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<v Speaker 1>What are your thoughts on?

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<v Speaker 2>That?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it? And again it all comes down to affordability,

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<v Speaker 1>that's the deal. But I don't know what do you.

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<v Speaker 5>Make I totally agree with you. I think that's not.

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<v Speaker 7>The way to go.

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<v Speaker 5>If I were when I'm representing buyers, I would never

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<v Speaker 5>even if it existed, I would never would never say

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<v Speaker 5>go with a fifty year I mean you think about that, Mike,

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<v Speaker 5>that is six hundred I know, payments, you know, I mean,

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<v Speaker 5>by the time the every average person is buying a

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<v Speaker 5>house today is forty years old. By the time by

1:13:50.200 --> 1:13:52.080
<v Speaker 5>the time they get to the end of the you know,

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<v Speaker 5>paying their house off, they're they're gonna be ninety, gonna

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<v Speaker 5>be ninety years old.

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<v Speaker 1>Well they'll be, they'll be they'll be out the program.

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<v Speaker 5>Point absolutely, you know. So you know, you know what

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<v Speaker 5>I would suggest is I really, I really like this

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<v Speaker 5>idea of this, the portable mortgage instead of this fifty

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<v Speaker 5>year stuff. Never would recommend that, but the idea that

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<v Speaker 5>you could get a mortgage on your first home and

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<v Speaker 5>be able to transport that to another piece of property,

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<v Speaker 5>another home or whatever at the same interest. Really, I mean, Mike,

1:14:30.240 --> 1:14:32.960
<v Speaker 5>you and I are of the age where we're probably

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<v Speaker 5>sitting on a three percent three percent mortgage.

1:14:36.439 --> 1:14:38.479
<v Speaker 1>That's what mine was about five years.

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<v Speaker 5>Ago, I know. And the ability the ability to take

1:14:41.840 --> 1:14:45.559
<v Speaker 5>that same mortgage and move that to another house that's

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<v Speaker 5>going to generate some real interest. And I hope that,

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<v Speaker 5>I hope we can see that through, but only time

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<v Speaker 5>will tell.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, now that sounds like that's something relatively new Are

1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:59.040
<v Speaker 1>people taking advantage of that or has it been around

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<v Speaker 1>for a while.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, it's not available right now. They're still trying to

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<v Speaker 5>get their arms around it, so it's not The portable

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<v Speaker 5>mortgage is not available at.

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<v Speaker 1>This current stage.

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<v Speaker 5>But that's in conversation, just like the fifty year mortgage.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, yeah, I wanted to.

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<v Speaker 1>Ask you this question too, you know, and we talk

1:15:17.800 --> 1:15:19.719
<v Speaker 1>about this all the time too, but I think people

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<v Speaker 1>need to hear your advice on it. Okay, you want

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<v Speaker 1>to put your house, your condo up for sale. You

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<v Speaker 1>want to get the best return on your investment that

1:15:28.520 --> 1:15:31.360
<v Speaker 1>you can. Where do you put your money? Where do

1:15:31.400 --> 1:15:34.800
<v Speaker 1>you put the improvements? What would be the best thing

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<v Speaker 1>to do so you can make more money on the sale?

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<v Speaker 5>Great question, Great question. I am Mike. I am big

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<v Speaker 5>on curb appeal, right, and I mean I talk return

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<v Speaker 5>on investment. There's some investments in your homes.

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<v Speaker 7>If you were to redo your.

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<v Speaker 5>Kitchen totally, totally remodel it, tear it up, put it

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<v Speaker 5>back together, that kind of stuff, tear out walls, there's

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<v Speaker 5>no return on investment there. The same thing with a

1:15:59.320 --> 1:16:03.400
<v Speaker 5>major death room thing. I'm huge on curb apeople, right,

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<v Speaker 5>So I mean, for a new entry door, the return

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<v Speaker 5>on investment there is like three hundred or two hundred

1:16:11.160 --> 1:16:15.880
<v Speaker 5>percent return on investment. Or even just painting the front door.

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<v Speaker 5>They say, people form an opinion of your house in

1:16:20.000 --> 1:16:22.760
<v Speaker 5>the first six seconds, so as they're walking up there,

1:16:22.960 --> 1:16:27.160
<v Speaker 5>they're looking at a freshly painted front door. Garage door

1:16:27.240 --> 1:16:32.160
<v Speaker 5>has one hundred and twenty percent return on investment, new

1:16:32.320 --> 1:16:36.120
<v Speaker 5>landscaping one hundred and twenty six. This is all curb

1:16:36.360 --> 1:16:39.599
<v Speaker 5>side stuff that you can do to your house where

1:16:39.640 --> 1:16:43.160
<v Speaker 5>you're gonna get big returns on your money, you know.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, so it's like some of these things, some

1:16:46.439 --> 1:16:49.600
<v Speaker 5>of these things are just there's no ROI So be

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<v Speaker 5>careful what you're gonna spend your money on, unless unless

1:16:53.080 --> 1:16:56.240
<v Speaker 5>you're blessed to do it yourself, unless you've got that

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<v Speaker 5>ability to do it yourself.

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<v Speaker 6>You mean you mean right, yes, exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm terrible at that stuff, Greg, That's why I.

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<v Speaker 5>But some guy's exactly, a guy two doors down from

1:17:12.880 --> 1:17:16.759
<v Speaker 5>me redid his kitchen four pennies on the dollar because

1:17:16.800 --> 1:17:19.000
<v Speaker 5>he did it himself. Now, it took him five months

1:17:19.080 --> 1:17:22.480
<v Speaker 5>to do that, but I mean, he did a fabulous

1:17:22.600 --> 1:17:26.479
<v Speaker 5>job on this thing. Now I've seen some remodels, homemade

1:17:26.520 --> 1:17:32.960
<v Speaker 5>remodels where they're they're they're uh not done well sure,

1:17:33.360 --> 1:17:34.799
<v Speaker 5>let me just put it that way.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know what you're doing. If you're doing something,

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<v Speaker 1>that's why I stay away from it.

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<v Speaker 5>Hey, exactly, you gotta you gotta know what you're good at.

1:17:43.320 --> 1:17:46.559
<v Speaker 5>Obviously you're you're good at being an attorney, and you're

1:17:46.600 --> 1:17:49.960
<v Speaker 5>good at this talk show stuff. Thank you, stay with that.

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<v Speaker 1>One, right, I think I will, Greg, I think I'll

1:17:52.439 --> 1:17:55.439
<v Speaker 1>leave the the real estate to you. But I wanted

1:17:55.439 --> 1:17:57.920
<v Speaker 1>to ask you this question. And it's kind of funny

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<v Speaker 1>because there's a personal kind of thing to this too

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<v Speaker 1>okay situation with the how a home value would be

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<v Speaker 1>affected on whether the whether the home or condo whatever

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<v Speaker 1>is on the flight path. Just to tell you, Greg,

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<v Speaker 1>this is probably about thirty forty years ago. My sister

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<v Speaker 1>is a psychologist PhD. She did her she did her

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<v Speaker 1>whole thesis on how that affects people psychologically because where

1:18:26.560 --> 1:18:29.680
<v Speaker 1>she lived at the time was over by the Westernols

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<v Speaker 1>Country Club, and man, I don't think it's that way now,

1:18:32.120 --> 1:18:35.800
<v Speaker 1>but they were on a huge flight path back then.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that something that enters into in a big way?

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<v Speaker 1>I guess it would be somebody's thinking about whether they're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna sell, whether they're gonna buy or whatever.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's still wonder if she did her thesis on that.

1:18:48.760 --> 1:18:52.400
<v Speaker 5>Because you're you guys are West side folks. Sure, you

1:18:52.479 --> 1:18:55.120
<v Speaker 5>guys are used to that thing, that whole flight path

1:18:55.560 --> 1:18:58.920
<v Speaker 5>to Greater Cincinnati Airport, that kind of thing. I mean,

1:18:58.960 --> 1:19:01.439
<v Speaker 5>there's some areas, like in Del High if you're having

1:19:01.479 --> 1:19:05.160
<v Speaker 5>an outdoor picnic or what. Yeah, in some areas, you know,

1:19:05.240 --> 1:19:07.960
<v Speaker 5>we're talking Mount Saint Joe, they fly right over Mount

1:19:08.000 --> 1:19:10.639
<v Speaker 5>Saint Joe for the most part. You know, if you're

1:19:10.680 --> 1:19:13.040
<v Speaker 5>outdoor on a picnic, it's like hold on while this

1:19:13.200 --> 1:19:16.200
<v Speaker 5>jet flies over and then we can continue our conversation

1:19:16.920 --> 1:19:20.200
<v Speaker 5>or whatever. I mean, it's just it's accepted kind of

1:19:20.240 --> 1:19:22.920
<v Speaker 5>on the west side of town, you know, especially Dell

1:19:23.040 --> 1:19:27.040
<v Speaker 5>High that kind of stuff. And with increased traffic. I mean,

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<v Speaker 5>I was doing some home ork Mike, and it's like,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, now there's a Dahl Hub over there, there's

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<v Speaker 5>an Amazon Hub, a lot of cargo freight traffic, you know,

1:19:38.000 --> 1:19:41.040
<v Speaker 5>overhead freight traffic is coming in there. Now they're doing

1:19:41.120 --> 1:19:45.680
<v Speaker 5>some noise abatement things from Greater Cincinnati Airport, that kind

1:19:45.720 --> 1:19:48.519
<v Speaker 5>of stuff. To minimize that kind of thing, But it

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<v Speaker 5>definitely has an effect on especially if you're not used

1:19:52.680 --> 1:19:54.760
<v Speaker 5>to it, like you are being a west Side or

1:19:55.160 --> 1:19:57.759
<v Speaker 5>if you're not used to that definitely has an effect

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<v Speaker 5>on home home prices, that's for sure. I think it does.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a lot better than it used to be. But

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<v Speaker 1>do you think the average buyer factors that in, because

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<v Speaker 1>it sure sounds like they should, But do.

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<v Speaker 5>They unless if you're not familiar with the West Side.

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<v Speaker 5>That's why I always say, spend some time over there're

1:20:20.120 --> 1:20:23.120
<v Speaker 5>not familiar with it. Some of them forget to do

1:20:23.240 --> 1:20:25.400
<v Speaker 5>that right, and it's like that's where it comes. You

1:20:25.479 --> 1:20:27.920
<v Speaker 5>got to be a good realtor and and you know,

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<v Speaker 5>set expectations in terms of traffic that kind of stuff.

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<v Speaker 5>But you know what's funny. I was thinking my father

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<v Speaker 5>in law, he was certainly a West Side guy, and

1:20:39.760 --> 1:20:42.840
<v Speaker 5>he was a retiree from ge aviation. He used to

1:20:42.920 --> 1:20:45.120
<v Speaker 5>love to sit out in the backyard and watch the

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<v Speaker 5>airplanes go over.

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<v Speaker 1>There are people like that, Greg, there are.

1:20:50.280 --> 1:20:53.200
<v Speaker 5>Typical west Side It's like pull up the garage door,

1:20:53.560 --> 1:20:57.960
<v Speaker 5>sit outside your garage and watch traffic or watch watch

1:20:58.320 --> 1:20:59.200
<v Speaker 5>the jets.

1:20:58.920 --> 1:21:02.120
<v Speaker 1>Fly over you and I have a mutual friend who

1:21:02.240 --> 1:21:04.439
<v Speaker 1>loved to do that because it's free. You know, it

1:21:04.479 --> 1:21:05.400
<v Speaker 1>doesn't have to pay anything.

1:21:06.560 --> 1:21:10.040
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I know who you're talking about.

1:21:11.000 --> 1:21:13.080
<v Speaker 1>Different quirks for different people.

1:21:13.160 --> 1:21:17.840
<v Speaker 5>I guess that cold ones that.

1:21:17.760 --> 1:21:21.160
<v Speaker 1>Could factor into it. You never know, but you know what,

1:21:21.200 --> 1:21:24.320
<v Speaker 1>there really are people like that. But I just wondered

1:21:24.760 --> 1:21:27.479
<v Speaker 1>if people really think about that when they're buying, and

1:21:27.760 --> 1:21:31.200
<v Speaker 1>like you said, over on the West Side, they should. Anyway, Hey,

1:21:31.320 --> 1:21:34.320
<v Speaker 1>we are out of time. Greg really appreciated and I

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<v Speaker 1>hope we can call on you in the new year.

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<v Speaker 5>Hey, not a problem, thanks Mike, and bring in that

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<v Speaker 5>Utai feeling.

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<v Speaker 7>I am.

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<v Speaker 1>I am every day I try.

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<v Speaker 5>All right, Broke appreciate it.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, bye bye. All right. That's Greg Stanley of Komy

1:21:52.040 --> 1:21:54.840
<v Speaker 1>and Shepherd. And that's a really interesting question that h

1:21:55.120 --> 1:21:58.080
<v Speaker 1>that he put forward about the home sales. And I

1:21:58.160 --> 1:22:01.280
<v Speaker 1>remember my sister doing that and doctoral dissertation is a

1:22:01.280 --> 1:22:04.880
<v Speaker 1>big deal, and man, she researched the hell out of it.

1:22:04.960 --> 1:22:07.599
<v Speaker 1>And on her street it was a street called mid

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<v Speaker 1>Forest over there kind of by where Western Midills Country

1:22:10.000 --> 1:22:13.360
<v Speaker 1>Club is. I mean, those people were not happy about it,

1:22:13.400 --> 1:22:15.760
<v Speaker 1>and some of them, not in a big way, but

1:22:15.840 --> 1:22:20.759
<v Speaker 1>in a relatively minor way affected them psychologically. So something

1:22:20.760 --> 1:22:23.520
<v Speaker 1>to think about when you are buying a home, especially,

1:22:23.600 --> 1:22:26.120
<v Speaker 1>like Greg said on the West Side, Hey, we got

1:22:26.160 --> 1:22:28.960
<v Speaker 1>to take a break, but when we get back, we

1:22:29.000 --> 1:22:32.120
<v Speaker 1>are going to talk to none other. And it's a

1:22:32.160 --> 1:22:36.120
<v Speaker 1>shame he's leaving the one and only Bill Sites. We're

1:22:36.120 --> 1:22:38.679
<v Speaker 1>going to talk to him about the Western Neils Viaduct.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe you saw it once again. The project is getting postpone,

1:22:44.640 --> 1:22:47.280
<v Speaker 1>not called off or anything like that. Bill Sites is

1:22:47.320 --> 1:22:51.000
<v Speaker 1>the guy mainly for his efforts that we're even getting

1:22:51.000 --> 1:22:53.040
<v Speaker 1>a new one. I just wanted to ask Bill about that.

1:22:53.320 --> 1:22:55.640
<v Speaker 1>We'll do that when we get back. Mike Allen and

1:22:55.680 --> 1:23:00.679
<v Speaker 1>for Willie seven hundred WLW, I'm about that. That's kind

1:23:00.680 --> 1:23:04.840
<v Speaker 1>of my error usually if it's not before, I don't know,

1:23:04.920 --> 1:23:09.400
<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty five. I struggle a bit at any rate. Seriously, folks,

1:23:09.600 --> 1:23:12.760
<v Speaker 1>if you are a West Sider, you know just how

1:23:12.800 --> 1:23:16.720
<v Speaker 1>important the Western Hills Viaduct is, and you also know

1:23:16.760 --> 1:23:20.320
<v Speaker 1>what an absolute mess it is. It has been declared

1:23:20.400 --> 1:23:23.760
<v Speaker 1>this is kind of a scary thing, declared functionally obsolete.

1:23:23.880 --> 1:23:27.080
<v Speaker 1>Yet cars go over daily. Quite a few of them,

1:23:27.439 --> 1:23:30.920
<v Speaker 1>thanks in large part to my next guest efforts. The

1:23:31.120 --> 1:23:34.760
<v Speaker 1>existing Western Hills Viaduct is going to be torn down.

1:23:35.520 --> 1:23:37.439
<v Speaker 1>They're going to get a new one that's going to

1:23:37.479 --> 1:23:39.679
<v Speaker 1>be built, But as I understand, I'm going to build

1:23:39.680 --> 1:23:42.559
<v Speaker 1>a new one and then tear down the old one. Well,

1:23:42.600 --> 1:23:46.040
<v Speaker 1>we found out last week that, according to the Cincinnati

1:23:46.080 --> 1:23:50.400
<v Speaker 1>Inquired did a pretty comprehensive story on it. The subheadlines

1:23:50.400 --> 1:23:53.960
<v Speaker 1>are inflation has caused the new Western Hills Viaduct project

1:23:54.000 --> 1:23:58.200
<v Speaker 1>to shrink in scope and increase in cost. The new

1:23:58.280 --> 1:24:01.280
<v Speaker 1>design will have three lanes in each direction instead of

1:24:01.320 --> 1:24:04.720
<v Speaker 1>the four lanes and one walkway path for people that

1:24:04.800 --> 1:24:08.080
<v Speaker 1>it had before then. Well actually there were two before then.

1:24:08.439 --> 1:24:11.559
<v Speaker 1>The project's costs will exceed the previous estimate of three

1:24:11.640 --> 1:24:14.519
<v Speaker 1>hundred and ninety eight million, though a new total has

1:24:14.600 --> 1:24:18.760
<v Speaker 1>not been announced. Bill Sites is the Ohio House member

1:24:18.800 --> 1:24:23.080
<v Speaker 1>from the thirtieth House district on the West Side. He's

1:24:23.120 --> 1:24:25.639
<v Speaker 1>the guy that I mean this because I was watching

1:24:25.680 --> 1:24:27.920
<v Speaker 1>the whole thing as it played out. He's the guy

1:24:27.960 --> 1:24:31.520
<v Speaker 1>that finally made it happen for the Western Hills Viaduct.

1:24:32.000 --> 1:24:34.880
<v Speaker 1>Because you know, so many people in government, he got

1:24:34.920 --> 1:24:38.479
<v Speaker 1>them all together. We got it done. Unfortunately, Bill will

1:24:38.520 --> 1:24:41.839
<v Speaker 1>be leaving the Ohio legislature soon due to term limits,

1:24:41.840 --> 1:24:44.839
<v Speaker 1>and I don't know that's a damn shame. But anyway,

1:24:44.840 --> 1:24:48.160
<v Speaker 1>here to talk about it is State Representative Bill Sites. Bill,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks so much for joining us this afternoon.

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<v Speaker 6>Hey Mike, I'm I'm delighted to be with you. I

1:24:53.840 --> 1:24:56.519
<v Speaker 6>was actually turned out of office at the end of

1:24:56.600 --> 1:25:00.559
<v Speaker 6>twenty twenty four. Oh to correct that. For the record, however,

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<v Speaker 6>I want.

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<v Speaker 1>To get you back in there for a year though.

1:25:03.520 --> 1:25:05.640
<v Speaker 6>Well you know how term limits are.

1:25:05.640 --> 1:25:07.759
<v Speaker 1>You got to say sorry about that, real fella.

1:25:08.720 --> 1:25:11.280
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, there's a great fellow named Mike Odiosa that took

1:25:11.320 --> 1:25:11.759
<v Speaker 6>my place.

1:25:11.880 --> 1:25:14.000
<v Speaker 1>Good man, job, good man.

1:25:14.200 --> 1:25:17.400
<v Speaker 6>But let me let me walk you through this. Over

1:25:17.439 --> 1:25:22.880
<v Speaker 6>a period of time from twenty sixteen through twenty twenty,

1:25:23.439 --> 1:25:27.439
<v Speaker 6>we put all the building blocks in place to get

1:25:27.439 --> 1:25:30.640
<v Speaker 6>this done with the estimated cost of four hundred to

1:25:30.680 --> 1:25:34.719
<v Speaker 6>four hundred and fifty million dollars. We allowed the county

1:25:34.720 --> 1:25:37.920
<v Speaker 6>and the city to increase their license plate fee by

1:25:38.240 --> 1:25:41.439
<v Speaker 6>five dollars each. The county and the city. We raised

1:25:41.439 --> 1:25:45.280
<v Speaker 6>the gas tax that provides more money for infrastructure, and

1:25:45.479 --> 1:25:48.800
<v Speaker 6>we also increased the percentage of that gas tax that

1:25:48.880 --> 1:25:51.920
<v Speaker 6>goes for the benefit of local governments like the county

1:25:51.960 --> 1:25:57.000
<v Speaker 6>and the city. We passed a law that gave the

1:25:57.000 --> 1:26:01.240
<v Speaker 6>city the authority to seek vote approval for a TRANPT

1:26:01.360 --> 1:26:04.960
<v Speaker 6>tax member. We raised the sales tax, cut the income tax,

1:26:05.360 --> 1:26:08.639
<v Speaker 6>and I insisted as part of that law that twenty

1:26:08.680 --> 1:26:13.480
<v Speaker 6>five percent of those proceeds must be used for infrastructure,

1:26:14.040 --> 1:26:19.160
<v Speaker 6>for infrastructure over of roads over which busses would travel.

1:26:19.439 --> 1:26:21.799
<v Speaker 6>So that was the key to selling the thing, because

1:26:22.120 --> 1:26:24.120
<v Speaker 6>you know how things are out here in Green Township.

1:26:24.160 --> 1:26:26.320
<v Speaker 6>I don't think too many people would have voted for

1:26:26.439 --> 1:26:30.280
<v Speaker 6>just a bus levee, but putting the infrastructure angle in

1:26:30.320 --> 1:26:33.280
<v Speaker 6>their help. And then finally, after all that was put

1:26:33.280 --> 1:26:36.360
<v Speaker 6>in place, we had to change the law to allow

1:26:36.360 --> 1:26:39.679
<v Speaker 6>the city to sell the railroad that runs the Southern

1:26:39.760 --> 1:26:42.600
<v Speaker 6>Railroads that runs down to Chattanooga. And as part of

1:26:42.640 --> 1:26:48.360
<v Speaker 6>that legislation, we insisted that every single dime that the

1:26:48.400 --> 1:26:53.479
<v Speaker 6>city gets be spent to repair existing infrastructure. So with

1:26:53.600 --> 1:26:57.679
<v Speaker 6>all those building blocks building a little by little, we

1:26:58.000 --> 1:27:03.400
<v Speaker 6>put the whole funding thing in place. And then what happened, well,

1:27:04.000 --> 1:27:08.439
<v Speaker 6>Bide inflation, Oh yeah, and Biden inflation because all of

1:27:08.439 --> 1:27:12.240
<v Speaker 6>the stuff I'm talking about was put into place before

1:27:12.320 --> 1:27:16.240
<v Speaker 6>that kicked in, and the enquire said they didn't know

1:27:16.280 --> 1:27:19.120
<v Speaker 6>what the new cost was. I believe Eric Beck, the

1:27:19.160 --> 1:27:21.479
<v Speaker 6>county engineer, told me a few months ago it's going

1:27:21.520 --> 1:27:25.719
<v Speaker 6>to be north of eight hundred million, no wow, instead

1:27:25.760 --> 1:27:28.160
<v Speaker 6>of instead of the four hundred and fifty million that

1:27:28.200 --> 1:27:32.320
<v Speaker 6>we were looking at, because construction costs have skyrocketed, just

1:27:32.360 --> 1:27:36.879
<v Speaker 6>like everything else as a result of the significant inflation

1:27:37.040 --> 1:27:39.679
<v Speaker 6>that has happened since the year twenty twenty.

1:27:40.439 --> 1:27:41.679
<v Speaker 7>And you all know why.

1:27:41.840 --> 1:27:44.600
<v Speaker 6>I mean, it's pretty simple. So they have had to

1:27:44.640 --> 1:27:48.240
<v Speaker 6>scale the program back. They've scaled down the number of lanes,

1:27:48.600 --> 1:27:53.120
<v Speaker 6>they've scaled down the number of walkways, and you know,

1:27:53.479 --> 1:27:55.880
<v Speaker 6>I think they're still scratching their head wondering where the

1:27:55.880 --> 1:27:58.200
<v Speaker 6>rest of the money's going to come from. But the

1:27:58.280 --> 1:28:01.840
<v Speaker 6>but the trans attack money is in place, they can

1:28:01.880 --> 1:28:06.320
<v Speaker 6>allocate twenty five percent of that money to fix infrastructure

1:28:06.479 --> 1:28:09.840
<v Speaker 6>like the Western Hills viaducts. The railroad sale money can

1:28:09.880 --> 1:28:14.960
<v Speaker 6>be used for repairing existing infrastructure like the Western Hills viaducts.

1:28:15.200 --> 1:28:17.680
<v Speaker 6>So hopefully that will be the vehicle by which we

1:28:17.760 --> 1:28:21.639
<v Speaker 6>finally get this done. The completion gate Mike has been

1:28:21.680 --> 1:28:25.519
<v Speaker 6>pushed back to we all like to have all this. Yeah,

1:28:25.560 --> 1:28:27.640
<v Speaker 6>we had hoped to have all this done by the

1:28:27.720 --> 1:28:30.880
<v Speaker 6>year twenty twenty nine. Well, now the latest I see

1:28:30.920 --> 1:28:33.120
<v Speaker 6>in the paper there that you quoted, I believe they

1:28:33.160 --> 1:28:34.479
<v Speaker 6>said twenty thirty two.

1:28:34.640 --> 1:28:37.280
<v Speaker 1>It was twenty thirty two. Yeah, you know what, let

1:28:37.320 --> 1:28:39.439
<v Speaker 1>me ask you this bill real quick. You know you're

1:28:39.439 --> 1:28:41.000
<v Speaker 1>a west side or you probably hear it. I know,

1:28:41.120 --> 1:28:43.920
<v Speaker 1>I do. What I hear is Well, there they go again,

1:28:44.120 --> 1:28:45.960
<v Speaker 1>sticking it to the west side. If this was over

1:28:46.040 --> 1:28:49.160
<v Speaker 1>Hyde Parker Mount, lookout, it'd be freaking done by now.

1:28:49.600 --> 1:28:52.559
<v Speaker 1>I mean, do you ascribe to that too? That's the feeling.

1:28:52.920 --> 1:28:58.200
<v Speaker 6>Well, okay, in fairness, it's tied up also with the

1:28:58.240 --> 1:29:01.519
<v Speaker 6>construction of the new Prince Spence Bridge, which is another

1:29:01.560 --> 1:29:05.960
<v Speaker 6>big project that's been delayed through the room because the

1:29:06.040 --> 1:29:10.360
<v Speaker 6>approaches to the new brand Spence Bridge will actually start

1:29:10.760 --> 1:29:14.479
<v Speaker 6>way back where the Western Hills Viaduct comes in. And

1:29:14.520 --> 1:29:18.040
<v Speaker 6>that's not surprising either, because anybody that goes down South

1:29:18.080 --> 1:29:22.160
<v Speaker 6>seventy five now seems that the traffic often backs up

1:29:22.439 --> 1:29:25.839
<v Speaker 6>well past the Western Hills Viaduct and in some cases

1:29:25.880 --> 1:29:30.439
<v Speaker 6>well past Opple Street. So so you know, the new

1:29:30.479 --> 1:29:34.600
<v Speaker 6>approaches to the brand spence have to be coordinated. The

1:29:34.680 --> 1:29:38.000
<v Speaker 6>construction of those have to be coordinated with the construction

1:29:38.520 --> 1:29:41.559
<v Speaker 6>of the viaduct because the two of them connect. As

1:29:41.560 --> 1:29:43.519
<v Speaker 6>you well know, right, you can get off of sety

1:29:43.600 --> 1:29:47.120
<v Speaker 6>five either north or south and come across the viaduct.

1:29:47.840 --> 1:29:51.439
<v Speaker 6>Although when you come southbound and you go under the viaduct,

1:29:51.800 --> 1:29:53.280
<v Speaker 6>watch out for falling concrecte.

1:29:53.320 --> 1:29:56.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you that's frightening, Bill, It really is. I mean,

1:29:57.280 --> 1:30:00.360
<v Speaker 1>it's got those nets up there, I think still, I mean,

1:30:00.400 --> 1:30:02.559
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I trust the engineers and the other

1:30:02.640 --> 1:30:05.640
<v Speaker 1>structural engineers, those people that, yeah, they wouldn't put us

1:30:05.640 --> 1:30:07.080
<v Speaker 1>on there if they didn't think it was safe. But

1:30:07.439 --> 1:30:09.720
<v Speaker 1>it still is. It's kind of scary to look at it.

1:30:09.800 --> 1:30:12.000
<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you this. Do you think maybe in

1:30:12.040 --> 1:30:14.760
<v Speaker 1>about three years from now, I'll be sitting here with

1:30:15.479 --> 1:30:18.040
<v Speaker 1>another politician saying, Hey, what happened. This is supposed to

1:30:18.040 --> 1:30:20.760
<v Speaker 1>be done in twenty twenty three.

1:30:22.120 --> 1:30:25.799
<v Speaker 6>Well, like I said, they've already pushed the estimated completion

1:30:26.000 --> 1:30:29.120
<v Speaker 6>date back to twenty thirty two, much of my chagrin.

1:30:29.680 --> 1:30:34.479
<v Speaker 6>The cost has gone up almost double. And you know,

1:30:34.600 --> 1:30:36.640
<v Speaker 6>I'm not in office anymore, so I guess it's going

1:30:36.680 --> 1:30:41.000
<v Speaker 6>to be somebody else's problem. But it's a significant you know,

1:30:41.080 --> 1:30:44.920
<v Speaker 6>It's the thing was starting construction in nineteen twenty nine.

1:30:45.120 --> 1:30:47.040
<v Speaker 1>I know it will be one hundred.

1:30:46.760 --> 1:30:49.880
<v Speaker 6>Years old in twenty twenty nine or twenty thirty. And

1:30:51.240 --> 1:30:54.280
<v Speaker 6>something that significant, that carries that much traffic, it seems

1:30:54.320 --> 1:30:57.720
<v Speaker 6>to me you're really pushing the envelope, saying let's leave

1:30:57.760 --> 1:30:59.840
<v Speaker 6>it up for a few more years after it's been

1:31:00.040 --> 1:31:01.000
<v Speaker 6>up for one hundred years.

1:31:01.280 --> 1:31:04.160
<v Speaker 1>You know, you would think so, Bill, My brothers might

1:31:04.200 --> 1:31:07.160
<v Speaker 1>have told you my grandfather was a civil engineer and

1:31:07.439 --> 1:31:10.559
<v Speaker 1>he actually participated in the work on it, And you're right,

1:31:10.920 --> 1:31:14.320
<v Speaker 1>it goes that all the way that far back. I

1:31:14.320 --> 1:31:16.439
<v Speaker 1>don't know it just again it just seems like one

1:31:16.439 --> 1:31:19.680
<v Speaker 1>thing or the other, and it's just so so necessary.

1:31:19.760 --> 1:31:22.760
<v Speaker 1>But again, you know, inflation, what are you going to do?

1:31:22.880 --> 1:31:27.760
<v Speaker 6>You know, well, stop inflation is what you're going to do.

1:31:27.840 --> 1:31:31.680
<v Speaker 6>And that means rein in federal government spending that went

1:31:31.720 --> 1:31:35.920
<v Speaker 6>out of control during and after COVID, and when there's

1:31:36.000 --> 1:31:39.160
<v Speaker 6>too much money chasing too few goods, that's called the

1:31:39.200 --> 1:31:42.360
<v Speaker 6>recipe for inflation, and that's exactly what we saw. You

1:31:42.400 --> 1:31:44.800
<v Speaker 6>see it in healthy prices. You see it all over them.

1:31:45.000 --> 1:31:46.840
<v Speaker 6>You see it in the price of beef and the

1:31:46.880 --> 1:31:50.080
<v Speaker 6>prices they pay at the grocery store. I mean, inflation

1:31:50.240 --> 1:31:53.160
<v Speaker 6>has really knocked the socks off a whole lot of

1:31:53.200 --> 1:31:54.759
<v Speaker 6>people here in the last couple of years.

1:31:54.880 --> 1:31:57.439
<v Speaker 1>It is, it has well, you know what, I tried

1:31:57.479 --> 1:31:59.160
<v Speaker 1>to give you an extra year bill, and I know

1:31:59.240 --> 1:32:02.800
<v Speaker 1>Mike Odeosa is doing a great job, But how are

1:32:02.880 --> 1:32:05.280
<v Speaker 1>you liking it? Are you still practicing law?

1:32:05.280 --> 1:32:08.719
<v Speaker 6>I think right, Oh yeah, I'm practicing law. I'm also

1:32:08.880 --> 1:32:11.080
<v Speaker 6>Governor to Wine appointed me to the State Board of

1:32:11.120 --> 1:32:15.120
<v Speaker 6>Tax Appeals, which is a three person board that hears

1:32:15.160 --> 1:32:17.839
<v Speaker 6>all appeals when people aren't happy with what the border

1:32:17.840 --> 1:32:21.679
<v Speaker 6>revision did or aren't happy what the County Budget Commission did.

1:32:22.720 --> 1:32:26.880
<v Speaker 6>We hear all those appeals, three people. And I'm doing

1:32:26.920 --> 1:32:30.720
<v Speaker 6>a little bit of lobbying through our Dinsmore Shal affiliates

1:32:30.800 --> 1:32:33.479
<v Speaker 6>lobbying affiliates. So I'm doing a little bit of that.

1:32:34.200 --> 1:32:36.840
<v Speaker 6>And of course the governor had also appointed me this

1:32:36.960 --> 1:32:41.160
<v Speaker 6>summer to co chair the Governor's Property Tax Working Group,

1:32:41.640 --> 1:32:44.559
<v Speaker 6>which was a select group that he put together and

1:32:44.640 --> 1:32:46.960
<v Speaker 6>I co chaired it with Pat T. Berry, a former

1:32:47.000 --> 1:32:50.599
<v Speaker 6>congressman from the Columbus area who down runs the business

1:32:50.680 --> 1:32:53.880
<v Speaker 6>Roundtable in Ohile. And so that was an intense period

1:32:53.920 --> 1:32:57.080
<v Speaker 6>of two months of weekly meetings trying to get to

1:32:57.120 --> 1:33:00.240
<v Speaker 6>the bottom of that mess. And you know, property taxes, God,

1:33:00.280 --> 1:33:04.960
<v Speaker 6>everybody's patties in and uproar too. So we came up

1:33:05.000 --> 1:33:08.679
<v Speaker 6>with twenty solid recommendations. Some of them have been adopted

1:33:08.720 --> 1:33:12.759
<v Speaker 6>by the legislature. Some of them they sort of cherry picked,

1:33:12.800 --> 1:33:15.840
<v Speaker 6>and I wasn't too happy about that, but sure, nonetheless

1:33:16.320 --> 1:33:18.840
<v Speaker 6>they did some of it. So we were feeling like

1:33:18.920 --> 1:33:21.759
<v Speaker 6>our work was not in vain. But I'm keeping plenty busy,

1:33:21.960 --> 1:33:25.760
<v Speaker 6>good And I guess you got to keep busy when

1:33:25.800 --> 1:33:27.360
<v Speaker 6>you're as old as me, because you don't want to

1:33:27.439 --> 1:33:29.120
<v Speaker 6>just sit around and do nothing.

1:33:29.240 --> 1:33:32.519
<v Speaker 1>I'm right behind you, brother, I'm right behind you. You

1:33:32.560 --> 1:33:33.960
<v Speaker 1>know one thing I want to tell you anything. I

1:33:34.040 --> 1:33:37.479
<v Speaker 1>told you this before, but it bears repeating. You've done

1:33:37.520 --> 1:33:39.920
<v Speaker 1>so many things in the legislature, both in the House

1:33:40.040 --> 1:33:42.840
<v Speaker 1>and the State Senate. I think one of your major

1:33:42.880 --> 1:33:46.439
<v Speaker 1>things was, and it's something that I'm retired now, thank goodness,

1:33:47.120 --> 1:33:50.759
<v Speaker 1>worked with on a daily basis, is criminal justice reform,

1:33:51.240 --> 1:33:54.439
<v Speaker 1>not just reform. Just for the sake of reforming things,

1:33:54.479 --> 1:33:59.599
<v Speaker 1>but some really good ideas and changes in our criminal

1:33:59.680 --> 1:34:02.240
<v Speaker 1>justice system. And I know a lot of people in

1:34:02.280 --> 1:34:04.840
<v Speaker 1>the system, most people in the system sure appreciate that.

1:34:04.880 --> 1:34:09.080
<v Speaker 6>Bill, Well, I appreciate your comments because you're right, that

1:34:09.200 --> 1:34:12.519
<v Speaker 6>was the principal focus of mine. And it's not soft

1:34:12.560 --> 1:34:15.599
<v Speaker 6>on crime. It's basically what I was doing was making

1:34:15.640 --> 1:34:19.639
<v Speaker 6>it easier for convicted criminals who have served their time

1:34:20.080 --> 1:34:22.560
<v Speaker 6>to be able to find housing and a job, to

1:34:22.680 --> 1:34:25.720
<v Speaker 6>give them a second chance. And we passed some very

1:34:25.760 --> 1:34:30.880
<v Speaker 6>significant legislation on both of those areas. And we also

1:34:30.960 --> 1:34:34.320
<v Speaker 6>passed some very significant legislation that widens the use of

1:34:34.439 --> 1:34:38.480
<v Speaker 6>DNA and helps people who are wrongfully convicted be exonerated

1:34:38.720 --> 1:34:42.800
<v Speaker 6>when the DNA does not prove their guilt. So those

1:34:42.880 --> 1:34:45.640
<v Speaker 6>are all good things. We're not talking about, you know,

1:34:46.040 --> 1:34:49.439
<v Speaker 6>no bail or any of that stuff. Absolutely not, I know.

1:34:49.600 --> 1:34:53.280
<v Speaker 6>We're talking about, you know, good, good, solid criminal justice

1:34:53.320 --> 1:34:57.920
<v Speaker 6>reforms that protect the innocence while punishing the guilty. And

1:34:57.960 --> 1:34:59.679
<v Speaker 6>that's what the system should all be about.

1:34:59.760 --> 1:35:02.240
<v Speaker 1>Right, You're exactly right, And people on the on the

1:35:02.280 --> 1:35:06.479
<v Speaker 1>law enforcement prosecution end realized that too, Bill, Like you

1:35:06.520 --> 1:35:08.439
<v Speaker 1>said it wasn't you know, get out of jail free

1:35:08.479 --> 1:35:11.360
<v Speaker 1>and that kind of stuff. It was things that are needed,

1:35:11.600 --> 1:35:14.840
<v Speaker 1>you know. So anyway, as I know a lot of

1:35:14.840 --> 1:35:17.960
<v Speaker 1>people appreciate that. Bill, Hey, I appreciate you taking out

1:35:18.000 --> 1:35:20.479
<v Speaker 1>time for us, and hope we can call.

1:35:20.320 --> 1:35:25.639
<v Speaker 6>On you again anytime, anytime. Mike, we've been friends for many,

1:35:25.680 --> 1:35:27.679
<v Speaker 6>many years. Oh yeah, I hope you had a good

1:35:27.680 --> 1:35:30.760
<v Speaker 6>Thanksgiving and all your listeners did too. And and how

1:35:30.760 --> 1:35:31.559
<v Speaker 6>about them Banks?

1:35:31.640 --> 1:35:33.519
<v Speaker 1>How about that night?

1:35:34.080 --> 1:35:34.599
<v Speaker 2>There you go?

1:35:34.720 --> 1:35:34.960
<v Speaker 7>Man?

1:35:35.080 --> 1:35:35.479
<v Speaker 1>Thank you?

1:35:36.680 --> 1:35:39.080
<v Speaker 6>All righty, okay, bye bye?

1:35:39.200 --> 1:35:39.720
<v Speaker 7>See it? Bill?

1:35:39.800 --> 1:35:43.000
<v Speaker 1>Thank you. Oh that's a good man right there, and

1:35:43.280 --> 1:35:47.320
<v Speaker 1>a great public servant. I can't believe I gave him

1:35:47.360 --> 1:35:49.760
<v Speaker 1>an extra year. The person that came in for Bill,

1:35:49.760 --> 1:35:52.120
<v Speaker 1>and I should have known better on that. Mike Odioso,

1:35:53.080 --> 1:35:56.559
<v Speaker 1>good saint savior guy. Mike taught out there. Maybe he

1:35:56.600 --> 1:35:59.760
<v Speaker 1>still does. I'm not sure. So we lost a good one,

1:36:00.080 --> 1:36:02.479
<v Speaker 1>but we got a good one too. Hey, we got

1:36:02.479 --> 1:36:04.280
<v Speaker 1>to take a break. We'll be back for a few

1:36:04.320 --> 1:36:06.519
<v Speaker 1>minutes after that, and then we'll be out of here.

1:36:06.560 --> 1:36:12.920
<v Speaker 1>Mike Allen in for Willie's seven hundred wlw rolling Stones. Hey, listen,

1:36:12.960 --> 1:36:14.960
<v Speaker 1>we just have a few minutes left here before I

1:36:15.000 --> 1:36:17.040
<v Speaker 1>got to get out of here, but I will be

1:36:17.080 --> 1:36:22.320
<v Speaker 1>back tomorrow for Saturday midday, probably be pretty close to

1:36:22.479 --> 1:36:26.240
<v Speaker 1>exclusively politics. I think that's what people want to hear

1:36:26.280 --> 1:36:28.680
<v Speaker 1>out of that show. And I'll tell you what you know.

1:36:28.720 --> 1:36:30.840
<v Speaker 1>When I first started doing that show, I guess it's

1:36:30.880 --> 1:36:34.320
<v Speaker 1>about I don't know, seven eight years ago. Honestly, in

1:36:34.400 --> 1:36:38.080
<v Speaker 1>thinking about preparing the show, you know, I'd have to think, well,

1:36:38.120 --> 1:36:39.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to talk about this or what can I

1:36:40.000 --> 1:36:44.760
<v Speaker 1>talk about? Now it has changed to where I have

1:36:44.880 --> 1:36:48.000
<v Speaker 1>to do it by process of elimination because there is

1:36:48.200 --> 1:36:51.640
<v Speaker 1>so much going on, not a whole lot of it

1:36:51.800 --> 1:36:55.320
<v Speaker 1>being good too. It's a funny thing though, and I

1:36:55.360 --> 1:36:57.200
<v Speaker 1>know I say this all the time people get tired

1:36:57.240 --> 1:37:00.360
<v Speaker 1>of hearing it. But you know, when some of these

1:37:00.360 --> 1:37:02.960
<v Speaker 1>things happen, like what we were talking about before with

1:37:03.000 --> 1:37:07.280
<v Speaker 1>respect to that, just the horrible, horrible death of well

1:37:07.360 --> 1:37:11.080
<v Speaker 1>one so far, hopefully the other one survives. Those two

1:37:11.120 --> 1:37:15.320
<v Speaker 1>West Virginia National Guard people. One was an airman, the

1:37:15.360 --> 1:37:18.639
<v Speaker 1>other was a National Guard member, all of twenty years old.

1:37:19.400 --> 1:37:22.720
<v Speaker 1>All of twenty years old. They're just gunned down in

1:37:22.840 --> 1:37:26.960
<v Speaker 1>the street by someone who was in this country and

1:37:27.160 --> 1:37:30.280
<v Speaker 1>had no right to be in there. I mean, how

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<v Speaker 1>does that stuff happen? Why does it happen? And why

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<v Speaker 1>does the other side And this is the thing that

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<v Speaker 1>baffles me. Maybe someday I'll figure it out. I guess

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a I hate to say it, the way

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<v Speaker 1>things are just going to hell in a handbasket for

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<v Speaker 1>certain members of our society. But why is it that

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats and those on the left and those in academia.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm not exaggerating, which I'm prone to do on

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<v Speaker 1>it ocasion, but why are they advocating for people who

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<v Speaker 1>are not citizens of this country and really taking the

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<v Speaker 1>side against people that are. I don't understand that. I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know what, you want to come to this

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<v Speaker 1>country because you know you're suffering prejudice in your own country. Whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>do it, man, that's what we're here for. But do

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<v Speaker 1>it right, Do it right. I have talked to so

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<v Speaker 1>many people that have done it right. You know, they

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<v Speaker 1>do the courses, they take the tests, and they are

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<v Speaker 1>then naturalized citizens. And I don't have I ever said

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<v Speaker 1>this before. I think I did, But you know, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>an attorney and I was out a federal court. This

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<v Speaker 1>is five or six years ago. And my case wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>coming up for a while, so I just ducked in

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<v Speaker 1>a courtroom. They had one of those ceremonies there, the

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<v Speaker 1>naturalization ceremony. Were the people who did take the time

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<v Speaker 1>and the effort to do it right were sworn in

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<v Speaker 1>as American citizens. And you would not believe the pride

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<v Speaker 1>in those people and what they did. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>here we let twenty million in that had no business

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<v Speaker 1>coming in. But anyway, I'll get off of that high

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<v Speaker 1>horse for now. I'll probably get back on it tomorrow morning.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's the way it goes. Hey, I am out

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<v Speaker 1>of here. I really appreciate Willy giving me the chance

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<v Speaker 1>to sit in for him. It's kind of a different

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<v Speaker 1>a different time of day, but it's still fun doing it,

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<v Speaker 1>and I really appreciate Willy giving me the opportunity. Mike

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<v Speaker 1>Allen seven hundred WLW.

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<v Speaker 2>News Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 9>Waiting in some lines on roads and also at check

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<v Speaker 9>out registers with the three o'clock report. I'm Jack Crumbley

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<v Speaker 9>breaking now.

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<v Speaker 1>Please keep your keys with you.

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<v Speaker 9>Lieutenant Paul Nabor with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office trying

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<v Speaker 9>to make sure thousands of Black Friday shoppers are safe

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<v Speaker 9>on this big sales day. The mall in Kenwood is

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<v Speaker 9>one of the busiest spots in Hamilton County.

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<v Speaker 10>We've increased our patrols withinside the Town inside the Town Center,

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<v Speaker 10>multiple different ausers are going to be within there and

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<v Speaker 10>to hand on any kind of calls for service withinside

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<v Speaker 10>the mall, and.

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<v Speaker 9>That also means streets and highways are busy with people

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<v Speaker 9>trying to drive to the shopping areas looking to buy.

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<v Speaker 9>Tracy Schwegmann with Sycamore Township Trustees, we ask folks.

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<v Speaker 1>To pack their patients. We encourage them to really follow

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<v Speaker 1>the signage that's going to be in and around the

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<v Speaker 1>interstates on the main arteries. Sometimes that entrance that you're

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<v Speaker 1>used to typically going into may not be the fastest

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<v Speaker 1>access to the mall. So if it's telling you to

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<v Speaker 1>go left when you're used to going right, take the left.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's check the latest traffic and weather together.

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<v Speaker 11>expect more at u Sehealth dot com. On northbound seventy

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<v Speaker 11>five before town, they center lane blocked from an accident.

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<v Speaker 11>Traffic backed up from Norwood Elateral. Not too bad though,

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<v Speaker 11>minute or two worth of delays at the moment. Another

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<v Speaker 11>accident on the Red Bank Expressway that's over at Hetzel Street.

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<v Speaker 11>Northbound seventy one seventy five at Donaldson Rode an accident

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<v Speaker 11>off on the right shoulder. Plenty of slow spots around

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<v Speaker 11>town as well, including southbound seventy one traffic. There's stop

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<v Speaker 11>and go between Fifert and Montgomery Road up to a

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<v Speaker 11>ten minute delay. I met Ezelak on news radio seven

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<v Speaker 11>hundred WLUBLE.

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<v Speaker 9>Also Montgomery Road approaching seventy one, both directions backing up again.

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<v Speaker 4>That is Kenwood Mall traffic now.

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<v Speaker 12>The latest forecast from the No Fear Dentist Weather Center

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<v Speaker 13>Cold and sunny today across the tri State, but a

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<v Speaker 13>winter storm system is moving in Saturday morning. Snow starts

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<v Speaker 13>around a break for our western counties Across Southeast Indiana.

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<v Speaker 13>Good see some light accumulation, and then we'll see a

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<v Speaker 13>switch to arrange snow mix as temperature rise after the

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<v Speaker 13>noon hour. A trace to a few inches certainly possible

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<v Speaker 13>where we have the early onset of snow. Meanwhile, cold

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<v Speaker 13>and windy into your Sunday from your severe what the station.

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<v Speaker 13>I'm nine first one and meteorologist Kjjcobs's ready the seven

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<v Speaker 13>hundred WOW.

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<v Speaker 9>Radar show sunny skies in the tri State thirty four

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<v Speaker 9>degrees right now. News is a service of Low T

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<v Speaker 9>Center and a Doren Window Company. One of the two

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<v Speaker 9>National Guard members shot near the White House Wednesday has

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<v Speaker 9>now died. The suspect now facing a first degree murder charge.

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<v Speaker 9>He's been identified as an Afghan national brought to the

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<v Speaker 9>US in twenty twenty one with a special immigrant visa

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<v Speaker 9>and then granted asylum this year. In April, the CIA

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<v Speaker 9>saying that he worked with the US government in Afghanistan

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<v Speaker 9>during the war. Here's former Acting under Secretary for Intelligence

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<v Speaker 9>at the Department of Homeland Security, John Cohen.

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<v Speaker 14>Based on what we've learned thus far is that this

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<v Speaker 14>is an individual, like thousands of other Afghanistanis who worked

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<v Speaker 14>closely with the US military and intelligence community, not only

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<v Speaker 14>as interpreters, but also to fight terrorists in Afghanistan. That

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<v Speaker 14>means that while he was there, he would have been

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<v Speaker 14>heavily vetted by the CIADOD and other authorities to make

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<v Speaker 14>sure he was not an insider threat and posed a

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<v Speaker 14>risk to our forces.

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<v Speaker 9>President Trump claimed the man wasn't vetted at all and

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<v Speaker 9>called a reporter stupid for asking about it.

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