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We're going to talk about this is scary artificial intelligence recommending nuclear strikes in war games simulations. Oh that's comforting. We got a local man using tech in a serial rape case. And finally cybersecurity tips to protect your tax identity and refund. That's handy information. We always get that from Dave Hatter. Brian Ibold, the return of the Help Squad, great charitable organization over on the West Side, helping people deal with very very difficult times, getting them over the temporary hurdles people might face, and addictional some extra money to get the rent payment made, that kind of thing. They've done wonderful work, and I know a lot of folks have gotten some help from Brian Ibold and the Help Squad. Brian will return in studio at seven o five. Apparently he's got some big news. And I really really enjoy helping out these charities locally. So Brian Ibold saw a need on the West Side and stepped up and filled that need. So see we can help them out. Later this morning, it's seven o five, follow by all Right, Hudson Institute's Bring Him Account and our Energy Policy Expert live from Las Vegas. Is he appearing at the Sphere Joe with Metallica, So who's opening for who? Metallica warms up and bringing mccow and takes the stage. He will be talking about gas prices, and I did just look at gas buddy, the Straighthorn moves is being a real problem. Yeah, war does have consequences. There are ripple effects. So we can cheer maybe the progress we're making with the Iranians and lots to report on that. But how about three dollars and forty nine cents for gasoline? I'm looking at a lot of stations that are already charging that in the area where I live. And uh, of course it varies from place to place. It was down as low as you know, two dollars and twenty three cents a couple of days ago. Not there anymore. So we'll talk gas prices with Brigham account. We'll talk about Ohigoho utilities owning their own nuke plans, and I know Rigam's behind that. I am as well. Small modular reactors are the key Ohio moving that direction. Hey, you want to build an AI facility, bring your power. And with those artificial intelligence companies, they have billions of dollars they can afford to do that. Do you just need to streamline the regulatory process? Should it cost three billion dollars and take three or ten years to build a nuke plant? I don't think so. And also with Brigham account yes, why the straighter for our moves is a crisis, which he's done. He does the podcast Charged Conversations. One more that I strongly encourage you to follow or listen to, like Todd Zen's or Citizen Watchdog yesterday. That is scary stuff. I mean, the level what you want to call it corruption in city government Downtown Cincinnati. I don't know that it's risen to the level of corruption, but what Todd Zenser reveals about spending and priorities with the Downtown Cincinnati current makeup is very troubling, and it should be troubling regardless of political strife. Your neighborhood's infrastructure that's falling apart. We can point directly at roads. We all know we have a real problem with the backlog of road repairs. That's just one thing. And yet they continue to throw money in non governmental organizations. And he asked a critical question, why don't we have a disclosure? Shouldn't all council members and elected officials like the mayor have to disclose whether or not they have a financial interest or personal interest in connection with money that's going to any one of these NGOs dods ends are pointing out that they have to have purvoll sits on the board of two of the NGOs that get the city tax payer money. Does that sound right? There's a thing in the law called the appearance of impropriety. Lawyers are held to a high standard, whether you believe it or not, do nothing that creates the appearance of impropriety. Who among us wouldn't want an outright disclosure? Does any council member or the mayor have a vested interest, connection with, or personal interest in anything that's receiving money. Hmm hmm, silence from council. Let's bring McCallan. We'll have him from seven thirty eight, twenty five and five with Jack Windsor, editor chief the How Press Network returns as he does on Fridays. Why we should support Marcel Sturbage for the primary. I know he's a big fan of Marcel, and I've talked to Marcel Sturbage, I mean several times. He is an impressive guy. So you know, do your own research, do your own you know, like I would typically say, don't be swayed by money flowing into politics and meme focused ads. Do your own research. And make the best determination you can on who the best candidate is. Ohio senators and Trump are discussing energy rates regarding building new data centers, that topic with Jack as well. And finally, are whistleblowers being punished for exposing waste and fraud? That's a good one, Jack Windsor at a thirty you anytime five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk fifty on AT and T phones. Yes, greenlight for epic fury. It's going to continue because the bipartisan resolution that presented by Thomas Massey and Rocanna failed to pass. You had four Democrats joining most of the Republicans. The bill sunk to twelve to two nineteen. Of course, it would have blocked Trump from using armed voices in the operation against Iran and of course bringing it to a screeching halt, which is the problem, and I will acknowledge the difficulty in that, which is why you can vote for a war powers or rather an authorization for you some military force tailored to allow certain activities to continue, but perhaps specifically precluding boots on the ground. Do you want to project to your enemy that you are not going to allow boots on the ground, or that you've been foreclosed from that option. These are the arguments back and forth. The law is what the law is. The Constitution says what the Constitution says. The nineteen seventy three War Powers Resolution says what it says. So in spite of the you know, expedients needed in modern times and the idea that you need to be able to make quick decisions, the law has not changed. And that's the position that Thomas Massey, Rocanna and of course Congressman Warren Davidson, who voting in favor of the measure, they were interested in, I'm bringing about some sort.
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Speaker 2: Of legal.
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Speaker 1: Uh well, compliance with the law. Actually, so you had Massey, Warren Davidson and hmm. The Democrats include Greg Lansman. Do you say, Joe, isn't Greg Landsman Jewish?
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Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of what I said to my wife. With Greg Landsman voting no and I he bucked the Democrats that were the only handful of Democrats who voted. I voted yeah, I voted no. So is there a connection with that? Some people suggest that the only reason we are bombing Iran is because of Israel. Some people have a problem with that. I seem I get the feeling Daniel Davis and the Daniel Davis deep dives along those lines. But you know, I Israel's been a long time friend of ours, and I don't think we could have survived the Cold War with the Soviet Union without their insanely amazing intelligence operation. But here we find ourselves. So the war will continue. The question is whether we can get the straight of Horror moves back open, which is described as a very, very difficult challenge. Now, the Iranians, for their part, claimed that no, the straight of hormusi In isn't shut down. The Mission to the United States said yesterday, Iran's Mission Tehran isn't closing the strait, and it's in its words, whoever the persons sent to the United Nations make a proclamation they're committed to international law and freedom of navigation. In reality, it is the United States that has endangered maritime security, well, the Iranians maritime security. We just blew up a drone boat described as as big as a World War II aircraft carrier. That's not delivering drones anymore. One more of the Iranian Navy that was sunk just yesterday and a growing number of ships destroyed, accord to the Sencom Commander Adam Bradley Cooper, thirty ships destroyed so far. Cooper yesterday, speaking alongside Secretary of War Pete hegseeth do youtail him the expanding maritime activity, saying US forces have intensified strikes against the Iranian vessels. Of course, we blew one up the other day, actually blew a sub up too. Said you may have heard that the presidents say just a while ago that we have sunk or destroyed twenty four ships. That was true, he said, at the moment, we're now up to over thirty ships. Just last few hours we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship roughly the size of a World War two aircraft carrier, and as we speak it's on fire. Ballistic missile attacks, he said, have decreased by ninety percent since day one. Drone attack decrease eighty three percent since day one, and hopefully maybe a little bit more given that we just blew up the drone delivering aircraft carrier. EXAs said the operation is not slown down, in fact, it's ramping up, saying we only have just begun to fight and fight decisively. The amount of combat power that is still flowing, that's still coming, we will be able to project over Iran. I'm sorry that we'll be able to project projective Irans multiples of what it is currently.
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Speaker 1: Our capabilities are overwhelming and gathering still, as are those of our Israeli partners. Sort of a suggestion about munitions, he said, our munitions are full up and our will as iron clad, which means our timeline is ours in our salon to control as long as it takes to ensure the United States of America achieves these objectives. Of course, a statement addressing a lot of concerns by people in the know that we're running out of munitions, most notably, the defensive missions are munitions, you know, the ones that shoot the missiles out of the sky. But that whether it's true, and let's assume it is true. Obviously, the air campaign has weakened the Iranians' ability to even launch those missiles. So if they keep up that bombing campaign and they can use conventional bombs, now those we apparently have a lot of the kindness drop, not the ones that are laser guided or fired from a ship thousand miles away. No, we can just literally drop old school bombs on them. And that's where we're going for the now. The manufacturing facilities of the rockets, the drones, et cetera. So hopefully we will continue to erode the Iranians ability to even launch a drone That certainly would go a long way to opening up the Straight of Horror Moves, which is a challenge right now. The mines, the potential for the Iranians to use these drone boats, the limited number of ships we have in the region, they can only do so much. So we'll see. I saw this this one article. European allies might join the United States in defending the Straight of Horn moves. Get a load of this, but their navies are already thread bear. Britain's once dominant Royal Navy has shrunk to its smallest size in centuries. British officials are currently looking into the practices of deploying escort cargoes to the Strait, but officials familiar with the matter say it's that no final decisions have been made. You know, I just saw that, and that goes to that five percent thing, and I know there are bregsit, folks. But you know, the European Union and our NATO allies have allowed their militaries to be weakened to the point that they are well, they've been emasculated. They're of no help in waging a war. With the mutual defense obligation we have with our fellow NATO countries, We're expecting some help if we get attacked, and they are expecting help if they get attacked. That street seems to only run one way. Donald Trump at least knows that in an asserted massive pressure on the allies to ramp up military spend at least five percent of your gross domestic product, seeing at least well have a military right now, you don't. And to the extent anyone of us gets attack, who's going to be there to fight off the attacker? Right? That will be us. We've been the police force for the entire year Western European countries for now, since basically World War Two. They have freed is freed up the economy of those countries to spend money elsewhere, not on a military because while the United States has that, we'll let them pay for it. Just wondering what the reciprocal benefit on that was for all these years five eighteen Right now, fifty five KRCD talk stations stick around, got lots of talk about and before we get to the stack of stupid, here's what's happening every Sunday. And they have partly cloudy, pleasant day with a highest sixty three. It's fifty seven degrees right now, fifty five kr CD talk station.
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Speaker 2: I'm Donald J. Trump.
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Speaker 3: Can I improve this message here?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 1: Five to twenty two on a Friday, and a half to one to you five one, three, seven, nine to fifty five hundred and eight hundred and eighty two free TAH five five fifty on EIGHTHV ANDC phones. I turned things over to lum me for a moment. Get it out of your system. I'm still scratching my head over this downtown shooting, by this mass shooting, the Frenique cob and Derek Long gunplay and the nightclub with hundreds and hundreds of people in there. Nine people get shot, bringing city manager out, Cheryl Long out, and aftab parvol Off. Talk about gun violence, gun violence, and you get these guns off the streets. How about you just prosecute people the fullest extent of law, which hasn't been happening in Hamilton County, even Mayor aftab Parvoll talking about low bond at least one case. What is going on here? I'm shocked, shocked to find there's liberal, woke judges out there, and in spite of the fact that he'd been supporting this liberal woke criminal justice ideology for a long time, promoting it and telling the judges to embrace it, enter the federal government. Now you probably know we have state charges in here, and we have federal government. Federal government. The two men involve Long and Cobb, both under disability, which means they were previously felony convictions. Prior felony convictions prohibit both of them from possessing firearms and ammunition. Both firearms and ammunition were used in the shooting. Ergo, there are federal charges.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: If you are a would be user of a firearm for criminal activity or anything else and you're under disability, this is a warning shot for you, Pow. You can't count on woke judges in Hamilton County or a woke prosecutor cutting you an easy plea deal, or maybe even not prosecuting you. When the federal government is looming large over you, and that charge will put you in jail for fifteen years. Fifteen years. Maybe I'd better not take a gun with me. They already told me I'm not allowed to have one. Bill Halisek, public information officer for THEATFS Columbus Field Vision, talking about this, referring to their previous felony convictions, both men again not allowed to carry firearms. He said, the charges that the federal government levied against these guys are an important part of the ATF's efforts to curb gun violence in local committee communities. That's our whole mission here, that's our number one goal is to reduce the gun violence by whatever means possible. Hey, that's what the criminal justice system is all about. Woke leftists, folks. Are you under disability or not? Yes, I have a prior felony conviction, then you're prohibited from having a gun. That's not racist. That's the law. And somewhere along the line, someone decided to confuse people breaking the law using firearms, literally killing people, suggesting that prosecuting these individuals for the full sixtent of the law somehow active racism. No, it isn't. It is using the theories of criminal justice to help make communities safer. You get the bad guy off the street, they're locked up. At one point there was the argument that well, maybe in prison they'll have services that will help rehabilitate them. That one kind of went by the wayside. But you're punishing the individual. You are sending a message out to other would be users of firearms or anybody else who wants to commit crime that there's going to be accountability for it. You are going to be held accountable. That's a deterrence effect, And of course it has the benefit of putting a little bit of salve on the burn of the families who are left living to deal with the grief they saw a person prosecuted and sent away, giving them at least some measure of satisfaction that justice actually had been served. So there you go, and it's nice to know that at least we have the federal government out there with federal laws that they can unilaterally go ahead and enforce in spite of the local left wing political bias against enforcing the law. Five twenty six Right now ifty five kerr CE Talk Station feel free to call out local stories to dive into alternatively I'll be right back. Fifty five KRC get e go o hey erin Martley. Cloudy Sky's describing it as pleasant right now fifty seven degrees if you five KERCD talk station five point thirty.
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday.
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Speaker 1: Better order the phones. We'll get Tom's call here in a moment. Just yeah.
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Speaker 2: We have one other.
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Speaker 1: The Feds are going after the City Bird Fountain Square shooter. They have new video. Apparently local charges been dropped because they showed it was self defense the eighteen year old Shaquille Ferguson. But no, no, no, enter the federal government. Why because well, he was prohibited from having a firearm. He was not allowed to possess ammunition or a firearm. Now, while the gun was not found at the scene, they did find the m O casings. Yes, those also leave a telltale sign that directly connect those casings with the gun that he used to fire on in Fountain Square. So didn't find the gun. He shot a nineteen year old victim in the leg and a sixteen year old got grazed by bullet. You may recall that Affidavid said that's because he fled the area later and then turned himself into police. Clide Bennett, the second who's representing him, also representing one of the people in the mass shooting at the nightclub. He said, I do not represent him in that case. My representation is Shaquille Ferguson is over. He's on record.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: My representation ended. So he pleaded guilty on July twenty third, twenty twenty five, to aggravate his sold after pistol whipping another guy in a metro bust. Sentence of probation. Oh hell kind of justice system. He used that same gun on Fountain Square in that shooting, and another one just two days earlier October eleventh, twenty twenty five. He's a shooty up guy accused of firing on a car in Spring Grove Avenue. Charges including Florius so sold Those are still penning in court anyway, but the other one's not. So the federal government comes in says, look, we have the shell casings. We've traced it directly to this guy. He is going to be prosecuted and may spend fifteen years in Gale for violating federal law. Justice may very well be served, Tom, Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Friday, my friend.
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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, So let me get this straight. These these liberal democrats, they believe that if you make a law outlawing guns, it's gonna keep everybody from having guns. It's going to solve the solve the problem of gun violence. When we already have laws on the books, and when those laws are put in place and an individual is told you can't have a gun and he gets one anyway, doesn't that prove that these idiotic laws that would cover everybody are not going to work either.
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Speaker 1: It makes that's where the criminal justice system kicks in. How many people violate the laws? This has been going on since Kate Nature's Laws Kane slew Abel, Right. Okay, so people commit horrific acts of violence. They break laws regularly. There it is, it's on the books. Don't do that, they do it anyway? What is to be done if that happens, You prosecute them. You show the rest of the world there will be penalties and repercussions for breaking the law. And if you don't do that, what happens. Look at California, you know, you decriminalize stealing, and people steal. Oh shocked.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you make it sound so simple because it is that simple. So then the question begs begs the question, why aren't these liberal Democrats going with that? What is their motivation for not going along with the way you just laid it out simply? Well, I mean it's money, it's votes, it's votes because of money, it's money because of votes. What else could it possibly be? I I could see an end of it. Okay, I'm a case, and you see a young man being prosecuted and his mom is crying, and his mom is getting ready to lose her baby, or somebody else lost their baby, you know, likely in the same scenario. But I get her. Okay, that's your kid, and you don't want your kid to go to prison for the rest of his life. Okay, I understand that. But to be somebody who is who is not personally attacked to the situation. You're a lawmaker, you are being charged with protecting the entire society, and yet your idea is, oh, no, no, no, no, we shouldn't prosecute these people. We should go easy on them, or or we should tell everybody no one's allowed to have a gun. There's got to be motivation behind it, and is nefarious has to be well, And unfortunately, most of these people that are doing this. If not all of them that are singing in that same song are Democrats, don't vote Democrat, have a great.
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Speaker 1: Weekend time, appreciate it. I think the missing element in the why as they are inclined to just blame the system. The person who shot the other person is a victim of an inherently unjust system, and he would not have squeezed that trigger or otherwise brandshed to firearm ins by to the fact the law said he couldn't have one if it wasn't for the system. So because the system is inherently broke, we're not going to prosecute him for the crimes that he actually committed. That's really I think all it boils down to. It's all I can come up with. I find a lot of fault with that. I think that mindset leads us to a very dangerous place. But I think that's the only thing we can really come up with by way of explanation. Unless you got a different one, feel free to give me a call five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty eight two three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Otherwise, a grand inglorious typical Friday stack is stupid, chock full of naked criminals to that in a minute, don't oway fifty five KRC.
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Speaker 6: Okay, let's get to work.
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Speaker 3: I'm ready. You got to impress the boss station.
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Speaker 1: Can you play John the Fisherman by forty on a Friday? You know the answer to that is yes and a happy with da. That's some good plans for the weekends. I'm going to a fundraiser for the Cincinnati Classical Academy tomorrow. I love that since Classical Academy, and I hope that that kind of a school's philosophy, the education system, the idea of classical education and no woke and no DEI focusing on real things, real skills that young people need to advance in this world. God bless them, and the architect of a great system of education that is going to grow by leaps and bounds. There's a really great article about proving to the rest of the world that there was no argument left against school choice. Check out that what happened in Texas. I'll get to that maybe later in the program, but it is certainly a growing and very welcome thing and a welcome change and hopefully turning around the lives from some young people giving them the skills they need to survive. Over the stack is stupid. Let's get naked people at Thirty nine year old woman arrested taking it to custody. This is in Nashville. Police say she bit a police officer after running toward people at Centennial Park completely naked. As this tradition, please said. An officer spotted Ashley Masterson running around the area naked holding a sign attached to a piece of wood. She initially fled.
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Speaker 2: Amazing.
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Speaker 1: See that was my pause, Joe, just waiting for it. The officer attempted to detain her. She fled from the officer. He was able to detain the woman ultimately put her in a car. Reportedly began kicking and screaming and then bit the officer on his right arm. He had visible and bloody bite mark. There was so chomped downy mess. In charge with felony aggravated assault on a first responder for misdemeanors including public indecency, resisting arrest, evading arrest, disorderly conduct, and of course public intoxication. Aamen, don't do that. Here's a weird one. We go to Pennsylvania, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where the Pennsylvania State Police report that a climber woman has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after spreading new photographs of an individual to prevent them from cooperating with the investigation. Huh No, that doesn't make any sense to me either. Investigations started when an injured and abandoned dog was found on the side of the road. Troopers say that they were able to determine that Paulina Williams, who's thirty one, abandoned her dog along the roadway. Mixbury dog found following day transport of the veterinarian for treatment, where it was discovered the dog had two pelvis fractured and numerous chicken bones in his stomach. Troopers learned that Williams allegedly had contacted an individual and asked them to kill or abandon the dog. According to the police release, Williams spread nude photographs of the individual in an effort to prevent the person from speaking with law enforcement. Do what like hiring a hit man to take care of your dog? William's charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and intimidation of a witness, cruelty to animals and invasion of privacy misdemeanors. The intimidation of a witness is a felony. She was unable to post the one hundred thousand dollars bond was taken at the Indiana County jail. Uh yeah, neck tattoo, that's a beauty, nice nose ring and some pretty sweet piercings along her mouth. To you try your own conclusion, Eeries is the biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies. There's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top.
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Speaker 3: It's good going, dude.
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Speaker 1: Your dreams have come true. What an amazing idea Joe Strekker came up with. Handing the dog over to a shelter. Maybe you no kill shelter for adoption seems like a better alternative. Joe, I'm with you all day along on that one.
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Speaker 2: Hmmm.
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies rushed to Santa Clarita, about forty miles north of LA after receiving a report of a man suffering from a mental health crisis. The tradition, the armed individual allegedly fired shot to hit a car. Thankfully, no one was shot. Local elementary school had to be placed on lockdown after shooting the car. Allegedly, Sheriff's deputies claimed the suspect barricaded himself in a house. Thirty minutes later, the suspect was seen walking around the neighborhood in a hat and a T shirt. But of course this is Friday in the morning show Stack is stupid. He had no pants on strender authorities without incident, and of course there's video of the moment. He was caught on camera walking across the street in a residential area too swat with his hands high in the air with the shotgun on the ground behind him. Five forty five fifty five care see the talk station. Oh you know there's more of that coming up here A see deep talk station five fifty at fifty five care CEV talk station right time, especially everyone, a very happy Friday and invitation stick around all morning of course Tech Friday by Dave Hattery.
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Speaker 2: Hatter.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from the help squads Brian Ibel at seven oh five with some apparently big news our energy expert Brigham Account from Hudson Institute's gonna join us at seven thirty for an hour by Gas Prices Utilities owning their own nuke plants and the straight of horror moves obviously a dominant topic of conversation that one Jack Windsor from the Ile Press network about supporting Marcel Sturbage. It is an option the Senators and Trump discussing the energy rates on the data centers as well. Finally, also whistleblowers being punished for exposing waste and fraud. That with Jack Windsor coming up at eight thirty back over to the stack of stupid. Oh look naked person who naked man exposed himself the two women happened Tuesday afternoon. But why are you doing that? Maybe we'll find out sometimes you don't. Women who saw the man described her experience on social media today. My friend and I were sexually harassed by a naked man hiding in the woods who was filming himself performing explicit acts while watching and recording us. What used to get deliberate penalties? He formally played hockey joe. This incredibly disturbing and unacceptable, especially in a park where many college students, high school students, families and young children regularly run, walk and play right, She said. The incident was reported to the RUST and police, describing the suspect as young white adult males of medium build suspects plural. They were both in there doing that. Lieutenant Kayla Lord Lloyd's spokesman for the police officers, said the responded to Cook Park immediately started searching for the suspect, but couldn't find him. In the social media post, one also wrote, we're sharing this to warn others so no one else has to experience something like this. Stalelert void walking alone. Pay close attention to your surroundings. That's solid information. Lieutenant Lloyd noted that the police have not received any similar reports, said the incident is still under investigation, So one of those where we don't find out why they're doing that. Let's see here Wisconsin's part of Wisconsin. A nurse sentenced to prison for engaging in sexual intercourse with a patient. Monroe County District Attorney's office press release said Melissa Knutson found guilty of misconduct in public office and obstructing an officer, sends to eighteen month in prison two years of probation. Charges them from her time as a nurse at the in Monroe County, repeatedly engaging in sexual intercourse with the patient who was a drug court participant facts report of the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. She falsely accused the patient of sexual assault. She acknowledged that she was not sexually assaulted later, Butts instead fabricated the allegation to avoid the consequences. District Attorney Kevin Caringer had this to say, the harm caused by her was a deep and it was deep and significant. Not only did she violate this sacred trust between a patient and a nurse, but she compounded by falsely accusing the patient of sexual assault. The situation is particularly egregious given the patient in this situation was a participant in drug court. Judge Current extremely concerned about the significant level of harm caused by missus Knutsen, and his sentence reflected that significant level of harm. Weird. Oh, and yet another one. Every week Joe's tossing and the teachers who are having sex with students. Every week it's been a female teacher having sex with students. It never never ceases to amaze me. Married high school jim teacher in Rhode Island has been arrested in charge with sexually assaulting a student whom she admitted to sexting and at least kissing. Alicia Crins started sending flirty messages to the male victim when he was a sophomore at Pontagan That's at high school in Gloucester, Rhode Island. Thirty nine year old Crins reportedly found his phone number online, which he was her student. Those exchanges escalated from flirty messages to her sending him naked pictures and videos. Bad idea anybody, because idiots and thank god they're idiots. Look we got the proof. Additionally, the teen said that Crins kissed him twice, including one incident where she straddled him sexually in the back of the car. She admitted the police officers that she did send inappropriate photos, kissed the boy, and discussed plans to have sex, but insisted that the relationship was never physical. Whatever, thank you. Liam started flirting when the boy. She told him he looked good, asked him if she could wear his sweatshirt Affidavid did if. She teasingly asked him what he would buy her for her birthday, then proceeded to ask him for a kiss, gave him her address. He did show up at her home and then she jumped into his car and they parked on a side streak. She allegedly told him, I can't believe I'm doing I'm going to do this. You can't tell anybody. That's when they started kissing, lasted about fifteen minutes. She then bombarded the boy with flattering texts in the following days, including message about how good a kiss her he was and how she couldn't stop thinking about his lips phrasing. She later invited him over, and that's when the apparently straddling againstid in the backseat of the car occurred. Affidavid stated that they engaged in sexual contact. They kissed. When speaking of police, the teenager showed authorities a handful of racy photos and videos that showed her in lingerie. He added that she sent the photos to him when he was only seventeen years old. He also admitted to authorities she sent the boy nude photos and videos of herself when he turned eighteen. Happy birthday.
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Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 1: They said they discussed having sex, though they never actually slept together. Congratulations whatever, Thank you Liam five fifty six fifty five KRC the talk station. Who are your children spending time with when you are not watching them? Don't go away? Plenty to talk about coming up after the six o'clock news, But then we're gonna get Tech Friday with Dave hat He appointment listening coming up at the talk station. He tipto six at fifty five KR see the talk station. Brian Thomas writing here, happy to be hosted fifty five Kersei Moriy Show, and of course happy that I have Joe Strecker as executive producer of the fify five Case Mory Show. And there he is. Got a great run down thanks to that man. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter every Friday coming up Botto of the hour six thirty. We got artificial intelligence suggesting nuclear strikes are a great option of wargames simulations. Yeah, I don't like that local man using tech in a serial rape case. And number three topics cybersecurity, tips to protect your tax identity and refund Brian Ibold the man behind the Help Squad, a wonderful charitable organization helping folks on the West Side in dire situations. Apparently Brian Ibold has some big news to report. He'll be in studio at seven oh five again him for a couple of segments talk about the great work they're doing and learn about that big news together. Appreciate Brian Ibold and the team that helps squad doing what they are doing. Brigham Accown and our energy policy expert from the Hudson Institute. He is in Vegas, but he's opportunity. He's provided us with an opportunity to learn about the situation with gas prices. YEP, saw a gas up to about three dollars and fifty cents in a lot of stations in my area. That's the direction that's going because of the situation with the straight up horn moves, which we'll talk about with Brigham account and also the idea of Ohio utilities owning nuke plants owning as opposed to I guess the problem with it is they want to have the cost of the plants taken care of by the ratepayer up front. The old days, utilities would build their own plants and then recoup the money later, which I think is the way it should be. So just getting nuke plants out in the world, you know, I'm a huge advocate for that. The ultimate problem solved. Abundant electricity, very small footprint. You don't have to worry about nuclear waste anymore with modern reactors. On and on and on and on, and I'll put in a plug for cribbage, Mike. The American military has been using small reactors in ships since the nineteen fifties with no incident. Yeah, okay, how about we get to have some of that Jack windsor from the high press network after Brigging departs, we're gonna hear from him. It's at eight thirty why we should support Marcel Sturbiche in the primary Ohio senators and Trump discussing energy rates regarding building new data centers. And finally, are whistle blowers being punished for exposing waste and fraud? I hope not five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred eight to two three talk time five fifty on AT and T phones. Yes, so Trump can continue, and I guess the question swirling around, So the opportunity to stop Trump by as certain. The warpowers actually got shot down as was expected, dude, just like I got shot down in the Senate, which means there is no curbing of the military activity going on in Iran right now. But the War Powers Resolution in nineteen seventy three still exists, which means I think the clock is still running for the sixty day window, maybe backed up by a thirty day extension, and I'm certain that that thirty day extension will be exercised. If we run up against the clock on sixty days, Will the operation be over within sixty days? We can only pray that it will be. I'm a little suspicious that that won't happen. Call me slightly pessimistic on that. But since nothing happened by way of curbing the military exercise, that's where I think we find ourselves with the ticking clock. So Warren Davidson did what he said, and oddly enough Greg Landsman also voted against reigning in Donald Trump's war powers. So you had Massey and Davidson and four Democrats. I thought David Taylor was going to vote against this. Joe didn't he say that on the Morning Show a couple of weeks ago. I do believe. So we'll have to get David and I just just get to ask him the question next time he's on. So you know, the big problem is unringing the bell. And you know Ryan McKenzie, he's representative from Pennsylvanian. He pointed out the obvious, He's I'll be voting no against the War Powers Act because once the president has taken that action, that first action, if we were to pull back, it would actually leave us more vulnerable and less safe by leaving all of the capabilities in place. But having started a conflict like this, well, that's exactly right. But that's part of the challenge. We got to the this place with presidents waging war since World War II without a declaration of war, and I dcly keep using Vietnam as the greatest illustration of it. Kennedy inherited the so called advisors, you know, the CIA folks providing consultation work in Vietnam, and it just gradually escalated year after year after year. Do we ended up losing fifty fives or so thousand men fighting in Vietnam? At what point was there and there wasn't authorizations for you some military force, although you did have a Congress with the power of the person continuing to fund the military operation. There years of approval of the unilateral action by presidents. You know, you had Barack Obama with Libyan Milmarkadaffi. We could go on and on and on this again. I go back to the legal theories of waiver and estoppel that everybody prior to me says, Donald Trump has been doing it. This is just how we do things, and of course, with yesterday's vote, we're going to continue to go down that road.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Feel free to chime in on that, pivoting over to something completely unrelated. But I just read with just the big grin on my face this op ed piece by Tommy Schultz, who happens to be the CEO of American Federation for Children, which is an advocacy organization for school choice. And guess what wins? And I was thinking of eighty twenty issues and how the Democrats, in spite of the fact they're growing about they're going to dominate in November and it's still a possibility, but they're on the wrong side of all these eighty twenty issues. Deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, everybody wants that they don't, border security, everybody wants that. The Democrats are against it. LGBTQ agendas like men playing against women in sports, everybody is overwhelmingly against that. Who favors it. The Dems use of gender pronouns transitioning men into women or women into men by way of hormone or surgical intervention. You know, people under the age of eighteen. Who's in favor of that? Democrats, it's an eighty twenty issue. Welcome to another eighty twenty issues, school choice. They're on the wrong side of this one too. And as Texas proved, and as Tommy Schultz pointed out, Texas just demolished the last argument against school choice. For years, anti choice lawmakers insisted that rural families don't want education options. Tuesday's election prove them wrong. In primary races across Texas, candidates who champion Governor Greg Abbott's Texas Education Freedom Account program one go to deeply rural Texas House District eighty six. Holly Jeffries routed an opponent who proclaimed, quote, I will never flip on vouchers. Across Texas, candidates who worked hard against school choice faced consequences in twenty twenty seven. Get a load of this. There won't be an anti school choice Republican in the Texas legislature. Of the twenty one House Republicans voted against school choice in twenty twenty three, all have been defeated by a pro school choice challenger. Retired and replaced by pro choice legislator or reverse to ultimately support school choice lips. I'm back in the corner. I guess I better change my tune or I'm going to lose like everybody else, they said. Two years ago, Governor Abbott went on to the electrical electoral offensive against the Republican incumbents who voted to kill his twenty twenty three school choice bill. He enacted. The a FC Victory Fund, deployed significant resources statewide to making sure voters knew where the representatives stood, and achieved the largest shift towards school choice in Texas in political history. Representative Glenn Rodgers, for instance, had long stood with teachers union. He lost his seat by twenty six points in the twenty twenty four primary. The trend then went beyond Texas. During the twenty twenty four primary season, AFC's political affiliates spent nearly ten million dollars in fifteen states, defeating sixty seven percent of incumbents who stood against parents on this critical issue. These are great figures, folks. Texas, where the teachers' unions assume their monopoly would last forever, is rolling out a wildly popular school choice program. With one hundred and fifty thousand student applications already in the door. In two more weeks, Love for the open enrollment program will have the largest ever day one launch for school choice programs in history. The primaries confirmed that voters are fully behind that move. The rural myth is dead lesson for every state house in America. Is now impossible to ignore school choice. Wins, oppose it, and voters will show you the door. A's your eighty twenty issue right there. And I am proud to be attending the fundraiser for the Cincinnati Classical Academy tomorrow evening. Thank you John and Kathy Newsom for the invitation. Is an outstanding option. It is a brilliant, outstanding option. There should be more options like that. There should be more people embracing the concept of school choice. Are your schools failing you? Based upon the testing scores nationwide? I would think a lot of folks can nod in agreement. Yeah they are. I see Jamie's on the line. Hang on, Jamie, I think I know what Jamie has to chime in about. Don't go away. I want to mention Jimy care Fireplace and stove. They do it all when it comes to care and see the talk station six at fifty five KRCD talk station Ran Thomas right here, wish nobody very happy Friday. David. David concurs and I concur with folks. Colin. I got a few callers online. Let's start with Jamie. Kind of expect that, am I hear from you, Jamie, Welcome back to the Morning Show.
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Speaker 7: Thanks Brian, good morning. I so appreciate your shedding of the light globally of where school.
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Speaker 2: Choice is headed.
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Speaker 7: It's so amazing. I'm so appreciative of your voice. I wanted to just kind of say bigger picture thought about school choice is that we need better schools generally for kids, whether it's public or private. You know, I hear from I hear from a distressed mama at least once a week, and they are in a school situation where their child is not being served. My call yesterday was a family it's at another private school in our area, and she said they've been dealing with a student that is wreaking havoc and one of her kiddo's classrooms and the school just straight is not dealing with it. And so we you know, we've we've talked how you know, behavior learning gaps. There's all sorts of things happening. And the bigger problem that I see is that the facilities are not understanding child development and what kids actually need to be learning and to be peaceful and to be responsible and to be engaged in their work. It's like any times, the kids are being stuck in these machines and expected to just be like robots and do what they're told, and it's not working. It's just not working. We've got to be developing each individual human really, because the kids have so much potential. But boy, some kiddos can get off track and it is not a pretty situation.
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Speaker 1: I agree. That's why the school choice option allows parents to evaluate where their child is and seek out alternatives. One size does not fit all when it comes to educating any given young person. I realize that, and that's why one of the reasons why I'm an advocate for school choice Jamie, and Jamie of course runs a Montesssori school, which is a choice. Glad we have it, Jamie, I'm glad you're out there helping spread the word on choice as well. Let's see what doctor Jay's got this morning, Doctor j always a wonderful thing seeing it listener lunch, welcome back to the program, sir.
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Speaker 8: Thank you Brian, it was wonderful seeing you. And boy, wasn't that carrot cake from Bob amazing?
00:47:55
Speaker 1: Thank you for standing and I'm glad I finally found mine.
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Speaker 8: I didn't know he had slight a hand and slipped it in your coat.
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Speaker 1: Kneel and I long story, but yes, retired colonel retired Colonel Bob guitar makes wonderful carrot cake, So yes, I enjoyed that. What's on your mind?
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Speaker 8: Jaycoops? Well, I'd mentioned as the listener launch and apparently I haven't heard anyone bring this up. So Monday night was Poorham. The Jewish festival read it to us in the Book of Maguilla, which is not part of the Torah. So when you hear somebody talk about the whole mcgilla, that's where the phrase comes from. It was a whole book of a story about Queen Esther, king of hash Veris. And why is it important now? Well, this all happened in Persia, the land of Iran, so thousands of years ago. We celebrate every year because on Poram on Monday, which is the day after our invasion of Iran, or two days after that, is the celebration of the depth of Hayman, this evil man who was running the Kingdom of Persia under the nose of the king, and he wanted to kill all the Jews, and he had a plan to kill all the Jews is the thirteenth of a dollar. I think he was going to kill them. It was the Hebrew months, and this brave woman came and spoke up to the king. She was Jewish. She revealed she was a Jew, which was not a good thing those days, which seems to be our.
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Speaker 1: Current situation to be a jew ongoing problem for the Jewish people.
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Speaker 8: Particularly in Persia or Iran. So anyway, so she suffered the King's wrath, did reveal the plot. He decided, okay, I like her, I don't want these people to be killed. So instead he killed Hayman in a pretty gruesome fashion. So we celebrate his death and the survival of the Jews every year on Pourum. And so here we are in Iran, again celebrating the death of an evil man who wanted to kill all the Jews.
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Speaker 1: So and again revealing the level of level of turmoil that's gone into that region for literally thousands of years.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's not been a peaceful area for a very long time.
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Speaker 1: Right, Never, if there was ever a gross understatement, doctor j you just made one appreciate that. I appreciate the history lesson though, because you mentioned that at lunch, and I had never heard that story before. So we're all a little bit more enlightened this morning. I appreciate your enlightenment, and I appreciate your friendship. Are the best computer company to work with. If youve got a business, you've got computers, they'll set them up, they'll keep you out of trouble, they'll engage in best practices, and you can rely on Dave Hatter in his career. They do wonderful work. Dave had to welcome back to the fifty five KRCY morning, So I appreciate you being on the program every week, my friend.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's my pleasure, Brian.
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Speaker 1: I have read so many scary stories about AI. We know, we got these lawsuits going on about artificial intelligence telling people to ultimately kill themselves and all the psychological trauma that that's apparently unfolding as we discover the downside and the risks of communicating with basically a computer and thinking it's real. But that's bad enough recommending someone kill themselves, but how about nuclear war?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a little disturbing and a little depressing. So a New Scientist magazine had this article, AIS Can't stop recommending nuclear strikes and wargame simulations and then the subhead leading AIS from Open Ai, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated wargames ninety five percent of the cases.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty interesting.
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Speaker 5: So apparently King's College had these three leading language models chat GPT five point two, which is pretty sure the latest version Claude Sonnet four and Gemini three flash. So they simulated wargames and you know, if you read through the article, they talk about intense national standoffs, border disputes, competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to regime survival. And then I think of places like North Right or even this situation in Iran. Obviously they're facing a somewhat existential threat to the regime at this point. So you know, apparently, again these are scientists, academic researcher types who set all this up and porting the article, they were given an escalation ladder allowing them to choose different actions, you know, during the war, and says they played twenty one games, three hundred and twenty nine turns in total, and produced around seven hundred and eighty thousand words describing the reasoning behind their decisions. But again, according to this Brian, ninety five percent of the time, it eventually escalated to nuclear weapons, which I don't think anyone thinks is a good idea under any circumstances at this point.
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Speaker 1: Right, isn't what the point of nuclear weapons is mutually assured destruction, which takes it out of the equation completely. Does the artificial intelligence program not get the concept of that?
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Speaker 2: You know, I always thought that was the idea of Brian, especially now.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if you go back to the World War two era when nuclear weapons were first developed and first used, you know, they were nowhere near as powerful as they are now. Yeah, obviously any sort of full scale nuclear exchange between like US and Russia or China would lead to probably completed bliteration of the human race. At the very least, you'd be back to like Caveman times. Because I think people often if they don't really know much about nuclear weapons, obviously you get the blast, which causes intense damage and obliterates everything within a fairly large area. Then you get the fallout, which goes way further and kills people, you know, over time, for a substantial area around wherever the blast was. But you also have the devastation of the electromagnetic pulse that comes off of these blasts.
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Speaker 1: So it's wipes out literally every electronic device in our entire electric infrastructure.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly where I was going with it, Brian.
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Speaker 5: So if the blast doesn't get you, and you survive the radiation, you're still going to be in a situation where now you have you know, all of the electronics everywhere fried or everywhere within you know range of any of these weapons detonated, and then you have the potential nuclear winter scenario where it throws all this stuff into the sky and blots out the sun. So you know, it's not just oh I survived the blast, I'm good to go. It's the collapse of civilization that would inevitably occur if you had any kind of large scale exchange of nuclear weapons. So yeah, it's it's disturbing to me that these tools don't seem to understand what the impact on our society would be if you were able to escalate to this sort of exchange. And other than that, I don't know what to say about it, Brian, other than I find it pretty disturbing, and I'm hoping that people are the people working on this stuff or taking this into consideration that hey, maybe we need to you build more logic into these tools, or train it with more data, or whatever we need to do to ensure that that's not the decision they make, especially as we look at a potential future at some future point, I don't know when that is where these things would potentially be making decisions like this.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, maybe you just need to have AI watch and absorb Matthew Broderick's eighty three movie War.
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Speaker 2: Games and that is a classic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well just that. Yeah, and hey, thanks Dave, happy Friday on that subject.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, happy, it's been good knowing you, Brian. Back to the buzz.
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Speaker 1: Well, okay, we're going to continue the theme here, not global war, but using tech in a serial rape case. Dave's going to be talk station six forty. If if you have k see the talk station permanent waves intrust it dot com. That's where you find Dave had or you can find Dave Hotter all the notes he uses to with the topics he discusses here in the Morning Show. You can find at linked dot com. Just search Dave out Ter on that you'll find Dave and all the resources and real quick, you're Dave on your last topic about AI recommending nuclear weapons. Thank you Eric who sent me a meme with a picture of Albert Einstein quote, I know not what the weapons World War III will be fought, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones. I think that stuff quite nicely anyway. Pivoting yes, pivoting over to this case from Kentucky. This is sick.
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Speaker 5: It is sick, and I think this is an interesting way to explain online dangers in general. So, according to the Inquirer, the headline is man accused of using spyware tech to target women.
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Speaker 2: In serial rape case.
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Speaker 5: And I'll come back to this in a minute, because there's some interesting points people should take away from this. But I you know, because he apparently used social media to reach him, offered to fix their computers various different ruses, right to eventually establish an in person can with someone, and then led to the alleged crimes. The point I want to make is, you know this is this is one unfortunate example, but there are so many of these examples out there, Brian, And as we have more and more tech that lets people get connected, whether it's social media, it's video games, it's chat apps or whatever, you see this sort of thing everywhere. So I wanted to hit you with a few headlines just to make the point, and then I'll come back to this specific story. Quote playground for predators unquote, Nebraska AG Mike Hilger's files lawsuit against Roadblocks. For those who don't know, and I bring this up because many of your listeners probably have kids or grandkids who play Roadblocks and other online games. You know, Roadblocks has been in the crosshairs a lot lately. But understand that any kind of online game where you're playing with other people, and especially if it allows any kind of interaction, which they all do as far as I know at this point, you know, predators will go in these games and pretend to be a thirteen year old girl or a fifteen year old boy or whatever. Again, you'll see how this connects in a second. So that's one example. Here's another headline. La sues Roadblocks over quote unsafe online environment unquote for kids, marking yet another Roadblocks lawsuit. Then we have from CBS News. Kentucky Attorney General sues Roadblocks, alleging a quote playground for predators unquote. Here's another story, Roadblocks give predators quote powerful tools to target children unquote, says LA. County, Louisiana sues Roadblocks, alleging the popular gaming site fails to protect children. And New Jersey sues Discord. So Discord is like an online chat app. A lot of video gamers will use Discord to interact with each other outside of the game environment itself. New Jersey sues Discord, alleging deceptive safety practices put children at risk. So, you know, this is a case of an adult, and there's this particular case of this Kentucky guy who's accused of rape. You know, there's no allegations that I saw about children in there. But my point is, if you are in any kind of online environment where you can talk to people, it's easy to create fake profiles, it's easy to pretend to be anyone that you want to pretend to be.
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Speaker 2: You know, you can.
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Speaker 5: Establish a relationship and groom someone, which is apparently what this particular guy was doing. You know, again, I'm just hitching with a couple of high points from the article here. Before women in northern Kentucky accused him of sexual assault, Investigators say Paul Snow Junior often approached them on social media, or it could have been a video game. Obviously, adult women probably aren't playing a lot of video games, but nevertheless some do video game discord or some other sort of chat app, in this case social media, sometimes offering to fix their phones or computers, sometimes offering them jobs, sometimes sending flority messages. Prosecutors say it was a ruse to lose, to lure women to his home, part of a formula that Snow perfected over the years. And then eventually, I guess some of these women spoke out on social media that got an investigation started. You know, the guy's apparently going through the legal system now, but.
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Speaker 2: It says here.
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Speaker 5: Authorities searched his home in April twenty one, twenty three, finding evidence they say that supports reports of sexual assault.
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Speaker 2: Grand jury indicted him in June.
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Speaker 5: So police find evidence of spyware, social engineering show many women told police Snow use social media and is knowledge of technology to blackmail and intimidate them. After the assaults, persuaded women to share their online account information and to use spyware to get images for blackmail. You know, these are the exact sort of tactics that the predators often use on video games or discord against children, against children who are exactly right to be able to respond and deal with this kind of craziness going on. At least an adult may have the capacity to understand that they can go to the authorities or have or that they have resources out there that can deal with this. A young child caught in the crosshairs of this, it would be overwhelmed and I cannot imagine the trauma that that child would face.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with anymore, Brian.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you've got that whole seven, six or four gang thing that's been taking place on these online apps like this. So the bigger point I wanted to make by trying to wrap in some of these other stories is, you know, whether it's adults on social media, kids on discorder, in some video game or something, it's really important to understand people can easily pretend to be something they're not.
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Speaker 2: They'll tell you lies. You know, just because you.
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Speaker 5: See an attractive person on Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Roadblocks, whatever, and they're friendly and nice to you, doesn't mean they're who they claim to be. Doesn't mean they're not trying to eventually exploit you in some way.
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Speaker 1: That's a crazy forty year old, overweight pedophile sitting in his mom's base luring children. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
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Speaker 5: And if nothing else, Brian real Quick, you know, sometimes it's not physical salt, it's romance scams that lead to having your money stolen, you know, or some sort of extortion. So just I think it's important to remind people, and especially if you're an adult with kids or grandkids, you need to warn them about these games and these environments where they may be approached by these folks.
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Speaker 1: Or prevent them from having access to them. There's an option, David. We'll continue to be better coming up next Station six fifty. If you about KRC Detalk station intrust it dot Com sponsors tech Friday with Dave how To. That's Day's company. They do great work and I appreciate you, Dave, and real quick here man, roadblocks must be an awful thing. I've got multiple people sending me information and links on all the different sites which have been tracking the predators on Roadblock. So if I was a parent and I had a young child, I would say hell no period, end of story. Dave gotta get the message on that this is scary stuff.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to I'm gonna agree. You know, if folks want to deeper dive into it, go listen to the most recent Sean Ryan podcast asked Sean Ryan for those who don't know. As an a former Navy seal and CI operator, he has a very popular podcast. The most recent episode I forget the number, but it's entitled Slep, which is the like screen name of a guy who used to be involved with roadblocks about what happened to him.
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Speaker 1: Swabby my am I retired Navy friend Patrick sent me a link to that one as well.
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Speaker 5: It's it's quite disturbing, and if you're a parent or grandparent, I encourage you to listen to that and then you know, decide for yourself. But yes, I can tell you I would not will not allow my kids or grandkids to the extent I could control it, to have access to it.
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Speaker 1: All right, All right, Now, finally some practical information for us during tax season.
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Speaker 5: Dave Hatter, Yeah, so I'm sure this does not come as a surprise to folks. During tax season, there's a lot of scams. You know, bad guys want to steal your refund and obviously if you could get access to someone's tax records, that's a lot of useful information that could be used against you in a lot of ways. So, Brian, we talk about scams all the time and during taxes, and these things always increase. For years, people have been stealing refunds. Again, that's probably the primary tactic. You finally file your taxes and you get in and find out, wait a minute, someone else has already found taxes under your name and a refund has already been sent, which now creates problems for you because you know, a whatever they filed probably isn't accurate and may or may not have warranted that refund which went out in your name, and then b you got to try to unwind all that, so it can be really problematic. That's one of the reasons why a first piece of advice is file your taxes.
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Speaker 2: As early as possible.
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Speaker 5: Now, you know, we're already into March, the deadline's coming up here, pretty soon. But as a general rule of thumb, the sooner you can file your taxes the better because it closes that window where someone else might be in there trying to file taxes under your name. And you know, as a reminder to folks, I just keep trying to stress to people, there's so much of your day out there now, and while there's really not a whole lot you can do about that other than take steps to protect yourself from the consequences like this, The less data out there about you, the better. And all of that data, I bet you every one in your listening audience has had at least one and probably many letters from some company telling you your data has been breached. All that data is a treasure trove for the bad guys to attack you or to impersonate you. So again, because of that, it makes it easy for folks to do things like file taxes. Is your name file early? Another thing you can do is get a PIN from the IRS. So I'm just going to quote this IRS offeras is an identity protection pin ip PEN six digit code that helps prevent unauthorized tax filings using your Social Security number and helps prevent identity theft. Again, getting someone's social Security number today is trivial because of all these data leaks. Right, So you go to your online account at the IRS, you create this pin, you save this pin somewhere ideally, and a password manager, because you're using a secure password manager like one password, you associate that with your IRS account, and then in order to take action under your.
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Speaker 2: Name, you have to have that pin.
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Speaker 5: So I really strongly, strongly recommend everyone today, over the weekend sometime soon, go in. If you haven't already set up your online account with the IRS, make sure it has a strong, unique password. The next recommendation, turn on MFA on that account and all your accounts frankly, multi factor authentication. Yes, set up your IRS PEN. That's going to make it much much more difficult. You know, unless someone can guess your PIN, your useer name, your password, and get that MFA code right, have all four of those things, they're not going to be able to log into your account and file fraudulent taxes in your name.
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Speaker 1: See day, That's why we love you man. That is solid information that it absolutely helps people avoid this problem.
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Speaker 2: You know that.
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Speaker 1: That's why I really appreciate you man. That's simple. It's my pleasure, and it really that eliminates the potential. I mean, I can't imagine the workaround.
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Speaker 5: It would be very hard to get around it. And then the last couple of tips, since a nonw we're out of time, you know, go to the IRS website and read what they tell you they will and will not do. They tell you clearly on their IRS dot gov the IRS does not initiate contact by email, text, message, of social media. The IRS will not tell you to pay your taxes with gift cards or Venmo or cryptocurrency for an ATM or anything like that. Again, if you go to IRS dot gov, they give you additional tips to avoid this kind of thing. They tell you what they will and will not do, so that when you get something and you go, well, wait a minute, this is telling me IO penalties and I need to pay in bitcoin or something, you'll know it's a scam. And then finally, if you're working with a taxpayer, a tax preparer, you should ask them about their cybersecurity. You're giving them extremely sensitive data. You know, even if you're using something like Quicken Quickened, Turbo Tax to file your taxes or something, you know you need to make sure strong unique password, multi factor authentication, because if I can hack your Turbo tax account, I now have access to all this sense of information and I can do all of these nefarious things. So you know, folks, you need to protect this data file early if you can, and again use the IRS's website to give you guidance about what they.
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Speaker 2: Will and will not do.
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Speaker 1: Thanks again, Dave Hatter, always excellent advice, and thanks to Interest I T. For helping businesses in the Tri State area boid these kind of problems and get best practices in place. Give Interest i T a call if you've got some problems. They will definitely work them out.
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Speaker 4: Dave.
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Speaker 1: Until next Friday, have a wonderful weekend. Man, I thank you again for what you're doing for us.
01:08:43
Speaker 2: Always my pleasure. Brian, I'll look forward to chatting with you next.
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Speaker 1: Week in studio. I'm looking at him, Brian Eyebold from the Help Squad. It's got some seven o six on a Friday. And my names Brian Thomas, host to the fifty five Carsey Morning Show. And I've said in many many and I'll be this is my nineteenth year coming, it'll be twenty years in December, and I've always pointed out that I love being in my position for no other reason that I get to bring people and introduce them to the world. Like Brian Ibold, who is in studio, who started the Help Squad, which you can find the Help Help Squad since he with a y dot com and Brian's won on the program quite a bit over the years, and you know, as part of his Christian mission and his faith and his efforts to help people truly in need in society, he started the Help Squad and the idea was that there's nothing on the West Side, or at least he perceived there was a huge need on the West Side for an organization that can help people get over these hurdles that we can never anticipate, Folks that are already living on life's margins, who run into a temporary situation like I can't make the rent this month. I need a little help this month. And they do a great job vetting people. These are not just people making up stories, and so they do a wonderful job of vetting. They get them the assistance they need on a temporary basis, and that helps them over that hurdle and it helps them to continue. You to work and thrive and live in the community. So that's the basis for it. And Brian Ebold, I want to thank you for all the work that you've done. You've been on and you've had some really heartwarming stories about the the payoff for your efforts. I know that brings a great smile on your face and I know those that you have helped. It just keeps you going every single day, I imagine, Brian Ibold, welcome back to the show Man.
01:10:20
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you so much, and I appreciate you explaining what the Help Squad is.
01:10:24
Speaker 1: I hope I did an adequate job.
01:10:26
Speaker 9: You did, you did a very good job. I would only add that you know, this Help Squad is a little bit unique and we do go above and beyond the basics of most nonprofits where we actually assist people with utility bills to avoid shutoffs or get utilities turned back on. We help families like you mentioned with pass do rent payments to avoid eviction, free car repairs. We've given away about a dozen vehicles to those in destiny of transportation. You know, basically we are just a one stop shop for struggling families.
01:10:56
Speaker 1: And I have on my rundown and I know what it is, because you told me about it before we open the mic. You mentioned automobiles. You help people. You know, a dozen or so automobiles you've got now so people can actually get back and forth and have a job. Amazing concept that, But there are a lot of people out there struggling financially. That that right there on that line, and you read stories all the time about it. You know, most Americans don't even have five hundred dollars to meet an emergency situation. We don't want those people to not be able to go to work and their incomes. The therein lies a challenge. If you need an auto repair, I just got through one the other life. I was telling you, I just it was outrageous. I got rear brakes put in my car, and I couldn't believe how much ahead to pay for it. But automobile repairs are really expensive. And you know anything's gonna cost you like five hundred bucks these days. I mean a new set of tires. Tires are outrageously expensive. But if your alternator goes out, your car is dead and you cannot go to work. You are doing a beautiful thing with this new program you got together to Brian ibold. Let my listeners know all about it, because we're going to get more people to help out.
01:11:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:11:59
Speaker 9: So myself and our vice president, Sam Jasper been working really closely with the president of Hamblon County's strategy to end homelessness. His name is Kevin Finn.
01:12:09
Speaker 3: Real good dude.
01:12:11
Speaker 9: During our meetings, we learned that there are basically two people or two ways to fall into homelessness. The first one, you're already homeless, You're already down there. The second reason is you run into a financial crisis that you cannot overcome, get behind on your bills, get evicted and become homelessness or become homeless. So I'd ask Kevin. I said, what is the biggest reason people get behind on the bills in the first place, which leads them to become homeless? And Kevin said, car repairs. Now just think about that for a second, car repairs. We can prevent a family from becoming homeless with something simple as a car repair.
01:12:47
Speaker 1: That alternator or yes, those tires or breaks, whatever happens to be, that's the one thing that results in homelessness. That's kind of a weird thing to like to understand or comprehend.
01:12:58
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, Well, we take transportation for granted. But let me give you this example really quickly. So if you have a single mom with three kids, working two jobs and she's making ends meet, all this good, Rhynes, we have my mom. That's exactly what my mother did.
01:13:10
Speaker 1: All is good.
01:13:11
Speaker 9: The next day her water pump goes out in her car and it costs five hundred dollars like you mentioned, to fix. Well, I can tell you right now she doesn't have the five hundred dollars laying around or to her circle of friends, and a lot of the clients we deal with have affected credit so using a credit card.
01:13:26
Speaker 1: Is not an option.
01:13:26
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, right, So now the single mom can't get to work, doesn't get paid, can't pay her bills, and now her and her three children are living in Section eight housing where she receives food vouchers, health insurance, paid utilities, and much more. So let's just say conservatively, it costs the taxpayers twenty five thousand dollars a year to house this family who never wanted to be on government assistance to begin with. Right, if we just would have paid the five hundred dollars to fix her water pump to begin with, we would have saved the taxpayer twenty four five hundred dollars. And if you multiply that times the hundreds of times this situation where something similar is happening every day, we are talking millions of dollars that does not need to be spent. Basically, give us two million, we'll save you ten.
01:14:16
Speaker 1: And this does not involve creating a brand new government program with a lot of bureaucracy. It just involves individuals like you who believe they have a mission to help their fellow man and appreciate the overall economic benefit to the entire society by preventing that thing from happening. What do we need to do, Brian IYBLD. What have other people done to help solve this problem? Because I know you already have some partners in this, and I want to give a huge shout out to every single one of them.
01:14:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:14:40
Speaker 9: So really, this isn't an interview, Brian, this is more of a call to action. You know, I've said we need all your listeners, we need politicians, we need social media influencers, we need sports figures, celebrities and every one of your listeners. Since vehicle repairs is what is needed the most to prevent family from becoming a homeless statistic. This is a call to action to every service station, every auto repair shop, every tow truck company, and every audio parts store and every mechanic to join our list of supporters who will give x amount of dollars in free tax deductible car repairs. And as to date, right now we have four service stations on board, totaling up to about twenty five thousand dollars in free car repairs. We're going to have four people who are on the verge of becoming homeless and real quick. Those four service stations are Matt Brogan a Brogan Fowles Oil on the west Side, Mark Duber of Duber's Automotive, New Dover. He's a good dude. You're all good dudes. Andrew Schneider of Bear Car Care over there in White Oak, and finally Mike Brogan a broken oil on Glennaway Avenue. Price sal Me and Mike were since any police officers together. We are in the riots together and you should have seen that guy in action. So we have these four service stations right now. We have a couple still that are coming aboard, but it's right now, just with these four, we have twenty five thousand dollars in free car repairs. If we could get ten, fifteen, twenty more of these service stations, we could put a huge dent in the homelessness problem. We can do this. I mean we're talking ten twenty thirty percent we could avoid of becoming homeless. That's huge.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's huge. Yeah, and the return on investment. Again, you it's nice that it is a tax deductible donation. There's an incentive to join in the fund anyway. But just the idea that you know, each one, let's say, committing ten thousand dollars in repairs for a complete calendar year. Yeah, probably not a whole lot of skin. Maybe assuming a lot. I don't know what it's like to have to run an automobile repair business, but you know, it's not a tremendous amount overall. But if you get if the more people, the more stations, and individuals who are in a position to repair cars get involved, man, that could be a profound, profound change. Oh yeah, yeah, keeping people we can and people employed. Well, that's what we're hoping. We're hoping that you can go to our website. I give you my telephone number of the over the radio here.
01:17:06
Speaker 9: It doesn't matter. We just need people to join our cause and help us.
01:17:11
Speaker 2: You know, put a dent in homelessness.
01:17:13
Speaker 1: And I know you've got a couple of heartwarming stories you can pass along about the work that the Help Squad has been doing over the last several well since we probably last talked. The Help Squad sinsy withthwy dot com. You can donate right there. If you're not in a position to be able to repair a car, at least make a donation or contribution. Again, this organization focuses more on the West Side, but this call to action, you're asking for autobile or repair folks all across the Greaters or the Tri State area to get right right.
01:17:40
Speaker 9: This isn't just a West side thing. When you work with Strategies DN Homelessness, it's for the entire Hamilton County City of Cincinnati. So this isn't just specifically on the west side. This is Hamilton County as a.
01:17:52
Speaker 1: Whole, all right. So the individual that needs this assistance, do they get in touch with the Help Squad through that organization? I know they just don't go to directly, No.
01:18:01
Speaker 4: Not at all.
01:18:01
Speaker 9: They're gonna be They're gonna come from the Strategies den Homelessness, so they're going to their people are going to find these families that are on the verge of becoming homeless, and then they're going to contact us. We will facilitate the date and time of the car repair so the service shop manager or owner does not have to deal with every single client. We have will be the liaison and uh we will facilitate all repairs.
01:18:26
Speaker 1: And you'll also do that vetting. And we talked about Oh of course, let me tell you something.
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Speaker 9: If you can be vetted through Strategies and Homelessness and the Help Squad, you're pretty needy.
01:18:36
Speaker 1: You're in need, no question about that. We'll continue with Brian Ibel or we have the bottom the hour of the return of Brigham account our energy expert from the Hudson Institute. We got an hour with Brigham all kinds of wonderful and see the talk station seven twenty one. I think about kersee talk station Happy Friday. We're gonna talking energy policies Brigha McCowan for an hour after the segment of doing here with Brian Ibel from the Help Squad. And I love having the Help Squad and I spread the word about the low that they're passing along to those in need. And of course, what a brilliant concept getting folks automobile repairs who truly need it so they can continue to work. I still am reeling over the fact that an automobile repair is the number one cause and leading a reason that someone ends up in a homeless situation. Brian, that's just a real shocker. So the Help Squad sends you with a y dot com where you can help out by way of donation. If you are someone with the skills audibile repair, you own your automobile repair shop, you want to get involved anywhere in the general Tri state area. You can be a part of this ever growing team of folks providing those needed repairs. Just some donation of time and parts. It's tax deductible and you're going to all help yourself by doing that. As Brian illustrated, I understand, Brian Eyebolt. You got a fundraiser coming up.
01:19:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
01:19:48
Speaker 9: That's actually a really cool one. So on sink of to Mile that's May fifth. If you don't speak Spanish, sink of to Mile. We have a huge fundraiser at the Sign Museum.
01:19:59
Speaker 1: What a great vest.
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Speaker 9: I mean, how much cooler can it get? No Sign music right on cool as you can get exactly. And what's also is really neat is that we're going to have Schari Palo and Mike Dardis are going to be the MC good for this for that event, so we're very grateful for them. Tickets are on sale right now, seventy five dollars a pop. You get food, entertainment, and then again you have the Sime Museum as well. Plus you'll get to hear me make a speech. Right, That's right, that's worth the price emission right there.
01:20:31
Speaker 1: Indeed, now going back, I I just was suggesting maybe you can put a little human element, maybe pass along an illustration of something that you have, some person or family you helped out in the community by virtue of your efforts at the help Squad. Just give people an idea of what you're encountering and facing throughout the year.
01:20:51
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, I'll leave you with this. So we had a lady calls not too long ago, and we were the sixteenth age and see that she has contacted for help and what she needed was rental assistance. She was a she worked two jobs. She made money, made enough money to make it. I mean, she made ends meet. She had two children, and she had her dying mother living in a hospital bed in their living room under hospice care. And because of some of the costs associated with that, she missed a rent payment and was going to be evicted. Now do you under can you picture that?
01:21:29
Speaker 2: Wheeland?
01:21:30
Speaker 9: I mean, what is going on here living? Yes, like when we live in a society that would allow that. So sixteen agencies, we were the sixteenth fifteen fifteen of the agencies where government ran, agencies that put you on hold, don't call you back, or rude to you if they do answer, don't have the money, always an excuse not to help, okay. And we were the sixteenth. Ay, and she she called me on a Wednesday, she was going to have the eviction notice on a Friday. On Thursday, we paid the rent totality and there is no eviction.
01:22:03
Speaker 1: That's amazing, Okay.
01:22:04
Speaker 3: So what would have happened?
01:22:05
Speaker 9: Seriously, do what would have happened if we weren't here? I mean, what happens to families like that? And that's what I mean. It's not just on the West side people that need help.
01:22:13
Speaker 3: It's everywhere. I mean, every.
01:22:15
Speaker 9: Community should be a help squad community. I mean I feel like I'm banging my head against a car door to try to get people to understand this.
01:22:22
Speaker 1: And let me just double down of the idea that this is your Christian mission. You know, always bothers me when I find out that the person leading any church service the priest.
01:22:32
Speaker 6: I'm mom.
01:22:32
Speaker 1: Even anybody else telling you that a government program is the solution, that is offloading your mission, that is a human mission. Your gob obligation is a Christian is to do it yourself, not hand over the keys of someone else. Because look what happens. Sixteen other organizations were supposed to be in a position to helper. It's the number sixteen doing it on their own, not government run, not expecting anything, not making a profit. And the organization that is this isn't paying salaries. You just do it because you want to help. Yeah, we're all volunteer, real help comes, yes, sir, we're all volunteers. Nobody gets paid, and we're all privately funded. We have no grants, we have grant riders. We've never gotten a grant. I mean, so and to my submarine friend Mike who suggested maybe you should tap into the apparently infinite supply of n g OH money that the City of Cincinnati's handing out. I would recommend no, because then you get stuck having to work with those clowns.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, you've got to be careful of, you know, getting in bed with the government and agencies like that. But like I said, all of our up to for the last five years have all been privately funded, all just donations from friends and people that actually have a concern for their fellow.
01:23:44
Speaker 1: Brother and sister and proven results.
01:23:46
Speaker 2: That's it.
01:23:47
Speaker 9: Definitely, that's why this is working because we have proven two people this works. They see where their money's going and it works.
01:23:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Matthew twenty five. You give them a buck, a buck's going to where it's needed.
01:23:58
Speaker 9: It's one percent of every day goes to help somebody. Not a lot of agencies can say that.
01:24:03
Speaker 1: There's a link on my blow up page thanks to Joe Streger who put it up there that helps squadsensey with the y dot com. I also put the ihead him put the Strategies to End Homelessness dot org website up as well. Since they're coordinating with you on these automobile repair needs. God bless you, Brian Ibolt, and I hope that you and I'm sure you did serve as an inspiration to someone out there who said, you know what, I'm gonna get involved. Happy one to you, Brian Thomas. Welcoming back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show hour energy policy expert Briingham Account from the Hudson Institute. You can find the Hudson Institute online at Hudson dot org and and I recommend you check that out regularly. Bringham Account, Welcome back, my friend. I appreciate what you do. Charged Conversations is Brigham's podcast, and I recommend you check out his podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back Brigham live from Las Vegas. Joe Strecker awarded you the Wake Up Early Award. Congratulations, Thank you well, Brian.
01:24:56
Speaker 6: It's great to be back on the show. We did just put out a charge count about oil moving through the Straits of horror moves coming out this week, but thank you. I decided very wisely when I got in yesterday to stay on East Coast time. Yes, good, it's dark, Yeah.
01:25:14
Speaker 1: I imagine it is, and I'm surprised you're not at the Roulett Wheel or the blackjack table. They're twenty four to seven. You never know what time it is in Vegas when you're in a casino. Brigham a count you know. I was cracking up on this. Yes, people are angry about the price of gasoline going up. Locally. It's gone up about I don't know, maybe a buck or maybe even more depending on where you are within the last several days. We're going to talk about why they jumped overnight. But I'm getting the kick out of it because everybody's screaming about it. This is Donald Trump's fault. Donald Trump's fault. Of course, when you engage in war, this does have an impact on supply chain. Of course, when you shut down the Straight of hornor Moves, where eighty percent of the world's oil flows through, you're going to have a spike. Now you'll explain why it spikes immediately, but it cracks me up. High price of gas. Isn't that something Barack Obama wanted and said we would have to deal with because we're going to chase our jails trying to limit carbon dioxide. So if he does it through legislation, edicts and mandates. The price goes up, and it's a good thing. But when it happens to happen as a consequence of sort of naturally occurring events like supply chain disruptions, it's terrible and it's awful, and we all want our cheap gas back.
01:26:17
Speaker 10: Yeah.
01:26:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're you're you're hit an out on the head something.
01:26:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:26:20
Speaker 6: I don't think we've talked about recently, but you're absolutely right. Back during the Obama days, right, it was we have to kick our addiction to oil. We have to get off of it.
01:26:29
Speaker 4: Everybody needs to it over.
01:26:31
Speaker 6: The beginning days, the good days. Everybody needs an ev everybody needs to turn their lights off, everybody needs to use less energy. And how do you do that, Well, you text the snot out of its artificially, yeah, yes. Or you make policies that you know it's picking winners and losers. You make something really expensive, you subsidize the snot out of something else to make it look like it's actually cheaper. And that's exactly what.
01:26:58
Speaker 1: Was going on back then, exactly. I always like to just keep reminding people of that. It's a self inflicted wound. When you're trying to chase carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And you may call it a self inflicted wind when you engage in war, but this is a normally happening occurrence. Now, I'll tell you what. It's almost seven thirty five, so I wanna pause, and you're gonna explain why gas prices jumped overnight? Because I know they were sitting on stockpiles of oil and refined gasoline. So how was it that the price of that went up immediately when they acquired it, when the price was a lot cheaper more with Bring h mcown from the Hudson Institute. Right after I mentioned Cross Country Mortgage, which is Sussette loads the camp's place and she is licensed off from talk station seven forty fifty five cars Detoxation from the Hudson Institute online at Hudson dot org. Bring him acount at the Calm the fifty five kr SE Morning Show. Energy Policy Expert, Energy policy expert. He is talking about the price of oil and why how is it that it just immediately goes up? How the price is store It started going up on Saturday when we started telling people in the world that we're dropping bombs on the Iranians. I see futures up just under eighty six dollars right now for at least some kind of crude they just typed in, So it's trending upward. Brighaman, that does make some sense given the current instability, the straight of horror moonves issues which we can elaborate on a little bit. But why overnight, Brigham, Why is it?
01:28:19
Speaker 2: Yeah?
01:28:20
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, fear moves the market first. Prices rise on risk and uncertainty, not just confirmed shortages. And that's kind of what we've seen number one, number two, even though the United States doesn't really get much oil frankly, it's negligible from the Middle East. If this were nineteen seventy three again or two thousand again, you'd be paying four fifty five dollars already.
01:28:47
Speaker 1: Well, that's when OPEC had a lock on global oil supply and we all thought there was a finite amount of oil. We're dealing with peak oil and oh my god, we're all going to die. They cut this pigot off, and I remember the the pictures of wines around the corner with people waiting, and well, remember the even odd license plate numbers. You could go to a gas station if your license plate was even on one day and odd on the other. Yeah, those were difficult times. And of course we had the stagflation of the seventies that made that thing even worse. We don't have that problem anymore because we engage in and above the above, all of the above, including drill baby, drill strategy. Now, isn't that true? Brigham?
01:29:21
Speaker 6: That is one hundred percent true. And even though prices have responded quickly, and the reason for that is you're preparing to buy your next unleaded gasoline, your next diesel, so your prices at the pump actually reflect what you're going to pay to replace what's already there, and that's why they move pretty quickly. But right now gasoline prices are about where they were in twenty twenty four. So, yeah, are they high?
01:29:49
Speaker 2: Yes?
01:29:50
Speaker 6: Do I think they're going to go back down within two to three weeks.
01:29:53
Speaker 4: I do.
01:29:54
Speaker 6: If you look at all the major conflicts and crises, and at Hudson, we've taken a look at that. These sp make sure what they call transit, they don't last very long. When Iran and Israel got into it, most recently, when the Persian Gulf War from the nineteen nineties happened. All of these things reside relatively quickly in the big scheme of things.
01:30:17
Speaker 1: Well, that's because they're not permanent Brigham like statutes, policies, and you know, the impediments of using gasoline that the administration I would argue, like Obama to fariously put in place in the name of oh my god, we're all going an eye global warming one hundred and fifty years down the road. Those don't go away very easily. They stay in place. And in other words, the price of gasoline will stay up because it was intended to do just that. Straight to horror moves is going to open up at some point, presumably bring them, and then they'll go back down again because the economic realities of supply will have changed absolutely.
01:30:48
Speaker 6: I mean, it's what we'd like say, economics one oh one, supply and demand. You have too much supply, price goes down. You have too much demand, price goes up. And we're already seeing some things. Saudi Arabia has a pipeline, it's actually two pipelines. They're massive. They can move up to six million barrels a day. Right now it's doing a little under two. They're getting that thing back up and running. So they're going to push six million out of the twenty million that the Persian Gulf pushes out every day over to the Red Sea to bypass the straight at hornor moves altogether. So that's going to come online pretty quickly, I think within the next five to seven days. Number one, Number two United States has given a thirty day relief for countries to purchase some stranded Russian oil on the market. Don't like it, but needs to happen in the short term, so that will reduce pricing. And then according to Admiral Connell of by United States Navy, it's very proud of what they've been doing out there. Tacks, ballistic missile launches, drone launches are down by ninety percent. We've now hit over thirty of their Iranian naval vessels. They pretty much have no functioning navy at this point. Including overnight we destroyed a drone tearing aircraft carrier, an American World War two carrier. So I think this is going to resolve itself, and they're not. This part of it is going to resolve itself.
01:32:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've reduced the missile strikes down like by ninety percent, and the drone strikes down any low eighty percent reduction, So just a little bit left and we blow up more of the manufacturing facilities and continue attack the mission launching sites. The problem in the Strait of Horror moves may solve itself simply because the Iranians have nothing to do by way of blowing up ships going through it. I also noted Brigham that some of the ships are taking are just taking the risk and going through on their own.
01:32:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, some are still going through. And it really comes back to war risk insurance. You know you have insurance on your car. Well, the ship has insurance, the cargo has insurance, and whether or not you're willing to pay a very high price to get that done, or some ships are just going through even if they can't get the right insurance. President Trump has announced the US will also offer insurance and has suggested that perhaps the Navy will get involved.
01:33:06
Speaker 8: Well, we'll see if.
01:33:07
Speaker 6: That's necessary, and we'll see how that moves. But there are hundreds of ships tied up wanting to leave right now. And again, that oil doesn't come to us that you know, the main beneficiary of that oil are Asian nations. Including some friends like Japan and South Korea, but large percentage that oil Brian goes to China.
01:33:28
Speaker 1: So well, you point it out before the oil is a global market. Price of oil is established based upon the quantity that's available in the world, not necessarily because we don't have our own, but it's just a defined sort of an economic fact that we can have to deal with.
01:33:44
Speaker 6: It is it is, and it's always been a global market, and it's risk. And you know, whether you're for or against what the current administration is doing, at the bottom line is you've got a regime that has attacked ships for forty seven years, has said they would close the golf, which again you're not allowed to do. It's an international passageway. So you know, dealing with this once and for all, I think will lead to longer term stability.
01:34:13
Speaker 1: If that's the goal, well, I think that's an excellentployee to double down on. If you hadn't engaged militarily in trying to topple the Iranians, then they are and were in a position at any moment in time to shut down the straight of horror moves because they have all the rockets and missiles there. He can announce it to the world. Any ships going through, we're going to blow them up. And that sounds like a totally Iranian thing to do based upon their past history. So maybe in the future they'll never be able to do it again, and that'll bring about so much global stability. The price of gas will go below fifty bucks a barrel or something like that. Brigha mcaal, We've got a lot more to talk about. At seven forty six, we'll bring Brigham back and we'll ultimately we're gonna end up talking about Ohio utilities owning nuke plants. This is going to be a good thing. I think Brigham will enlighten us on his position on that. But if you're dealing with cracks stains response. I'm talking about concrete from this war risk insurance you mentioned. And I understand that you get a policy of insurance, and of course actuaries determine what the risk is and the premium is determined on it. But when you got a war right there next to where the insured vessels are going back and forth, insurance companies act in their best interest and cancel it. Donald Trump suggested maybe the United States would act as the I don't know, insurer of last resort or something like that. I kind of question whether Donald Trump has the ability to just immediately say, yeah, we're going to shoulder the burden of ensuring your vessels are going to get through.
01:35:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, there is. That's a good point. And there is a US Finance and Development Corp. I'm probably not getting the name exactly right that could possibly be the vehicle for that. But you know, when I first heard about war risk insurance, I thought, oh, this only happens during war. Well, actually they carry war risk all the.
01:35:53
Speaker 1: Time, the time you're there.
01:35:54
Speaker 6: That's how long we've been dealing with this. Remember, let's rewind the tape to nineteen eighty seven, nineteen eighty eight Operation Ernest Will. We reflagged a bunch of foreign tankers under US flags and escorted them with navy ships through the straight of foreign news because I guess who was threatening them, Brian the Iranians. Yes, oh, how'd you know?
01:36:16
Speaker 1: Cocking?
01:36:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, so's their country goes right there.
01:36:19
Speaker 1: I mean, it is on top of the strait we're talking about.
01:36:24
Speaker 6: It is this is, this has been going on for a very long time. And uh, you know, so to your point, now, what the good news is, but we're not seeing are cargo is being canceled. The ships are there, they're waiting, they're waiting to load, or they're already loaded waiting. And you know, the prevailing thoughts seem to be that one to two weeks smacks on this that we'll see.
01:36:46
Speaker 1: They could be wrong, little tea leaf reading. I like the optimism on that one bill, but the direction everything is going, the limitation of the number of missile strikes, and the uh well, the evisceration of the Iranian military generally speaking, and the destruction of their navy, all of it can lead to a short duration of this shutdown. So all right, we got that positive going for us, But you know, I got to observe bring before we part company and bring you back after the top of the internet to talk about nuke power here in Ohio. All those ships are still in the gulf there right. I mean, you can see them parked. I've seen the maps. Those are not outside of the reach of Iranian missiles either. Just because the strait of Horror moves is that really narrow, dangerous spot that you have to creep through, it doesn't mean they're without harm or potential for harm.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're definitely within harm's reach and they're just sitting there. So if iron had the capacity to strike them, I guess as they would, And you're right. The strait it's narrow by I don't know shipping terms. It's about twenty one nautical miles. It's about twenty four land miles wide. But there are two transit quarters. They're only two miles wide each, so you can pick them off there when they're moving. But right now they're all sitting there at anchor and nothing's happening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I bring that up to point that out. It could happen right now, not in the strait, So yeah, thankfully it's not, which suggests your optimism I think is well placed. Brigham account will bring it back live from Las Vegas live at the Sphere. Metallica is opening for him. He's bring the account from the Hudson Ins too. We'll talk nuke policy coming up out of the top of the our news. Don't go away, what's.
01:38:19
Speaker 2: Happening over there. You cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 1: Hey O six at fifty five krs the talk station behind Thomas here on a Friday, which I love My Fridays. And I love when we had brigingmcoun from the Hudson Instudo and you can find one line at Hudson dot org our energy policy expert. All right, we're walking through the crazy reality of gasoline. Yes, the price goes up immediately straight up our news. A problem which will probably be ironed out in relatively short term. So you should expect the guts to go back down, so sayth Brigham account and I'm with him on the optimism. Along those lines, I'm also briging mccownt Finally, we appear to have come to a point in time where nuclear power will be embraced. Thank you to artificial intelligence. Love it or hated. The huge demand and the building of all the these AI facilities, which seems to be the obvious wave of the future, use up massive quantities of power, And oh my god, is AI the solution to this ridiculous climate religion? Brigham a gown. Are we finally solving the problem?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it has certainly exacerbated its downfall. And Brian, you know even the Europeans are coming back to two key principles. One, the world has never used less energy, only more. Two I'm gonna add a third one two. If there is an energy transition, it's to a new power source that gives you more power, not less.
01:39:35
Speaker 1: Right and reliable, reliable to Brigham, don't forget that. It's gotta work.
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Speaker 6: Yes, it's got to be accessible, available, and affordable. The key definition of energy security, which was the third point I was going to make, which is, if you don't have energy, it ruins your economy, it ruins your national security. It is the magic that makes everything run. And people are starting to realize that and finally figuring that out. And I think AI has precipitated that a little more quickly.
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Speaker 1: You know, I got to be the first person, not the first person to point it out. But I think that's the nefarious reality behind this whole global warming thing. I think it was intentionally designed to undersigned undermine our consumptive economy. That was the purpose. It's not really that we're exhaling ourselves into oblivion. Is that we just consume too much here in America, as with other developed Western countries, so go right for the jugular cut off their electricity supply, and their consumption necessarily goes down because their economies collapse.
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Speaker 6: I certainly think there is a guilt complex in many Western societies where people are guilty of what we've achieved. And you know, why do you think everybody wants to come to America or Europe? Because they want they want a better life. They you know, our system ain't perfect, but it's better that all the others.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's why I call it a religion. You know, quite often religion will cause people to feel guilty about filling the blank in your world, whatever that happens to be. Yeah, well, if you're out breathing, living, consuming, you need to feel guilty about it all day long. I just it's truly truly, Again I say nefarious. I just that's all I can conclude. You're intentionally harming yourself by engaging in legislative activities regulatory activities that make us less secure and cause our energy to cost more. That sounds like a recipe for it is stupidity in action. But nonetheless that's the road we went down. So pivoting back over to nuclear power. First off, for all the people who are wed to the religion and still think that carbon dioxide's a bad thing, they don't excel expel carbon dioxide. Bring them well, there's a problem solved right there.
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Speaker 6: They don't. They don't do any of that. And people say, well, wait, nuclear waste. But you know, we've talked about this I think before.
01:41:57
Speaker 2: Is that if you.
01:41:58
Speaker 6: Gathered up all the nuclear waste in the country, it's fit on a football field.
01:42:01
Speaker 2: It is not.
01:42:03
Speaker 6: It is not as big as one thinks. Does it last very long time? Yes, which is why we need to build building advanced generation reactors that use less, that create less byproducts. Oh and by the way, it will be recyclable, so folks that are into that, we won't have the waste that we had, say from the nineteen sixties or seventy well, with.
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Speaker 1: Small modular reactors. I understand the quantity of waste after it's gone, after it's been used up over its useful life, which is really a long time twenty plus years or even longer for SMR. So by the time you let a couple of decades, three decades, even four decades past and it becomes waste, there's not that much of it, even less so than that than the reactors that we used to use.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's very little, and it is amazing, and you know, it's technology that is finally coming full circle. Civilian nuclear actors, and again I hate say this is a problem with Iran. Civilian nuclear actors require three to five, we'll say, even ten percent enriched uranium. So when you talk to the roundings, you're like, hey, hey, guys, why are you doing this? We just want to clear a few Well, why are you enriching it to sixty percent? I don't know, why are you doing it one hundred feet underground?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: What we need here in the US is three to five maybe ten if you're using some medical stuff percent enrichment. It's not weapons grade stuff.
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Speaker 1: Out there all right, Before we get to the regulatory challenges that one faces if they choose to build a reactor or otherwise embrace this technology, do we have sufficient quantities of uranium at our disposal? I mean, there was all that concern some years ago that we sold our uranium. I basically sold our uranium rights off to the Russians, And I'm just kind of wondering where we are in terms of uranium supply.
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Speaker 6: We're spinning back up, but we're certainly the eight ball. We were the world's largest producer of uranium or not now after the Soviet Union fell. We bought up all of their leftover stuff, including idly enriched eighty ninety percent for I E. Bombs, and we down blended it and we had decades of fuel and we let our domestic industry atrophy and basically go away. And so now we are needing to rebuild Canada. We can ever sort that deal out. Canada has uranium we can get. We can produce uranium. We used to make it here in Paducah and Pike Paduca, Kentucky and Piked, Ohio. That was the world epicenter for enriching uranium. And we're starting to spend that back up literally with the new generation centrifuge enrichment machines, which is.
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Speaker 2: The way to do it now.
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Speaker 1: Well, not in my backyard is a refrain from folks that you know, are maybe facing a new nuclear power facility being built in their neighborhood or funeral area. But in terms of going after the uranium itself, can that be done safely? I imagine a lot of people might have some concern about just mining this stuff close to where they live.
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Speaker 6: Well, like rare earth minerals mining it. It's in such rare concentrations. There's some radioactivity and all the earth around us, right, and you go out and look around. It's the processing of it, and it requires vast amounts to sift out all the impurity to actually make it you know, high more highly enriched. And so that's totally safe process and I wouldn't be concerned about that. I think the question is do you want to live next to a nuclear power plan? And I think a lot of supporters of nuclear power like it. But the NIMBI thing is real.
01:45:49
Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: But see, I'll go back to and again our listeners are going to I know where he's going on this one. You know the idea that we've been using these small reactors in our military ships since late nineteen fifties without incident. Hell, our sailors and our navy work literally right next to these things. I've never heard anybody complain about, you know, glowing in the dark after working on them. And there they are. They fit inside of a ship. So what is the footprint with that concept in mind, what's the size? What's the footprint of a small modular reactor? How much space it takes because you don't need one of those giant cooling tower things or multiples of those, they're not nearly as big as the old schools, say three mile island type reactors that they build at one time.
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Speaker 7: They're not.
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Speaker 6: They are a couple of eighteen wheeler you know, trailers, fifty fifty three foot trailers as sort of the size we're talking about. But you know, we also need to keep constructing large nuclear reactors because the SMRs are great, but they are they produce less power obviously, although you can hook them up in parallel.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking, you know, if the artificial intelligence facilities are required now to generate their own power, that seems to be the most logical direction to go, unless you're next to maybe hydro power or something else that can provide twenty four to seven power. So maybe they'll have enough to give the neighborhood its own source of electricity. I mean, if they've met their own needs and they're generating more power than they need, there you go, we've got access to more and that sounds like a good thing.
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Speaker 6: You know, it is a good thing. And unfortunately, again because of prior administrations prematurely retiring coal fired and other fossil fuel power plants, we're in a bit of a crunch. Right now, we have a lot that is being projected. I think ten years from now we're going to be great. But right now we don't have enough power, and many utilities are telling their commercial customers AI data centers, do you best get your own power behind the meter? We're not going to be able to do it right now, and that's a huge problem, and it's a direct result of poor policy by previous administrations.
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Speaker 1: Well, that allows us to stumble onto the next one, the Ohio proposal about utilities owning nuclear generation. I think maybe we've run into another regulatory challenge, the debate centering on whether electric utilities that deliver power should also be allowed to own their own power plants. That sounds to me like somebody had a regulation and that says they can't. We'll let Brigham explain that one to us when we get back. It's eight sixteen, fifty five KRCD talk station fifty five krc per CD talk station A twenty fifty five KRCD talk station. Brian Thomas with Brigha McCown. He's calling in from Las Vegas, Nevada. We're talking energy policy. Hudson dot orgs where you find the Hudson Institute. Brigha McCown. The traditional utility model, the power companies generated the power, coal plant, gas plant, nukes, whatever, and then they delivered it and that's what we paid for. Why did we restructure that model and how did it not inure to our benefit in the nineteen nineties And where do we need to go today? Brigha McCown.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Ohio separated electric generation from delivery in nineteen ninety nine when it restructure the power sector under a Senate bill. And since then, you know, electric power systems have two distinct roles. First, you have generation, and these companies build and just operate power plants. They take on the costs. The revenue comes from selling that electricity wholesale onto the markets. The second traditional utility company we think of it is transmission and distribution, and these companies own the poles, the wires, the substations, and they're regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
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Speaker 4: And so.
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Speaker 6: Back in ninety nine they separated these two mainly so that the public wasn't going to be on the hook for developing power plants. And nuclear power plants operate under very different different economic models. They're very expensive to build, and I think that's the current push to smash everything back together against I'll pause.
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Speaker 1: There brand expensive to build? Are they really truly expensive to build? Or do we make that expensive to build? Because first off, again, small modular actors are like legos, one size fits all. Once you have a design model that works, you just pull up that trailer you were talking about, plug it in. And I know I'm boiling it down to simplicity, but plug it in and it's done. The reactors that they have been building since they started building, and what the exception of the military are all these giant one off one size does not fit all. So it takes a lot of design, development, regulatory approval, blah blah blah. It takes forever to even get one started. I mean to lay the first brick in the ground on one. So we're not there anymore. So does it really need to be expensive going down this road?
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Speaker 6: Well, to really do this and to transition us over to nuclear power, we need both. We need big reactors and we need smaller reactors. The key is that we make them exactly the same. And of the big reactors around the country, no two of them are alike. No two of them are the same. This is the the idiocy frank play of the industry in the past is guys, so you wonder why every single one has to be licensed from scratch. Stop changing things mass produce a car, you know, hey Ford, it's not that hard.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: So that is so there is a Westinghouse design that has kept out and it's been the government's been reluctant. I think the industry has been reluctant to just say, okay, we're going to build one type well, okay five, license three or four and small, medium, large, micro, whatever, and that's what we get. That would cut the cost down significantly because a large nuclear actor costs ten to twenty billion dollars to construct, but once if you built it could operate for sixty or seventy years with these very low fuel costs. So the challenge has been financing that initial construction. And if Ohio puts it all back together again, the concern is the rate payers I, E and I and everyone else listening. We're going to be asked to finance this project as opposed to the utility company going out into the private market and finding financing.
01:52:13
Speaker 1: Is that financing impossible to find? If we go back maybe to the old way. Will there will there be a market for financing.
01:52:19
Speaker 6: This, Well, it's not, but you know private financing, and there is public financing available. Department of Energy has financing available to the government. But you know when institutional lenders lend money, they're very particular. There's a lot of oversight, more oversight frankly than the Public Services Commission, who's like, oh, you need more money, it costs more, Okay, I'll pass another rate hike through. So there is some concern that we're going to get stuck with the end, with people being inefficient and this thing costing too much, which is what happened to the last reactor we just brought online.
01:52:57
Speaker 1: Down in Georgia, Brigg, McCowan, Hudson, and sut I appreciate your willingness to come on the morning show, even when you're out of town. I know you've got stuff to get to right away, so I'm gonna let you go, and I appreciate the time. Like I said, I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Safe travels Backbreger and we'll get you back on asap.
01:53:12
Speaker 6: Thanks, Brian, appreciate it, My pleasure.
01:53:13
Speaker 1: Take twenty five network dot Com reporting on matters impacting us here in the state of Ohio. Welcome back, Jack Windsor. It's good to see you on the Zoom call and good to hear your voice here on the fifty five Krssey Morning Show.
01:53:23
Speaker 10: Happy Friday to you man, Happy Friday, Brian. Always an honor and a pleasure to be here with you and the KRC listeners. Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: Well, we got choices when it comes to Secretary of State here, and we've got a primary coming up, and the choices are Marcel Sturbage and Robert Sprague. And Marcel's been on the program a couple of times. I've been very impressed by him. When you hear him talk, he is man, he is committed, he's on point, he's got on message. He comes across strong, very clear in his vision what he hopes to accomplish in the role in the office. His background is great, obviously, proudly served his country in the military. And I just go to sturbridgefor Ohio dot Com. You can find out for yourself. I asked Joe Strecker going into the conversation or this morning, Jack, if Robert Sprague has ever reached out to us or and Joe said that is a big no. And also there have been nothing but crickets in response to the outreach from US to have him on the program to hear what he's all about. So I find that rather strange. But having talked with Marcel, I can't find anything wrong with a man and his candidacy. So what's your take on Marcel? And it seems to me like it's one of those Republican parties sort of protecting one of its own entrenched members. Am I onto something with that statement?
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Speaker 8: Jack?
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Speaker 10: I think you're one hundred percent on to something. Brian, First of all, I have personally endorsed Marcel Sturbage for Secretary of State, and it was a real simple decision for me. I've had mart Cell on my program forever the past couple of years, and he has been one hundred percent accurate in his ability to assess where Ohio is with election integrity and what steps need to occur, and he has been talking about those steps, he has been working with the legislature to bring about those changes, and so when he decided to run for Secretary of State, it was an easy choice for me to get behind him now. I do want to say Robert Sprague has visited with me before, but that was back when he still wasn't sure if he was trying to get appointed to the US Senate, when Governor Dwine was trying to make his choice, and it was before he decided to run for governor, if you remember that. So it was, well, maybe I want to be in the Senate, maybe I want to be governor, and then eventually he settled on this Secretary of State role. I do want to say I think Robert Sprague is a good man. I think Robert Sprague is a prudent person, and I think that if he were in a position, he would do well. The challenge is, I don't think he's as good as his competitor for this specific role.
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Speaker 1: Okay, And that's kind of the conclusion I'm reaching in. I don't want anybody to think that for a minute. I've got some action to grind against Robert Sprague. I just don't recall talking to him. Joe said if he was ever on the show with like maybe one time. And I don't expect anyone to necessarily come on the show. That's their prerogative. But I don't know enough about the man compared to Marcel to make that decision. So I guess I find myself in your Campjack with this now just look good? No, no, no, I'm being honest with my listeners. So, now is the deck stacked against Marcel in the sense he doesn't have a shot. I mean, how's he looking as we headed under the primary?
01:56:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, great question.
01:56:27
Speaker 1: His polling numbers look fantastic.
01:56:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a controversy.
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Speaker 10: First of all, he commissioned a poll, and he's the guy that many in the parties say can't raise the money. Well, he raised enough money to actually conduct a poll, and according to that poll, a huge number of people are undecided, which, by the way, should not be surprising. The secretary of state race in a midterm election is not at the top of everyone's punch list to research. Generally, However, the people who had made a decision or thought they had made a decision, he is Marcel Sturbage.
01:56:58
Speaker 3: That is up by eight point.
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Speaker 10: Now, when the voters were informed about his platform, his margin of victory spreads to forty seven points. So once they understand who he is and what he is, that number gets larger. Now, many people in the other camps say well, that's not a legitimate poll, and then Marcel points to the fact that the Republican Party has actually used this same outfit before spend one hundred thousand dollars getting other polls done. So one, I do think his message is resonating. There will be a challenge as we head down the back stretch here though, can he reach the number of voters that he's going to need to reach in order to win that election? And the Republican Party, the State Central Committee decided to endorse Robert Sprague, his opponent, so that will give him the indiceha, that will give him some financial breathing room, if you will. Plus he will probably have the donor class behind him. So down the stretch it's going to be about can Marcel get in front of enough voters and can he overcome the millions and millions and that we'll see from Robert Sprague.
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Speaker 1: Well a Ford part company and end this break and move on to a different topic. I guess I'm just kind of curious to know, and I think I know your reaction. A lot of my listeners and you guess you can count me among them, little upset with the Republican Party making endorsements in advance of the primary before the actual Republican voters have to have a say have had a say in the matter.
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Speaker 10: Jack, Yeah, So that is a very, very controversial topic, and it really came to a head if you remember back when Governor Mike DeWine was endorsed by the party and there was a contested gubernatorial primary. But what ended up being interesting is now you have another governor's race four years later, and some of the same people who when DeWine was endorsed early came out and said, well, listen, Traditionally I wouldn't support endorsing in a race, but because Governor Mike DeWine is going to try to pull all the levers possible to get someone like Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel to be the party's endorsed candidate, we've got to go ahead and get out of the gate early, get the Vake Ramaswami to be the guy that we endorse y. And so that was a real interesting about face. And then of course that has continued on down the ticket, and I think that will benefit Marcel Sturbich's opponent in this race.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right on that one. And while I didn't have and my listeners may call me out on being hypocritical on this, I didn't say anything about the Republican Party's endorsement or vi vike Ramas on me just because I think Vivek is the candidate and I really want him. But the same arguments to apply. I think if we had they had let us just approach the primary on the gubernatorial candidate, vivig Ramaswami would have run anyway, and that's where we would be and there wouldn't be this controversy. It's like the nuclear option Jack. Once you get rid of the sixty vote threshold and you go down to fifty, it's over with and it's done. So I think we're going to see this trend continue down the road.
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Speaker 10: It's unfortunate, and I think we are. And the challenge is many times it's hard for people to do all of their homework in advance, and it's actually the primary election that brings their attention to the point that they need to do the researches. And if you have the part already putting the thumb on the scale before that, maybe sometimes you're not getting the best candidate or the candidate that people genuinely want, and.
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Speaker 1: It reduces the likelihood that they will agree to a debate, which I think benefits everybody.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 10: I would absolutely agree with that, and that's been one of my areas of frustration with Robert Sprague. He seems to not want to debate now, and he's actually like he has with you. He has gone radio silent with me, and his campaign staff will not return phone calls, and I'm begging him to come on my show and answer some hard questions.
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Speaker 1: Well, continue with me this morning. Energy policy. We're going to continue with Jack Wins when we get back Ohio Senators and Trump discussing energy rates, regarding building new data centers, Bring your own power more with.
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Speaker 2: The Deep Talk Station.
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Speaker 1: Hey forty one to fifty five case The talk station a worthy site to book. Marjorie ohiopressnetwork dot com. Jack Windsor's side Jackson the program Every Friday, yere on the fifty five krssee Morning show. Bring us up to speed. And I understand that Trump and well, John Houston, Bernie Moreno had a whole bunch of other folks, so are doing a roundtable in terms of well artificial intelligence, it's a boom. We're all dealing with it, but we're all worried about that it's going to make our electricity bills go up through the sky. And that seems to be going in that direction, Jack Windsor, I know there's been a lot of proposal about AI bringing their own power with them. I had a conversation with Bring them account from the Hudson Institute about small modular reactors and that may be a thing they can bring with them. Very expensive they are. But what does this all mean to us, Jack Windsor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, great question.
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Speaker 10: So President Donald Trump is serious about the United States continuing to lead on AI, particularly with China, the country that is competing with us primarily, and he wanted to address this concern that we all have, which is if we build all of these data centers and these data centers become a suck on our power supply, then what does that do to our electric bills?
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Speaker 3: So he worked with some key.
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Speaker 10: Companies Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Open Ai, and Xai and they signed a non binding agreement and they committed to five things. One was to secure their own electric tricity supplies for data centers, to invest in new power generation resources. Three, fund transmission upgrades for negotiate separate rate structures with utilities in five enhance grid resilience to handle increased demands. And it's also noteworthy, as you mentioned, Senators Bernie Marino and John Housted were in attendance and praised this commitment. But also we're alongside META when they announced a new workforce training program in Ohio to support AI related jobs, which of course aligns with the pledges focus on economic growth, particularly using local workers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know some people are against the whole concept of AI in their backyard, going back to the NIMBI thing, it's a foregone conclusion these are coming. So you know, if it was a let's say, a multiplex, giant Walmart, Giant Kroger, giant whatever, taking up the same square footage of land, would people be against it as much as they are with the AI facilities, considering the amount of revenue by way of tax dollars they presumably will bring in any given community. It's the power, really is the problem for most people, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: It really is. It's the power.
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Speaker 10: And I think there's still this nebulous, conspiratorial thinking, and I don't. By the way, I don't use the word conspiratorial the way that some people on the left do. There is just this belief that there's some conspiring and hiding some information about surveillance and all those things, and so there are some of those concerns.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it does come down to power.
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Speaker 10: But I like to point out, and I know that you've had Donovan O'Neil with Americans for Prosperity on your show before. Oh sure, but AFP's been really on the bleeding edge with some of this. And when you look at those five points that Trump is really working hard to make sure these tech giants adhere to Ohio really is pretty far down the path. If you remember, House Bill fifteen became effective in August of last year. It really deals with a lot of that behind the meter, self generation and microgrids, So Ohio is really kind of suited up and ready for these companies to do that here. And then of course, the separate rate structures and cost allocation and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio did approve some data center specific tariff language for AFP AEP. Now that needs to be blanketed, I think, and applied to all of these power companies. But there are incentives for new generation transmission under House Bill fifteen and the grid resilience enhancements that's kind of baked into House Bill fifteen, and some of this stuff that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is doing. But overall, I think Ohio's framework is already well equipped for these non binding pledges. It will be now then incumbent upon the lawmakers in the General Assembly to take it the extra mile to make sure that Ohio is in a position that when these companies want to do the things that they've committed to do, that they're legally able to.
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Speaker 1: Do them, legally able to do them. There's that pesky legal impediment, self imposed, self inflicted wound. Usually Jack windsor it take forty five. We'll bring Jack back to talk about whistleblowers. Are they being punished for exposing waste and fraud?
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Speaker 2: God?
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Speaker 1: I hope not, but something suggests on the topic that yeah, they are more With Jack windsor don't go away fifty five.
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Speaker 2: You're a c deep talk station.
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Speaker 1: Eight if you have KRC detalk station Friday, Jack windsor the Ohio Press Network. Wait a minute, Jack Fraud wasted abuse. We all need to go after it because this does not bear a political stripe. If someone is stealing taxpayer dollars, they're stealing liberal tax payer dollars, conservative tax payer dollars, politically neutral Switzerland type political politically leading folks. Everybody is suffering on this. There should be no fraud wasted abuse. There should be a fiduciary obligation owed by people in government to mind the store and prevent it from happening. Clearly, Minnesota is a wonderful illustration of them not only being aware of fraud wasted abuse, almost actively encouraging it, claiming, oh my god, if I say something, I'll be accused of racism. Oh blow it out or you know what, that is a nonsensical argument. If you're stealing, it doesn't matter what color skin you've got, you are, which is a pox on everyone with that in mind. Whistle blowers, Jack, what's this what all about?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: First of all, preach, Brian, Preach.
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Speaker 10: Second of all, just another bombshell report from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It dropped earlier this week, and what we now know is that based on the testimony of nine current and former state officials in Minnesota that Governor Tim Walls and his administration not only knew that fraud was occurring, they did nothing about it. And then what you just said, they went the extra mile and actually sought to punish the whistleblowers. Now, there are six different types of allegations. I'll run quickly through those. First, whistleblowers alleged that millions were spent on surveilling employees who raised fraud concerns. So not only were they letting money seep out the hole in the bucket, they were taking what money was left over to actually try to surveil the people who.
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Speaker 3: Were blowing the whistle. Disgusting.
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Speaker 10: Whistleblowers also claimed that private investigators or law firms were hired to silence them. Dozens of whistleblowers reported being told to not speak about the fraud, and as you just pointed out, they would be accused of being racist, islamophobic, xenophobic. Upper management conducted regular check ins or meetings with these employees who reported concerns so that they felt big brothers watching right over their shoulder. And then examples include of job related threats and demotivation. Supervisors threatening to make a whistleblower's life difficult, and then those supervisors later receiving a promotion. So it was very clear that this was a culture that rewarded turning a blind eye to fraud, and then management showed disdain for groups of employees emailing fraud concerns to leadership, including the governor's chief of staff, and broader findings note a fear of political retribution. So again these are not just pie in the sky, you know, pulled out of the ether. These are based on the testimony of nine current and former states officials there in the North Star state, so that not only is their waste, fraud and abuse, now they're punishing the good guys that are actually trying to stand up for the taxpayer.
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Speaker 1: Well throughout this process. And you know, if you look at the reporting on this Minnesota thing, and I thought Imprimus did a fabulous job and I can't post it on my blog page. They through the whole thing. But the author pointed out the history of the investigation of these leering centers and these various other programs, and that there was local reporting on it going way back, pointing out the fraud, waste, and abuse. I mean, this was widely known. This was just this wasn't flying under the radar. This was kind of going on on and on and on, and considering the reasons as you just boiled down and articulated these threats of you know, accusing people of xenophobia or whatever, which I find, you know, threaten me with that, I'm gonna laugh at you. Where are the spine with these people? But I think you've revealed some perhaps broader problem that's going on with our pretty much anybody in elected capacity, they're all being threatened along these lines. We're gonna have an organized campaign, We're gonna boycott you, We're gonna accuse you endlessly of being a racist and homophobe. And as Nivo and you wonder why our politicians do things, maybe they got the goods on behind the scenes, like yeah, we know where you search on the internet, we got pictures of you or whatever. This kind of extortion thing without people in those positions having spines willing to stand up to and going no, no, I'm not a racist. I'm just looking at people ripping us off. It seems like a simple response, Jack.
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Speaker 3: It really does.
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Speaker 10: It really does. And by the way, I will remind your listeners. And I'm sure that this is gonna make some people mad, but I don't care. Our governor is a governor who stood up when the beginning of discovery has happened here in Ohio and said, well, you know, the Somali people are good people, and they contribute to our local businesses and regional businesses, and listen, this is not a critique of the Somali people, but it would be. It's stupid for the governor to say things like that when you can look at the numbers and recognize that seventy percent, somewhere between fifty eight and seventy percent get Medicaid, they get snap benefits, and they get other welfare benefits, and so I go, okay, if they are contributing members of society, why are their rates for public assistance exponentially higher? And again it goes back to this guilty shaming and blaming. We are never going to get it right if every time that we step out or put our necks out and say, look, this is something going wrong here, that we cowtail when somebody says, well, you're racist or you're xenophobic, And when you have a governor of the state of Ohio really role modeling that it doesn't take long to figure out why we have millions and probably billions of dollars a fraud here in this state as well.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the point I've been making, never paying with the broad brush. I'm sure there are some within the smaller community that are contributing, and they are paying taxes, and they are great mom and dads, and they have family life whatever. Not all of them follow to that category much in the same way. Some of them are ripping us all up. That is not me saying all Somalians are thieves. You're painting with a broad brush. By accusing me of that, you are basically being the racist. Come on, just because you're within some given category of people the whole, doesn't mean there's not a subset of people who might fall out of that collective and say, no, those are nefarious. The subset of the Smalling community are nefarious. A subset of the Smalling community are great people. Let's go after the nefarious. Let's keep this whole race thing out of it and save ourselves the taxpayer dollars that are being ripped off.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 10: And this is what concerns me, and we can talk about it with any topic. Now, there is this movement within the middle of the road to the right. I call it the woke right now. And you look at what the left has done for the past four or five decades. They've become masterful at identity politics, and if you go against the narrative, then they put a label on you racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, whatever. Well, when the right starts doing those same things, we are going so far away from the fourteenth Amendment, which says that we should be applying the law equally to every buddy and everyone should get an equal remedy. If we start down that road, I'm afraid we're not going to come back. So shame on Governor Mike Dwine and other Republicans who fall into that trap.
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Speaker 1: Amen, underscore and I share your criticism the ohiopressnetwork dot com. Fine, Jack, bookmark the site.
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Speaker 8: Jack.
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Speaker 1: We'll do this next Friday. I have a wonderful weekend and a great week my friend, you too. Thank you for six fifty five cares to de Talk Station Tech Friday with Dave hat Or Brian
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We're going to talk about this is scary artificial intelligence recommending nuclear strikes in war games simulations. Oh that's comforting. We got a local man using tech in a serial rape case. And finally cybersecurity tips to protect your tax identity and refund. That's handy information. We always get that from Dave Hatter. Brian Ibold, the return of the Help Squad, great charitable organization over on the West Side, helping people deal with very very difficult times, getting them over the temporary hurdles people might face, and addictional some extra money to get the rent payment made, that kind of thing. They've done wonderful work, and I know a lot of folks have gotten some help from Brian Ibold and the Help Squad. Brian will return in studio at seven o five. Apparently he's got some big news. And I really really enjoy helping out these charities locally. So Brian Ibold saw a need on the West Side and stepped up and filled that need. So see we can help them out. Later this morning, it's seven o five, follow by all Right, Hudson Institute's Bring Him Account and our Energy Policy Expert live from Las Vegas. Is he appearing at the Sphere Joe with Metallica, So who's opening for who? Metallica warms up and bringing mccow and takes the stage. He will be talking about gas prices, and I did just look at gas buddy, the Straighthorn moves is being a real problem. Yeah, war does have consequences. There are ripple effects. So we can cheer maybe the progress we're making with the Iranians and lots to report on that. But how about three dollars and forty nine cents for gasoline? I'm looking at a lot of stations that are already charging that in the area where I live. And uh, of course it varies from place to place. It was down as low as you know, two dollars and twenty three cents a couple of days ago. Not there anymore. So we'll talk gas prices with Brigham account. We'll talk about Ohigoho utilities owning their own nuke plans, and I know Rigam's behind that. I am as well. Small modular reactors are the key Ohio moving that direction. Hey, you want to build an AI facility, bring your power. And with those artificial intelligence companies, they have billions of dollars they can afford to do that. Do you just need to streamline the regulatory process? Should it cost three billion dollars and take three or ten years to build a nuke plant? I don't think so. And also with Brigham account yes, why the straighter for our moves is a crisis, which he's done. He does the podcast Charged Conversations. One more that I strongly encourage you to follow or listen to, like Todd Zen's or Citizen Watchdog yesterday. That is scary stuff. I mean, the level what you want to call it corruption in city government Downtown Cincinnati. I don't know that it's risen to the level of corruption, but what Todd Zenser reveals about spending and priorities with the Downtown Cincinnati current makeup is very troubling, and it should be troubling regardless of political strife. Your neighborhood's infrastructure that's falling apart. We can point directly at roads. We all know we have a real problem with the backlog of road repairs. That's just one thing. And yet they continue to throw money in non governmental organizations. And he asked a critical question, why don't we have a disclosure? Shouldn't all council members and elected officials like the mayor have to disclose whether or not they have a financial interest or personal interest in connection with money that's going to any one of these NGOs dods ends are pointing out that they have to have purvoll sits on the board of two of the NGOs that get the city tax payer money. Does that sound right? There's a thing in the law called the appearance of impropriety. Lawyers are held to a high standard, whether you believe it or not, do nothing that creates the appearance of impropriety. Who among us wouldn't want an outright disclosure? Does any council member or the mayor have a vested interest, connection with, or personal interest in anything that's receiving money. Hmm hmm, silence from council. Let's bring McCallan. We'll have him from seven thirty eight, twenty five and five with Jack Windsor, editor chief the How Press Network returns as he does on Fridays. Why we should support Marcel Sturbage for the primary. I know he's a big fan of Marcel, and I've talked to Marcel Sturbage, I mean several times. He is an impressive guy. So you know, do your own research, do your own you know, like I would typically say, don't be swayed by money flowing into politics and meme focused ads. Do your own research. And make the best determination you can on who the best candidate is. Ohio senators and Trump are discussing energy rates regarding building new data centers, that topic with Jack as well. And finally, are whistleblowers being punished for exposing waste and fraud? That's a good one, Jack Windsor at a thirty you anytime five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk fifty on AT and T phones. Yes, greenlight for epic fury. It's going to continue because the bipartisan resolution that presented by Thomas Massey and Rocanna failed to pass. You had four Democrats joining most of the Republicans. The bill sunk to twelve to two nineteen. Of course, it would have blocked Trump from using armed voices in the operation against Iran and of course bringing it to a screeching halt, which is the problem, and I will acknowledge the difficulty in that, which is why you can vote for a war powers or rather an authorization for you some military force tailored to allow certain activities to continue, but perhaps specifically precluding boots on the ground. Do you want to project to your enemy that you are not going to allow boots on the ground, or that you've been foreclosed from that option. These are the arguments back and forth. The law is what the law is. The Constitution says what the Constitution says. The nineteen seventy three War Powers Resolution says what it says. So in spite of the you know, expedients needed in modern times and the idea that you need to be able to make quick decisions, the law has not changed. And that's the position that Thomas Massey, Rocanna and of course Congressman Warren Davidson, who voting in favor of the measure, they were interested in, I'm bringing about some sort.
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Speaker 2: Of legal.
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Speaker 1: Uh well, compliance with the law. Actually, so you had Massey, Warren Davidson and hmm. The Democrats include Greg Lansman. Do you say, Joe, isn't Greg Landsman Jewish?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of what I said to my wife. With Greg Landsman voting no and I he bucked the Democrats that were the only handful of Democrats who voted. I voted yeah, I voted no. So is there a connection with that? Some people suggest that the only reason we are bombing Iran is because of Israel. Some people have a problem with that. I seem I get the feeling Daniel Davis and the Daniel Davis deep dives along those lines. But you know, I Israel's been a long time friend of ours, and I don't think we could have survived the Cold War with the Soviet Union without their insanely amazing intelligence operation. But here we find ourselves. So the war will continue. The question is whether we can get the straight of Horror moves back open, which is described as a very, very difficult challenge. Now, the Iranians, for their part, claimed that no, the straight of hormusi In isn't shut down. The Mission to the United States said yesterday, Iran's Mission Tehran isn't closing the strait, and it's in its words, whoever the persons sent to the United Nations make a proclamation they're committed to international law and freedom of navigation. In reality, it is the United States that has endangered maritime security, well, the Iranians maritime security. We just blew up a drone boat described as as big as a World War II aircraft carrier. That's not delivering drones anymore. One more of the Iranian Navy that was sunk just yesterday and a growing number of ships destroyed, accord to the Sencom Commander Adam Bradley Cooper, thirty ships destroyed so far. Cooper yesterday, speaking alongside Secretary of War Pete hegseeth do youtail him the expanding maritime activity, saying US forces have intensified strikes against the Iranian vessels. Of course, we blew one up the other day, actually blew a sub up too. Said you may have heard that the presidents say just a while ago that we have sunk or destroyed twenty four ships. That was true, he said, at the moment, we're now up to over thirty ships. Just last few hours we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship roughly the size of a World War two aircraft carrier, and as we speak it's on fire. Ballistic missile attacks, he said, have decreased by ninety percent since day one. Drone attack decrease eighty three percent since day one, and hopefully maybe a little bit more given that we just blew up the drone delivering aircraft carrier. EXAs said the operation is not slown down, in fact, it's ramping up, saying we only have just begun to fight and fight decisively. The amount of combat power that is still flowing, that's still coming, we will be able to project over Iran. I'm sorry that we'll be able to project projective Irans multiples of what it is currently.
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Speaker 2: Saying.
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Speaker 1: Our capabilities are overwhelming and gathering still, as are those of our Israeli partners. Sort of a suggestion about munitions, he said, our munitions are full up and our will as iron clad, which means our timeline is ours in our salon to control as long as it takes to ensure the United States of America achieves these objectives. Of course, a statement addressing a lot of concerns by people in the know that we're running out of munitions, most notably, the defensive missions are munitions, you know, the ones that shoot the missiles out of the sky. But that whether it's true, and let's assume it is true. Obviously, the air campaign has weakened the Iranians' ability to even launch those missiles. So if they keep up that bombing campaign and they can use conventional bombs, now those we apparently have a lot of the kindness drop, not the ones that are laser guided or fired from a ship thousand miles away. No, we can just literally drop old school bombs on them. And that's where we're going for the now. The manufacturing facilities of the rockets, the drones, et cetera. So hopefully we will continue to erode the Iranians ability to even launch a drone That certainly would go a long way to opening up the Straight of Horror Moves, which is a challenge right now. The mines, the potential for the Iranians to use these drone boats, the limited number of ships we have in the region, they can only do so much. So we'll see. I saw this this one article. European allies might join the United States in defending the Straight of Horn moves. Get a load of this, but their navies are already thread bear. Britain's once dominant Royal Navy has shrunk to its smallest size in centuries. British officials are currently looking into the practices of deploying escort cargoes to the Strait, but officials familiar with the matter say it's that no final decisions have been made. You know, I just saw that, and that goes to that five percent thing, and I know there are bregsit, folks. But you know, the European Union and our NATO allies have allowed their militaries to be weakened to the point that they are well, they've been emasculated. They're of no help in waging a war. With the mutual defense obligation we have with our fellow NATO countries, We're expecting some help if we get attacked, and they are expecting help if they get attacked. That street seems to only run one way. Donald Trump at least knows that in an asserted massive pressure on the allies to ramp up military spend at least five percent of your gross domestic product, seeing at least well have a military right now, you don't. And to the extent anyone of us gets attack, who's going to be there to fight off the attacker? Right? That will be us. We've been the police force for the entire year Western European countries for now, since basically World War Two. They have freed is freed up the economy of those countries to spend money elsewhere, not on a military because while the United States has that, we'll let them pay for it. Just wondering what the reciprocal benefit on that was for all these years five eighteen Right now, fifty five KRCD talk stations stick around, got lots of talk about and before we get to the stack of stupid, here's what's happening every Sunday. And they have partly cloudy, pleasant day with a highest sixty three. It's fifty seven degrees right now, fifty five kr CD talk station.
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Speaker 2: I'm Donald J. Trump.
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Speaker 3: Can I improve this message here?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 1: Five to twenty two on a Friday, and a half to one to you five one, three, seven, nine to fifty five hundred and eight hundred and eighty two free TAH five five fifty on EIGHTHV ANDC phones. I turned things over to lum me for a moment. Get it out of your system. I'm still scratching my head over this downtown shooting, by this mass shooting, the Frenique cob and Derek Long gunplay and the nightclub with hundreds and hundreds of people in there. Nine people get shot, bringing city manager out, Cheryl Long out, and aftab parvol Off. Talk about gun violence, gun violence, and you get these guns off the streets. How about you just prosecute people the fullest extent of law, which hasn't been happening in Hamilton County, even Mayor aftab Parvoll talking about low bond at least one case. What is going on here? I'm shocked, shocked to find there's liberal, woke judges out there, and in spite of the fact that he'd been supporting this liberal woke criminal justice ideology for a long time, promoting it and telling the judges to embrace it, enter the federal government. Now you probably know we have state charges in here, and we have federal government. Federal government. The two men involve Long and Cobb, both under disability, which means they were previously felony convictions. Prior felony convictions prohibit both of them from possessing firearms and ammunition. Both firearms and ammunition were used in the shooting. Ergo, there are federal charges.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: If you are a would be user of a firearm for criminal activity or anything else and you're under disability, this is a warning shot for you, Pow. You can't count on woke judges in Hamilton County or a woke prosecutor cutting you an easy plea deal, or maybe even not prosecuting you. When the federal government is looming large over you, and that charge will put you in jail for fifteen years. Fifteen years. Maybe I'd better not take a gun with me. They already told me I'm not allowed to have one. Bill Halisek, public information officer for THEATFS Columbus Field Vision, talking about this, referring to their previous felony convictions, both men again not allowed to carry firearms. He said, the charges that the federal government levied against these guys are an important part of the ATF's efforts to curb gun violence in local committee communities. That's our whole mission here, that's our number one goal is to reduce the gun violence by whatever means possible. Hey, that's what the criminal justice system is all about. Woke leftists, folks. Are you under disability or not? Yes, I have a prior felony conviction, then you're prohibited from having a gun. That's not racist. That's the law. And somewhere along the line, someone decided to confuse people breaking the law using firearms, literally killing people, suggesting that prosecuting these individuals for the full sixtent of the law somehow active racism. No, it isn't. It is using the theories of criminal justice to help make communities safer. You get the bad guy off the street, they're locked up. At one point there was the argument that well, maybe in prison they'll have services that will help rehabilitate them. That one kind of went by the wayside. But you're punishing the individual. You are sending a message out to other would be users of firearms or anybody else who wants to commit crime that there's going to be accountability for it. You are going to be held accountable. That's a deterrence effect, And of course it has the benefit of putting a little bit of salve on the burn of the families who are left living to deal with the grief they saw a person prosecuted and sent away, giving them at least some measure of satisfaction that justice actually had been served. So there you go, and it's nice to know that at least we have the federal government out there with federal laws that they can unilaterally go ahead and enforce in spite of the local left wing political bias against enforcing the law. Five twenty six Right now ifty five kerr CE Talk Station feel free to call out local stories to dive into alternatively I'll be right back. Fifty five KRC get e go o hey erin Martley. Cloudy Sky's describing it as pleasant right now fifty seven degrees if you five KERCD talk station five point thirty.
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday.
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Speaker 1: Better order the phones. We'll get Tom's call here in a moment. Just yeah.
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Speaker 2: We have one other.
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Speaker 1: The Feds are going after the City Bird Fountain Square shooter. They have new video. Apparently local charges been dropped because they showed it was self defense the eighteen year old Shaquille Ferguson. But no, no, no, enter the federal government. Why because well, he was prohibited from having a firearm. He was not allowed to possess ammunition or a firearm. Now, while the gun was not found at the scene, they did find the m O casings. Yes, those also leave a telltale sign that directly connect those casings with the gun that he used to fire on in Fountain Square. So didn't find the gun. He shot a nineteen year old victim in the leg and a sixteen year old got grazed by bullet. You may recall that Affidavid said that's because he fled the area later and then turned himself into police. Clide Bennett, the second who's representing him, also representing one of the people in the mass shooting at the nightclub. He said, I do not represent him in that case. My representation is Shaquille Ferguson is over. He's on record.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: My representation ended. So he pleaded guilty on July twenty third, twenty twenty five, to aggravate his sold after pistol whipping another guy in a metro bust. Sentence of probation. Oh hell kind of justice system. He used that same gun on Fountain Square in that shooting, and another one just two days earlier October eleventh, twenty twenty five. He's a shooty up guy accused of firing on a car in Spring Grove Avenue. Charges including Florius so sold Those are still penning in court anyway, but the other one's not. So the federal government comes in says, look, we have the shell casings. We've traced it directly to this guy. He is going to be prosecuted and may spend fifteen years in Gale for violating federal law. Justice may very well be served, Tom, Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Friday, my friend.
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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, So let me get this straight. These these liberal democrats, they believe that if you make a law outlawing guns, it's gonna keep everybody from having guns. It's going to solve the solve the problem of gun violence. When we already have laws on the books, and when those laws are put in place and an individual is told you can't have a gun and he gets one anyway, doesn't that prove that these idiotic laws that would cover everybody are not going to work either.
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Speaker 1: It makes that's where the criminal justice system kicks in. How many people violate the laws? This has been going on since Kate Nature's Laws Kane slew Abel, Right. Okay, so people commit horrific acts of violence. They break laws regularly. There it is, it's on the books. Don't do that, they do it anyway? What is to be done if that happens, You prosecute them. You show the rest of the world there will be penalties and repercussions for breaking the law. And if you don't do that, what happens. Look at California, you know, you decriminalize stealing, and people steal. Oh shocked.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you make it sound so simple because it is that simple. So then the question begs begs the question, why aren't these liberal Democrats going with that? What is their motivation for not going along with the way you just laid it out simply? Well, I mean it's money, it's votes, it's votes because of money, it's money because of votes. What else could it possibly be? I I could see an end of it. Okay, I'm a case, and you see a young man being prosecuted and his mom is crying, and his mom is getting ready to lose her baby, or somebody else lost their baby, you know, likely in the same scenario. But I get her. Okay, that's your kid, and you don't want your kid to go to prison for the rest of his life. Okay, I understand that. But to be somebody who is who is not personally attacked to the situation. You're a lawmaker, you are being charged with protecting the entire society, and yet your idea is, oh, no, no, no, no, we shouldn't prosecute these people. We should go easy on them, or or we should tell everybody no one's allowed to have a gun. There's got to be motivation behind it, and is nefarious has to be well, And unfortunately, most of these people that are doing this. If not all of them that are singing in that same song are Democrats, don't vote Democrat, have a great.
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Speaker 1: Weekend time, appreciate it. I think the missing element in the why as they are inclined to just blame the system. The person who shot the other person is a victim of an inherently unjust system, and he would not have squeezed that trigger or otherwise brandshed to firearm ins by to the fact the law said he couldn't have one if it wasn't for the system. So because the system is inherently broke, we're not going to prosecute him for the crimes that he actually committed. That's really I think all it boils down to. It's all I can come up with. I find a lot of fault with that. I think that mindset leads us to a very dangerous place. But I think that's the only thing we can really come up with by way of explanation. Unless you got a different one, feel free to give me a call five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty eight two three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Otherwise, a grand inglorious typical Friday stack is stupid, chock full of naked criminals to that in a minute, don't oway fifty five KRC.
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Speaker 6: Okay, let's get to work.
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Speaker 3: I'm ready. You got to impress the boss station.
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Speaker 1: Can you play John the Fisherman by forty on a Friday? You know the answer to that is yes and a happy with da. That's some good plans for the weekends. I'm going to a fundraiser for the Cincinnati Classical Academy tomorrow. I love that since Classical Academy, and I hope that that kind of a school's philosophy, the education system, the idea of classical education and no woke and no DEI focusing on real things, real skills that young people need to advance in this world. God bless them, and the architect of a great system of education that is going to grow by leaps and bounds. There's a really great article about proving to the rest of the world that there was no argument left against school choice. Check out that what happened in Texas. I'll get to that maybe later in the program, but it is certainly a growing and very welcome thing and a welcome change and hopefully turning around the lives from some young people giving them the skills they need to survive. Over the stack is stupid. Let's get naked people at Thirty nine year old woman arrested taking it to custody. This is in Nashville. Police say she bit a police officer after running toward people at Centennial Park completely naked. As this tradition, please said. An officer spotted Ashley Masterson running around the area naked holding a sign attached to a piece of wood. She initially fled.
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Speaker 2: Amazing.
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Speaker 1: See that was my pause, Joe, just waiting for it. The officer attempted to detain her. She fled from the officer. He was able to detain the woman ultimately put her in a car. Reportedly began kicking and screaming and then bit the officer on his right arm. He had visible and bloody bite mark. There was so chomped downy mess. In charge with felony aggravated assault on a first responder for misdemeanors including public indecency, resisting arrest, evading arrest, disorderly conduct, and of course public intoxication. Aamen, don't do that. Here's a weird one. We go to Pennsylvania, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where the Pennsylvania State Police report that a climber woman has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after spreading new photographs of an individual to prevent them from cooperating with the investigation. Huh No, that doesn't make any sense to me either. Investigations started when an injured and abandoned dog was found on the side of the road. Troopers say that they were able to determine that Paulina Williams, who's thirty one, abandoned her dog along the roadway. Mixbury dog found following day transport of the veterinarian for treatment, where it was discovered the dog had two pelvis fractured and numerous chicken bones in his stomach. Troopers learned that Williams allegedly had contacted an individual and asked them to kill or abandon the dog. According to the police release, Williams spread nude photographs of the individual in an effort to prevent the person from speaking with law enforcement. Do what like hiring a hit man to take care of your dog? William's charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and intimidation of a witness, cruelty to animals and invasion of privacy misdemeanors. The intimidation of a witness is a felony. She was unable to post the one hundred thousand dollars bond was taken at the Indiana County jail. Uh yeah, neck tattoo, that's a beauty, nice nose ring and some pretty sweet piercings along her mouth. To you try your own conclusion, Eeries is the biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies. There's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top.
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Speaker 3: It's good going, dude.
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Speaker 1: Your dreams have come true. What an amazing idea Joe Strekker came up with. Handing the dog over to a shelter. Maybe you no kill shelter for adoption seems like a better alternative. Joe, I'm with you all day along on that one.
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Speaker 2: Hmmm.
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies rushed to Santa Clarita, about forty miles north of LA after receiving a report of a man suffering from a mental health crisis. The tradition, the armed individual allegedly fired shot to hit a car. Thankfully, no one was shot. Local elementary school had to be placed on lockdown after shooting the car. Allegedly, Sheriff's deputies claimed the suspect barricaded himself in a house. Thirty minutes later, the suspect was seen walking around the neighborhood in a hat and a T shirt. But of course this is Friday in the morning show Stack is stupid. He had no pants on strender authorities without incident, and of course there's video of the moment. He was caught on camera walking across the street in a residential area too swat with his hands high in the air with the shotgun on the ground behind him. Five forty five fifty five care see the talk station. Oh you know there's more of that coming up here A see deep talk station five fifty at fifty five care CEV talk station right time, especially everyone, a very happy Friday and invitation stick around all morning of course Tech Friday by Dave Hattery.
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Speaker 2: Hatter.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from the help squads Brian Ibel at seven oh five with some apparently big news our energy expert Brigham Account from Hudson Institute's gonna join us at seven thirty for an hour by Gas Prices Utilities owning their own nuke plants and the straight of horror moves obviously a dominant topic of conversation that one Jack Windsor from the Ile Press network about supporting Marcel Sturbage. It is an option the Senators and Trump discussing the energy rates on the data centers as well. Finally, also whistleblowers being punished for exposing waste and fraud. That with Jack Windsor coming up at eight thirty back over to the stack of stupid. Oh look naked person who naked man exposed himself the two women happened Tuesday afternoon. But why are you doing that? Maybe we'll find out sometimes you don't. Women who saw the man described her experience on social media today. My friend and I were sexually harassed by a naked man hiding in the woods who was filming himself performing explicit acts while watching and recording us. What used to get deliberate penalties? He formally played hockey joe. This incredibly disturbing and unacceptable, especially in a park where many college students, high school students, families and young children regularly run, walk and play right, She said. The incident was reported to the RUST and police, describing the suspect as young white adult males of medium build suspects plural. They were both in there doing that. Lieutenant Kayla Lord Lloyd's spokesman for the police officers, said the responded to Cook Park immediately started searching for the suspect, but couldn't find him. In the social media post, one also wrote, we're sharing this to warn others so no one else has to experience something like this. Stalelert void walking alone. Pay close attention to your surroundings. That's solid information. Lieutenant Lloyd noted that the police have not received any similar reports, said the incident is still under investigation, So one of those where we don't find out why they're doing that. Let's see here Wisconsin's part of Wisconsin. A nurse sentenced to prison for engaging in sexual intercourse with a patient. Monroe County District Attorney's office press release said Melissa Knutson found guilty of misconduct in public office and obstructing an officer, sends to eighteen month in prison two years of probation. Charges them from her time as a nurse at the in Monroe County, repeatedly engaging in sexual intercourse with the patient who was a drug court participant facts report of the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. She falsely accused the patient of sexual assault. She acknowledged that she was not sexually assaulted later, Butts instead fabricated the allegation to avoid the consequences. District Attorney Kevin Caringer had this to say, the harm caused by her was a deep and it was deep and significant. Not only did she violate this sacred trust between a patient and a nurse, but she compounded by falsely accusing the patient of sexual assault. The situation is particularly egregious given the patient in this situation was a participant in drug court. Judge Current extremely concerned about the significant level of harm caused by missus Knutsen, and his sentence reflected that significant level of harm. Weird. Oh, and yet another one. Every week Joe's tossing and the teachers who are having sex with students. Every week it's been a female teacher having sex with students. It never never ceases to amaze me. Married high school jim teacher in Rhode Island has been arrested in charge with sexually assaulting a student whom she admitted to sexting and at least kissing. Alicia Crins started sending flirty messages to the male victim when he was a sophomore at Pontagan That's at high school in Gloucester, Rhode Island. Thirty nine year old Crins reportedly found his phone number online, which he was her student. Those exchanges escalated from flirty messages to her sending him naked pictures and videos. Bad idea anybody, because idiots and thank god they're idiots. Look we got the proof. Additionally, the teen said that Crins kissed him twice, including one incident where she straddled him sexually in the back of the car. She admitted the police officers that she did send inappropriate photos, kissed the boy, and discussed plans to have sex, but insisted that the relationship was never physical. Whatever, thank you. Liam started flirting when the boy. She told him he looked good, asked him if she could wear his sweatshirt Affidavid did if. She teasingly asked him what he would buy her for her birthday, then proceeded to ask him for a kiss, gave him her address. He did show up at her home and then she jumped into his car and they parked on a side streak. She allegedly told him, I can't believe I'm doing I'm going to do this. You can't tell anybody. That's when they started kissing, lasted about fifteen minutes. She then bombarded the boy with flattering texts in the following days, including message about how good a kiss her he was and how she couldn't stop thinking about his lips phrasing. She later invited him over, and that's when the apparently straddling againstid in the backseat of the car occurred. Affidavid stated that they engaged in sexual contact. They kissed. When speaking of police, the teenager showed authorities a handful of racy photos and videos that showed her in lingerie. He added that she sent the photos to him when he was only seventeen years old. He also admitted to authorities she sent the boy nude photos and videos of herself when he turned eighteen. Happy birthday.
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Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 1: They said they discussed having sex, though they never actually slept together. Congratulations whatever, Thank you Liam five fifty six fifty five KRC the talk station. Who are your children spending time with when you are not watching them? Don't go away? Plenty to talk about coming up after the six o'clock news, But then we're gonna get Tech Friday with Dave hat He appointment listening coming up at the talk station. He tipto six at fifty five KR see the talk station. Brian Thomas writing here, happy to be hosted fifty five Kersei Moriy Show, and of course happy that I have Joe Strecker as executive producer of the fify five Case Mory Show. And there he is. Got a great run down thanks to that man. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter every Friday coming up Botto of the hour six thirty. We got artificial intelligence suggesting nuclear strikes are a great option of wargames simulations. Yeah, I don't like that local man using tech in a serial rape case. And number three topics cybersecurity, tips to protect your tax identity and refund Brian Ibold the man behind the Help Squad, a wonderful charitable organization helping folks on the West Side in dire situations. Apparently Brian Ibold has some big news to report. He'll be in studio at seven oh five again him for a couple of segments talk about the great work they're doing and learn about that big news together. Appreciate Brian Ibold and the team that helps squad doing what they are doing. Brigham Accown and our energy policy expert from the Hudson Institute. He is in Vegas, but he's opportunity. He's provided us with an opportunity to learn about the situation with gas prices. YEP, saw a gas up to about three dollars and fifty cents in a lot of stations in my area. That's the direction that's going because of the situation with the straight up horn moves, which we'll talk about with Brigham account and also the idea of Ohio utilities owning nuke plants owning as opposed to I guess the problem with it is they want to have the cost of the plants taken care of by the ratepayer up front. The old days, utilities would build their own plants and then recoup the money later, which I think is the way it should be. So just getting nuke plants out in the world, you know, I'm a huge advocate for that. The ultimate problem solved. Abundant electricity, very small footprint. You don't have to worry about nuclear waste anymore with modern reactors. On and on and on and on, and I'll put in a plug for cribbage, Mike. The American military has been using small reactors in ships since the nineteen fifties with no incident. Yeah, okay, how about we get to have some of that Jack windsor from the high press network after Brigging departs, we're gonna hear from him. It's at eight thirty why we should support Marcel Sturbiche in the primary Ohio senators and Trump discussing energy rates regarding building new data centers. And finally, are whistle blowers being punished for exposing waste and fraud? I hope not five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred eight to two three talk time five fifty on AT and T phones. Yes, so Trump can continue, and I guess the question swirling around, So the opportunity to stop Trump by as certain. The warpowers actually got shot down as was expected, dude, just like I got shot down in the Senate, which means there is no curbing of the military activity going on in Iran right now. But the War Powers Resolution in nineteen seventy three still exists, which means I think the clock is still running for the sixty day window, maybe backed up by a thirty day extension, and I'm certain that that thirty day extension will be exercised. If we run up against the clock on sixty days, Will the operation be over within sixty days? We can only pray that it will be. I'm a little suspicious that that won't happen. Call me slightly pessimistic on that. But since nothing happened by way of curbing the military exercise, that's where I think we find ourselves with the ticking clock. So Warren Davidson did what he said, and oddly enough Greg Landsman also voted against reigning in Donald Trump's war powers. So you had Massey and Davidson and four Democrats. I thought David Taylor was going to vote against this. Joe didn't he say that on the Morning Show a couple of weeks ago. I do believe. So we'll have to get David and I just just get to ask him the question next time he's on. So you know, the big problem is unringing the bell. And you know Ryan McKenzie, he's representative from Pennsylvanian. He pointed out the obvious, He's I'll be voting no against the War Powers Act because once the president has taken that action, that first action, if we were to pull back, it would actually leave us more vulnerable and less safe by leaving all of the capabilities in place. But having started a conflict like this, well, that's exactly right. But that's part of the challenge. We got to the this place with presidents waging war since World War II without a declaration of war, and I dcly keep using Vietnam as the greatest illustration of it. Kennedy inherited the so called advisors, you know, the CIA folks providing consultation work in Vietnam, and it just gradually escalated year after year after year. Do we ended up losing fifty fives or so thousand men fighting in Vietnam? At what point was there and there wasn't authorizations for you some military force, although you did have a Congress with the power of the person continuing to fund the military operation. There years of approval of the unilateral action by presidents. You know, you had Barack Obama with Libyan Milmarkadaffi. We could go on and on and on this again. I go back to the legal theories of waiver and estoppel that everybody prior to me says, Donald Trump has been doing it. This is just how we do things, and of course, with yesterday's vote, we're going to continue to go down that road.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Feel free to chime in on that, pivoting over to something completely unrelated. But I just read with just the big grin on my face this op ed piece by Tommy Schultz, who happens to be the CEO of American Federation for Children, which is an advocacy organization for school choice. And guess what wins? And I was thinking of eighty twenty issues and how the Democrats, in spite of the fact they're growing about they're going to dominate in November and it's still a possibility, but they're on the wrong side of all these eighty twenty issues. Deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, everybody wants that they don't, border security, everybody wants that. The Democrats are against it. LGBTQ agendas like men playing against women in sports, everybody is overwhelmingly against that. Who favors it. The Dems use of gender pronouns transitioning men into women or women into men by way of hormone or surgical intervention. You know, people under the age of eighteen. Who's in favor of that? Democrats, it's an eighty twenty issue. Welcome to another eighty twenty issues, school choice. They're on the wrong side of this one too. And as Texas proved, and as Tommy Schultz pointed out, Texas just demolished the last argument against school choice. For years, anti choice lawmakers insisted that rural families don't want education options. Tuesday's election prove them wrong. In primary races across Texas, candidates who champion Governor Greg Abbott's Texas Education Freedom Account program one go to deeply rural Texas House District eighty six. Holly Jeffries routed an opponent who proclaimed, quote, I will never flip on vouchers. Across Texas, candidates who worked hard against school choice faced consequences in twenty twenty seven. Get a load of this. There won't be an anti school choice Republican in the Texas legislature. Of the twenty one House Republicans voted against school choice in twenty twenty three, all have been defeated by a pro school choice challenger. Retired and replaced by pro choice legislator or reverse to ultimately support school choice lips. I'm back in the corner. I guess I better change my tune or I'm going to lose like everybody else, they said. Two years ago, Governor Abbott went on to the electrical electoral offensive against the Republican incumbents who voted to kill his twenty twenty three school choice bill. He enacted. The a FC Victory Fund, deployed significant resources statewide to making sure voters knew where the representatives stood, and achieved the largest shift towards school choice in Texas in political history. Representative Glenn Rodgers, for instance, had long stood with teachers union. He lost his seat by twenty six points in the twenty twenty four primary. The trend then went beyond Texas. During the twenty twenty four primary season, AFC's political affiliates spent nearly ten million dollars in fifteen states, defeating sixty seven percent of incumbents who stood against parents on this critical issue. These are great figures, folks. Texas, where the teachers' unions assume their monopoly would last forever, is rolling out a wildly popular school choice program. With one hundred and fifty thousand student applications already in the door. In two more weeks, Love for the open enrollment program will have the largest ever day one launch for school choice programs in history. The primaries confirmed that voters are fully behind that move. The rural myth is dead lesson for every state house in America. Is now impossible to ignore school choice. Wins, oppose it, and voters will show you the door. A's your eighty twenty issue right there. And I am proud to be attending the fundraiser for the Cincinnati Classical Academy tomorrow evening. Thank you John and Kathy Newsom for the invitation. Is an outstanding option. It is a brilliant, outstanding option. There should be more options like that. There should be more people embracing the concept of school choice. Are your schools failing you? Based upon the testing scores nationwide? I would think a lot of folks can nod in agreement. Yeah they are. I see Jamie's on the line. Hang on, Jamie, I think I know what Jamie has to chime in about. Don't go away. I want to mention Jimy care Fireplace and stove. They do it all when it comes to care and see the talk station six at fifty five KRCD talk station Ran Thomas right here, wish nobody very happy Friday. David. David concurs and I concur with folks. Colin. I got a few callers online. Let's start with Jamie. Kind of expect that, am I hear from you, Jamie, Welcome back to the Morning Show.
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Speaker 7: Thanks Brian, good morning. I so appreciate your shedding of the light globally of where school.
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Speaker 2: Choice is headed.
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Speaker 7: It's so amazing. I'm so appreciative of your voice. I wanted to just kind of say bigger picture thought about school choice is that we need better schools generally for kids, whether it's public or private. You know, I hear from I hear from a distressed mama at least once a week, and they are in a school situation where their child is not being served. My call yesterday was a family it's at another private school in our area, and she said they've been dealing with a student that is wreaking havoc and one of her kiddo's classrooms and the school just straight is not dealing with it. And so we you know, we've we've talked how you know, behavior learning gaps. There's all sorts of things happening. And the bigger problem that I see is that the facilities are not understanding child development and what kids actually need to be learning and to be peaceful and to be responsible and to be engaged in their work. It's like any times, the kids are being stuck in these machines and expected to just be like robots and do what they're told, and it's not working. It's just not working. We've got to be developing each individual human really, because the kids have so much potential. But boy, some kiddos can get off track and it is not a pretty situation.
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Speaker 1: I agree. That's why the school choice option allows parents to evaluate where their child is and seek out alternatives. One size does not fit all when it comes to educating any given young person. I realize that, and that's why one of the reasons why I'm an advocate for school choice Jamie, and Jamie of course runs a Montesssori school, which is a choice. Glad we have it, Jamie, I'm glad you're out there helping spread the word on choice as well. Let's see what doctor Jay's got this morning, Doctor j always a wonderful thing seeing it listener lunch, welcome back to the program, sir.
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Speaker 8: Thank you Brian, it was wonderful seeing you. And boy, wasn't that carrot cake from Bob amazing?
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Speaker 1: Thank you for standing and I'm glad I finally found mine.
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Speaker 8: I didn't know he had slight a hand and slipped it in your coat.
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Speaker 1: Kneel and I long story, but yes, retired colonel retired Colonel Bob guitar makes wonderful carrot cake, So yes, I enjoyed that. What's on your mind?
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Speaker 8: Jaycoops? Well, I'd mentioned as the listener launch and apparently I haven't heard anyone bring this up. So Monday night was Poorham. The Jewish festival read it to us in the Book of Maguilla, which is not part of the Torah. So when you hear somebody talk about the whole mcgilla, that's where the phrase comes from. It was a whole book of a story about Queen Esther, king of hash Veris. And why is it important now? Well, this all happened in Persia, the land of Iran, so thousands of years ago. We celebrate every year because on Poram on Monday, which is the day after our invasion of Iran, or two days after that, is the celebration of the depth of Hayman, this evil man who was running the Kingdom of Persia under the nose of the king, and he wanted to kill all the Jews, and he had a plan to kill all the Jews is the thirteenth of a dollar. I think he was going to kill them. It was the Hebrew months, and this brave woman came and spoke up to the king. She was Jewish. She revealed she was a Jew, which was not a good thing those days, which seems to be our.
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Speaker 1: Current situation to be a jew ongoing problem for the Jewish people.
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Speaker 8: Particularly in Persia or Iran. So anyway, so she suffered the King's wrath, did reveal the plot. He decided, okay, I like her, I don't want these people to be killed. So instead he killed Hayman in a pretty gruesome fashion. So we celebrate his death and the survival of the Jews every year on Pourum. And so here we are in Iran, again celebrating the death of an evil man who wanted to kill all the Jews.
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Speaker 1: So and again revealing the level of level of turmoil that's gone into that region for literally thousands of years.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's not been a peaceful area for a very long time.
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Speaker 1: Right, Never, if there was ever a gross understatement, doctor j you just made one appreciate that. I appreciate the history lesson though, because you mentioned that at lunch, and I had never heard that story before. So we're all a little bit more enlightened this morning. I appreciate your enlightenment, and I appreciate your friendship. Are the best computer company to work with. If youve got a business, you've got computers, they'll set them up, they'll keep you out of trouble, they'll engage in best practices, and you can rely on Dave Hatter in his career. They do wonderful work. Dave had to welcome back to the fifty five KRCY morning, So I appreciate you being on the program every week, my friend.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's my pleasure, Brian.
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Speaker 1: I have read so many scary stories about AI. We know, we got these lawsuits going on about artificial intelligence telling people to ultimately kill themselves and all the psychological trauma that that's apparently unfolding as we discover the downside and the risks of communicating with basically a computer and thinking it's real. But that's bad enough recommending someone kill themselves, but how about nuclear war?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a little disturbing and a little depressing. So a New Scientist magazine had this article, AIS Can't stop recommending nuclear strikes and wargame simulations and then the subhead leading AIS from Open Ai, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated wargames ninety five percent of the cases.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty interesting.
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Speaker 5: So apparently King's College had these three leading language models chat GPT five point two, which is pretty sure the latest version Claude Sonnet four and Gemini three flash. So they simulated wargames and you know, if you read through the article, they talk about intense national standoffs, border disputes, competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to regime survival. And then I think of places like North Right or even this situation in Iran. Obviously they're facing a somewhat existential threat to the regime at this point. So you know, apparently, again these are scientists, academic researcher types who set all this up and porting the article, they were given an escalation ladder allowing them to choose different actions, you know, during the war, and says they played twenty one games, three hundred and twenty nine turns in total, and produced around seven hundred and eighty thousand words describing the reasoning behind their decisions. But again, according to this Brian, ninety five percent of the time, it eventually escalated to nuclear weapons, which I don't think anyone thinks is a good idea under any circumstances at this point.
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Speaker 1: Right, isn't what the point of nuclear weapons is mutually assured destruction, which takes it out of the equation completely. Does the artificial intelligence program not get the concept of that?
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Speaker 2: You know, I always thought that was the idea of Brian, especially now.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if you go back to the World War two era when nuclear weapons were first developed and first used, you know, they were nowhere near as powerful as they are now. Yeah, obviously any sort of full scale nuclear exchange between like US and Russia or China would lead to probably completed bliteration of the human race. At the very least, you'd be back to like Caveman times. Because I think people often if they don't really know much about nuclear weapons, obviously you get the blast, which causes intense damage and obliterates everything within a fairly large area. Then you get the fallout, which goes way further and kills people, you know, over time, for a substantial area around wherever the blast was. But you also have the devastation of the electromagnetic pulse that comes off of these blasts.
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Speaker 1: So it's wipes out literally every electronic device in our entire electric infrastructure.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly where I was going with it, Brian.
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Speaker 5: So if the blast doesn't get you, and you survive the radiation, you're still going to be in a situation where now you have you know, all of the electronics everywhere fried or everywhere within you know range of any of these weapons detonated, and then you have the potential nuclear winter scenario where it throws all this stuff into the sky and blots out the sun. So you know, it's not just oh I survived the blast, I'm good to go. It's the collapse of civilization that would inevitably occur if you had any kind of large scale exchange of nuclear weapons. So yeah, it's it's disturbing to me that these tools don't seem to understand what the impact on our society would be if you were able to escalate to this sort of exchange. And other than that, I don't know what to say about it, Brian, other than I find it pretty disturbing, and I'm hoping that people are the people working on this stuff or taking this into consideration that hey, maybe we need to you build more logic into these tools, or train it with more data, or whatever we need to do to ensure that that's not the decision they make, especially as we look at a potential future at some future point, I don't know when that is where these things would potentially be making decisions like this.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, maybe you just need to have AI watch and absorb Matthew Broderick's eighty three movie War.
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Speaker 2: Games and that is a classic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well just that. Yeah, and hey, thanks Dave, happy Friday on that subject.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, happy, it's been good knowing you, Brian. Back to the buzz.
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Speaker 1: Well, okay, we're going to continue the theme here, not global war, but using tech in a serial rape case. Dave's going to be talk station six forty. If if you have k see the talk station permanent waves intrust it dot com. That's where you find Dave had or you can find Dave Hotter all the notes he uses to with the topics he discusses here in the Morning Show. You can find at linked dot com. Just search Dave out Ter on that you'll find Dave and all the resources and real quick, you're Dave on your last topic about AI recommending nuclear weapons. Thank you Eric who sent me a meme with a picture of Albert Einstein quote, I know not what the weapons World War III will be fought, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones. I think that stuff quite nicely anyway. Pivoting yes, pivoting over to this case from Kentucky. This is sick.
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Speaker 5: It is sick, and I think this is an interesting way to explain online dangers in general. So, according to the Inquirer, the headline is man accused of using spyware tech to target women.
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Speaker 2: In serial rape case.
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Speaker 5: And I'll come back to this in a minute, because there's some interesting points people should take away from this. But I you know, because he apparently used social media to reach him, offered to fix their computers various different ruses, right to eventually establish an in person can with someone, and then led to the alleged crimes. The point I want to make is, you know this is this is one unfortunate example, but there are so many of these examples out there, Brian, And as we have more and more tech that lets people get connected, whether it's social media, it's video games, it's chat apps or whatever, you see this sort of thing everywhere. So I wanted to hit you with a few headlines just to make the point, and then I'll come back to this specific story. Quote playground for predators unquote, Nebraska AG Mike Hilger's files lawsuit against Roadblocks. For those who don't know, and I bring this up because many of your listeners probably have kids or grandkids who play Roadblocks and other online games. You know, Roadblocks has been in the crosshairs a lot lately. But understand that any kind of online game where you're playing with other people, and especially if it allows any kind of interaction, which they all do as far as I know at this point, you know, predators will go in these games and pretend to be a thirteen year old girl or a fifteen year old boy or whatever. Again, you'll see how this connects in a second. So that's one example. Here's another headline. La sues Roadblocks over quote unsafe online environment unquote for kids, marking yet another Roadblocks lawsuit. Then we have from CBS News. Kentucky Attorney General sues Roadblocks, alleging a quote playground for predators unquote. Here's another story, Roadblocks give predators quote powerful tools to target children unquote, says LA. County, Louisiana sues Roadblocks, alleging the popular gaming site fails to protect children. And New Jersey sues Discord. So Discord is like an online chat app. A lot of video gamers will use Discord to interact with each other outside of the game environment itself. New Jersey sues Discord, alleging deceptive safety practices put children at risk. So, you know, this is a case of an adult, and there's this particular case of this Kentucky guy who's accused of rape. You know, there's no allegations that I saw about children in there. But my point is, if you are in any kind of online environment where you can talk to people, it's easy to create fake profiles, it's easy to pretend to be anyone that you want to pretend to be.
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Speaker 2: You know, you can.
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Speaker 5: Establish a relationship and groom someone, which is apparently what this particular guy was doing. You know, again, I'm just hitching with a couple of high points from the article here. Before women in northern Kentucky accused him of sexual assault, Investigators say Paul Snow Junior often approached them on social media, or it could have been a video game. Obviously, adult women probably aren't playing a lot of video games, but nevertheless some do video game discord or some other sort of chat app, in this case social media, sometimes offering to fix their phones or computers, sometimes offering them jobs, sometimes sending flority messages. Prosecutors say it was a ruse to lose, to lure women to his home, part of a formula that Snow perfected over the years. And then eventually, I guess some of these women spoke out on social media that got an investigation started. You know, the guy's apparently going through the legal system now, but.
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Speaker 2: It says here.
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Speaker 5: Authorities searched his home in April twenty one, twenty three, finding evidence they say that supports reports of sexual assault.
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Speaker 2: Grand jury indicted him in June.
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Speaker 5: So police find evidence of spyware, social engineering show many women told police Snow use social media and is knowledge of technology to blackmail and intimidate them. After the assaults, persuaded women to share their online account information and to use spyware to get images for blackmail. You know, these are the exact sort of tactics that the predators often use on video games or discord against children, against children who are exactly right to be able to respond and deal with this kind of craziness going on. At least an adult may have the capacity to understand that they can go to the authorities or have or that they have resources out there that can deal with this. A young child caught in the crosshairs of this, it would be overwhelmed and I cannot imagine the trauma that that child would face.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with anymore, Brian.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you've got that whole seven, six or four gang thing that's been taking place on these online apps like this. So the bigger point I wanted to make by trying to wrap in some of these other stories is, you know, whether it's adults on social media, kids on discorder, in some video game or something, it's really important to understand people can easily pretend to be something they're not.
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Speaker 2: They'll tell you lies. You know, just because you.
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Speaker 5: See an attractive person on Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Roadblocks, whatever, and they're friendly and nice to you, doesn't mean they're who they claim to be. Doesn't mean they're not trying to eventually exploit you in some way.
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Speaker 1: That's a crazy forty year old, overweight pedophile sitting in his mom's base luring children. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
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Speaker 5: And if nothing else, Brian real Quick, you know, sometimes it's not physical salt, it's romance scams that lead to having your money stolen, you know, or some sort of extortion. So just I think it's important to remind people, and especially if you're an adult with kids or grandkids, you need to warn them about these games and these environments where they may be approached by these folks.
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Speaker 1: Or prevent them from having access to them. There's an option, David. We'll continue to be better coming up next Station six fifty. If you about KRC Detalk station intrust it dot Com sponsors tech Friday with Dave how To. That's Day's company. They do great work and I appreciate you, Dave, and real quick here man, roadblocks must be an awful thing. I've got multiple people sending me information and links on all the different sites which have been tracking the predators on Roadblock. So if I was a parent and I had a young child, I would say hell no period, end of story. Dave gotta get the message on that this is scary stuff.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to I'm gonna agree. You know, if folks want to deeper dive into it, go listen to the most recent Sean Ryan podcast asked Sean Ryan for those who don't know. As an a former Navy seal and CI operator, he has a very popular podcast. The most recent episode I forget the number, but it's entitled Slep, which is the like screen name of a guy who used to be involved with roadblocks about what happened to him.
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Speaker 1: Swabby my am I retired Navy friend Patrick sent me a link to that one as well.
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Speaker 5: It's it's quite disturbing, and if you're a parent or grandparent, I encourage you to listen to that and then you know, decide for yourself. But yes, I can tell you I would not will not allow my kids or grandkids to the extent I could control it, to have access to it.
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Speaker 1: All right, All right, Now, finally some practical information for us during tax season.
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Speaker 5: Dave Hatter, Yeah, so I'm sure this does not come as a surprise to folks. During tax season, there's a lot of scams. You know, bad guys want to steal your refund and obviously if you could get access to someone's tax records, that's a lot of useful information that could be used against you in a lot of ways. So, Brian, we talk about scams all the time and during taxes, and these things always increase. For years, people have been stealing refunds. Again, that's probably the primary tactic. You finally file your taxes and you get in and find out, wait a minute, someone else has already found taxes under your name and a refund has already been sent, which now creates problems for you because you know, a whatever they filed probably isn't accurate and may or may not have warranted that refund which went out in your name, and then b you got to try to unwind all that, so it can be really problematic. That's one of the reasons why a first piece of advice is file your taxes.
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Speaker 2: As early as possible.
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Speaker 5: Now, you know, we're already into March, the deadline's coming up here, pretty soon. But as a general rule of thumb, the sooner you can file your taxes the better because it closes that window where someone else might be in there trying to file taxes under your name. And you know, as a reminder to folks, I just keep trying to stress to people, there's so much of your day out there now, and while there's really not a whole lot you can do about that other than take steps to protect yourself from the consequences like this, The less data out there about you, the better. And all of that data, I bet you every one in your listening audience has had at least one and probably many letters from some company telling you your data has been breached. All that data is a treasure trove for the bad guys to attack you or to impersonate you. So again, because of that, it makes it easy for folks to do things like file taxes. Is your name file early? Another thing you can do is get a PIN from the IRS. So I'm just going to quote this IRS offeras is an identity protection pin ip PEN six digit code that helps prevent unauthorized tax filings using your Social Security number and helps prevent identity theft. Again, getting someone's social Security number today is trivial because of all these data leaks. Right, So you go to your online account at the IRS, you create this pin, you save this pin somewhere ideally, and a password manager, because you're using a secure password manager like one password, you associate that with your IRS account, and then in order to take action under your.
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Speaker 2: Name, you have to have that pin.
01:06:12
Speaker 5: So I really strongly, strongly recommend everyone today, over the weekend sometime soon, go in. If you haven't already set up your online account with the IRS, make sure it has a strong, unique password. The next recommendation, turn on MFA on that account and all your accounts frankly, multi factor authentication. Yes, set up your IRS PEN. That's going to make it much much more difficult. You know, unless someone can guess your PIN, your useer name, your password, and get that MFA code right, have all four of those things, they're not going to be able to log into your account and file fraudulent taxes in your name.
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Speaker 1: See day, That's why we love you man. That is solid information that it absolutely helps people avoid this problem.
01:06:58
Speaker 2: You know that.
01:07:00
Speaker 1: That's why I really appreciate you man. That's simple. It's my pleasure, and it really that eliminates the potential. I mean, I can't imagine the workaround.
01:07:09
Speaker 5: It would be very hard to get around it. And then the last couple of tips, since a nonw we're out of time, you know, go to the IRS website and read what they tell you they will and will not do. They tell you clearly on their IRS dot gov the IRS does not initiate contact by email, text, message, of social media. The IRS will not tell you to pay your taxes with gift cards or Venmo or cryptocurrency for an ATM or anything like that. Again, if you go to IRS dot gov, they give you additional tips to avoid this kind of thing. They tell you what they will and will not do, so that when you get something and you go, well, wait a minute, this is telling me IO penalties and I need to pay in bitcoin or something, you'll know it's a scam. And then finally, if you're working with a taxpayer, a tax preparer, you should ask them about their cybersecurity. You're giving them extremely sensitive data. You know, even if you're using something like Quicken Quickened, Turbo Tax to file your taxes or something, you know you need to make sure strong unique password, multi factor authentication, because if I can hack your Turbo tax account, I now have access to all this sense of information and I can do all of these nefarious things. So you know, folks, you need to protect this data file early if you can, and again use the IRS's website to give you guidance about what they.
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Speaker 2: Will and will not do.
01:08:27
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Dave Hatter, always excellent advice, and thanks to Interest I T. For helping businesses in the Tri State area boid these kind of problems and get best practices in place. Give Interest i T a call if you've got some problems. They will definitely work them out.
01:08:38
Speaker 4: Dave.
01:08:39
Speaker 1: Until next Friday, have a wonderful weekend. Man, I thank you again for what you're doing for us.
01:08:43
Speaker 2: Always my pleasure. Brian, I'll look forward to chatting with you next.
01:08:45
Speaker 1: Week in studio. I'm looking at him, Brian Eyebold from the Help Squad. It's got some seven o six on a Friday. And my names Brian Thomas, host to the fifty five Carsey Morning Show. And I've said in many many and I'll be this is my nineteenth year coming, it'll be twenty years in December, and I've always pointed out that I love being in my position for no other reason that I get to bring people and introduce them to the world. Like Brian Ibold, who is in studio, who started the Help Squad, which you can find the Help Help Squad since he with a y dot com and Brian's won on the program quite a bit over the years, and you know, as part of his Christian mission and his faith and his efforts to help people truly in need in society, he started the Help Squad and the idea was that there's nothing on the West Side, or at least he perceived there was a huge need on the West Side for an organization that can help people get over these hurdles that we can never anticipate, Folks that are already living on life's margins, who run into a temporary situation like I can't make the rent this month. I need a little help this month. And they do a great job vetting people. These are not just people making up stories, and so they do a wonderful job of vetting. They get them the assistance they need on a temporary basis, and that helps them over that hurdle and it helps them to continue. You to work and thrive and live in the community. So that's the basis for it. And Brian Ebold, I want to thank you for all the work that you've done. You've been on and you've had some really heartwarming stories about the the payoff for your efforts. I know that brings a great smile on your face and I know those that you have helped. It just keeps you going every single day, I imagine, Brian Ibold, welcome back to the show Man.
01:10:20
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you so much, and I appreciate you explaining what the Help Squad is.
01:10:24
Speaker 1: I hope I did an adequate job.
01:10:26
Speaker 9: You did, you did a very good job. I would only add that you know, this Help Squad is a little bit unique and we do go above and beyond the basics of most nonprofits where we actually assist people with utility bills to avoid shutoffs or get utilities turned back on. We help families like you mentioned with pass do rent payments to avoid eviction, free car repairs. We've given away about a dozen vehicles to those in destiny of transportation. You know, basically we are just a one stop shop for struggling families.
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Speaker 1: And I have on my rundown and I know what it is, because you told me about it before we open the mic. You mentioned automobiles. You help people. You know, a dozen or so automobiles you've got now so people can actually get back and forth and have a job. Amazing concept that, But there are a lot of people out there struggling financially. That that right there on that line, and you read stories all the time about it. You know, most Americans don't even have five hundred dollars to meet an emergency situation. We don't want those people to not be able to go to work and their incomes. The therein lies a challenge. If you need an auto repair, I just got through one the other life. I was telling you, I just it was outrageous. I got rear brakes put in my car, and I couldn't believe how much ahead to pay for it. But automobile repairs are really expensive. And you know anything's gonna cost you like five hundred bucks these days. I mean a new set of tires. Tires are outrageously expensive. But if your alternator goes out, your car is dead and you cannot go to work. You are doing a beautiful thing with this new program you got together to Brian ibold. Let my listeners know all about it, because we're going to get more people to help out.
01:11:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:11:59
Speaker 9: So myself and our vice president, Sam Jasper been working really closely with the president of Hamblon County's strategy to end homelessness. His name is Kevin Finn.
01:12:09
Speaker 3: Real good dude.
01:12:11
Speaker 9: During our meetings, we learned that there are basically two people or two ways to fall into homelessness. The first one, you're already homeless, You're already down there. The second reason is you run into a financial crisis that you cannot overcome, get behind on your bills, get evicted and become homelessness or become homeless. So I'd ask Kevin. I said, what is the biggest reason people get behind on the bills in the first place, which leads them to become homeless? And Kevin said, car repairs. Now just think about that for a second, car repairs. We can prevent a family from becoming homeless with something simple as a car repair.
01:12:47
Speaker 1: That alternator or yes, those tires or breaks, whatever happens to be, that's the one thing that results in homelessness. That's kind of a weird thing to like to understand or comprehend.
01:12:58
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, Well, we take transportation for granted. But let me give you this example really quickly. So if you have a single mom with three kids, working two jobs and she's making ends meet, all this good, Rhynes, we have my mom. That's exactly what my mother did.
01:13:10
Speaker 1: All is good.
01:13:11
Speaker 9: The next day her water pump goes out in her car and it costs five hundred dollars like you mentioned, to fix. Well, I can tell you right now she doesn't have the five hundred dollars laying around or to her circle of friends, and a lot of the clients we deal with have affected credit so using a credit card.
01:13:26
Speaker 1: Is not an option.
01:13:26
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, right, So now the single mom can't get to work, doesn't get paid, can't pay her bills, and now her and her three children are living in Section eight housing where she receives food vouchers, health insurance, paid utilities, and much more. So let's just say conservatively, it costs the taxpayers twenty five thousand dollars a year to house this family who never wanted to be on government assistance to begin with. Right, if we just would have paid the five hundred dollars to fix her water pump to begin with, we would have saved the taxpayer twenty four five hundred dollars. And if you multiply that times the hundreds of times this situation where something similar is happening every day, we are talking millions of dollars that does not need to be spent. Basically, give us two million, we'll save you ten.
01:14:16
Speaker 1: And this does not involve creating a brand new government program with a lot of bureaucracy. It just involves individuals like you who believe they have a mission to help their fellow man and appreciate the overall economic benefit to the entire society by preventing that thing from happening. What do we need to do, Brian IYBLD. What have other people done to help solve this problem? Because I know you already have some partners in this, and I want to give a huge shout out to every single one of them.
01:14:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:14:40
Speaker 9: So really, this isn't an interview, Brian, this is more of a call to action. You know, I've said we need all your listeners, we need politicians, we need social media influencers, we need sports figures, celebrities and every one of your listeners. Since vehicle repairs is what is needed the most to prevent family from becoming a homeless statistic. This is a call to action to every service station, every auto repair shop, every tow truck company, and every audio parts store and every mechanic to join our list of supporters who will give x amount of dollars in free tax deductible car repairs. And as to date, right now we have four service stations on board, totaling up to about twenty five thousand dollars in free car repairs. We're going to have four people who are on the verge of becoming homeless and real quick. Those four service stations are Matt Brogan a Brogan Fowles Oil on the west Side, Mark Duber of Duber's Automotive, New Dover. He's a good dude. You're all good dudes. Andrew Schneider of Bear Car Care over there in White Oak, and finally Mike Brogan a broken oil on Glennaway Avenue. Price sal Me and Mike were since any police officers together. We are in the riots together and you should have seen that guy in action. So we have these four service stations right now. We have a couple still that are coming aboard, but it's right now, just with these four, we have twenty five thousand dollars in free car repairs. If we could get ten, fifteen, twenty more of these service stations, we could put a huge dent in the homelessness problem. We can do this. I mean we're talking ten twenty thirty percent we could avoid of becoming homeless. That's huge.
01:16:21
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's huge. Yeah, and the return on investment. Again, you it's nice that it is a tax deductible donation. There's an incentive to join in the fund anyway. But just the idea that you know, each one, let's say, committing ten thousand dollars in repairs for a complete calendar year. Yeah, probably not a whole lot of skin. Maybe assuming a lot. I don't know what it's like to have to run an automobile repair business, but you know, it's not a tremendous amount overall. But if you get if the more people, the more stations, and individuals who are in a position to repair cars get involved, man, that could be a profound, profound change. Oh yeah, yeah, keeping people we can and people employed. Well, that's what we're hoping. We're hoping that you can go to our website. I give you my telephone number of the over the radio here.
01:17:06
Speaker 9: It doesn't matter. We just need people to join our cause and help us.
01:17:11
Speaker 2: You know, put a dent in homelessness.
01:17:13
Speaker 1: And I know you've got a couple of heartwarming stories you can pass along about the work that the Help Squad has been doing over the last several well since we probably last talked. The Help Squad sinsy withthwy dot com. You can donate right there. If you're not in a position to be able to repair a car, at least make a donation or contribution. Again, this organization focuses more on the West Side, but this call to action, you're asking for autobile or repair folks all across the Greaters or the Tri State area to get right right.
01:17:40
Speaker 9: This isn't just a West side thing. When you work with Strategies DN Homelessness, it's for the entire Hamilton County City of Cincinnati. So this isn't just specifically on the west side. This is Hamilton County as a.
01:17:52
Speaker 1: Whole, all right. So the individual that needs this assistance, do they get in touch with the Help Squad through that organization? I know they just don't go to directly, No.
01:18:01
Speaker 4: Not at all.
01:18:01
Speaker 9: They're gonna be They're gonna come from the Strategies den Homelessness, so they're going to their people are going to find these families that are on the verge of becoming homeless, and then they're going to contact us. We will facilitate the date and time of the car repair so the service shop manager or owner does not have to deal with every single client. We have will be the liaison and uh we will facilitate all repairs.
01:18:26
Speaker 1: And you'll also do that vetting. And we talked about Oh of course, let me tell you something.
01:18:30
Speaker 9: If you can be vetted through Strategies and Homelessness and the Help Squad, you're pretty needy.
01:18:36
Speaker 1: You're in need, no question about that. We'll continue with Brian Ibel or we have the bottom the hour of the return of Brigham account our energy expert from the Hudson Institute. We got an hour with Brigham all kinds of wonderful and see the talk station seven twenty one. I think about kersee talk station Happy Friday. We're gonna talking energy policies Brigha McCowan for an hour after the segment of doing here with Brian Ibel from the Help Squad. And I love having the Help Squad and I spread the word about the low that they're passing along to those in need. And of course, what a brilliant concept getting folks automobile repairs who truly need it so they can continue to work. I still am reeling over the fact that an automobile repair is the number one cause and leading a reason that someone ends up in a homeless situation. Brian, that's just a real shocker. So the Help Squad sends you with a y dot com where you can help out by way of donation. If you are someone with the skills audibile repair, you own your automobile repair shop, you want to get involved anywhere in the general Tri state area. You can be a part of this ever growing team of folks providing those needed repairs. Just some donation of time and parts. It's tax deductible and you're going to all help yourself by doing that. As Brian illustrated, I understand, Brian Eyebolt. You got a fundraiser coming up.
01:19:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
01:19:48
Speaker 9: That's actually a really cool one. So on sink of to Mile that's May fifth. If you don't speak Spanish, sink of to Mile. We have a huge fundraiser at the Sign Museum.
01:19:59
Speaker 1: What a great vest.
01:20:00
Speaker 9: I mean, how much cooler can it get? No Sign music right on cool as you can get exactly. And what's also is really neat is that we're going to have Schari Palo and Mike Dardis are going to be the MC good for this for that event, so we're very grateful for them. Tickets are on sale right now, seventy five dollars a pop. You get food, entertainment, and then again you have the Sime Museum as well. Plus you'll get to hear me make a speech. Right, That's right, that's worth the price emission right there.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, now going back, I I just was suggesting maybe you can put a little human element, maybe pass along an illustration of something that you have, some person or family you helped out in the community by virtue of your efforts at the help Squad. Just give people an idea of what you're encountering and facing throughout the year.
01:20:51
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, I'll leave you with this. So we had a lady calls not too long ago, and we were the sixteenth age and see that she has contacted for help and what she needed was rental assistance. She was a she worked two jobs. She made money, made enough money to make it. I mean, she made ends meet. She had two children, and she had her dying mother living in a hospital bed in their living room under hospice care. And because of some of the costs associated with that, she missed a rent payment and was going to be evicted. Now do you under can you picture that?
01:21:29
Speaker 2: Wheeland?
01:21:30
Speaker 9: I mean, what is going on here living? Yes, like when we live in a society that would allow that. So sixteen agencies, we were the sixteenth fifteen fifteen of the agencies where government ran, agencies that put you on hold, don't call you back, or rude to you if they do answer, don't have the money, always an excuse not to help, okay. And we were the sixteenth. Ay, and she she called me on a Wednesday, she was going to have the eviction notice on a Friday. On Thursday, we paid the rent totality and there is no eviction.
01:22:03
Speaker 1: That's amazing, Okay.
01:22:04
Speaker 3: So what would have happened?
01:22:05
Speaker 9: Seriously, do what would have happened if we weren't here? I mean, what happens to families like that? And that's what I mean. It's not just on the West side people that need help.
01:22:13
Speaker 3: It's everywhere. I mean, every.
01:22:15
Speaker 9: Community should be a help squad community. I mean I feel like I'm banging my head against a car door to try to get people to understand this.
01:22:22
Speaker 1: And let me just double down of the idea that this is your Christian mission. You know, always bothers me when I find out that the person leading any church service the priest.
01:22:32
Speaker 6: I'm mom.
01:22:32
Speaker 1: Even anybody else telling you that a government program is the solution, that is offloading your mission, that is a human mission. Your gob obligation is a Christian is to do it yourself, not hand over the keys of someone else. Because look what happens. Sixteen other organizations were supposed to be in a position to helper. It's the number sixteen doing it on their own, not government run, not expecting anything, not making a profit. And the organization that is this isn't paying salaries. You just do it because you want to help. Yeah, we're all volunteer, real help comes, yes, sir, we're all volunteers. Nobody gets paid, and we're all privately funded. We have no grants, we have grant riders. We've never gotten a grant. I mean, so and to my submarine friend Mike who suggested maybe you should tap into the apparently infinite supply of n g OH money that the City of Cincinnati's handing out. I would recommend no, because then you get stuck having to work with those clowns.
01:23:25
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, you've got to be careful of, you know, getting in bed with the government and agencies like that. But like I said, all of our up to for the last five years have all been privately funded, all just donations from friends and people that actually have a concern for their fellow.
01:23:44
Speaker 1: Brother and sister and proven results.
01:23:46
Speaker 2: That's it.
01:23:47
Speaker 9: Definitely, that's why this is working because we have proven two people this works. They see where their money's going and it works.
01:23:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Matthew twenty five. You give them a buck, a buck's going to where it's needed.
01:23:58
Speaker 9: It's one percent of every day goes to help somebody. Not a lot of agencies can say that.
01:24:03
Speaker 1: There's a link on my blow up page thanks to Joe Streger who put it up there that helps squadsensey with the y dot com. I also put the ihead him put the Strategies to End Homelessness dot org website up as well. Since they're coordinating with you on these automobile repair needs. God bless you, Brian Ibolt, and I hope that you and I'm sure you did serve as an inspiration to someone out there who said, you know what, I'm gonna get involved. Happy one to you, Brian Thomas. Welcoming back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show hour energy policy expert Briingham Account from the Hudson Institute. You can find the Hudson Institute online at Hudson dot org and and I recommend you check that out regularly. Bringham Account, Welcome back, my friend. I appreciate what you do. Charged Conversations is Brigham's podcast, and I recommend you check out his podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back Brigham live from Las Vegas. Joe Strecker awarded you the Wake Up Early Award. Congratulations, Thank you well, Brian.
01:24:56
Speaker 6: It's great to be back on the show. We did just put out a charge count about oil moving through the Straits of horror moves coming out this week, but thank you. I decided very wisely when I got in yesterday to stay on East Coast time. Yes, good, it's dark, Yeah.
01:25:14
Speaker 1: I imagine it is, and I'm surprised you're not at the Roulett Wheel or the blackjack table. They're twenty four to seven. You never know what time it is in Vegas when you're in a casino. Brigham a count you know. I was cracking up on this. Yes, people are angry about the price of gasoline going up. Locally. It's gone up about I don't know, maybe a buck or maybe even more depending on where you are within the last several days. We're going to talk about why they jumped overnight. But I'm getting the kick out of it because everybody's screaming about it. This is Donald Trump's fault. Donald Trump's fault. Of course, when you engage in war, this does have an impact on supply chain. Of course, when you shut down the Straight of hornor Moves, where eighty percent of the world's oil flows through, you're going to have a spike. Now you'll explain why it spikes immediately, but it cracks me up. High price of gas. Isn't that something Barack Obama wanted and said we would have to deal with because we're going to chase our jails trying to limit carbon dioxide. So if he does it through legislation, edicts and mandates. The price goes up, and it's a good thing. But when it happens to happen as a consequence of sort of naturally occurring events like supply chain disruptions, it's terrible and it's awful, and we all want our cheap gas back.
01:26:17
Speaker 10: Yeah.
01:26:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're you're you're hit an out on the head something.
01:26:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:26:20
Speaker 6: I don't think we've talked about recently, but you're absolutely right. Back during the Obama days, right, it was we have to kick our addiction to oil. We have to get off of it.
01:26:29
Speaker 4: Everybody needs to it over.
01:26:31
Speaker 6: The beginning days, the good days. Everybody needs an ev everybody needs to turn their lights off, everybody needs to use less energy. And how do you do that, Well, you text the snot out of its artificially, yeah, yes. Or you make policies that you know it's picking winners and losers. You make something really expensive, you subsidize the snot out of something else to make it look like it's actually cheaper. And that's exactly what.
01:26:58
Speaker 1: Was going on back then, exactly. I always like to just keep reminding people of that. It's a self inflicted wound. When you're trying to chase carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And you may call it a self inflicted wind when you engage in war, but this is a normally happening occurrence. Now, I'll tell you what. It's almost seven thirty five, so I wanna pause, and you're gonna explain why gas prices jumped overnight? Because I know they were sitting on stockpiles of oil and refined gasoline. So how was it that the price of that went up immediately when they acquired it, when the price was a lot cheaper more with Bring h mcown from the Hudson Institute. Right after I mentioned Cross Country Mortgage, which is Sussette loads the camp's place and she is licensed off from talk station seven forty fifty five cars Detoxation from the Hudson Institute online at Hudson dot org. Bring him acount at the Calm the fifty five kr SE Morning Show. Energy Policy Expert, Energy policy expert. He is talking about the price of oil and why how is it that it just immediately goes up? How the price is store It started going up on Saturday when we started telling people in the world that we're dropping bombs on the Iranians. I see futures up just under eighty six dollars right now for at least some kind of crude they just typed in, So it's trending upward. Brighaman, that does make some sense given the current instability, the straight of horror moonves issues which we can elaborate on a little bit. But why overnight, Brigham, Why is it?
01:28:19
Speaker 2: Yeah?
01:28:20
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, fear moves the market first. Prices rise on risk and uncertainty, not just confirmed shortages. And that's kind of what we've seen number one, number two, even though the United States doesn't really get much oil frankly, it's negligible from the Middle East. If this were nineteen seventy three again or two thousand again, you'd be paying four fifty five dollars already.
01:28:47
Speaker 1: Well, that's when OPEC had a lock on global oil supply and we all thought there was a finite amount of oil. We're dealing with peak oil and oh my god, we're all going to die. They cut this pigot off, and I remember the the pictures of wines around the corner with people waiting, and well, remember the even odd license plate numbers. You could go to a gas station if your license plate was even on one day and odd on the other. Yeah, those were difficult times. And of course we had the stagflation of the seventies that made that thing even worse. We don't have that problem anymore because we engage in and above the above, all of the above, including drill baby, drill strategy. Now, isn't that true? Brigham?
01:29:21
Speaker 6: That is one hundred percent true. And even though prices have responded quickly, and the reason for that is you're preparing to buy your next unleaded gasoline, your next diesel, so your prices at the pump actually reflect what you're going to pay to replace what's already there, and that's why they move pretty quickly. But right now gasoline prices are about where they were in twenty twenty four. So, yeah, are they high?
01:29:49
Speaker 2: Yes?
01:29:50
Speaker 6: Do I think they're going to go back down within two to three weeks.
01:29:53
Speaker 4: I do.
01:29:54
Speaker 6: If you look at all the major conflicts and crises, and at Hudson, we've taken a look at that. These sp make sure what they call transit, they don't last very long. When Iran and Israel got into it, most recently, when the Persian Gulf War from the nineteen nineties happened. All of these things reside relatively quickly in the big scheme of things.
01:30:17
Speaker 1: Well, that's because they're not permanent Brigham like statutes, policies, and you know, the impediments of using gasoline that the administration I would argue, like Obama to fariously put in place in the name of oh my god, we're all going an eye global warming one hundred and fifty years down the road. Those don't go away very easily. They stay in place. And in other words, the price of gasoline will stay up because it was intended to do just that. Straight to horror moves is going to open up at some point, presumably bring them, and then they'll go back down again because the economic realities of supply will have changed absolutely.
01:30:48
Speaker 6: I mean, it's what we'd like say, economics one oh one, supply and demand. You have too much supply, price goes down. You have too much demand, price goes up. And we're already seeing some things. Saudi Arabia has a pipeline, it's actually two pipelines. They're massive. They can move up to six million barrels a day. Right now it's doing a little under two. They're getting that thing back up and running. So they're going to push six million out of the twenty million that the Persian Gulf pushes out every day over to the Red Sea to bypass the straight at hornor moves altogether. So that's going to come online pretty quickly, I think within the next five to seven days. Number one, Number two United States has given a thirty day relief for countries to purchase some stranded Russian oil on the market. Don't like it, but needs to happen in the short term, so that will reduce pricing. And then according to Admiral Connell of by United States Navy, it's very proud of what they've been doing out there. Tacks, ballistic missile launches, drone launches are down by ninety percent. We've now hit over thirty of their Iranian naval vessels. They pretty much have no functioning navy at this point. Including overnight we destroyed a drone tearing aircraft carrier, an American World War two carrier. So I think this is going to resolve itself, and they're not. This part of it is going to resolve itself.
01:32:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've reduced the missile strikes down like by ninety percent, and the drone strikes down any low eighty percent reduction, So just a little bit left and we blow up more of the manufacturing facilities and continue attack the mission launching sites. The problem in the Strait of Horror moves may solve itself simply because the Iranians have nothing to do by way of blowing up ships going through it. I also noted Brigham that some of the ships are taking are just taking the risk and going through on their own.
01:32:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, some are still going through. And it really comes back to war risk insurance. You know you have insurance on your car. Well, the ship has insurance, the cargo has insurance, and whether or not you're willing to pay a very high price to get that done, or some ships are just going through even if they can't get the right insurance. President Trump has announced the US will also offer insurance and has suggested that perhaps the Navy will get involved.
01:33:06
Speaker 8: Well, we'll see if.
01:33:07
Speaker 6: That's necessary, and we'll see how that moves. But there are hundreds of ships tied up wanting to leave right now. And again, that oil doesn't come to us that you know, the main beneficiary of that oil are Asian nations. Including some friends like Japan and South Korea, but large percentage that oil Brian goes to China.
01:33:28
Speaker 1: So well, you point it out before the oil is a global market. Price of oil is established based upon the quantity that's available in the world, not necessarily because we don't have our own, but it's just a defined sort of an economic fact that we can have to deal with.
01:33:44
Speaker 6: It is it is, and it's always been a global market, and it's risk. And you know, whether you're for or against what the current administration is doing, at the bottom line is you've got a regime that has attacked ships for forty seven years, has said they would close the golf, which again you're not allowed to do. It's an international passageway. So you know, dealing with this once and for all, I think will lead to longer term stability.
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Speaker 1: If that's the goal, well, I think that's an excellentployee to double down on. If you hadn't engaged militarily in trying to topple the Iranians, then they are and were in a position at any moment in time to shut down the straight of horror moves because they have all the rockets and missiles there. He can announce it to the world. Any ships going through, we're going to blow them up. And that sounds like a totally Iranian thing to do based upon their past history. So maybe in the future they'll never be able to do it again, and that'll bring about so much global stability. The price of gas will go below fifty bucks a barrel or something like that. Brigha mcaal, We've got a lot more to talk about. At seven forty six, we'll bring Brigham back and we'll ultimately we're gonna end up talking about Ohio utilities owning nuke plants. This is going to be a good thing. I think Brigham will enlighten us on his position on that. But if you're dealing with cracks stains response. I'm talking about concrete from this war risk insurance you mentioned. And I understand that you get a policy of insurance, and of course actuaries determine what the risk is and the premium is determined on it. But when you got a war right there next to where the insured vessels are going back and forth, insurance companies act in their best interest and cancel it. Donald Trump suggested maybe the United States would act as the I don't know, insurer of last resort or something like that. I kind of question whether Donald Trump has the ability to just immediately say, yeah, we're going to shoulder the burden of ensuring your vessels are going to get through.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, there is. That's a good point. And there is a US Finance and Development Corp. I'm probably not getting the name exactly right that could possibly be the vehicle for that. But you know, when I first heard about war risk insurance, I thought, oh, this only happens during war. Well, actually they carry war risk all the.
01:35:53
Speaker 1: Time, the time you're there.
01:35:54
Speaker 6: That's how long we've been dealing with this. Remember, let's rewind the tape to nineteen eighty seven, nineteen eighty eight Operation Ernest Will. We reflagged a bunch of foreign tankers under US flags and escorted them with navy ships through the straight of foreign news because I guess who was threatening them, Brian the Iranians. Yes, oh, how'd you know?
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Speaker 1: Cocking?
01:36:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, so's their country goes right there.
01:36:19
Speaker 1: I mean, it is on top of the strait we're talking about.
01:36:24
Speaker 6: It is this is, this has been going on for a very long time. And uh, you know, so to your point, now, what the good news is, but we're not seeing are cargo is being canceled. The ships are there, they're waiting, they're waiting to load, or they're already loaded waiting. And you know, the prevailing thoughts seem to be that one to two weeks smacks on this that we'll see.
01:36:46
Speaker 1: They could be wrong, little tea leaf reading. I like the optimism on that one bill, but the direction everything is going, the limitation of the number of missile strikes, and the uh well, the evisceration of the Iranian military generally speaking, and the destruction of their navy, all of it can lead to a short duration of this shutdown. So all right, we got that positive going for us, But you know, I got to observe bring before we part company and bring you back after the top of the internet to talk about nuke power here in Ohio. All those ships are still in the gulf there right. I mean, you can see them parked. I've seen the maps. Those are not outside of the reach of Iranian missiles either. Just because the strait of Horror moves is that really narrow, dangerous spot that you have to creep through, it doesn't mean they're without harm or potential for harm.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're definitely within harm's reach and they're just sitting there. So if iron had the capacity to strike them, I guess as they would, And you're right. The strait it's narrow by I don't know shipping terms. It's about twenty one nautical miles. It's about twenty four land miles wide. But there are two transit quarters. They're only two miles wide each, so you can pick them off there when they're moving. But right now they're all sitting there at anchor and nothing's happening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I bring that up to point that out. It could happen right now, not in the strait, So yeah, thankfully it's not, which suggests your optimism I think is well placed. Brigham account will bring it back live from Las Vegas live at the Sphere. Metallica is opening for him. He's bring the account from the Hudson Ins too. We'll talk nuke policy coming up out of the top of the our news. Don't go away, what's.
01:38:19
Speaker 2: Happening over there. You cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.
01:38:23
Speaker 1: Hey O six at fifty five krs the talk station behind Thomas here on a Friday, which I love My Fridays. And I love when we had brigingmcoun from the Hudson Instudo and you can find one line at Hudson dot org our energy policy expert. All right, we're walking through the crazy reality of gasoline. Yes, the price goes up immediately straight up our news. A problem which will probably be ironed out in relatively short term. So you should expect the guts to go back down, so sayth Brigham account and I'm with him on the optimism. Along those lines, I'm also briging mccownt Finally, we appear to have come to a point in time where nuclear power will be embraced. Thank you to artificial intelligence. Love it or hated. The huge demand and the building of all the these AI facilities, which seems to be the obvious wave of the future, use up massive quantities of power, And oh my god, is AI the solution to this ridiculous climate religion? Brigham a gown. Are we finally solving the problem?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it has certainly exacerbated its downfall. And Brian, you know even the Europeans are coming back to two key principles. One, the world has never used less energy, only more. Two I'm gonna add a third one two. If there is an energy transition, it's to a new power source that gives you more power, not less.
01:39:35
Speaker 1: Right and reliable, reliable to Brigham, don't forget that. It's gotta work.
01:39:42
Speaker 6: Yes, it's got to be accessible, available, and affordable. The key definition of energy security, which was the third point I was going to make, which is, if you don't have energy, it ruins your economy, it ruins your national security. It is the magic that makes everything run. And people are starting to realize that and finally figuring that out. And I think AI has precipitated that a little more quickly.
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Speaker 1: You know, I got to be the first person, not the first person to point it out. But I think that's the nefarious reality behind this whole global warming thing. I think it was intentionally designed to undersigned undermine our consumptive economy. That was the purpose. It's not really that we're exhaling ourselves into oblivion. Is that we just consume too much here in America, as with other developed Western countries, so go right for the jugular cut off their electricity supply, and their consumption necessarily goes down because their economies collapse.
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Speaker 6: I certainly think there is a guilt complex in many Western societies where people are guilty of what we've achieved. And you know, why do you think everybody wants to come to America or Europe? Because they want they want a better life. They you know, our system ain't perfect, but it's better that all the others.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's why I call it a religion. You know, quite often religion will cause people to feel guilty about filling the blank in your world, whatever that happens to be. Yeah, well, if you're out breathing, living, consuming, you need to feel guilty about it all day long. I just it's truly truly, Again I say nefarious. I just that's all I can conclude. You're intentionally harming yourself by engaging in legislative activities regulatory activities that make us less secure and cause our energy to cost more. That sounds like a recipe for it is stupidity in action. But nonetheless that's the road we went down. So pivoting back over to nuclear power. First off, for all the people who are wed to the religion and still think that carbon dioxide's a bad thing, they don't excel expel carbon dioxide. Bring them well, there's a problem solved right there.
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Speaker 6: They don't. They don't do any of that. And people say, well, wait, nuclear waste. But you know, we've talked about this I think before.
01:41:57
Speaker 2: Is that if you.
01:41:58
Speaker 6: Gathered up all the nuclear waste in the country, it's fit on a football field.
01:42:01
Speaker 2: It is not.
01:42:03
Speaker 6: It is not as big as one thinks. Does it last very long time? Yes, which is why we need to build building advanced generation reactors that use less, that create less byproducts. Oh and by the way, it will be recyclable, so folks that are into that, we won't have the waste that we had, say from the nineteen sixties or seventy well, with.
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Speaker 1: Small modular reactors. I understand the quantity of waste after it's gone, after it's been used up over its useful life, which is really a long time twenty plus years or even longer for SMR. So by the time you let a couple of decades, three decades, even four decades past and it becomes waste, there's not that much of it, even less so than that than the reactors that we used to use.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's very little, and it is amazing, and you know, it's technology that is finally coming full circle. Civilian nuclear actors, and again I hate say this is a problem with Iran. Civilian nuclear actors require three to five, we'll say, even ten percent enriched uranium. So when you talk to the roundings, you're like, hey, hey, guys, why are you doing this? We just want to clear a few Well, why are you enriching it to sixty percent? I don't know, why are you doing it one hundred feet underground?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: What we need here in the US is three to five maybe ten if you're using some medical stuff percent enrichment. It's not weapons grade stuff.
01:43:31
Speaker 1: Out there all right, Before we get to the regulatory challenges that one faces if they choose to build a reactor or otherwise embrace this technology, do we have sufficient quantities of uranium at our disposal? I mean, there was all that concern some years ago that we sold our uranium. I basically sold our uranium rights off to the Russians, And I'm just kind of wondering where we are in terms of uranium supply.
01:43:58
Speaker 6: We're spinning back up, but we're certainly the eight ball. We were the world's largest producer of uranium or not now after the Soviet Union fell. We bought up all of their leftover stuff, including idly enriched eighty ninety percent for I E. Bombs, and we down blended it and we had decades of fuel and we let our domestic industry atrophy and basically go away. And so now we are needing to rebuild Canada. We can ever sort that deal out. Canada has uranium we can get. We can produce uranium. We used to make it here in Paducah and Pike Paduca, Kentucky and Piked, Ohio. That was the world epicenter for enriching uranium. And we're starting to spend that back up literally with the new generation centrifuge enrichment machines, which is.
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Speaker 2: The way to do it now.
01:44:51
Speaker 1: Well, not in my backyard is a refrain from folks that you know, are maybe facing a new nuclear power facility being built in their neighborhood or funeral area. But in terms of going after the uranium itself, can that be done safely? I imagine a lot of people might have some concern about just mining this stuff close to where they live.
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Speaker 6: Well, like rare earth minerals mining it. It's in such rare concentrations. There's some radioactivity and all the earth around us, right, and you go out and look around. It's the processing of it, and it requires vast amounts to sift out all the impurity to actually make it you know, high more highly enriched. And so that's totally safe process and I wouldn't be concerned about that. I think the question is do you want to live next to a nuclear power plan? And I think a lot of supporters of nuclear power like it. But the NIMBI thing is real.
01:45:49
Speaker 2: It is.
01:45:50
Speaker 1: But see, I'll go back to and again our listeners are going to I know where he's going on this one. You know the idea that we've been using these small reactors in our military ships since late nineteen fifties without incident. Hell, our sailors and our navy work literally right next to these things. I've never heard anybody complain about, you know, glowing in the dark after working on them. And there they are. They fit inside of a ship. So what is the footprint with that concept in mind, what's the size? What's the footprint of a small modular reactor? How much space it takes because you don't need one of those giant cooling tower things or multiples of those, they're not nearly as big as the old schools, say three mile island type reactors that they build at one time.
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Speaker 7: They're not.
01:46:34
Speaker 6: They are a couple of eighteen wheeler you know, trailers, fifty fifty three foot trailers as sort of the size we're talking about. But you know, we also need to keep constructing large nuclear reactors because the SMRs are great, but they are they produce less power obviously, although you can hook them up in parallel.
01:46:53
Speaker 2: Right.
01:46:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking, you know, if the artificial intelligence facilities are required now to generate their own power, that seems to be the most logical direction to go, unless you're next to maybe hydro power or something else that can provide twenty four to seven power. So maybe they'll have enough to give the neighborhood its own source of electricity. I mean, if they've met their own needs and they're generating more power than they need, there you go, we've got access to more and that sounds like a good thing.
01:47:19
Speaker 6: You know, it is a good thing. And unfortunately, again because of prior administrations prematurely retiring coal fired and other fossil fuel power plants, we're in a bit of a crunch. Right now, we have a lot that is being projected. I think ten years from now we're going to be great. But right now we don't have enough power, and many utilities are telling their commercial customers AI data centers, do you best get your own power behind the meter? We're not going to be able to do it right now, and that's a huge problem, and it's a direct result of poor policy by previous administrations.
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Speaker 1: Well, that allows us to stumble onto the next one, the Ohio proposal about utilities owning nuclear generation. I think maybe we've run into another regulatory challenge, the debate centering on whether electric utilities that deliver power should also be allowed to own their own power plants. That sounds to me like somebody had a regulation and that says they can't. We'll let Brigham explain that one to us when we get back. It's eight sixteen, fifty five KRCD talk station fifty five krc per CD talk station A twenty fifty five KRCD talk station. Brian Thomas with Brigha McCown. He's calling in from Las Vegas, Nevada. We're talking energy policy. Hudson dot orgs where you find the Hudson Institute. Brigha McCown. The traditional utility model, the power companies generated the power, coal plant, gas plant, nukes, whatever, and then they delivered it and that's what we paid for. Why did we restructure that model and how did it not inure to our benefit in the nineteen nineties And where do we need to go today? Brigha McCown.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Ohio separated electric generation from delivery in nineteen ninety nine when it restructure the power sector under a Senate bill. And since then, you know, electric power systems have two distinct roles. First, you have generation, and these companies build and just operate power plants. They take on the costs. The revenue comes from selling that electricity wholesale onto the markets. The second traditional utility company we think of it is transmission and distribution, and these companies own the poles, the wires, the substations, and they're regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
01:49:30
Speaker 4: And so.
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Speaker 6: Back in ninety nine they separated these two mainly so that the public wasn't going to be on the hook for developing power plants. And nuclear power plants operate under very different different economic models. They're very expensive to build, and I think that's the current push to smash everything back together against I'll pause.
01:49:54
Speaker 1: There brand expensive to build? Are they really truly expensive to build? Or do we make that expensive to build? Because first off, again, small modular actors are like legos, one size fits all. Once you have a design model that works, you just pull up that trailer you were talking about, plug it in. And I know I'm boiling it down to simplicity, but plug it in and it's done. The reactors that they have been building since they started building, and what the exception of the military are all these giant one off one size does not fit all. So it takes a lot of design, development, regulatory approval, blah blah blah. It takes forever to even get one started. I mean to lay the first brick in the ground on one. So we're not there anymore. So does it really need to be expensive going down this road?
01:50:37
Speaker 6: Well, to really do this and to transition us over to nuclear power, we need both. We need big reactors and we need smaller reactors. The key is that we make them exactly the same. And of the big reactors around the country, no two of them are alike. No two of them are the same. This is the the idiocy frank play of the industry in the past is guys, so you wonder why every single one has to be licensed from scratch. Stop changing things mass produce a car, you know, hey Ford, it's not that hard.
01:51:17
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:51:17
Speaker 6: So that is so there is a Westinghouse design that has kept out and it's been the government's been reluctant. I think the industry has been reluctant to just say, okay, we're going to build one type well, okay five, license three or four and small, medium, large, micro, whatever, and that's what we get. That would cut the cost down significantly because a large nuclear actor costs ten to twenty billion dollars to construct, but once if you built it could operate for sixty or seventy years with these very low fuel costs. So the challenge has been financing that initial construction. And if Ohio puts it all back together again, the concern is the rate payers I, E and I and everyone else listening. We're going to be asked to finance this project as opposed to the utility company going out into the private market and finding financing.
01:52:13
Speaker 1: Is that financing impossible to find? If we go back maybe to the old way. Will there will there be a market for financing.
01:52:19
Speaker 6: This, Well, it's not, but you know private financing, and there is public financing available. Department of Energy has financing available to the government. But you know when institutional lenders lend money, they're very particular. There's a lot of oversight, more oversight frankly than the Public Services Commission, who's like, oh, you need more money, it costs more, Okay, I'll pass another rate hike through. So there is some concern that we're going to get stuck with the end, with people being inefficient and this thing costing too much, which is what happened to the last reactor we just brought online.
01:52:57
Speaker 1: Down in Georgia, Brigg, McCowan, Hudson, and sut I appreciate your willingness to come on the morning show, even when you're out of town. I know you've got stuff to get to right away, so I'm gonna let you go, and I appreciate the time. Like I said, I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Safe travels Backbreger and we'll get you back on asap.
01:53:12
Speaker 6: Thanks, Brian, appreciate it, My pleasure.
01:53:13
Speaker 1: Take twenty five network dot Com reporting on matters impacting us here in the state of Ohio. Welcome back, Jack Windsor. It's good to see you on the Zoom call and good to hear your voice here on the fifty five Krssey Morning Show.
01:53:23
Speaker 10: Happy Friday to you man, Happy Friday, Brian. Always an honor and a pleasure to be here with you and the KRC listeners. Thank you for having me.
01:53:29
Speaker 1: Well, we got choices when it comes to Secretary of State here, and we've got a primary coming up, and the choices are Marcel Sturbage and Robert Sprague. And Marcel's been on the program a couple of times. I've been very impressed by him. When you hear him talk, he is man, he is committed, he's on point, he's got on message. He comes across strong, very clear in his vision what he hopes to accomplish in the role in the office. His background is great, obviously, proudly served his country in the military. And I just go to sturbridgefor Ohio dot Com. You can find out for yourself. I asked Joe Strecker going into the conversation or this morning, Jack, if Robert Sprague has ever reached out to us or and Joe said that is a big no. And also there have been nothing but crickets in response to the outreach from US to have him on the program to hear what he's all about. So I find that rather strange. But having talked with Marcel, I can't find anything wrong with a man and his candidacy. So what's your take on Marcel? And it seems to me like it's one of those Republican parties sort of protecting one of its own entrenched members. Am I onto something with that statement?
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Speaker 8: Jack?
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Speaker 10: I think you're one hundred percent on to something. Brian, First of all, I have personally endorsed Marcel Sturbage for Secretary of State, and it was a real simple decision for me. I've had mart Cell on my program forever the past couple of years, and he has been one hundred percent accurate in his ability to assess where Ohio is with election integrity and what steps need to occur, and he has been talking about those steps, he has been working with the legislature to bring about those changes, and so when he decided to run for Secretary of State, it was an easy choice for me to get behind him now. I do want to say Robert Sprague has visited with me before, but that was back when he still wasn't sure if he was trying to get appointed to the US Senate, when Governor Dwine was trying to make his choice, and it was before he decided to run for governor, if you remember that. So it was, well, maybe I want to be in the Senate, maybe I want to be governor, and then eventually he settled on this Secretary of State role. I do want to say I think Robert Sprague is a good man. I think Robert Sprague is a prudent person, and I think that if he were in a position, he would do well. The challenge is, I don't think he's as good as his competitor for this specific role.
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Speaker 1: Okay, And that's kind of the conclusion I'm reaching in. I don't want anybody to think that for a minute. I've got some action to grind against Robert Sprague. I just don't recall talking to him. Joe said if he was ever on the show with like maybe one time. And I don't expect anyone to necessarily come on the show. That's their prerogative. But I don't know enough about the man compared to Marcel to make that decision. So I guess I find myself in your Campjack with this now just look good? No, no, no, I'm being honest with my listeners. So, now is the deck stacked against Marcel in the sense he doesn't have a shot. I mean, how's he looking as we headed under the primary?
01:56:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, great question.
01:56:27
Speaker 1: His polling numbers look fantastic.
01:56:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a controversy.
01:56:31
Speaker 10: First of all, he commissioned a poll, and he's the guy that many in the parties say can't raise the money. Well, he raised enough money to actually conduct a poll, and according to that poll, a huge number of people are undecided, which, by the way, should not be surprising. The secretary of state race in a midterm election is not at the top of everyone's punch list to research. Generally, However, the people who had made a decision or thought they had made a decision, he is Marcel Sturbage.
01:56:58
Speaker 3: That is up by eight point.
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Speaker 10: Now, when the voters were informed about his platform, his margin of victory spreads to forty seven points. So once they understand who he is and what he is, that number gets larger. Now, many people in the other camps say well, that's not a legitimate poll, and then Marcel points to the fact that the Republican Party has actually used this same outfit before spend one hundred thousand dollars getting other polls done. So one, I do think his message is resonating. There will be a challenge as we head down the back stretch here though, can he reach the number of voters that he's going to need to reach in order to win that election? And the Republican Party, the State Central Committee decided to endorse Robert Sprague, his opponent, so that will give him the indiceha, that will give him some financial breathing room, if you will. Plus he will probably have the donor class behind him. So down the stretch it's going to be about can Marcel get in front of enough voters and can he overcome the millions and millions and that we'll see from Robert Sprague.
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Speaker 1: Well a Ford part company and end this break and move on to a different topic. I guess I'm just kind of curious to know, and I think I know your reaction. A lot of my listeners and you guess you can count me among them, little upset with the Republican Party making endorsements in advance of the primary before the actual Republican voters have to have a say have had a say in the matter.
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Speaker 10: Jack, Yeah, So that is a very, very controversial topic, and it really came to a head if you remember back when Governor Mike DeWine was endorsed by the party and there was a contested gubernatorial primary. But what ended up being interesting is now you have another governor's race four years later, and some of the same people who when DeWine was endorsed early came out and said, well, listen, Traditionally I wouldn't support endorsing in a race, but because Governor Mike DeWine is going to try to pull all the levers possible to get someone like Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel to be the party's endorsed candidate, we've got to go ahead and get out of the gate early, get the Vake Ramaswami to be the guy that we endorse y. And so that was a real interesting about face. And then of course that has continued on down the ticket, and I think that will benefit Marcel Sturbich's opponent in this race.
01:59:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right on that one. And while I didn't have and my listeners may call me out on being hypocritical on this, I didn't say anything about the Republican Party's endorsement or vi vike Ramas on me just because I think Vivek is the candidate and I really want him. But the same arguments to apply. I think if we had they had let us just approach the primary on the gubernatorial candidate, vivig Ramaswami would have run anyway, and that's where we would be and there wouldn't be this controversy. It's like the nuclear option Jack. Once you get rid of the sixty vote threshold and you go down to fifty, it's over with and it's done. So I think we're going to see this trend continue down the road.
01:59:46
Speaker 10: It's unfortunate, and I think we are. And the challenge is many times it's hard for people to do all of their homework in advance, and it's actually the primary election that brings their attention to the point that they need to do the researches. And if you have the part already putting the thumb on the scale before that, maybe sometimes you're not getting the best candidate or the candidate that people genuinely want, and.
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Speaker 1: It reduces the likelihood that they will agree to a debate, which I think benefits everybody.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 10: I would absolutely agree with that, and that's been one of my areas of frustration with Robert Sprague. He seems to not want to debate now, and he's actually like he has with you. He has gone radio silent with me, and his campaign staff will not return phone calls, and I'm begging him to come on my show and answer some hard questions.
02:00:28
Speaker 1: Well, continue with me this morning. Energy policy. We're going to continue with Jack Wins when we get back Ohio Senators and Trump discussing energy rates, regarding building new data centers, Bring your own power more with.
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Speaker 2: The Deep Talk Station.
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Speaker 1: Hey forty one to fifty five case The talk station a worthy site to book. Marjorie ohiopressnetwork dot com. Jack Windsor's side Jackson the program Every Friday, yere on the fifty five krssee Morning show. Bring us up to speed. And I understand that Trump and well, John Houston, Bernie Moreno had a whole bunch of other folks, so are doing a roundtable in terms of well artificial intelligence, it's a boom. We're all dealing with it, but we're all worried about that it's going to make our electricity bills go up through the sky. And that seems to be going in that direction, Jack Windsor, I know there's been a lot of proposal about AI bringing their own power with them. I had a conversation with Bring them account from the Hudson Institute about small modular reactors and that may be a thing they can bring with them. Very expensive they are. But what does this all mean to us, Jack Windsor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, great question.
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Speaker 10: So President Donald Trump is serious about the United States continuing to lead on AI, particularly with China, the country that is competing with us primarily, and he wanted to address this concern that we all have, which is if we build all of these data centers and these data centers become a suck on our power supply, then what does that do to our electric bills?
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Speaker 3: So he worked with some key.
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Speaker 10: Companies Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Open Ai, and Xai and they signed a non binding agreement and they committed to five things. One was to secure their own electric tricity supplies for data centers, to invest in new power generation resources. Three, fund transmission upgrades for negotiate separate rate structures with utilities in five enhance grid resilience to handle increased demands. And it's also noteworthy, as you mentioned, Senators Bernie Marino and John Housted were in attendance and praised this commitment. But also we're alongside META when they announced a new workforce training program in Ohio to support AI related jobs, which of course aligns with the pledges focus on economic growth, particularly using local workers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know some people are against the whole concept of AI in their backyard, going back to the NIMBI thing, it's a foregone conclusion these are coming. So you know, if it was a let's say, a multiplex, giant Walmart, Giant Kroger, giant whatever, taking up the same square footage of land, would people be against it as much as they are with the AI facilities, considering the amount of revenue by way of tax dollars they presumably will bring in any given community. It's the power, really is the problem for most people, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: It really is. It's the power.
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Speaker 10: And I think there's still this nebulous, conspiratorial thinking, and I don't. By the way, I don't use the word conspiratorial the way that some people on the left do. There is just this belief that there's some conspiring and hiding some information about surveillance and all those things, and so there are some of those concerns.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it does come down to power.
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Speaker 10: But I like to point out, and I know that you've had Donovan O'Neil with Americans for Prosperity on your show before. Oh sure, but AFP's been really on the bleeding edge with some of this. And when you look at those five points that Trump is really working hard to make sure these tech giants adhere to Ohio really is pretty far down the path. If you remember, House Bill fifteen became effective in August of last year. It really deals with a lot of that behind the meter, self generation and microgrids, So Ohio is really kind of suited up and ready for these companies to do that here. And then of course, the separate rate structures and cost allocation and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio did approve some data center specific tariff language for AFP AEP. Now that needs to be blanketed, I think, and applied to all of these power companies. But there are incentives for new generation transmission under House Bill fifteen and the grid resilience enhancements that's kind of baked into House Bill fifteen, and some of this stuff that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is doing. But overall, I think Ohio's framework is already well equipped for these non binding pledges. It will be now then incumbent upon the lawmakers in the General Assembly to take it the extra mile to make sure that Ohio is in a position that when these companies want to do the things that they've committed to do, that they're legally able to.
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Speaker 1: Do them, legally able to do them. There's that pesky legal impediment, self imposed, self inflicted wound. Usually Jack windsor it take forty five. We'll bring Jack back to talk about whistleblowers. Are they being punished for exposing waste and fraud?
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Speaker 2: God?
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Speaker 1: I hope not, but something suggests on the topic that yeah, they are more With Jack windsor don't go away fifty five.
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Speaker 2: You're a c deep talk station.
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Speaker 1: Eight if you have KRC detalk station Friday, Jack windsor the Ohio Press Network. Wait a minute, Jack Fraud wasted abuse. We all need to go after it because this does not bear a political stripe. If someone is stealing taxpayer dollars, they're stealing liberal tax payer dollars, conservative tax payer dollars, politically neutral Switzerland type political politically leading folks. Everybody is suffering on this. There should be no fraud wasted abuse. There should be a fiduciary obligation owed by people in government to mind the store and prevent it from happening. Clearly, Minnesota is a wonderful illustration of them not only being aware of fraud wasted abuse, almost actively encouraging it, claiming, oh my god, if I say something, I'll be accused of racism. Oh blow it out or you know what, that is a nonsensical argument. If you're stealing, it doesn't matter what color skin you've got, you are, which is a pox on everyone with that in mind. Whistle blowers, Jack, what's this what all about?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: First of all, preach, Brian, Preach.
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Speaker 10: Second of all, just another bombshell report from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It dropped earlier this week, and what we now know is that based on the testimony of nine current and former state officials in Minnesota that Governor Tim Walls and his administration not only knew that fraud was occurring, they did nothing about it. And then what you just said, they went the extra mile and actually sought to punish the whistleblowers. Now, there are six different types of allegations. I'll run quickly through those. First, whistleblowers alleged that millions were spent on surveilling employees who raised fraud concerns. So not only were they letting money seep out the hole in the bucket, they were taking what money was left over to actually try to surveil the people who.
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Speaker 3: Were blowing the whistle. Disgusting.
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Speaker 10: Whistleblowers also claimed that private investigators or law firms were hired to silence them. Dozens of whistleblowers reported being told to not speak about the fraud, and as you just pointed out, they would be accused of being racist, islamophobic, xenophobic. Upper management conducted regular check ins or meetings with these employees who reported concerns so that they felt big brothers watching right over their shoulder. And then examples include of job related threats and demotivation. Supervisors threatening to make a whistleblower's life difficult, and then those supervisors later receiving a promotion. So it was very clear that this was a culture that rewarded turning a blind eye to fraud, and then management showed disdain for groups of employees emailing fraud concerns to leadership, including the governor's chief of staff, and broader findings note a fear of political retribution. So again these are not just pie in the sky, you know, pulled out of the ether. These are based on the testimony of nine current and former states officials there in the North Star state, so that not only is their waste, fraud and abuse, now they're punishing the good guys that are actually trying to stand up for the taxpayer.
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Speaker 1: Well throughout this process. And you know, if you look at the reporting on this Minnesota thing, and I thought Imprimus did a fabulous job and I can't post it on my blog page. They through the whole thing. But the author pointed out the history of the investigation of these leering centers and these various other programs, and that there was local reporting on it going way back, pointing out the fraud, waste, and abuse. I mean, this was widely known. This was just this wasn't flying under the radar. This was kind of going on on and on and on, and considering the reasons as you just boiled down and articulated these threats of you know, accusing people of xenophobia or whatever, which I find, you know, threaten me with that, I'm gonna laugh at you. Where are the spine with these people? But I think you've revealed some perhaps broader problem that's going on with our pretty much anybody in elected capacity, they're all being threatened along these lines. We're gonna have an organized campaign, We're gonna boycott you, We're gonna accuse you endlessly of being a racist and homophobe. And as Nivo and you wonder why our politicians do things, maybe they got the goods on behind the scenes, like yeah, we know where you search on the internet, we got pictures of you or whatever. This kind of extortion thing without people in those positions having spines willing to stand up to and going no, no, I'm not a racist. I'm just looking at people ripping us off. It seems like a simple response, Jack.
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Speaker 3: It really does.
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Speaker 10: It really does. And by the way, I will remind your listeners. And I'm sure that this is gonna make some people mad, but I don't care. Our governor is a governor who stood up when the beginning of discovery has happened here in Ohio and said, well, you know, the Somali people are good people, and they contribute to our local businesses and regional businesses, and listen, this is not a critique of the Somali people, but it would be. It's stupid for the governor to say things like that when you can look at the numbers and recognize that seventy percent, somewhere between fifty eight and seventy percent get Medicaid, they get snap benefits, and they get other welfare benefits, and so I go, okay, if they are contributing members of society, why are their rates for public assistance exponentially higher? And again it goes back to this guilty shaming and blaming. We are never going to get it right if every time that we step out or put our necks out and say, look, this is something going wrong here, that we cowtail when somebody says, well, you're racist or you're xenophobic, And when you have a governor of the state of Ohio really role modeling that it doesn't take long to figure out why we have millions and probably billions of dollars a fraud here in this state as well.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the point I've been making, never paying with the broad brush. I'm sure there are some within the smaller community that are contributing, and they are paying taxes, and they are great mom and dads, and they have family life whatever. Not all of them follow to that category much in the same way. Some of them are ripping us all up. That is not me saying all Somalians are thieves. You're painting with a broad brush. By accusing me of that, you are basically being the racist. Come on, just because you're within some given category of people the whole, doesn't mean there's not a subset of people who might fall out of that collective and say, no, those are nefarious. The subset of the Smalling community are nefarious. A subset of the Smalling community are great people. Let's go after the nefarious. Let's keep this whole race thing out of it and save ourselves the taxpayer dollars that are being ripped off.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 10: And this is what concerns me, and we can talk about it with any topic. Now, there is this movement within the middle of the road to the right. I call it the woke right now. And you look at what the left has done for the past four or five decades. They've become masterful at identity politics, and if you go against the narrative, then they put a label on you racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, whatever. Well, when the right starts doing those same things, we are going so far away from the fourteenth Amendment, which says that we should be applying the law equally to every buddy and everyone should get an equal remedy. If we start down that road, I'm afraid we're not going to come back. So shame on Governor Mike Dwine and other Republicans who fall into that trap.
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Speaker 1: Amen, underscore and I share your criticism the ohiopressnetwork dot com. Fine, Jack, bookmark the site.
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Speaker 8: Jack.
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Speaker 1: We'll do this next Friday. I have a wonderful weekend and a great week my friend, you too. Thank you for six fifty five cares to de Talk Station Tech Friday with Dave hat Or Brian
