55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Restore Wellness, Help Squad, Jack Windsor

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Speaker 1: 505-55KRC, the talk station. Happy Friday.
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Speaker 2: There it is.
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Speaker 1: You know it's Friday. Ryan Thomas right here. Glad to be here, especially on a Friday. I always enjoy my Fridays for whatever reason. Just a little bit of a weight lifted off the problems we've got to face in the world and talk about here on the 55KRC Morning Show. Topics you can guide. I always like to point out listeners can decide which way we go. If you've got a phone call, you want to talk about some particular thing that's going on in the world, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, or pound 550 on AT & T phones. Coming up on the morning show, it is Friday, of course, Tech Friday with Dave Hatter, 630. Interest IT's Dave Hatter, which sponsors this segment. I'm proud to let you know that. Dave does us all great service every Friday at 630. Today, the University of Kentucky has installed artificial intelligence facial screening tech at residence halls. Now, if you're angry about flock cameras, are you angry about that? Dave's comments on that because Dave does not like flock cameras. Disconnect your LG television from the Internet now. Not tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: We'll explain why. Apparently a big brother's watching you or LG, the company's watching you. Dave details with Dave Hatter. And finally, who's tracking you? There's a new service that you can determine who is tracking you, and he will explain that to us as well. We're going to look at health on Friday. It's George Brenneman only. Keith Tenenfeld's not going to be here, but George has got some really wild stuff to talk about. It's health and politics. Get a load of the topics. And we've kind of scratched the surface of this when we talk about health care with George Brenneman. Restore Liberty is one of the things he does, but restorewellness.org is the other place. And so George is all about health, having taken stock in his own health some years ago and really just got on the bandwagon. So there's great resources, material, and information if you're looking forward to maybe deciding you're going to try to be better, more healthy. But over the years, it's George's position that we have been screwed. 1910, the move over to vegetable oil. 1958, the demonization of cholesterol. That's when everybody said you couldn't have eggs anymore, which you're allowed to have now. Apparently, science has caught up with the demonization of cholesterol. And why would they demonize cholesterol? Statin drugs, maybe?
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Speaker 4: Hmm.
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Speaker 1: Some suggest, and though I do not know because I'm not a research scientist, but statins may have a connection with Alzheimer's. You know, it's all involving fat. That's what your brain's made out of. But, well, I'm sure George We'll have something to say about that. 1977, yes, I remember this because I was in school and I was taught the food pyramid. Back in my day, it was 4432. If you remember that, if you're roughly my age, they had the jingles and songs, and that was when the teacher would wheel in the, what, 24-inch color television and plug it into the cable, the closed cable system, where someone in a media room would pop some form of vehicle. Maybe it was a tape. I don't know. But then you would get the propaganda from whoever prepared these pyramid jingles and songs with young people dancing around talking about 4432. We don't do that pyramid anymore. And apparently it was really bad for us. It may be one of the reasons we're so obese in this country. Way too many carbohydrates. Finally, we'll talk about the 2019 COVID scandal. Boy, that one's fresh in our minds, isn't it? Good topics with George. George, again, will join the program at 7.05. He'll be in studio for an hour of health talk. And we'll get Brian Eibel back, the Help Squad, Westside Charitable Organization. And, of course, I am certain, given what the Help Squad does, helping people get over temporary hurdles. You know, Brian and the team at the Help Squad do a really good job vetting people. So someone comes in and says, I can't make this month's rent payment because, well, maybe my car quit working or something. A minor hurdle. They vet them, and then they provide that financial assistance on a temporary basis, allowing people to stay in their homes or maybe get their car repaired so they can continue to earn a living. It's really important work, and with the price of fuel and gasoline and inflation, generally speaking, going up, I can only imagine the help squad, a number of people in need has increased. Brian will certainly clarify that at 8.05. Followed by Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network, gas tax relief. That's, Amy Acton wants it. Vivek Ramaswamy wants it. Mike DeWine does not want it. How about that? Sherrod Brown's voting record? Yes, we need to go over that because, well, 100% lockstep with the Democrat Party. So if they advance left-wing communist socialist platforms and principles, he's going to vote for them. You want that? And finally, news agencies press past battle with Trump.
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Speaker 5: Indeed.
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Speaker 1: 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Real quick, why not? Because this is what I've been saying. You've talked about this, getting rid of this, suspending the gas tax in Ohio, suspend the diesel tax in Ohio, whatever you want to do, temporary relief. And, of course, Donald Trump and the Republicans are now starting to suggest embracing the oil embargo by not selling our diesel on the global market. European Union is pulling their hair out of that. Come on, we're buying this stuff off you.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 1: Well, they don't build refineries. And, in fact, NATO Secretary General just said this the other day. You know, no refineries, shutting down your refineries. He called it a big worry for defense. it's the refining capacity in Europe. He said, well, what we're seeing now is no new refineries being built in Europe. We are seeing that refineries are being closed down. And if war breaks out, if the Russians would attack, which is something that was said the other day, I believe it was Norway talking about, well, they're preparing for the Russians to invade a NATO country. Whether or not that's true, I don't know. But obviously this is a subject matter that's got our noted, notable elected officials and others in governments a little bit worried. hmm, if war breaks out, are we going to have any fuel to fund the tanks and vehicles and, well, and all the other things that run on diesel fuel, and notwithstanding the fact that we need more jet fuel, etc.? It's all connected. So no refineries being built in Europe. He said, well, we're seeing refineries are being closed down, and if war breaks out, if the Russians would attack and we defend ourselves, we need massive amounts of diesel and other products for our F-35s, our fighter jets, for our tanks, etc. That's a big worry. But of course... That is not directly linked to whatever is playing out between the EU and U.S. Don't know what that means, but yeah. We stop selling diesel, they're going to suffer. And the refineries have pointed out that if you start, we have too much diesel production. We sell more than we make every day. Manufacturing diesel also results in the manufacture of other fuel products like jet fuel and gasoline. And if you don't have any place to put the diesel that you're no longer selling abroad, then things get backed up and everything else from a supply chain standpoint starts to break down. But what have I been saying? You vote for the commies, you vote for the Democrats because you're paying $ 6. 50 for diesel. Or as I paid yesterday, yeah, it's premium. I know I didn't have to buy a car that required premium, but I did.
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Speaker 3: $ 5.
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Speaker 1: 85 a gallon. Yeah, you start getting worried. But what are you voting for if you vote for the Democrats because you're pissed off that Trump started the war against the Iranians? Kim Strassel, doing what I have been doing, although articulating it much better, which is why I'm giving her props for mentioning her words, because I've been pointing this out all along. You're voting for a party that wants you to pay more for gas and diesel. What she writes, vote for the party that is temporarily making your diesel fuel more expensive, or to vote for the party that wants to lock you up for wanting diesel that works. Not quite Shakespeare, but for millions of blue-collar Americans... This is the 2026 question. Welcome to the diesel wars which show the limits of modern-day populism. Astute she is. As both parties chase working-class voters, diesel prices proving a made-for-politics moment. Which party can better address voters' pain? Average price of diesel, $ 6. 51 a gallon, double where it was in January. Killing farmers who fill combines and irrigation pumps. Truckers on long hauls. Construction workers on excavators and cranes. Loggers... Go on. Everything. The delivery of groceries to your grocery store. She says Republicans are shaking so hard they can mix redneck martinis, whatever the hell that means. This was supposed to be the election in which Republicans solidified Donald Trump's blue-collar gains after two years back in the White House. Worst vote-buying impulses. Nice subtle point there, Kim. Only it turns out that phony populist pitches don't translate into broad economic gain and, more importantly, I would argue, the voters have short memories. Where's the love for no tax on tips? Or prescription drug price controls? Which he did do. Can't Iowa farmers trust that tariffs are creating jobs instead of obsessing over fertilizer prices? Did nobody hear the president's promise of $ 5, 000 checks? Add in soaring diesel costs, the temporary... consequence of a policy with actual principle denying Iran its nuclear terror threat.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 1: That's the goal that is to be accomplished. The pain that you're going to feel as a consequence of denying Iran its nuclear terror threat is a temporary increase in diesel and gas. The president, to his credit so far, isn't wilting under pressure, rushing to cut a bad deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, but he has done no job of explaining his strategy for ending the war. and his candidates are panicking. Thus, the side of the GOP pandering even harder, racing to back a diesel fuel export ban. Such a plan would trade possible slight decreases in diesel prices for longer-term industry problems, even as it hikes gasoline and jet fuel costs. This seems not to have occurred to Republicans and the way to address the diesel question is to point to the bigger picture. The real choice blue-collar workers face in November is between short-term price hikes for a good cause and the eventual death of diesel, what the Democrats want. Fatal flaw of the left's own new populist chase for the working class. They don't mean it. They've recruited candidates who look and walk like the real working deal. Graham Platner, the oysterman, Troy Jackson, the fifth generation logger, Dan Osborne, the mechanic, Dave Cantrell, the electrician. But they belong to the party that is wedded to as radical a climate agenda as ever with the prime goal of eliminating fossil fuels. Moreover, the party remains resolutely on the wrong side of the other diesel question raging. Blowing out of touch media's notice. Have you ever heard of DEF, my friends in the listening audience? Neither have I. The DEF war, she writes, and I'm scratching my head. What in the hell is that? Diesel owners remain furious over a Clinton-era mandate inflicting diesel rigs with the dumbest equipment invented by man. Diesel exhaust fluid or DEF systems. The unnecessary emission controls or pure money-sucking junk spiraling up initial costs requiring regular purchase of pricey DEF. The filters clog at low speeds or cold temperatures. Burner units back up. Sensors break constantly. Failure rates extreme. Big Brother fits all of its DEF rigs, including pickups, tractors, and construction equipment, with kill switches. Get a load of this. If you fail to add a DEF, or more likely your subpar equipment malfunctions, the computer limits the rig to 5 miles an hour. Limp mode. Rendering it useless until you shell out thousands for repairs.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 1: You ever heard of that? You can get rid of it. I'll have to read the rest of the article because Chuck Ingram's in the studio. Tell us about this crazy lockdown. We are in a world of slowdowns with the I-75 shutdown. Chuck Ingram, man, I'm... So this weekend's weekend, I-75 north and south closures begin. Some are permanent.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Tell us.
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Speaker 6: What else you got?
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what?
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Speaker 6: Forever.
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Speaker 1: How many presidential administrations, when campaigning, said we need to replace the Brent Spence Bridge? Well, we finally got what we asked for, and we need to deal with the pain as a consequence.
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Speaker 6: And it's going to take a few years for the pain part.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, boiled down, what are we looking at this weekend, Chuckie?
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Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about the bad news first.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, please.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 6: That's North and Southbound 75. Going to be shut down, start a little bit later on tonight. Full closure on North and Southbound at 11 o'clock. So northbound, you'll be having to exit that Fort Washington way for the weekend. Southbound, you're going to have to exit at Freeman. It's the last chance you'll have to exit off of the highway.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 6: Because they're going to start putting the new steel beams in for the Lynn Street overpass, which they tore down earlier this year.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 6: So that's the project for the weekend.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: And then that'll reopen after Monday?
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 1: That's a quick turnaround on that project over the weekend.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't want anybody driving underneath there.
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Speaker 1: Of course not.
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Speaker 6: There must be big problems. I'll have to ask a lawyer about that.
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Speaker 1: Ask anybody here to drive into the Western Hills Viaduct with stuff falling down on them. You don't want to do that in a construction site.
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Speaker 6: It's bad enough. Exactly right.
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Speaker 1: So what are the other components of this?
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Speaker 6: Well, the biggie is what we're going to notice come Monday morning. You'll no longer be able to use 6th Street Viaduct ramp to Southbound 75.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Sixth Street Viaduct coming into town, usually go to Southbound 75. You won't be able to do that until January of next year.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Okay, as they start. That's the biggie come Monday. This is after the closure on 75 this weekend. Now, I give you a little bit of good news in that you get a sixth lane available now at 5th and Central when all of this is done. So you have more room to come in and you can turn left on Central.
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Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 6: That'll help. And then there's a, I don't know if you recall, Southbound 75, they were adding this temporary ramp to 3rd Street.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: It's done.
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Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 6: So you'll be able to use that to kind of avoid a little bit of congestion into downtown.
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Speaker 1: So they're playing smart with the phases.
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Speaker 6: Trying to.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Trying to. I will give them credit on this, is trying to keep us up to date of what's going on. They're doing a pretty good job of keeping the information out. It doesn't stop the headaches. It won't stop all of that. But if you wanted to follow along, what did he just say? It's all at Brent Spence Bridge Corridor dot com.
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Speaker 1: You can see the development and the stages and when the next events are going to come.
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Speaker 6: You can even take a virtual tour and see what it's going to look like after it's done.
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Speaker 1: Well, Chuck, in addition, you're breaking it down for us. I will give credit to the various social media, local media outlets. Fox 19 is what I'm staring at. The details are printed in all local media, so you can look at it or go to the website you talked about.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Plan ahead if you're going to be using 75 around the downtown Cincinnati area, northern Kentucky, right?
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Speaker 6: Well, right, except that there's also a pretty good project going on on 275 this weekend with a paving project. In fact, they're out there right now. They're wrapping things up overnight. But you're going to have to deal with eastbound 275. It's going to have three lanes shut down between 747 and 42. Oh, okay. That's the ongoing paving project that's going there, too. So keep that in mind. Downtown isn't the only problem this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Okay. Maybe just hang out at home this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram, we listen to traffic reports all morning. Thanks for stopping in and give us the live update.
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Speaker 6: Anytime.
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Speaker 1: You're a good man.
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Speaker 6: I try.
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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. 521-55KRC Talk Station.
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Speaker 5: Be right back.
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Speaker 2: I'm Donald J.
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Speaker 6: Trump, and I approve this message.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Don. Hit it 5.23 on a Friday. Let me get it out of the system. Yeah, real quick. Those dev systems on the semis, which fail all the time and are thousands of dollars to keep in place and literally do nothing except drive up the price of, well, anybody driving a diesel truck, Democrats. under the Biden administration, they were suing anybody who deleted the DEF system. There was an underground market created because, well, you need to get around these systems which slow your semi down to five miles an hour. Felonies, throwing people in jail for doing this. Democrats continue en masse, she writes, to support the deaf regime railing against reform efforts. This is the party that wants to kill fossil fuels, but also wants Americans to believe it cares about their diesel costs. Republicans are trying to rein in the failure. EPA changed the rules on deaf. There are bills to roll back or even eliminate these costly, stupid requirements, and all in the name of climate change. They ended all the criminal prosecutions for these death fines. Trump pardoned nine men who were convicted of disabling these death systems. Lessons for Republicans, limited government policies still resonate with voters. Lessons for Democrats, it's the policy, not the spin that matters. Lessons for both parties, Strassel writes, most populist pitches amount to phony pandering and Voters want, at some point, you to realize it. Pat, thanks for calling this morning. Happy Friday.
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Speaker 9: Thank you, Brian. I just want to put ads up. Since the second week of July, well, until now, yesterday I had a total of 29 phone calls. The last one was at 6.46 p.m., and apparently it's got to do with Medicare updates. I don't answer the phone unless I see a name on my phone.
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Speaker 1: Good for you.
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Speaker 9: But anyway, um, I don't know how many other elderly people are getting these calls, but I've been writing them down and, uh, Like I said, the last call I've had was, it's 29 for yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's renewal time, Pat, and everybody wants a slice of your business because they want you to use whatever agency out there that's peddling the sub-policies or whatever it is. They get a fee for signing people up, kind of like Obamacare. And as we fast approach renewal date, and John Roman from CoverSensing, my insurance friend, yes, I do commercials for him, but you know that what they do is for free to you, is recommending anybody out there on Medicare schedule an appointment to go over the changes, the changes that are coming out October 15th. So don't automatically renew. Make sure you know what the changes are before you make your Medicare selections, and you won't have any trouble. But, yeah, this is when the phone calls start lighting up, and you are smart for not answering them. Big time smart. If you don't recognize the number, trust me, if they really want to leave you information, if they want you to call them back, they're going to leave the contact information. And you won't. 526-55KRC, the talk station. Local stories coming up or phone calls. We'll go either direction when we get back. 55KRC, the talk station. To the phones we go. You can add it. You can get on the call list.
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Speaker 3: Feel free.
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Speaker 1: 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, or call 550 on AT & T phones. Welcome back, Tom. Good to hear from you this morning. Happy Friday, brother.
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Speaker 5: Hey, good morning. Any big plans for the weekend?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm probably going to go to the Concours de Vue on Sunday.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I remember you mentioning that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a big dinner out this weekend, too, with a bunch of friends. So, yeah, it's going to be a nice weekend. And the weather, oh, my God. Might have to actually get on my motorcycle for what I think will be the first time this entire year. Anyhow, Tom, what's up?
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Speaker 5: Really? Really? You're waiting until now, huh? The weather never worked out for you?
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Speaker 1: No, it's the desire to ride the motorcycle has kind of gone by the wayside of my world. First off, I don't have a crew to ride with anymore. And second off, while I do enjoy driving, and yes, I'm aware that driving does come with some risks, it comes with much greater risk on a motorcycle when people out on the road are really definitionally idiots.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 5: There we go. Yeah, so it reminds me, you know, every once in a while I'll have a gripe about some driving, and very, very irritating is when you're not the first person in line at a light, and the person up front is not paying attention to the light. I hate that. That is very, very annoying. And especially when, like yesterday, I was second in line, and the guy up front in line, he's inching up. You know, you just As you're waiting for the light to turn green, you inch up a little bit. All right, so this guy, he's ready to go. As soon as that thing turns green, he's going to go.
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Speaker 3: Nope.
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Speaker 5: As soon as it turns green, still break lights. I'm like, ah, what are you doing, bro?
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Speaker 1: He's checking his text messages. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Ah, he must have been.
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Speaker 1: Surfing porn on his cell phone.
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Speaker 5: Oh, well, let's not go there, but maybe.
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Speaker 1: Hey, man, I'm telling you, multiple years ago, some guy came flying down 71 at 3 o'clock in the morning on my way to work. He's got a laptop on his dashboard, and there is pornography streaming on it. I'm like, what in God's name?
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Speaker 5: Can't wait until you're somewhere private, huh? That's crazy. That's crazy. You're reading that article from Kim Strassel, and the whole idea is, is that we've just got to be smart about what we're doing. You've just got to be informed. I mean, you don't even have to be brilliant or a genius. You've just got to pay attention and be informed of what's going on. A lot of this stuff is just common sense in front of you. To vote for Democrats is absolutely stupid. You're either completely clueless as to what's going on in the world, or you believe the stuff that they believe and that you're definitely stupid. No, they want to ruin everything.
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Speaker 1: Well, look at the European Union. They're ahead of us in this global warming eradication of fossil fuel game. And now they're like, oh, my God, we can't afford to keep the lights on. Germany's economy is in a downward spiral. Nobody can afford to pay for energy because, well. They deleted all of the reliable, constant-producing energy sources out there. Not going to use gas, not going to use diesel, not going to use coal. Let's shut down the nuclear plant. That's a good idea. Holy crap, we're in the middle of a war. We need diesel fuel. United States, please don't turn it off because we won't have any.
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Speaker 5: And by the way, they're asking us not to. to turn it off i thought we were the bad guys yeah i know we were the worst the worst civilization in the world yeah the way the way we get talked about and treated around the world it's absolutely insane and it's an oxymoron because they they refer to us as such bad names and yet yet who all where's everybody flocking to where's everybody running to.
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Speaker 1: And where do they turn when they need defense weapons.
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Speaker 5: Us exactly please tell us.
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Speaker 1: Why because you don't make any And you deleted your militaries over the years because we've been shouldering the burden protecting you from the evil Soviet Union or the Russians or whatever threat they face. Oh, let's spend all of our money on windmills rather than our military until such time as we're like, holy crap, someone caught on to what's happening. Donald Trump.
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Speaker 5: Reality eventually smacks you in the face and reminds you, don't vote Democrat. Have a great weekend.
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Speaker 1: Do the same.
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Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: Joe, get the award out. We're going to get to award local person, and this is disgusting. And you know what? I could go on all day long, but we only have a little bit of time here for local stories. So let's have a go at this guy. Coleraine Township, man arrested. And believe it or not, in Hamilton County Municipal Court, he got a $ 4 million bond. Why? He raped and sexually abused a child. Stephen Togby, 57, taken into custody on Monday, charged with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery, and unlawful sexual contact. Conducted with a minor. Reportedly abused the child beginning October 25 and continued abusing the child in November and January of this year. Currently held at the Hamilton County Justice Center. Expected to be back in court October 2nd. So he'll be in prison until October 2nd, presumably. I'll bet he's enjoying himself. And he is the 55KRC award winner for this morning.
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Speaker 3: Bless.
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Speaker 1: Also on the blog page, Congressman Warren Davidson yesterday. And, well, Jay Ratliff. Love the conversation with Jay Ratliff. Plus the Concord of who I mentioned. You can get the details at 55KRC. iHeart. com. That's DeVue Park on Sunday. Good heaven, Dan Bosch back in the program. Cool event, that one. Anyway, over to the stack of stupid. And who is teaching your children in school? Joe Strecker, you know. Isn't it shocking to you, Joe? I don't know what your subjective opinion is about the mug shots. These teachers all are, in my opinion, kind of cute. They look like they could go out into the world and get someone who is, oh, I don't know, not a student. Perhaps closer to their own age. Someone who's maybe an adult. Every single day. Here we go. Got a few of them. Hayesville, North Carolina. Got a former teacher in North Carolina. Cherokee County Sheriff Derek Palmer letting us know the details on this one. She's 26. Her name is Kayla Sprinkles. Got arrested in June, now facing sexual assault charges. Investigation began in March. Sheriff's office said investigators began looking into reports that Sprinkles had been engaging in sex acts with a student while working as a high school teacher in the Cherokee County school system. Multiple students interviewed during the investigation. They even had to bring in a special child advocacy center to talk to some of the children because of the young ages of the individual's review. They were a little worried, I guess, that the police might not be as delicate as a child might need. Anyway, they were investigated and people were talked to. Now, apparently, she learned about the indictment, so she left the county, but did later turn herself in to the Mecklenburg County Detention Center, served with the indictments, and released on a $ 25, 000 unsecured bond. Of course, the school district And the Sheriff's Department released these standard statements about protecting the children's best interests. Pivoting over. Prep school math teacher in North Carolina. Arrested for having inappropriate sexual contact with three male students. 25-year-old Erin Elizabeth McAuliffe. Charged with three counts of sexual activity with a student. One count of indecent liberties with a minor. former math teacher at Rocky Mount Prep School. Last employed at the school, May 4th, just one day before the police were notified by school staffers about the allegations he was having sex with students. Now, police have since alleged the acts took place off campus and involved two 17-year-old students and one 16-year-old. Released from the Carteret County Jail after posting a $ 20, 000 bond. Now, at least this particular situation, and she is quite cute, my subjective opinion, she could do better than going out with an 18-year-old, her name, Taylor Ivy Bonkhouse. She's 22, so that just makes them four years apart. But she has been accused of having sex with a pupil. Sexual assault charges. She was involved with an 18-year-old student at Conrad High School in West Hartford. Bonnacle allegedly met the teen in December while employed as a student teacher at the school. After she completed her fall student teaching stint, she remained on the faculty as an assistant track coach. Authorities claim that she invited this teenager to her home on numerous occasions, and yeah, of course, they had sex. Police said she stated the victim was kind to her. Also, she stated that she loved the victim and was emotional regarding her feelings for him. Which, again, stepping back from the nature of the relationship, teacher-student relationship, If it was just a random 22-year-old and an 18-year-old, we probably wouldn't look down our nose at it. Of course, Principal Julio Duarte, with his standard statement, we will not tolerate any behavior that compromises the safety and well-being of our students, nor should you. But this seems to be a growing phenomenon. And again, I wrestle with, until I talked to law enforcement members about this, I thought, well, this is the internet age. Every single illustration of this in any corner of the world can appear as if it's right in your neighborhood. And the volume of them may be sort of explained away because before the internet, this probably was going on all the time that nobody could document it, track it, prove the allegations. But I don't know, others are saying the Internet, in fact, has created this larger desire that we've thrown out our ethics and morals and even common sense because we are so sexualized and we're surrounded by this. The idea of adults having sex with children, some are trying to normalize it. It's awful, regardless of the genesis. 545, 55 KRC, the talk station, more stupid, not relating to beautiful adult, Teachers having sex with, you know, minors. Be right back. This is 55.
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Speaker 3: 550.
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Speaker 11: 55 KRC Talk Station.
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Speaker 1: Back to the Statue of Liberty. And a return to the norm after getting the sick, twisted teachers out of the way. We're back to naked people in the news.
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Speaker 2: As is tradition.
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Speaker 1: Amen, brother. Colorado Springs Police Department said a naked guy acting confused and erratic inside a business on Academy Boulevard. took the keys to a vehicle, stole the car, drove the wrong way down Academy Boulevard and led police on a brief chase before later ending up in a crash. That's the summary. 3 a.m. Thursday, September 24th, officers showed up at the 24-hour block in North Academy. Naked guy reportedly inside a business. They said he initially appeared erratic and confused, then took the keys from someone inside the business and stole the company car. Described as a Ford Taurus, as if that matters. Officers at the Real Time Crime Center Piloted a drone, spotted the vehicle, reporting its location over the radio to the officers who were on the scene. Drone pilot observed multiple traffic violations, including driving the wrong way again down Academy Boulevard. Pursuit authorized in the area of Academy and Union Boulevard terminated because the roadway conditions and speed caused a public safety risk. I'm not sure if I agree with that kind of thing. Let him go. Anyway, they said the drone lost sight of the vehicle after the pursuit was ended, but shortly thereafter, police responded to a crash.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 1: Near Austin Bluffs. One of the vehicles matching the suspect and vehicle descriptions. In other words, a naked guy in a Ford Taurus. Suspect, Christopher Gonzalez, found in the area and taken to custody without further incident and the vehicle was recovered.
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Speaker 3: Hmm.
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Speaker 1: Let's see here. More naked guy. We'll go to Bedford, Bedford, New York. New York State Police arrested 56-year-old Darian, uh, a Darien, Connecticut man, sorry, this after a report of a public lewdness incident in the Belford service area. Troopers responded approximately 3.30 in the morning and found Virgil Navida naked and exhibiting signs of impairment. They administered standard field sobriety tests, then took him into custody, impounded an inventory search of his vehicle, uncovered approximately 66 grams of gamma borax, Butrolactone, GBL. Maybe you know what that is. I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: Drugs are bad.
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Speaker 1: Yep, 49 grams of butanediol, 7 grams of methamphetamine, as well as a bunch of drug paraphernalia. He was charged with criminal possession of controlled substances in the third degree, possession of controlled substance in the seventh degree, three counts of public lewdness, three counts. I wonder what those three specific counts relate to. Anyway, operating a motor vehicle while impaired on drugs. Arraigned September 24th, released on his own recognizance. Oh, it sounds like something happened in Hamilton County. Let's see here. 49-year-old South Dakota woman accused of exposing herself near children.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: And asking them if they want to be kidnapped. According to police, Jackie Tingwa arrested on Friday.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: Court records show that she's now facing multiple charges, including sexual exploitation of a minor and disorderly conduct. According to local news, police said officers were called to the scene back quarter after 7 in the evening after numerous callers claimed the woman was behaving erratically near children. Callers said the woman was naked or even exposing herself at an apartment complex and carrying a gun. You think she had a holster, Joe? Phrasing? Anyway, according to local news, Tingwa approached children and asked whether they would like to be kidnapped. The children ran away. According to the report, police said a neighbor saw Tingwa holding a two-year-old child and trying to lead the toddler away from other children. Callers reported she potentially had a gun. Authorities said police did not find the weapon. Joe, maybe they weren't looking hard enough. I'm just thinking of other stupid stories we've had over the years. Outlets and officers were approached by several children who pointed to where the woman was standing. Officers then detained her. Investigation described as ongoing. And finally, Memphis, Tennessee, two people arrested. Police said they forced a man to strip naked, shot him in the leg, and then punched his teeth out.
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Speaker 7: Dude, what the hell?
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Speaker 1: Bailey Jobin and Joseph Polk arrested following the incident. Jobin charged with especially aggravated robbery. There's a new one for me. Polk charged with especially aggravated robbery, employment of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, being a felon in possession of a firearm, theft of property, $ 2, 500 to $ 10, 000, which was a motor vehicle in this case, evading arrest, and not having a valid driver's license. The aristocrat.
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Speaker 3: The aristocrat.
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Speaker 1: Right. Apparently, during the incident, a man reported a robbery to the Memphis police. Victim picked up by a man he knew as Jay Pointer, later identified as Mr. Polk, taken to a home near Pope Street. A man referred to as One-Legged Jay arrived at the address and demanded money from the victim. The victim made to strip naked, then all occupants left the vehicle. The victim told the man, you're going to have to kill me here. At that point, Polk pulled out a handgun and shot him through the right thigh. Get what you asked for, baby. Records state the two-owned man started punching the victim in the head and then knocked out several of his teeth. The victim identified the people responsible for the assault. Let's see. They found the various victims. They used flock cameras which showed the car in the area where this incident happened. Anyway, the Polk guy was taken in for questioning. But due to admitting he was under the influence of multiple intoxicants, he was deemed incompetent to render a statement to investigators. Bond information yet to be posted. He's expected to appear in court actually today if you're in the area. 5.56, 55 KRC, the talk station. Plenty to talk about between top of the hour and Tech Fridays. Dave Hatter at 6.30. I sure hope you can stick around.
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Speaker 6: It's been going on for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Mission TGIF. Brian Thomas right here. Glad to be here. Glad to have Joe Strecker where he belongs. And glad to have callers.
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Speaker 3: 513-749-5500.
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Speaker 1: 800-823-TALK or pound 550 on AT & T phones.
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Speaker 3: One moment.
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Speaker 1: Maureen is pausing because she has a comment. Of course, probably a conspiratorial-related subject matter, right, Maureen? Hold on. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter coming up at the bottom of the hour. University of Kentucky has installed artificial intelligence facial scanning tech at residence halls, which is going to be interesting because Dave Hatter does not like flawed cameras. He's a privacy guy. So what about your, well, your college-age students having AI facial scanning technology in residence halls for their own safety? Disconnect your LG television from the Internet right now. That's what Dave says. You're going to go ahead and do it right now. You want to wait for Dave to explain it. That's coming up quickly. And who's tracking you? The new service out there that lets you find out who is tracking you. George Brenneman in studio on health-related issues. Keith Tenenfeld can't make it today, but George has some great topics. Politics and health, including how in God's name do we end up with vegetable oil, among others. Brian Eibold from the Help Squad, a great Westside charity, returns to the studio at 8.05 p.m. And trust me, I imagine Brian is in need because a lot of folks on the West Side on life's margins are in need of a little helping hand. That's what the help squad does, get you over tough times on a temporary basis. And finally, it's Friday, so we get Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network. Gas tax relief, of course, Acton and Ramaswamy are suggesting we need to roll back the gasoline tax, the road tax. Mike DeWine says no. Get used to that, don't you? Sherrod Brown on his voting record. And finally, news agencies press relief. Pass battle with Donald Trump. Of course, there was recent court action on that. Jack, Windsor at 830. In the meantime, over to the phones. Let's see what Maureen's got. Maureen, thanks for calling. Happy Friday.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Brian.
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Speaker 8: I want to call about statins because you said George is going to talk about that a little bit later. But while I was on hold, I heard you mention flock cameras. And I just learned the other day that, you know, the documentary 2000 Mules, when they showed the video of the people dropping all these ballots.
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Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Boxes.
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Speaker 8: They, um, this person came out at a recent event, um, and she talked about how they use flock cameras during the filming of that video. That's where they got the footage from. So that's how long we've had flock cameras. But anyway.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I know. And they were all the rage for a long time. Everybody embraced them, you know, police departments, communities, neighbors, because, well, they caught criminals that way. But now it's like, oh, we're all about privacy right now. So Maureen, are you suggesting that the anti-flock, outrage that we've seen over the last several months and growing is a consequence of, well, people who want to vote illegally are being caught on camera stuffing ballot boxes?
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Speaker 2: Just asking, right?
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Speaker 8: Yes. Just putting it out there. People can take it how they want.
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Speaker 1: One crime among many that flocks can solve, which, of course, in the name of privacy, we don't want anymore. Go ahead, Maureen.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Okay. So I just want to talk about the statins. So about 20 years ago, I noticed my father was having some cognitive issues. And at the same time, in 2006, a book had just come out, and it was called Lipitor, Thief of Memory, Statin Drugs, and the Misguided War on Cholesterol. And it was by Dr. Dwayne Graveline. He was a former NASA scientist and an astronaut. And he describes in this book his own experience of developing severe memory problems while taking Lipitor. And he argues that statins And some people can produce cognitive symptoms such as memory loss and confusion. And he used his experience to critique all cholesterol-lowering drugs. But anyway, the emphasis was on brain fog and the role of cholesterol in the brain and the nervous system and how important the role that it plays. And he argues that reducing cholesterol may have effects beyond cardiovascular disease. And he discusses how in his own personal account, he stopped taking them and his memory improved. Anyway, I told my father about this book and he went to this because he was on statins and he went to his doctor and told his doctor about it. Well, his doctor quickly dismissed him and said that he had not heard any information about that. And so my dad followed his advice and stayed on the statins. And he died a few days later or a few weeks, a few years later. But a few years later, he died and he had severe dementia. At the time.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 8: Well, then I told another relative about it, and this relative actually believed me. And so when he went to his doctor, he argued with the doctor and said, I don't want to be on those drugs. I've seen what it can do to people. I've read the literature. Well, the doctor argued with him. He labeled him as noncompliant. And he said, well, I don't know why you continue to come to me. You seem to know everything already. So he had a major attitude. So he found a different cardiologist that was more in the wellness. you know, category.
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Speaker 1: Sure. Well, you know, Maureen, I've mentioned this over the years. My father, he was an early, early advocate of statins. His doctor put him on because dad had, I guess, a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol, one that I actually shared for a while, but I don't use statins. I did for a while until I started coming upon the conclusion that maybe they weren't good for you. Dad took him his entire life. Of course, he passed away from Alzheimer's dementia. I don't know if it's a connection. And here, here's AI for you. I just did a quick AI search while I'm sitting here talking to you. Do statins cause dementia? Current medical evidence indicates that statins do not cause dementia. And large-scale reviews say that they actually even lower the risk of cognitive decline. And then it breaks it down. So do you trust AI? Do you trust what the doctor that wrote that book research indicates? Why isn't that doctor's book specifically mentioned in the response I just churned out here from AI? I don't know.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, Big Pharma's a pretty big business, so they control a lot of areas.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, and it may be that we just, little dietary changes, which I know George Brenneman's going to be talking about at 7.05, that may result in the best thing we can possibly do. No, we don't need Medicare for all. We just need to change our diets, perhaps. Maureen, I appreciate it. You know, I have my popcorn perpetually out for anything you throw at me. I'm just waiting to get the answers like everybody else. I love you. Have a great weekend. She's great. Florida's great, too, isn't it, Maureen? Anyway, real quick, here's an idea. I just saw this a couple of days ago on Fox News reporting. There was a research study out, Family Medicine and Community Health Study, came out in the Journal of Family Medicine and Community Health anyway. It was a study done among Americans, Europeans, Asians, Oceanians, 8.8 million of them, all adults, with follow-ups ranging between 2 and 32 years. What do they conclude? For every additional 100 grams of ultra-processed foods, just think of a bag of chips, which is about 3 1⁄2 ounces, and they are ultra-processed. 100 grams of processed food, 3 ounces daily. Researchers found an association with a 14% higher risk of cardiovascular events, a 4% higher risk of cancer, a 3% higher risk of death from any cause, and a 2% higher risk of metabolic syndrome or diabetes. Ultra-processed foods, you know, extensive industrial processing packed with additives. If you start reading labels and view anything that doesn't sound to you like a naturally occurring ingredient, there's your additives, and they're pretty bad for you. George will probably break that down too. But anyway, 100 grams, again, 3 1⁄2-ounce bag of potato chips, corn chips, small box of candy, single-serve cup of mini cookies, higher the intake of UPFs, Higher risk of digestive diseases as well. Depression, anxiety, obesity, cancer, cardiovascular events, and those with the lowest intake of processed foods. So according to the researchers, reducing the consumption of ultra-processed foods, replacing them with minimally processed alternatives may be relevant for chronic disease prevention and primary care management. Diet built around whole minimally processed foods is one of the best investments we can make in our long-term health. So don't be reactive and don't expect the government to pay for your health care treatment if you take better care of yourself up front. You probably won't even end up in the hospital or being treated by a doctor for any one of these disease states brought about by a poor diet. It's a simple solution, isn't it? Except it relies on us. We have to take self-control and engage in self-control. And trust me, man, I know better than anybody, or at least as good as anybody, how difficult it is. I got George and Keith, my wife, my mom, and my sister to thank for going on a diet a couple of years ago. And you know what? I tell you straight face. Was it easy?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: Is it difficult to say no to the carb corner? We got the corner cabinet like everybody or wherever your cabinet happens to be. You know the one that you just find yourself standing in front of throughout the day because that's where the chips and the carbs are hidden or stored anyway. Yeah, I had to break myself of that habit. It sucked. But over time, it becomes easy. especially if you have a support group around you. So, you know, at least I do feel better. I got to pay off on it. And no, I haven't started really engaging in exercise as much, but, you know, that's my next step in the journey. But just paying attention to what you're eating, maybe you can avoid these problems. All of this is so well documented. This story and this new study doesn't reveal anything that I think most of us didn't know because we've read other accounts of this, because our doctors have recommended it to us. because maybe RFK Jr. has opened your eyes to it. I don't know. But we love to just do whatever in God's name it is we want to do, realizing and recognizing that it's bad for us. And then when you end up in front of a doctor with a chronic disease state, you know, a lot of people default to, well, someone else should pay for it.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 1: I wonder what the overall cost, we live in a village, right? It takes a village and it takes a bunch of people who are maybe you know, from each according to his ability to each according to his needs. We all have the ability to take and reduce the amount of medical claims on society. This is a societal problem. Shouldn't we join together hand in hand as a society to reduce the societal burden of medical care and costs on society? How do you do that? Well, you don't tax somebody into submission. Maybe we collectively get together and agree that we're all going to try to take better care of ourselves. Just a thought. 6-16, 55KRC Detox Station. And consider, yeah, 6-21 here, 55KRC Detox Station. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter coming up next. Dave, are you happy?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday's walk down memory lane with the author of the You Don't Look Like an Astronaut's Wife book. Just really brought back fond memories of the late 60s and 70s with the space program, which I was a child then, and it just was amazing at that moment in time. So I was having that flashback. And I thought about George Brenneman joining the program, and I was reminded of that 4-4-3-2 jingle, which related to the food pyramid that existed back in the 70s. It was four servings of fruits and vegetables, four servings of breads and cereals, three of milk, cheese, or dairy, and then finally two of meat. That's flipped upside down under the new standards. So why were we fed that? But it was mulligan stew. Folks, you remember that? If you're in public schools, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's campaign to tell you about 4432, that's where it came from. I hadn't looked that up to remember that. So anyway, that jingle's going through my head. I just gave it to Joe Strecker, so maybe he'll play it for you later. Anyways, moving away from Medicare as the solution to all of our problems, guess what? Welcome back to fraud and the state of Ohio. Medicaid rolls have been looked at. And according to Ohio Auditor Keith Faber, three. percent of Ohioans on Medicaid were not eligible because they're too wealthy. More resources than allowed under the criteria, including people they found were millionaires. 3,000 dead people, actually more than 3,000 dead people also on the rolls and benefits being paid. How? That's what Faber discovered. This is part of an interim report covering Medicaid programs for the aged, blind, and disabled population. I love this. The current state budget, and I'm giving the CincinnatiExchange.com props for the reporting on this, the current state budget required the auditor to review enrollment in those programs to determine whether Ohioans receiving assistance were actually eligible for support. Isn't that a fundamental role of the... auditor to follow that and do that? Prevent fraud from happening before it goes out the door? That's my thought anyway. But anyway, at least they put a requirement in the current state budget. Ohio spends about $ 40 billion annually on the program. Fun fact, $ 30 billion is Ohio's entire state budget annually. I know this is federal dollars. Faber said the taxpayers of this state should not be footing the bill for millionaires and others who have adequate means to pay their own way. Time and time again, we've identified weaknesses in the Ohio Department of Medicaid systems that can lead to fraud, waste, and abuse for public resources. The issues we have identified have not been corrected. Apparently, he identified some of the reasons for incorrect payments. including eligibility reviews that are not performed more frequently and outdated versions of applications. Huh, sound like easy solutions. So the solutions, tighter guardrails for the Medicaid program, improving better data collection and sharing. He pointed to the Ohio has always followed sort of a pay and chase model, you know, pay out the benefits and then find out later, that they're not eligible for the benefits that were paid out, and then try to claw them back. Good luck with that. A lot more expensive to do that, too. He pointed out that, actually, one other person involved with this pointed out that organized fraud rings exploit weak verification systems and pressure patients to sign timesheets for care they never receive. That in the context of home care services, which are growing. Because, of course, the cost of keeping a loved one in a facility outside the home is unbelievably expensive. So they're still working on it. They've identified some areas. Just scratch your head and wonder where have they been up until this moment in time. Going back to would we know about any of this were it not for the outright rampant fraud going on in Minnesota that had gone on for a long time with elected and public officials all fully aware of it. 625 right now, 55KRC, The Talk Station. Dave Hatter, coming up next. The Talk Station. 630, 55KRC, The Talk Station. Friday, that means Dave Hatter, IntrustIT.com. Dave Hatter's company, a business owned by the employees for all of your computer needs. You've got the business courier in their corner saying IntrustIT is the best in the business. business owners out there, you've got computers, and Dave doesn't care how small you are, you will be and are the subject of people trying to steal your stuff and things and rip you off. Right, Dave Hatter? Welcome back, my friend. It's always great having you on the show.
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Speaker 3: Always good to be here. And sadly, Brian, you are correct.
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Speaker 1: InterestIT.com sponsors this segment, and God bless them for it. All right. Mayor of Fort Wright, is that hat you got on? You don't have flock cameras in your neighborhood, do you, Dave? Because you don't like them. They're choosing into privacy?
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Speaker 3: We do not. Okay.
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Speaker 1: How about the universe? We've not had them. not going to have them is the university of kentucky installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology any different really just on a broader view than flock cameras.
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Speaker 3: Um not in my opinion no with with the possible exception brian of you know if you go to uk or pick any college right fill in the blank right you choose to go there that's the option um Yeah. As a student, you're choosing to go there. As an employee, you choose to work there, et cetera. So in my mind, it's a little different. And also, depending on how the technology works and who has access to that data and so forth, versus you're just driving down the street and you're getting sucked up by all these cameras. So I think you could potentially make an argument that it's not as invasive and intrusive as what has been done with Flock. But yeah, I'm not a fan of the idea in general.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: You know, this stuff is abused. It's misused. There are data and security problems with these things.
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Speaker 1: Okay. And they try to address that. I saw the WKYT article that you have over at linkedin.com as a resource material. They pointed out a couple of things. Okay. Much like you have a choice whether or not to go to UK and face this technology. But they said it's optional. You sign up for it and you agree to have your face scanned so AI can let you in or out of residence building. Now, a card, as everyone knows, can get lost or stolen. Of course, it can be duplicated and scanned. And that was kind of the point they were making, why they were embracing this technology. But you're not forced to use it. But also, and I wanted you to address this because it sounds good, but I don't know. In terms of who gets the data and where it's stored and how it's stored, they say they don't store it, but they only keep a digital map of the face, which is ones and zeros. It's a mathematical layout, so it's not actually a photograph. In today's technological realities, Dave, is ones and zeros, digital mapping of someone's face really any different than a photograph?
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not a mathematician, Brian, so I'm not sure I can answer that with the same certainty that the people who've built this stuff can. But in general, I would put it this way. A, your photo's probably already out there somewhere anyway, so I'm less concerned about that. But in terms of, this isn't just your biometric data, it's your activity data. Let's just say, for example, someone wanted to stalk you or something and they could access this data. And I know this sounds far-fetched to people sometimes, but if you look at the security of some of these systems that have been exposed in the recent past, it's terrible, right? These things are all, in general, my issue with so much of this stuff is as a guy who was a software engineer for 25 years, software, which is what powers all of this stuff, call it AI, call it whatever you want, at the end of the day, it's still software. And generally speaking, most software is not designed with privacy and security in mind. It's designed with things like speed to market, market share, ease of use, timelines, budgets, and collecting as much data as possible. And we see how either terrible security and or misconfiguration which is basically nerd speak for there were options you could have turned on and did not, which then led to some kind of security issue. Because even if I build something that is like the Fortress of Solitude, if it's not configured correctly, right, if you leave the front door unlocked, well, what good is it? So it's not just the biometric data itself, it's all the other data these things collect. Again, where does this data go? Is it only accessible to UK data? Is it accessible to the company that built this stuff? What are they doing with it? What are their terms of service say? We've talked about this so many times, Brian. Most of the time, terms of service is an 80-page confusopoly of mumbo-jumbo that even if you're an attorney, you may not understand. So I have those concerns above and beyond the biometrics. But generally speaking, the way these things work is, yes, they look at some aspect of your your physical form, right? Iris, retina, fingerprint, gate, gate, face, something like that. And they reduce that down to some sort of math, through a mathematical algorithm to just data, right? Measures the distance between your eyes. It measures the height of your nose. Again, I'm not truly an expert on the inner workings of that stuff, but I will say this, you know, depending on how that works, You know, you can't get a new fingerprint. You can't get a new face. I wish I could, but I can't.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: Because I'd get like Brad Pitt or something. But, you know, I can't I can't do that. So, yeah, I have a lot of concerns about this. And frankly, I am not a fan of the Orwellian surveillance state that we seem to be headed towards. And I'm happy that the people are starting to question these things. And I just want to say one last thing because Flock has caught all the news.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: Flock is not the only company that's making this. Flock has sort of become the Kleenex or the Coke of this space. But there are lots of companies that are making this kind of technology. And just because someone doesn't have Flock doesn't mean they don't have something else. So I'm glad people are questioning this. I do not like the overall direction. I can tell you that.
00:57:28
Speaker 1: At least you still have some measure of control over it in any jurisdiction. If you want them, you can get them. If you don't want them, you know. Don't get them. And if you want to go to UK, go to UK. If not, you don't have to. 636 right now. Get rid of or actually disconnect your Detox Station. It's 640 at 55KRC, Detox Station, over at LinkedIn.com. Search for Dave Hatter. You will find him. And that's where throughout the week he posts tech-related issues. Of course, he is InTrustIT's principal, InTrustIT.com for your computer needs for businesses. This was, well, the headlines enough to be, whoa, do I even, I don't have an LG television, thank God, but disconnect your LG television from the internet now, reads the headline from Apple Insider's Malcolm Owen. Dave, seriously?
00:58:15
Speaker 3: Well, so now they've come out and disputed some of the findings of this initial research. But I'll just say this and then we'll talk specifically about this. As you know, Brian, because we've been talking about this now for more than 10 years, I am not a fan of the Internet of Things, a.k.a. smart devices, doorbells, thermostats, coffee makers, dryers, cars, you name it. Everything is, and you can't see my air quotes here, smart now, right? It's got software inside it. It's connected to the Internet. In many cases, it has a microphone and or camera. You know, ostensibly to make your life better.
00:58:52
Speaker 5: Right.
00:58:52
Speaker 3: Make things quicker, more convenient, easier for you.
00:58:55
Speaker 1: Right. It comes at a price.
00:58:58
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:58:58
Speaker 3: As I've said to you many times, I understand both the wow factor of some of this stuff for people and the fact that in many cases it does make your life more convenient. But you have to understand the tradeoffs. this particular story nicely illustrates this because what I often struggle with trying to explain to people why I don't have any of this stuff, don't use any of this stuff and don't intend to use any of it, goes back to what I said in the last segment that most software is not designed with privacy and security in mind or to be, it's not favoring you, right? It's favoring the people that built it. I would remind folks, if you're buying something that is dirt cheap, that has all of this capability or possibly free, the people building this stuff have mortgages. They have to eat. They have cars, right?
00:59:50
Speaker 1: You are paying a price. You just don't see it in the form of dollars. That's the point.
00:59:55
Speaker 3: Yes, it's surveillance capitalism. I can't remember who coined that term, but it nicely fits the entire model of the internet now. This stuff isn't free. It's being given to you at no cost. You are paying for it with your data. You are not the customer. You are the product. That's the name surveillance capitalism. And increasingly, as the technology advances and as the technology often, in terms of the hardware, again, has microphones and cameras, And I'll just point out, you mentioned LinkedIn. Yes, you can find me there. I share all this stuff there. I set up a sub stack, which is basically just like a web hosting platform where people use it to publish articles and so forth. And as these kinds of stories like this LG story, which I'll get back to now, come out, I set up a page basically explaining why the Internet of Things is risky for you. If you're working from home, for example, right, and you're connecting to your corporate environment, whatever that might be from home, And you have these kind of devices. They are potentially exposing your corporate devices and capturing sensitive data that, you know, whether you own the business or you're just an employee, may not be beneficial to that organization. There's so much risk from this stuff because, let's be real, Brian, much of it, if not most of it, is coming from China. It's full of software. I just posted a story the other day. I know we only have time for today. Maybe we hit it next week. How these consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers coming from China, they're finding actual software backdoors in them that would allow a remote attacker to take control of it.
01:01:24
Speaker 7: Right.
01:01:24
Speaker 1: And those things are ubiquitous. They are literally everywhere. But pivoting over, so are LG televisions. What's the risk here with LG?
01:01:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:01:30
Speaker 3: So basically, you know, LG has claimed that it's not doing a lot of the stuff this researcher said, which basically it's listening to you. And even if you disconnected from the Internet, it's storing transcripts and will upload them later. They say, you know, automatic content recognition, all these new TVs have this. And it's another reason why I don't like the Internet of Things. In many cases, you have to opt out. You have to know some feature that is potentially not beneficial to you is turned on and you have to go in and figure out how to turn it out. Often they usually make that difficult. Automatic content recognition basically is, and nearly every.
01:02:04
Speaker 1: One of these TVs does it.
01:02:07
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's the microphone capability.
01:02:09
Speaker 1: Exactly.
01:02:10
Speaker 3: It's taking a picture of everything you watch every so often and sending it off somewhere. So bottom line to save time is, whether you have an LG TV or not, whether you believe what they say versus these researchers, and I encourage you, go look this up. If their TVs are really doing what they said, I find it completely egregious. I can tell you that at the city building, we have eliminated all LG TVs because of this. But that said, do your own research. Figure out how to turn these features off on whatever TV you have. Turn off automatic content recognition. Turn off voice recognition. Turn this stuff off. While, again, it may be cool, it is not beneficial to you unless and until we have a national privacy law or until consumers finally say enough is enough of this. You're going to continue to see these kinds of things and these kind of problems. Frankly, the less of the stuff you have, the better. Go see what LG said. Again, I can only tell you what has been alleged. But yeah, the less of this stuff you.
01:03:10
Speaker 5: Have, the better.
01:03:11
Speaker 1: Well, it's alleged, but you know, because it's been well documented, this kind of thing actually does happen. Whether or not it happens all the time with LG, certainly the possibility exists because the technology is built into it. Unplug it. Good advice from Dave Hatter. Don't go away. Next, we're going to find out exactly who is tracking you. Apparently, there's a new service out there. The Talk Station. 650-55KRC, The Talk Station. Businesses, remember, intrustit.com for your computer-related needs. Dave Hatter and the team will take care of you, as they have been for years and years. Pivoting over, who is tracking us, Dave, and how do we find out?
01:03:50
Speaker 3: The better question probably, Brian, especially in light of the last two segments, yes. Who isn't tracking you?
01:03:55
Speaker 1: No, it's so sad.
01:03:58
Speaker 3: Well, again, surveillance capitalism powers so much of what we do today. This stuff that's free, these apps you download to your phone or your computer for free, these Internet of Things devices, they're not free, right? You're paying with your data. As I've said to you so many times, I'm not saying that is necessarily nefarious. But what I am saying is that is the trade-off you're making to use things at no cost to you. It's not free. There's no financial cost to you today because they're collecting all your data. Brian Krebs is a fairly well-known security expert. He's been around for a while. He's got a website called Krebs on Security where he delves into a lot of the sort of stuff you and I talk about on a regular basis. So he's a good source for this sort of thing. So if you're Interested in the sort of stuff you and I are talking about all the time. That's a good site. Again, it's just Krebs on security. He's easy to find. So he has this article. Who's tracking you? Use this new service to find out. And I'll just read from his article. Powerful and free new service called Decrypt Ads. Scrapes and correlates ad tech data. It makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you. So to give you an idea, and he gets into this, but did we talk about the, it was a Wired article yesterday. where the reporter did a story on he requested his data from the McDonald's app. Did we talk about that at all?
01:05:19
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm hard-pressed to remember, Dave Hatter. It sounds something like we have talked about or that maybe I stumbled upon elsewhere, but I can't remember specifically if the listeners heard that.
01:05:28
Speaker 3: I'll send it to you, and maybe we get to it at some future point, because to me, it really points out the sort of stuff we're talking about here, but in really interesting, and in my mind, disturbing details. So this reporter has the McDonald's app. He goes to McDonald's. He's a McDonald's fan. People have apps because, of course, you get loyalty points and such, right? Now, I get it. At least there's some direct financial benefit to you of letting them track you at this level, but he asked for his data. Yeah. 515, 515, 515 pages of data on this guy, Brian. Now, think how often you'd have to eat at McDonald's to generate 515 pages of stuff unless they're collecting all kinds of insane stuff about you that you probably did not realize.
01:06:14
Speaker 1: Interesting since you mentioned that because, of course, that will be an indicator maybe you should quit eating the processed fast food at McDonald's given that George Brenneman's coming up to talk about health in the next hour.
01:06:22
Speaker 3: Warning sign.
01:06:24
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
01:06:26
Speaker 3: Maybe you guys should dig into that. But my point is they're collecting an enormous amount of data. That's where a site like Decrypt Ads that he's talking about here will give you some insight into this. Now, this is a little bit different what they're shooting for here. They're trying to get at when you visit a website, how many trackers and so forth are built into it that are collecting data from your device, your phone or your computer when you hit that website through third party trackers that are being sent elsewhere. So in this case, you can see a screenshot, it's showing ESPN, okay? So the idea is you've gone to ESPN because you care about sports, right? But then it shows you all of the different tracking and so forth that's happening behind the scenes while you're reading a story about the Reds or the Bengals.
01:07:12
Speaker 1: Is that cookies that they're looking at?
01:07:15
Speaker 3: It's cookies, it's browser fingerprinting, you know, cookies, just as a reminder for folks, a cookie is nothing more than a text file that gets downloaded to your device. so they can track you. Now, that's usually not necessarily nefarious. It may be that's the way you stay logged into the site. You don't have to keep any username and password. But as people have gotten wise to blocking cookies and third-party tracking cookies and so forth, they're using things like browser fingerprinting, which are reading the settings off your computer, so they don't even need cookies. But real quick for a round of time, a search and decrypt ads for hugely popular sports network ESPN reveals, wait for it, 143 ad partners and 19 registered data broker domains listed within the text files that this thing is reading. So there's, as of when this article was published, 143 different companies getting information about you because you went to ESPN. And then reminder, data broker are companies, they're companies that do nothing but buy and sell your data. They're usually behind the scenes buying and selling this. This is how all this data gets collected. So, you know, This company buys data from that company, buys data from this company, puts it all together, builds these incredibly granular dossiers about you, like 515 pages of McDonald's data. So if McDonald's were to sell that data to someone else, that just gets put in the pool. And that's why there's so much information out there about you now. Again, just ESPN, according to this article, 143 partners, 19 data brokers. All right.
01:08:43
Speaker 1: Well, let's say we delete all of our cookies. How do we delete the other information they're stealing from us? Can we?
01:08:48
Speaker 3: Not really. There are things you can do. There are things you can do. A, use a site like this to figure out who's tracking you like this and stop using their sites. You can use browser web browsers that are more privacy friendly than google chrome you can use things like brave firefox safari um i use all three of those uh to some extent.
01:09:10
Speaker 1: Brave at your recommendation i've been using brave for years.
01:09:14
Speaker 3: There are browser plugins like EFF's Privacy Badger. A browser plugin is just software you install in the browser to add functionality to it. EFF is Electronic Frontier Foundation Privacy Badger. And And by the way, Brian, going back to my Substack. So I have a page on my Substack that is every time I find these stories about egregious Internet of Things issues, I put it on there. So I have a long list showing you how crazy this stuff is because I get that people get bits and pieces of it. It's hard to put together. DaveHatter.Substack.com. Look for my IoT article. And then I have an article out there. that lists all of the privacy-friendly stuff I use personally in my daily life as Dave Hatter.
01:09:56
Speaker 1: Well, Joe Strecker, I just checked with Joe Strecker. It's all there on 55KRC. com, your Substack link, and, of course, all your other links. LinkedIn.com to find Dave, and Joe will take care of the Substack to help those like me who can be internet challenged from time to time. Dave Hatter, thank you so much for Interest IT sponsoring the segment and all that you do for your clients, and congratulations on business success brought about by you doing wonderful work and keeping us informed every Friday. 7.06 on a Friday and a very happy one to you. Extra special. We were talking earlier in the program about diet and wellness and that article I read about just a little bit of ultra-processed foods each day, like 3.5 ounces. The study showed 8.8 million people followed over a long period of time. Just 3.5 ounces of ultra-processed food can have a large statistical increase in cardiovascular disease, cancer, death from causes from a variety of different disease states, et cetera. So processed food is bad for you. And someone knows all about that and took stock in his health quite some time ago and has improved it dramatically, opened a website, restorewellness.org. George Brenneman, who typically comes in with Keith Tenenfeld, is also into fitness and more of a holistic form of medicine as to this traditional let's rely on a pharmaceutical kind of thing. George, it's always great having you back in. Got lots to unfold today.
01:11:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian, great to be here again. It's been a while.
01:11:29
Speaker 1: And the way you want to approach today's program, and I think it's an ideal one, the politics behind the major health policies that we've been confronted with over the years, and I had a flashback because we're going to talk about the food pyramid later in the show, unless you want to do it right now. But the propaganda campaign the United States Department of Agriculture launched on us back in the early 70s, we have video in the classroom, which was 4-4-3-2, that was a food pyramid. I can still hear that damn jingle in my head to this day. And 4-4-3-2 was, of course, recommended four servings of fruits and vegetables, and I guess that's fine, but four servings of breads and cereals, three servings of milk, which would be cheese and dairy, and then finally two servings of meat. We kind of flipped that on top of its head of late because we all found out that carbs, breads, and cereals are actually really bad for us. How did we end up with that back then? You want to start there? Is that okay?
01:12:23
Speaker 2: We can start there.
01:12:24
Speaker 11: So it's all this evolution... that I think is tightly linked to who was in charge of the government and who got their money to them in order to change things around. So if you go prior to, like, 1900, everything was all about balance. So you had food was broken into the groups of dairy, meat, carbs, and oils, fats. And pretty much all of that came from natural sources, right? So the fats were butter and lard, and the carbs were whole wheat and grains.
01:12:54
Speaker 1: Chemistry hadn't made it into food production yet.
01:12:57
Speaker 2: Exactly.
01:12:57
Speaker 11: And so everything was always about balance. And then what started to happen is agriculture learned to make more and more wheat and more and more corn per acre. You started seeing this push towards carbs, towards cereals. And a lot of that was pressed by, you know, I think it was Nestle, one of the companies that made all the cereals. And they started essentially bribing them to say, hey, you need to have more of this.
01:13:23
Speaker 1: You need to have more of this.
01:13:25
Speaker 2: And they were going against the sugar lobby.
01:13:26
Speaker 1: Wasn't it Kellogg who invented cereals, the cornhole cornflake phenomenon? Didn't he start that?
01:13:30
Speaker 2: I think it is.
01:13:32
Speaker 1: Is that the kind of cereals you were referring to?
01:13:33
Speaker 2: That's what I'm referring to.
01:13:34
Speaker 11: So when all of a sudden you had Cheerios and cornflakes and Wheaties and all of these things that, were just pure carbs. And then they would add sugar because somebody wanted to eat just plain wheat.
01:13:44
Speaker 1: Well, and carbs convert to sugar. Exactly.
01:13:47
Speaker 11: There's like a five-minute difference between that inside your body.
01:13:50
Speaker 2: I mean, when you put them in, it becomes sugar.
01:13:53
Speaker 11: And so you had all of these forces pushing the American public towards this idea that carbs are good, fat's bad.
01:14:03
Speaker 2: And a lot of that.
01:14:04
Speaker 11: Historically goes back to one study. It's the same as the cholesterol study. It's a guy named Ansel Keys. It was called the Seven Countries Study. And the reason it was called the Seven Countries Study is he had this nice graph, and I can pull it up if I can get my internet to connect. But basically what he did is he picked Japan, the United States, UK, and four other countries.
01:14:29
Speaker 1: I guess Italy with the Mediterranean diet.
01:14:31
Speaker 2: Italy was one of them, yes.
01:14:33
Speaker 11: And so he puts this plot up of number of heart attacks versus amount of fats that people were eating. Now, keep in mind, ever since 1910, when Crisco was invented, we're going to talk about that, the amount of fats that were coming from vegetable and seed oils was increasing. So after 1910, we started getting.
01:14:52
Speaker 1: This artificial fat. Which is a different phenomenon.
01:14:54
Speaker 11: A different phenomenon. So what Ancel Keys did is he took these seven things and he plotted these seven countries on a map, and it said basically— So Japan had almost no fat intake whatsoever, and then you got the United States on the other end. And he drew this line between how many heart attacks and how much fat. And it looks like this perfectly straight line, and it's called the seven-country study.
01:15:14
Speaker 2: You can look it up.
01:15:15
Speaker 11: And if all you ask for is that study, that's all you will see.
01:15:18
Speaker 1: But that does not prove causation.
01:15:20
Speaker 2: Well, what's even.
01:15:21
Speaker 11: Better is if you ask for the whole study, there's actually 22 countries. And if you put that data on a plot, It's just random everywhere. There's no line at all. It's just covered. So there's no correlation whatsoever between the amount of fat you eat and heart disease. And they never drew a distinction between fat coming from animals and fat coming from seeds.
01:15:41
Speaker 1: So after that one study, the science was settled.
01:15:43
Speaker 2: The science was settled.
01:15:44
Speaker 1: The government adopted it. We're going to talk about COVID later in the show too, aren't we? Yes, exactly.
01:15:48
Speaker 11: And so if you look at the original study, there's no correlation whatsoever. But he published it with only seven data points that look like this perfectly straight line. In engineering, we call that lying with data.
01:16:00
Speaker 2: Yes.
01:16:01
Speaker 11: And so he threw away anything that didn't match, and somehow he got the entire Congress and everybody to adopt this.
01:16:07
Speaker 1: Well, did the food companies latch onto that and use that as a springboard to push what they were selling?
01:16:13
Speaker 11: At the time, sugar was subsidized, and sugar said, oh, heck, it's fat, so we can pump out all the sugar we want. Yeah, we like this study. Because they drove people away from meat and dairy. Now, what happens is by the time we get to the food pyramid and a little later, the fat and dairy lobbies start to get stronger. And so they're pushing that they want more of their stuff in there. It's just this corruption.
01:16:37
Speaker 1: The takeaway of this is, of course, you know, I'm not going to be critical of capitalism, but in the name of the almighty dollar, no one was in everybody's interest in selling their product and creating a, well, a vehicle, perhaps a lie, perhaps an erroneous study to support the purchase of their particular product, but none of this had anything to do with the health of the American people.
01:16:56
Speaker 11: No, and that's the key is they didn't even look at what happened with heart attacks after they adopted the new pyramid and adopted this approach of no fat.
01:17:04
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this because this sounds suspiciously like the tobacco litigation. And I always say this because it's the food manufacturers. Again, I don't mind them having a profit voted. I'm glad I have food available to me to buy. But if they knew that this was bad for us, but nonetheless pushed it and knew that the study was, in fact, misinterpreted, perhaps intentionally, and yet still pushed it and relied on it. That seems to me about the tobacco companies, because they were charged with knowingly selling a product which they denied was harmful, and they outright to our face lied to us, but they had all the data and industry research that showed that, no, smoking tobacco will kill you.
01:17:44
Speaker 11: Well, capitalism works when you have free access to the data. So if everyone knew that the whole study actually was based on 22 countries... And they threw away the ones that said, hey, there was no correlation whatsoever. If you knew that, you could adopt your buying to it. If you knew that they were putting chemicals in cigarettes to make them more addictive, but also made it more deadly, you wouldn't do that.
01:18:05
Speaker 1: We're talking about a period in time, though, where this type, no one was having this type of discussion about food. There was no processed food. It was only creeping in. Your options were all healthy. And might I point out, food was a hell of a lot more expensive back then, and consuming like 40% of an American household budget, whereas it comes in at 5% now. Technology and advancements have allowed a less expensive food production. But can you, I mean, do you think really people in 1910 were talking about carbs and fats and whether or not that study was around or not?
01:18:40
Speaker 11: Well, and see, the other side of this, we're talking just about diet. In 1910, everybody walked and rode, you know, their bicycles.
01:18:46
Speaker 1: There was, again, the price of food relative to income. you know you just didn't eat excess quantities of food unless you were on the highest income levels right i mean even when i was a kid i was the fattest kid in the neighborhood everybody was skinny as a rail and i didn't i grew up in what some people might perceive to be an affluent neighborhood There weren't fast food places all over. It was a lucky day if you got to go. My God, we're going to McDonald's. It happened like once every couple of months.
01:19:09
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
01:19:10
Speaker 11: And in our household, you got a half a cup of pop a day.
01:19:14
Speaker 1: One soda a week.
01:19:16
Speaker 2: On Saturday night, she got one drink.
01:19:18
Speaker 1: You and I grew up in the same household, basically. One soda a week, Saturday night, my sister and I watching Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Carol Burnett. Enjoying our one. That was the lineup back in the 70s.
01:19:29
Speaker 2: And then Sundays you got to watch World of Disney.
01:19:31
Speaker 1: Wide World of Disney. Yes, amen. Plus the Wide World of Sports on a Sunday morning afternoon, too. George Brenneman, we'll continue talking about health. We're going to dive into the 1910 effort to move to vegetable oil. We'll also talk about the demonization of cholesterol. We'll go to the food pyramid as well. And COVID-19. Yep, lots to unpackage in this hour at 715.
01:19:52
Speaker 6: 5KRC, the talk station.
01:19:56
Speaker 1: 720-855-KRCD Talk Station. Happy Friday. George Brenneman in the studio. Check him out online. RestoreWellness.org. Lots of resources there to try to get you on the right track. And, of course, this morning we're talking about politics and health over the years. We dove into my intention. I didn't want to go out of order because we're moving from 1910 forward to 2019. 2019, of course, the COVID lies. 1910, George Brenneman. The move to vegetable oil. Now, one of the things I learned from you and Keith, and I've tried to do my best, no more seed oils, no more vegetables. What we use in the Thomas household, avocado oil, olive oil, lard, and tallow.
01:20:35
Speaker 3: Yep.
01:20:36
Speaker 2: And butter.
01:20:37
Speaker 1: Oh, God. Well, that's a given, man. Did I have to even put that on the list?
01:20:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, you do, because there's been such an attack on it.
01:20:44
Speaker 1: Well, that goes to the cholesterol. We can demonize. We'll talk about the demonization of cholesterol in the next segment. Let's talk about why. How do we end up with vegetable oil? Was it really necessary? Oh, yeah, bacon grease. I'm going to add that to the list. Yeah, there you go. We save our bacon drippings.
01:20:54
Speaker 2: I keep mine in a jar.
01:20:55
Speaker 1: Oh, that's what we do. Put it in the refrigerator. You know what's great? Hash browns. Oh, my God. Bacon grease. If you're going to eat a potato, fry it up in bacon grease with some onions. It's a rare occasion, but I fall off the carb wagon every once in a while. But why the moved vegetable oil? What was the problem?
01:21:11
Speaker 11: The biggest why was it was getting expensive for lard and butter.
01:21:15
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:21:16
Speaker 11: And so they had this seed over there, cotton seed oil. So the production of cotton and the cotton gin introduced this side product of cotton seed oil. What do we do with it? So they used it for things like greasing equipment and for, you know, the stuff you wouldn't use oil and.
01:21:34
Speaker 2: Grease for, right?
01:21:35
Speaker 1: Industrial purposes.
01:21:35
Speaker 2: Because it looked horrible. It smelled horrible. It tastes horrible.
01:21:40
Speaker 11: Procter & Gamble created this way that you could get rid of the smell. make it clear, and add water to it so it turned into a solid. And suddenly we have crystallized cottonseed oil, otherwise known as Crisco. And they spent a fortune creating advertisements.
01:22:00
Speaker 2: P & G is a marketing company, right?
01:22:02
Speaker 11: I mean, they did have the science to get this ugly oil to look and almost taste all right.
01:22:07
Speaker 1: Well, it performed like traditional lard.
01:22:11
Speaker 6: Right.
01:22:11
Speaker 11: They noticed that it almost looked like it, so they found a way to make it look exactly like lard. And they started pushing this out. And they did it by, you know, they would have recipe books. They would push it in every form they possibly could. And suddenly you have Crisco coming out. You had margarine companies in Europe that were learning how to take the smell and the taste out of it and make it taste like something else. Margarine Anymore, I look at margarine, and I think its best use is like if you've got a squeaky door hinge, you can put some margarine on it, and it'll make it not squeak. That's about the best use for margarine. I can't imagine eating that stuff anymore. There's nothing good about it.
01:22:49
Speaker 1: No, there isn't.
01:22:50
Speaker 11: So Procter & Gamble started with the cotton seed that was left over, and then they found out soybeans. Hey, you can get soybean oil and play around with soybean oil. And now it's corn seeds and corn oil. All of that is coming around now because they're subsidizing a lot of it and because it's still expensive to get the.
01:23:08
Speaker 2: Natural forms, the animal forms.
01:23:10
Speaker 11: What's interesting that went along on the side is Procter & Gamble also had a role in the creation of the American Heart Association. It's a really weird thing where they didn't directly give them money, but on one of their television shows, they had a contest where I don't even remember what it was. I think it had something to do with heart health. But they recommended you send your story in and you could win the contest and then send in a donation to the American Heart Association as part of that. Well, that's when the American Heart Association went from like, you know, nine doctors talking to each other to this enormous organization because they got a ton of money coming in. And they started backing whatever it is they were paid to back.
01:23:50
Speaker 2: So suddenly.
01:23:51
Speaker 11: But unsaturated oils and hydrogenated oils are great, but large bad.
01:23:56
Speaker 1: Much like money and politics can be a problem, same thing with money in the food industry. Absolutely.
01:24:00
Speaker 2: And you mentioned earlier the smoking, right? So when R.J.
01:24:04
Speaker 11: Reynolds got hit with the fact that they had to put smoking can be hazardous to your health on the side, they started buying.
01:24:10
Speaker 2: Up all the food companies.
01:24:12
Speaker 11: So most of the big food monopolies now are owned by R.J. Reynolds and the scientists that made cigarettes addictive. Make ultra-processed food addictive.
01:24:20
Speaker 1: Ooh, we might want to have to expand on that a little bit here in the coming segment there, because that's a problem for me. 725 here, 55 KRC Talk Station. I was just remembering Florence Henderson, deep-frying loaves of bread for the Wesson oil. Remember that, George, huh? I'm having all kinds of.
01:24:36
Speaker 11: Wesson was a chemist that perfected part of the processes for using seed oil.
01:24:40
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I'll tell you what, you need to ensure the safety and warmth of your home. Talk Station. 729-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Very informative he is. Check out the webpage. You don't believe George Brenneman talking about restorewellness.org. He backs it with the research materials, healthy options for you and your diet, and some great thoughts and comments by Keith Tennefeld, who's not here today, but George has covered it quite well, dealing with the sort of the capitalistic nature of food industry coupled with working with the government, we ultimately end up with some pretty bad information.
01:25:14
Speaker 6: Right.
01:25:14
Speaker 1: Now, you had mentioned, and I know I brought up the tobacco company litigation, the reason I presume they were held liable, maybe the food industry, which, as you will explain in a little bit more detail here, is owned by the tobacco industry or former tobacco industry. Maybe they're purposely engaged in manipulating what's in the foods to make it more palatable, more addictive, if I can use the words. Right. But I have to say, and you off-air mentioned that the first foray into the food industry was R.J. Wendell's acquisition of Hawaiian Punch in 1963.
01:25:49
Speaker 5: Right.
01:25:49
Speaker 1: Well, the Surgeon General's report saying that tobacco causes cancer to kill you that led to the labels was the 1964 Surgeon General's report. So they were out ahead of it. Do you think they saw the writing on the wall? Absolutely. Okay, so as a Well, let's say a CEO of R.J. Reynolds. I'm looking at an insanely valuable, wealthy company still generating billions of dollars. But I see that dying because people are going to find out that what they're selling, which I think they knew, was killing people. Okay, while we've got money, while we have the ability, power, and influence, let's diversify our business, R.J. Reynolds, and create a food company. I see that as a normal strategy. Let's buy Hawaiian Punch, and down the road they buy more and more. It's lucrative, and yes, the tobacco business itself started whittling away, and we're at the point now where a very small slice of the population even smokes anymore. Do you think they went into this with a nefarious intent to create products that were more addictive, or did they just start there and then realize, hey, These businesses are profitable. Let's figure out how to make them more profitable. Well, so the way they.
01:26:49
Speaker 11: Grew the market share on tobacco was they found ways to make it more and more addictive. Manipulating the product. They add chemicals to the product to make it more addictive.
01:26:57
Speaker 1: Good point.
01:26:58
Speaker 11: Therefore, they sell more. So tobacco, you never had to have. I mean, if you don't have tobacco, you're not going to die. If you don't have food, you're going to die. So, hey, let's buy a food company. And we already have scientists who have perfected this art of making things more addictive. They knew what people wanted. So 1963 is probably right around when Hawaiian Punch and Kool-Aid and all those things started to get really popular. Well, hey, we've got this thing that you really don't have to have, but People are craving because it tastes good, gives them a rush, you know, whatever.
01:27:32
Speaker 1: Soft drinks or, you know, sodas have been around for a long time. It's just a non-carbonated form of a soda that people obviously love to buy.
01:27:38
Speaker 11: And they start pumping up the amount of sugar in it. I mean, Hi-C, the other one, you remember, they talk about how great vitamin C is. Well, yeah, vitamin C is great, but what do you mix it with? You know, a cup of sugar is probably.
01:27:49
Speaker 2: Not a good idea.
01:27:50
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm sorry, man. Down in the South, they've been doing that forever. Two cups of sugar per quart of water to make sweet tea. Oh, that's crazy, isn't it?
01:27:57
Speaker 2: Could you drink that?
01:27:58
Speaker 1: Purely saturated. Not anymore. Oh, you could.
01:28:00
Speaker 2: I could never. I mean, that was just way too much.
01:28:03
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Back in the old days? I mean, you're talking about a kid who used to be, I mean, when I was swimming, an entire 16-ounce sugar soda. This is when I was working out. And then I put two scoops of the powdered like high C mix. Remember they sold concentrated? Into that and mix it up. That's how bad.
01:28:23
Speaker 11: I saw an ad the other day for these drinks where they put like cotton candy inside of a soda.
01:28:29
Speaker 10: Yeah.
01:28:30
Speaker 2: And I looked at that and I'm like, oh, my God.
01:28:32
Speaker 8: I know.
01:28:32
Speaker 1: Listen. I get a migraine.
01:28:33
Speaker 2: Just watching the ad, you know?
01:28:35
Speaker 1: All right.
01:28:35
Speaker 2: So over time, what do you start doing?
01:28:37
Speaker 1: So they bought.
01:28:38
Speaker 11: The Hawaiian Punch. Then they buy Nabisco, so Oreos, Chippahoi, Wheat Thins. All of that stuff now is R.J.
01:28:44
Speaker 6: Reynolds.
01:28:44
Speaker 11: They bought Philip Morris, the other big cigarette company, bought General Foods and Kraft. So they went into this, and I cannot find the data immediately by hitting my friend Grock here, but you've got to believe that the reason high-fructose corn syrup came out It was because when you get some sugar, after a while you don't want it anymore because you've had enough. If you have high fructose corn syrup, your body doesn't have that switch anymore. It doesn't say you've had enough.
01:29:11
Speaker 1: It doesn't metabolize like sugar?
01:29:12
Speaker 11: It metabolizes very similar, except it only metabolizes in the liver. It cannot be taken straight into the cell. And so your liver is sitting there trying to crank out glycogen and glucose from this This carb that's coming in that nothing else in your body can handle. You take sugar. Every cell in your body can take the glucose and use it. You take high fructose corn syrup. The cells don't get it right away. It has to go to the liver first, which is why we now have cirrhosis.
01:29:39
Speaker 2: Of the liver with kids.
01:29:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.
01:29:41
Speaker 2: That have never touched alcohol.
01:29:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. When you drink 12 Mountain Dews a day, you're going to run into a problem.
01:29:47
Speaker 2: For a number of reasons, citric acid, everything else.
01:29:49
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
01:29:51
Speaker 2: And Mountain Dew is my go-to. Mountain Dew with lemon. So I'd add even more acid to it.
01:29:56
Speaker 1: Not anymore?
01:29:57
Speaker 5: Not.
01:29:57
Speaker 2: Oh, golly.
01:29:57
Speaker 1: I was going to say, George, you admit on air that you're still drinking Mountain Dew. I'm going to say, well.
01:30:02
Speaker 2: I can't even go to the soda fountain anymore. I go there and I get the water. You know, you hit the button, you get pure water out.
01:30:09
Speaker 1: Because the diet sodas also come with their own perils. Yes.
01:30:13
Speaker 11: So there, the big peril is your body thinks it's a sugar. It creates insulin. There's no sugar for the insulin to work on.
01:30:19
Speaker 3: And so.
01:30:20
Speaker 11: Your body now has this influx of insulin with nothing to do except cause problems. So the combination of high fructose corn syrup, which I think did come from the tobacco companies and the corn subsidies.
01:30:32
Speaker 2: So the same reason we have ethanol now.
01:30:34
Speaker 1: There'll be government influence over the agricultural industry, which results in us burning corn in our gas tanks forever.
01:30:42
Speaker 11: I don't understand. But that one's entirely because we pay for it. The taxpayers pay for it and subsidize it.
01:30:48
Speaker 6: I know.
01:30:49
Speaker 11: So that's another one of those connections between food and the government. I wonder what corn would cost if it wasn't subsidized.
01:30:55
Speaker 1: Well, we've got to get to the demonization of cholesterol, which kicked in in the late 50s. More with George Brenneman. RestoreWellness.org. And also, Gregory Lester, you went to the talk station. 740 here at 55KRC, the talk station. RestoreWellness.org is where you find George Brenneman. And, George, Eric, my friend, just chimed in. He said the fat electrician did some research for you, giving me a link to a YouTube link, which is called The Disturbing Story Behind Lunchables. Speaking of corporate influence over food and them selling us a bunch of stuff that is not good for us, I look at those lunchables. First of all, is it processed bologna or some kind of processed meat?
01:31:31
Speaker 2: It's usually bologna or some kind of ham or— I think you can get turkey.
01:31:34
Speaker 1: But— Your carb servings in there with the crackers.
01:31:37
Speaker 2: And then the cheese that's never seen a cow.
01:31:39
Speaker 1: Right. And then— It's in a big plastic packaging stuffed in a box. So it's massive landfill. On top of the fact you just get like a couple, three ounces of terrible for you meat. So I don't even know what that video says. But that's convenience.
01:31:55
Speaker 2: Well, the problem there is it's targeting children.
01:31:57
Speaker 3: It is.
01:31:58
Speaker 1: Oh, hey, listen, man. Target marketing for me. I had my mom buying all kinds of crap when I was a kid.
01:32:03
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, in our day it was things like Oreos and Frosted Flakes.
01:32:08
Speaker 1: Captain Crunch. And then you get over to the frozen food section and all those processed frozen TV dinners that were so bad for you. Oh, yeah. Oh, man.
01:32:18
Speaker 2: They had enough preservatives in there to get your body ready for the coroner.
01:32:23
Speaker 1: You could have buried one in your backyard and still be ready to eat today.
01:32:25
Speaker 2: Have you ever set a McDonald's hamburger out for a while? It doesn't change.
01:32:31
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't.
01:32:31
Speaker 2: The cheese doesn't even change.
01:32:33
Speaker 1: Listen, we're on the same page. All right, demonization of cholesterol. All of the foregoing has a lot of cholesterol in it, but is it really that bad for us? What's the story?
01:32:40
Speaker 11: So the interesting thing is, so if you just go into Grok and type in, you know, how did cholesterol become the bad guy for heart attacks? The very first study it talks about is a Russian pathologist in 1913 fed cholesterol and sunflower seed oil to rabbits, and the rabbits had heart problems. We now know it's the sunflower seed oil. So, I mean, that was the first study. And then you got the Ancel Keys study we talked about. And I showed you the plot. There's just no correlation whatsoever between fat and heart attacks until you pick only very specific countries that you're going to talk about.
01:33:16
Speaker 12: Right.
01:33:17
Speaker 11: There was another study in 1948 called the Farminghand study where they started looking at this community and tried to draw a connection between cholesterol.
01:33:28
Speaker 2: It didn't work.
01:33:29
Speaker 11: The bottom line is even Grok will tell you that by 2010, the connection between food you eat containing cholesterol and heart attacks was like non-existent. There is no correlation. But since then, we now have statins. And I heard they had a caller earlier this morning talking about statins. Well, hey, you know, we've got this thing you can measure in your blood called cholesterol. We've got this tainted study from the 50s that says that's the problem. And we've got a drug that will make that number go lower. Now, we've talked about this before. There's a great book out there called The Clot Thickens. And one of the things it talks about is the actual problem is not your cholesterol causing a clot. It's the fact that your arteries were already torn and the cholesterol is coming in to fix it.
01:34:14
Speaker 2: So what causes the tearing?
01:34:16
Speaker 11: Well, smoking, high blood pressure, high sugar, stress, you know, all the stuff we talk about other than diet that.
01:34:23
Speaker 2: Causes you problems with your health.
01:34:25
Speaker 11: So cholesterol is kind of like blaming the fireman for the fact that the house caught fire. You know, the way to stop house fires is to get rid of the fire department. That's essentially what statins and cholesterol are doing. We're going to get rid of the problem by not being able to repair your arteries.
01:34:41
Speaker 1: And it just sounds stupid. Bat crap insane, too, when you look at it that way.
01:34:45
Speaker 11: Well, and suddenly we had this, again, you talked about the Alzheimer's link.
01:34:48
Speaker 4: Right.
01:34:48
Speaker 1: Now, okay, and going back, artificial intelligence tells me that, no, there is no connection whatsoever.
01:34:53
Speaker 11: You have to drive that one. So that one, if you keep asking questions, they'll finally talk about the correlation. But the first response, especially from using chat GPT?
01:35:01
Speaker 1: No, this is the default under Google.
01:35:03
Speaker 11: Okay, which is a chat GPT-based AI one, I think. They have their own flavor.
01:35:08
Speaker 1: Like Gemini or something like that.
01:35:09
Speaker 11: But it's like their first instinct of all of the other ones, and even Grok to some extent, is to give you the standard line. You then have to push them in the direction that you want to ask deeper questions, and it'll start to give you the deeper answers.
01:35:21
Speaker 1: It's really weird. What about all the research papers that say there is a correlation between statins and dementia?
01:35:28
Speaker 11: Yeah, they just throw them out. It's the same way when we talk about COVID. The AI really cherry-picks their data when they talk about COVID.
01:35:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, COVID. You know what? One of the things that COVID gave us? A profound, jaded cynicism when it comes to what our lords and masters in government and the experts are feeding us. Going back and looking over the history of what we've been talking about today.
01:35:50
Speaker 5: Right.
01:35:50
Speaker 1: We don't trust people as much. And so I've kind of moved through my life with the default mode being jaded and cynical and I think it's benefited me. Don't agree or believe in something just because someone tells it to you because you're supposed to believe in it.
01:36:04
Speaker 2: And there's no excuse for not doing your own research.
01:36:06
Speaker 1: Amen, brother.
01:36:07
Speaker 11: And I think COVID woke up everyone's BS detectors. You know, we had gone to sleep for years and years.
01:36:12
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I'm saying.
01:36:13
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:36:14
Speaker 11: You know, being told that you had to stay home and you're not allowed to see your dying parents and these cloth masks work.
01:36:20
Speaker 2: You just look at that and go, that's crazy.
01:36:22
Speaker 1: My favorite one is DeWine saying you can't drink after 10 p.m., but you can still hang out at the bar.
01:36:27
Speaker 2: Or you can sit at your table, but you can't stand up without a mask.
01:36:30
Speaker 1: Or you're going to get arrested for walking around by yourself on a beach without a mask. We could go back and spend hours going through all of the nonsense and how obvious it was and how many people still nonetheless just ignored their own natural reaction to that, which is this can't be right. Right. 746, don't go away. We're going to do one more with George. And speaking of COVID-19, maybe. 55KRC, the talk station. 7.50, almost 7.51 before we get back to talking health with George Benjamin. Let's kiss ourselves a Crimestopper or Bad Guy of the Week. Welcome back to the 55 KRC Morning Show. Officer Tiffany Green with the Cincinnati Police Department, Crimestoppers, Bad Guy of the Week. Who are we looking for today? And happy Friday, Tiffany.
01:37:08
Speaker 7: Thank you, Brian.
01:37:09
Speaker 8: Good morning.
01:37:10
Speaker 7: The Cincinnati Police District 1 and 3 investigative units are looking for Johnny Gibson.
01:37:18
Speaker 9: Mr.
01:37:18
Speaker 7: Gibson is wanted for two counts of aggravated robbery. District 3 investigators say Mr. Gibson normally brandished a firearm at a McDonald's cashier and took cash from the register, then fled the scene. Four days later, District 1 investigators say Mr. Gibson used a knife to force the store clerk at Rivertown Inquiry and Apparel to open the register while he took cash from the register and fled the store with the cash in hand. Johnny Gibson is a white male. He's 36 years old. He's 5'11 and 150 pounds. Johnny Gibson has an arrest history of aggravated robbery and kidnapping and was last known to live on Fair Street in South Fairmount. If anyone has information on where police can find Johnny Gibson, please call Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040 or submit a tip online at crime-stoppers.us.
01:38:12
Speaker 1: You remain anonymous. You'll be eligible for a cash reward. We can get this guy off the street. He'd be good for everybody, so try to do that. Tiffany Green, God bless you and every member of the Cincinnati Police Department and all members of law enforcement. We'll be looking for him. He's on my blog page, 55KRC. iheart. com. George Brenneman, RestoreWellness.org. That's his own webpage. You can get all kinds of great health information. I know we have just a few minutes left in the segment. We're dealing an entire hour on great health information, the connection with capitalism, I guess, politics, and how, well, the food we eat ends up harming us. So we're waking up to this reality, but one of the cold water doses of reality going back to COVID-19, I think we all collectively learned a lot, but You know, the damage that was done during that period of time in the name of, you know, stopping the pandemic, I don't know that we're going to really know for decades.
01:38:57
Speaker 11: I think the population is almost equally divided between those that think that all of these moves saved them and those that know that it made things infinitely worse.
01:39:05
Speaker 2: I mean, the lockdowns, this reliance on masks and masks.
01:39:10
Speaker 1: Emergency use authorization vaccines.
01:39:12
Speaker 11: Yeah, that are never tried before and forcing people to go to the hospital when they finally are starting to have trouble because of all the other problems with COVID. And then they put them on ventilators, which just accelerated the problem. The whole COVID mismanagement and the fact that the government took the lead in all that, it was kind of like, what made a lot of people wake up and say, why do we trust anything they say if they're so wrong on this one?
01:39:40
Speaker 1: One more information comes out every day with Fauci. I mean, look at the revelations from his diaries, the lies that he told us.
01:39:46
Speaker 11: Yeah, he told the public I had nothing to do with shutting down the schools, but then in his emails, he's bragging about getting de Blasio to close down all their schools.
01:39:53
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
01:39:54
Speaker 11: And that's the real thing for me is we've now gotten in November a chance to vote on what happened during COVID.
01:40:01
Speaker 2: We've got the architect.
01:40:02
Speaker 11: Of easily one of the worst states' policies in the country, Amy Acton, running for.
01:40:09
Speaker 2: Office on her history as the COVID czar.
01:40:13
Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow. And yet never answering a single question relating to it. Not one.
01:40:18
Speaker 2: Well, and apparently she was.
01:40:20
Speaker 1: At least that I have been able to come across.
01:40:22
Speaker 2: She was afraid to go in front of people and talk, and I just don't understand how.
01:40:25
Speaker 1: Well, she quit the job. I mean, she wasn't even on it that long. She quit.
01:40:29
Speaker 11: Everything about this just sounds wrong, and now we're sort of saying, okay... We want to select a leader for everything in the state that demonstrated that they didn't know what they were doing.
01:40:39
Speaker 2: On this one little facet of what was going on in the state.
01:40:43
Speaker 1: Let's put him in charge of everything. Yeah.
01:40:45
Speaker 11: And give her infinite money and power. And in Ohio, you can't get anything done because of the governor's line item veto.
01:40:52
Speaker 2: So I don't know. The whole COVID thing.
01:40:55
Speaker 11: The other thing I found interesting is I'm doing research to talk.
01:40:58
Speaker 2: About it today.
01:40:59
Speaker 11: Most of the AI still feeds you the science has proven stuff. You got to really push it to get any information beyond the standard Fauci approved story. I find that disturbing on how controlled that information is.
01:41:13
Speaker 1: Garbage in, garbage out. The AI didn't create itself.
01:41:18
Speaker 11: And it's all a function of who drove the initial learning. I'd love to do a little deeper dive into the AI and how much of it is influenced by the initial commands. So I can word a question to get the answer I want, or I could just ask the question.
01:41:33
Speaker 1: Yes, but I guess, at least insofar as some of the learning models, it's a question often of volume. And there's not as much volume of the reality that you're talking about as there is the volume that we got for so long that trust the science, trust the science. And they've done some tests on that. There was a Reddit subgroup. that they got on the bandwagon of perpetuating this lie. It was, I mean, beyond outrageous. It was something, if you read it, you'd be like, there's no way. Like, J.D. Vance was murdered by Donald Trump. It was like, I'm serious. It was a disease-infested cockroach. It was just like, really? And they said it so many times, they repeated it. And they echoed the message in other forums. And finally, the artificial intelligence modeling, maybe it was ChatGP or one of the other ones, actually revealed that as a truth.
01:42:23
Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
01:42:23
Speaker 1: Because it had been produced so many times in volume by these actors online doing this intentionally coordinated lie just to see if it worked.
01:42:30
Speaker 9: It did.
01:42:31
Speaker 1: It worked, but proving AI didn't work.
01:42:34
Speaker 7: Right.
01:42:34
Speaker 1: So I guess the more you say it.
01:42:35
Speaker 11: And COVID is the example, like, you know, when we start talking about seed oils and carbs and all of, you know, muscle is medicine kind of things, that is the minority of the people talking about it. Although I will say right now, if you pay any attention to the wellness space, There is a ton of information coming out on things like keto and things like, you know, strength training is a way to live longer. And I think that's finally a chance that we're saying, hey, the truth's coming through the noise.
01:43:02
Speaker 1: Well, the idea that we can now eat eggs without any guilt is still a struggle for many people who grew up being told that eggs would kill you because of the cholesterol.
01:43:11
Speaker 8: Right.
01:43:11
Speaker 1: That's not true.
01:43:12
Speaker 9: Right.
01:43:14
Speaker 1: And you can eat it, but there's still that little hesitation, like, oh, my God, I'm going to eat an egg. Because you've been convinced over your entire life, based on propaganda, that you shouldn't eat, or just simply erroneous understanding of the science. George Brenneman, get over to the website, restorewellness.org. Find out what the resources are there, all the information is there. And we'll have George and, you know what, get Keith back in the studio and talk about this more again, sooner rather than later, from my perspective. Brother, it's always a pleasure having you here. Thank you very much. My pleasure. 757-55-KHC-D-TALK-STATION. Brian Eibold, The Help Squad, Great West Side Charity. He's going to be in the studio. 805-55-CARE-CD Talk Station. It's an hour, or I'd say a half hour anyway. Since it's 805, we're going to talk with Brian Eibold, who brought a friend with him today, Crystal Rack. She's with CareSource. Brian Eibold, if you don't recall, he's been on this program many times over the years. And I was shocked to learn that The Help Squad, which is a 501c3 Christian nonprofit organization, whose mission is to share hope and compassion and grace through faith and community collaborative, assisting families in crisis with short-term financial support. Wraparound services for food, clothing, and shelter, getting people in touch with resources that are out in the world that people never otherwise would have found out. That's what Crystal's doing with the Help Squad. But the idea is to help people get over these speed bumps that they encounter in the road. They're already on sort of lice financial margins. Think of someone who's going to work every day but not making a whole lot of money. What happens to them when their car breaks down? And if you can't fix the car and get to work, you can't pay the rent. You can't pay the rent, you're going to be homeless. And so Brian and the team at Help Squad understand this. They've seen it, and they've been doing this since 2001, getting people over those hurdles. Is that a fairly decent, accurate summary there, Brian?
01:44:49
Speaker 12: That's pretty good. You really don't need me here. You just said everything I was going to say. Well, then get over to.
01:44:54
Speaker 1: The Help Squad, cincywiththewy.com, and there's a little donate button on there. There's a volunteer button on there. But what you do is, you know, there are organizations all over that are doing what you're doing, but your focus is the, you know, Colerain, Green, Delhi Townships, and Cheviot. It's a Westside-focused group, and you decided that because I guess you saw a need for this type of resource on the Westside, Brian.
01:45:16
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely.
01:45:17
Speaker 12: So we assist financially struggling families, and we do focus on single moms and dads. I was raised by a single mother. I saw her struggles, and I'm sure a lot of your listeners can relate to that. And like a lot of most nonprofit organizations.
01:45:30
Speaker 2: We do the basics, food, clothing, and shelter.
01:45:33
Speaker 12: However, we do go beyond that and assist families with rental assistance to avoid evictions and become yet another homeless statistic.
01:45:42
Speaker 2: In Hamilton County.
01:45:44
Speaker 12: We'll pay your first month's rent or deposit to get you into a house or an apartment. We help you furnish it. We turn on utilities, gas, electric, water. We prevent them from being shut off. And we do, like you mentioned, we repair disabled vehicles for free, and we've given away about 20 cars to those families in desperate need of transportation.
01:46:06
Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome. It is.
01:46:07
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
01:46:08
Speaker 12: It's basically any need that a struggling family may have, we will accommodate them once vetted. So, I mean, we're not like we just don't hand out free money like Oprah Winfrey. You get a car and you get a car and you get a car.
01:46:21
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up because I think that's one of people's larger concerns. You know, I want a bang for my donation dollar. I know people are out there. I am a giving person. But you know what? I don't want to give. And here I am going to have a pick on the United Way again. You know, they've got lots of overhead. They've got lots of salaries. They've got lots of buildings. So that means a buck doesn't mean a buck into the hands of someone who needs it. You're looking at and you're vetting people so you know they are truly in need and deserving. This isn't just going to be yet another handout, which will perpetuate the welfare reliance. It's keeping people engaged in their work and get them over a slight hurdle. So you vet them, you know this is a true reality in their world, and you make sure that dollar is a dollar in a pocket.
01:47:01
Speaker 12: Yes, and going on with that, 100% of every donation goes directly into our organization to help needy families. And none of us, none of us on the board of directors, including myself, get paid. We do all of this for free. As a matter of fact, I probably lose $ 5, 000 to $ 7, 000 a year to run this.
01:47:20
Speaker 1: You see, that's your mission. You're helping people.
01:47:22
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm not complaining. It's God's work, and I have no problem with it.
01:47:25
Speaker 1: Well, you see, the world needs, I guess, more doers. And here's what I can do to levy some self-criticism. I would be more inclined to write a check than actually spend money. The time needed to do it, that takes an extra special inertia and an extra special connection with wanting to achieve that desired goal. And I'll be critical of myself that I don't do a whole lot of that myself, but if someone's really in need, I want the money to go to the end need.
01:47:53
Speaker 3: Sure.
01:47:53
Speaker 1: That's why I really like having you on the program, Brian, and promoting the Help Squad.
01:47:57
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. At least you're doing something. There are so many people that do nothing.
01:48:02
Speaker 1: They could.
01:48:03
Speaker 12: They have the resources to do it. They're just not doing it. And so, yeah, hey, we take checks, believe me. So don't think you're not doing anything by writing a check. I mean, we all know you certainly have. We don't mind being the hands and feet of Christ. We're out there in the field every day. We don't, and not everybody can do that or wants to do that. Everybody has a different spiritual gift and that's not a problem, but we certainly do need donations and that is not, we certainly accept them. So don't think you're not doing anything by donating.
01:48:33
Speaker 1: Well, in terms of those that are Doers, I mean, like not W-D-E-W-E-R-S, but I mean doers, D-O-E-R-S, people like you who are actually doing the actual physical work, making it happen. You welcome volunteers like, for example, automobile repair places who can service these donated cars and make sure they're in running condition.
01:48:53
Speaker 9: Yes.
01:48:53
Speaker 6: Yes, sir. Yes.
01:48:54
Speaker 12: Speaking of that, we started what's called a drive program where we go to, we partner with local service stations who actually care about the community instead of just talking about it.
01:49:04
Speaker 2: They actually.
01:49:06
Speaker 12: put their money where their mouth is, and they fix cars for free. We've got Brogan Falls Oil on Bridgetown Road. We've got Bear Car Care in White Oak, Brogan Oil on Glenway Avenue, and Duber's Automotive in Delhi. And I have to welcome Ryan Roth of Sumner's Auto Care over in Coltrane. As we're speaking right now, he is towing a single mother's car into his shop to fix it so she can get her kids to school and she can get to work and she can continue to live the life that she needs to live.
01:49:39
Speaker 1: That's an allergy inspiring kind of thing there it.
01:49:41
Speaker 12: Is it's amazing and we look there are how many what there are hundreds and hundreds of service stations in hamilton county i've mentioned what six i mean we could use a lot more and uh so anybody that's willing to do that we're more than willing to.
01:49:55
Speaker 1: Take you and you're not inviting a large volume challenging ask in terms of the charity. How many cars do you think Sumner would have to deal with? They've stepped up to the plate. They're going to fix this poor woman's car. I mean, how many do you take into a service center throughout the year?
01:50:14
Speaker 12: Well, I mean, considering we have these six, let's say each year, Each service station does five cars, something like that, between five and eight cars.
01:50:24
Speaker 2: That's it. It's not a big ask.
01:50:27
Speaker 1: That's what my point is. I don't want people, oh, my God, I'm going to have a car in here every single day of the year. It's going to take away from my bottom line. I can't afford to do that. No, you can't.
01:50:35
Speaker 3: No.
01:50:35
Speaker 1: I bet there's somebody working at these automobile places, like maybe someone at Sumner's, that shares your vision of the charitable mission and would be proud to be providing that service.
01:50:45
Speaker 9: Yeah.
01:50:45
Speaker 6: No doubt.
01:50:46
Speaker 2: We're easy to find.
01:50:47
Speaker 1: You just go to the help squad. Well, we're leaving Crystal Rack out of the equation here. She's with CareSource, but I mean, she got it because I said, wait a second, you're involved with the help squad because you know about all of these other resources out in the world that may be almost impossible for someone who really needs it to find. Absolutely.
01:51:08
Speaker 13: And that's what CareSource is about is empowering people who are on Medicaid to make a choice in their managed care organization. We are one of those choices. And CareSource is one of the only nonprofit managed care organizations out there in Ohio. And what we do is we offer enhanced benefits to help people that Brian are helping out there in other ways. So how can we get a life coach for somebody to help them manage their finances so they don't get into a crisis mode again? So a lot of people think Medicaid, they think medical dental vision, but really some managed care organization like CareSource, it's so much more. We really are talking about how can somebody focus on their health and their wellbeing and they're going to their medical appointments, dental and vision, if they're not knowing if they're going to, lights are going to be on the next day.
01:51:53
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
01:51:54
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:51:54
Speaker 1: That falls by the wayside. Absolutely.
01:51:56
Speaker 5: Right.
01:51:56
Speaker 13: So we really have to address the social determinants of health first. And Pam Morrison, who started CareSource as a nonprofit over 30 years ago, she was a social worker.
01:52:05
Speaker 2: She understood that.
01:52:06
Speaker 13: She understood the need had to be met first before the other medical, dental and vision can be addressed. And working with organizations like Bryan Health, who are out there doing the good work, all the little, not little things, but the details that families need taken care of. We're here to figure out how can we support Brian, his mission, and the other nonprofits in Cincinnati who are helping our members and our potential members.
01:52:29
Speaker 1: So in terms of how this process works, someone comes to Brian, like, for example, the woman who's having her car fixed now. He realizes there's a challenge here. Maybe he sees some deficiencies or some problems in that woman's life when talking to her. So He would call you and introduce you to that person so you could help them in these other areas and avoid larger problems down the road.
01:52:50
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:52:51
Speaker 1: All of us.
01:52:52
Speaker 13: So I'm an insurance professional, but I'm really just a community educator and convener here in the Cincinnati area. I work with another team. Ken, Anastasia and Karen are also on my team from CareSource. And we are out in the community working with groups like Brian's Help Squad to just support the members that they are already working with. Actually, Brian and I had a conversation right out in the hallway yesterday. that he might add that as a question on their survey, do you have Medicaid? And if so, he can point them in my direction and I can help them get them all these enhanced benefits and resources that they may not have known about.
01:53:23
Speaker 1: I got to draw a parallel to the various veteran service organizations. They're not responsible for the VA or the VA benefits, but they know how to get veterans signed up for it and facilitate the process of getting them connected with these great resources. That's you at CareSource. Crystal Brack is here along with Brian Eibold. It's The Help Squad, Cincy with a Y.com online. A variety of ways that you can help out. And businesses out there, if you think there's some way that you can help these folks in the community that surely could use the help and keep them engaged and involved and working, just reach out to Brian and the team. Maybe you come up with some creative way you can help out. They're going to love to hear from you. So get in touch with them through the website. We'll continue. We've got more to talk about with the Help Squad. After these brief words, don't go away.
01:54:06
Speaker 2: 55KRC.
01:54:07
Speaker 6: I'm KRC, the talk station.
01:54:11
Speaker 1: 819-55-CARE-CITY-TALK-STATION in studio. From CareSource, Crystal Rack, who works with the Help Squad. This is a segment where we're carrying it from the prior hour. We've got Brian Eibold in the studio. He's been here many, many times talking about the wonderful work of the charitable organization, the Help Squad, which you can find online, thehelpsquadsensey.com. Award-winning you are, Brian Eibold. I saw the award you got last year for the City Serves Award. But you've won other awards and sort of a confirmation independently that you are getting work done. You help about 300 people annually?
01:54:46
Speaker 2: 300 families.
01:54:48
Speaker 1: Families.
01:54:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, 300 families.
01:54:50
Speaker 12: And each family, on average, is about $ 850 is what they average out to. So you can't tell me that a family's not worth $ 850.
01:54:58
Speaker 1: An outstanding point. And as you have taught time and time again, the $ 850, it's... I would say, and correct me if I'm wrong, is pretty much a one and done for a lot of these people. It's the one speed bump in their light. $ 850 on average solves the problem.
01:55:15
Speaker 6: Yes.
01:55:16
Speaker 12: We rarely have people coming back to us for a second or third time. We rarely do.
01:55:21
Speaker 1: Well, and since you do not have enough money in an endowment that could generate the revenue that you need on an annual basis to serve all of these people, again, $ 850 per person, 300, 350, you know, you can do the math on your own. I just want to specifically thank, because I asked you ahead of time, the biggest donation you got so far, God bless the Green Township Fire Department.
01:55:41
Speaker 6: Yes. Yeah.
01:55:43
Speaker 2: 22 grand.
01:55:43
Speaker 1: 22 grand from a golf tournament they did. They chose yours as the charity.
01:55:47
Speaker 6: Yes. Yeah.
01:55:48
Speaker 2: Great bunch of guys.
01:55:49
Speaker 1: No question about it. First responders. But you got some other people you wanted to acknowledge this morning, Brian. Yeah, I do.
01:55:54
Speaker 12: So what I was telling you when we were off the air, so basically we have a fundraiser.
01:55:59
Speaker 2: We make money.
01:56:00
Speaker 12: We give it all away. have another fundraiser, make money, give it all away. It's like a hamster wheel. We never stop. And it's all year round. So our next fundraiser is going to be a Crimer's Beer House on State Route 128 on Friday, October 2nd, 6 to 10 p.m. We've got the coolest band on the west side of town, Lunchbox. They'll be performing. There'll be games, raffles, split the pot, good food, drinks, and a bunch of people who support the mission of helping others. I mean, What else do you want? So and this is going to be actually the first fundraiser that we have a corporate sponsor. So I have to thank Matt and Jessica Ernst of Matt Ernst and Associates Law Firm at 212 West 8th Street, downtown Cincinnati, for stepping up to support us. And, you know, just real quick, being a retired cop, I've known Matt for a long time and I've actually had cases with him. in the past. And he was always that attorney, man. When you walk in the room, like the cops are like, oh man, I hope the guy we arrested didn't get mad.
01:57:05
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
01:57:06
Speaker 2: Because you know it's going to be a battle.
01:57:07
Speaker 12: I mean, he, oh yes. I mean, they do all kinds of work other than criminal. But, yeah, you knew when Matt walked in, it was the real deal.
01:57:15
Speaker 1: Well, I think Merlin Shiverdugger is the one that pops into my head along those lines. We go way back because that was my first clerk job, and he was a brilliant, brilliant criminal defense attorney. Same kind of reaction from law enforcement. You all got along with him. Oh, definitely.
01:57:27
Speaker 2: He's a great guy, but he definitely looks out first for his clients.
01:57:32
Speaker 1: For those of my listening audience.
01:57:33
Speaker 5: It's a battle.
01:57:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're looking for an attorney.
01:57:36
Speaker 1: ErnstFirm.com. I'm looking at the website right now. ErnstFirm.com.
01:57:40
Speaker 5: Yes.
01:57:41
Speaker 1: The prosecutors, I guess, will sweat.
01:57:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, let them.
01:57:44
Speaker 12: But, no, we really appreciate him and Jessica stepping up and helping us out. It's going to be a great time. And, yeah, anybody that supports us, yeah, certainly. I'm going to get on the radio. I'm going to support them. You better believe it.
01:57:55
Speaker 1: All right, and it's 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. October 2nd. That would be on a Friday evening at, well, Kramer's Beer House. I think most people know where Kramer's is. We used to have listener lunches out there. All right, what else do we need to do? We've got another, like, a minute and a half here to wind things down, Brian, and I... give you the mic or maybe Crystal, you got an observation or two, but just encouraging people to really try to help out. I mean, you started this in 2001. It was just a, did you just like, were you inspired? Like, did God lay a hand on you or something, Brian? I think we all have spiritual gifts.
01:58:25
Speaker 12: And I think that was just, uh, you know, concern with other people, you know, happens to be mine, but nobody important.
01:58:33
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just the messenger of this, and.
01:58:35
Speaker 12: I'm humbled to be that messenger, but I'm nobody important.
01:58:40
Speaker 2: We're just doing the Lord's work, and I'm proud.
01:58:43
Speaker 1: To do that. Well, somebody's got to hold their hand up and say, you know what? I got a great idea. I want to fulfill my mission, but I can't do it on my own. Again, the people who are willing to do the work and the effort to put things in place so Lazy people like me who appreciate the value of the mission can help support you in any way we can, whether it's donating a service or writing a check or, you know, just showing up at a party, the Help Squad Party for a Cause on October 2nd at a Crimer's Beer House, drinking some beer, enjoying some music and buying raffle tickets and having some great fun. Crystal's nodding in approval. Yes, absolutely. You're going to be there.
01:59:16
Speaker 2: Is it on a Saturday?
01:59:17
Speaker 9: Friday.
01:59:17
Speaker 5: Friday.
01:59:17
Speaker 2: You can make it.
01:59:18
Speaker 1: I'll be there. I'm not going to put you on the spot. I'll be there.
01:59:20
Speaker 2: She'll be there.
01:59:21
Speaker 1: I know how difficult it is you put on the spot, Crystal. Crystal will most definitely try to be there. She just said she would. But, you know, whether or not that happens, you can make it and help out the Help Squad. Brian, Crystal, thank you so much for what you're doing. We'll regularly have you on, you know, throughout the year and remind people of what you're doing and what a great mission it is. The Help Squad, Cincy with a Y dot com. Folks, check that out. Joey had a link already to the 55 KRC Morning Show. So 55KRC. iheart. com. Don't go away. 829 on a Friday. Happy Friday. We've got some great plans going on this weekend. Yesterday, we heard about the Concours de Vue, which is going to be at DeVue Park on Sunday. Get details at 55KRC. com, where you'll be able to find the podcast of the conversation getting ready to have right now from the OhioPressNetwork.com. Jack Windsor, welcome back, my friend. It's always a pleasure having you on the 55KRC Morning Show.
02:00:11
Speaker 4: Brian, always an honor and a pleasure to be here with you and the listeners. Thanks for choosing me today.
02:00:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a bit of a fly in the ointment for so many people, asking legitimate questions and pestering them, looking for records and documents and exposing some great stuff throughout the week. Just go to theohiopressnetwork.com, bookmark the spot, and check out what he is following throughout the week. Let us pivot over. Campaign pledges. Everybody wants to lower price of gasoline, and we know that there is a way that you can lower the price of gasoline, which is artificially by eliminating the gasoline tax, which is for the Ohio roads and infrastructure, which means you don't have money flowing in to keep the roads in a state of repair. So says Governor DeWine, we cannot afford to get rid of the gas tax in Ohio. Although Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton are both advocating for that. So where is Jack Windsor on this and who gets credit for coming up with it first? Because Tom Zawistowski is on the program on Tuesdays and he said, I've been telling Ramaswamy, I don't know if he's got his ear. But I've been telling Ramaswamy he needs to advocate for getting rid of the gas tax, getting rid of the gas tax. And I think the credit has been given to Amy Acton for being the first to come out with the idea, only to be immediately followed by Ramaswamy. Have I got the order of things right, Jack?
02:01:20
Speaker 4: Yes, you have the technical order right. Acton called for a gas tax holiday on Monday with no length, meaning 90 days, six months, a month, nobody knows. No length, no price tag. And then Ramaswamy stood up with a 90-day plan, a legislative vote scheduled for next Wednesday. And as you mentioned, DeWine, who negotiated the 2019 increase, called a gas tax holiday a very grave disservice when that idea came up in the spring. So Monday, Acton's campaign release called for an emergency gas tax holiday. And again, no duration, no cost, no funding source, no bill, no Democrat on record saying that's a great idea. We're going to work to support that. And DeWine's office responded the same day. The governor cannot suspend the tax is the gist. It takes legislation. And without an emergency clause, the law waits 90 days. Well, Monday night, Ramaswamy releases a 90-day plan with legislative leaders. And Wednesday morning, he held a press conference at the Ohio chamber with Speaker Huffman, Senate President McCauley, which is his running mate. And the cost estimate is somewhere between $ 640 to $ 700 million dollars. But he's identified funding sources, unspent ODOT money, general revenue. And then don't forget about Ohio's almost $ 4 billion rainy day fund. Diesel sits at $ 6.
02:02:43
Speaker 1: 77 a gallon.
02:02:44
Speaker 4: So the short answer is I am all for it. And I'll tell you why later.
02:02:48
Speaker 1: So Amy Acton's plan is nebulous. It doesn't have a finite period of time. And I would argue that, well, maybe the reason for that is because we don't know when we're going to get the relief from the war. Will the war be settled next week? And actually, the price of gasoline and diesel presumably will reduce just because the supply chain will open back up. But the challenge is, as you pointed out, there's got to be a compliance with the law. This can't be an immediate gubernatorial action because of the 90 days that you post. So Ramaswamy actually comes up with a legislative proposal that they're going to actually be working on. So something concrete. Have I got that right, Jack?
02:03:22
Speaker 5: Yes.
02:03:23
Speaker 4: And what I heard from Amy Acton is she's got this thingy, and in about two weeks, we're going to flatten the price curve of gasoline.
02:03:30
Speaker 1: I mean, Give me a break.
02:03:31
Speaker 3: Yes.
02:03:32
Speaker 5: Thingy.
02:03:33
Speaker 1: That thingy. Thingy. Well, also, here is something, and I know there's a few listeners out there screaming at the radio, $ 640 to $ 700 million. That'll be the toll taken on the roadway fund when we suspend this gas for 90 days. I just have to observe that is suspiciously close to the $ 600 million we're giving the Cleveland Browns to build a damn stadium. Which money came from the unclaimed funds fund, which is, I think, at $ 3 billion.
02:03:59
Speaker 5: Yes.
02:04:00
Speaker 1: So a rainy day fund over here, unclaimed fund, pile of money, which apparently can be used to build stadiums. Could it be used to offset the gift that we're given to waive the gasoline tax, Jack?
02:04:13
Speaker 4: So those are– yes.
02:04:14
Speaker 8: Yes.
02:04:14
Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
02:04:15
Speaker 2: Yes, right?
02:04:16
Speaker 4: I mean, well, it can't now because it's already been committed.
02:04:19
Speaker 1: I understand.
02:04:20
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
02:04:21
Speaker 4: No, but your point is legitimate. A couple of things here I want to make sure we get through. So immediate effect requires an emergency clause, which– is two-thirds of each chamber, 66 votes in the House, and Republicans only have 65. So in February, an emergency clause on a tax bill got 63 votes on the first try. It passed a week later at 89 votes after Democrats came on board. Huffman said he will not call the session unless the votes are already there. The Senate needs 22. Republicans have 24 in that chamber. The bill has not been formally introduced yet. I've got to look at it, read it, the whole nine. But a couple of things that you pointed out, we're looking at a bill of six hundred and forty to seven hundred million dollars. Well, ODOT has an amount that they're carrying over. DeWine has requested that number. That number has not been provided to me yet. I'm curious to see what that number is. We also have the general.
02:05:16
Speaker 3: What's that?
02:05:17
Speaker 1: I said wildly curious.
02:05:19
Speaker 4: Wildly curious.
02:05:20
Speaker 7: Right.
02:05:21
Speaker 4: But here's the other part. And it's important. Ramaswamy pointed out one point six billion dollars. is what Ohio is ahead of projection. So we are trending again for a third year, being billions of dollars above projection. So the idea is, if we can take some of the ODOT carryover, if there's already the Rainy Day Fund, oh, and by the way, we might have excess money of about $ 1. 6 billion. And let's not forget about the fact that lawmakers, auditor Keith Faber here in the Buckeye State over the last year and a half have identified somewhere in the ballpark of $ 4 to $ 6 billion a year that does not get proper oversight in Ohio's Medicaid system. So that is another safety valve. And I think the story here is people want relief. This can provide relief going into the election, going into the holidays, and there probably is money there. That's what the vote is going to be all about. It's going to be about the dickering, the negotiations. And so we're going to have to keep our eyes on whether there's a session called Wednesday, because you better believe if Huffman calls this session, he has the votes.
02:06:33
Speaker 1: The money is there. It's just simply a question of where it's being placed. So if you have a giant... Money's fungible, isn't it, Jack? I mean, it's the way I always view it. It's a giant... Effectively, it's a giant pile of money. And so, you know, reducing the input to one particular pile of money when you've got fat, giant quantities of piles of money elsewhere that you're not using... I think we're entitled to some relief, Jack Windsor. Let's see if it happens. 836, we'll talk about Sherrod Brown's voting rights.
02:06:57
Speaker 6: KRC, the talk station.
02:06:59
Speaker 1: It's 840 at 55 KRC, the talk station. It's Friday. Happy Friday. TheOhioPressNetwork.com as we find Jack Windsor and the reporting he does throughout the week. Quite investigative reporting. And real quick, since we were talking about all these piles of money that were being revealed to us as we contemplate maybe getting a little relief from the gas tax, at least temporarily, I don't know if, I'm sure you saw it, Auditor Keith Faber came out and said that 3% of Ohioans on Medicaid weren't even eligible and that millionaires receiving Medicaid. If you look at 3% of the total $ 40 billion annual spend on Medicaid, $ 1. 2 billion going out the door that shouldn't go out the door, Jack. I don't know if whether we get to keep that or that's federal money that needs to be returned or some mix of it, but you know what? Just stopping one area of fraud in state government is enough to cover double the nut of the gasoline tax relief there.
02:07:48
Speaker 8: Yeah.
02:07:49
Speaker 4: So, you know, I'm going to go down a road here. I didn't plan on going down, but I think it's important to point out Vivek Ramaswamy has stood up three separate times with plans. If you remember, he talked about a data center. plan. He talked about the gas tax holiday plan. But let's think back to when he talked about Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse. And his plan was to work with Washington, D.C. to actually flip the percentage. If Ohio, for example, finds waste, fraud and abuse, they keep 35 cents on every dollar. His plan, and my understanding is he's working out that deal with D.C., is that if Ohio finds a dollar of fraud, we keep 65 cents and the feds keep 35 cents. And you go, well, why would they do that? Well, I'll tell you why. Because nobody's dealing with it now. Nobody's clawing it back now. And so this, again, is a third time that Vivek Ramaswamy has stood up with a plan to solve a problem. And in this particular instance, wouldn't it be great if we actually did do the clawing back and that money paid for the gas tax holiday? And oh, by the way, we fixed the system that allows the waste, fraud, and abuse to go on ad infinitum.
02:08:56
Speaker 1: Or maybe use the money for property tax relief after the gas crisis goes away, Jack. It's just bottom line. It's a funding mechanism that we could put in place to stop fraud, waste, and abuse, and also help pad the books in Ohio's budget, make it easier for the taxpayers. That could also serve as maybe a vehicle or foray into... reducing the income tax. I mean, if there's revenue sources all over the place and they exercised a slight measure of increased fiscal responsibility when it came to their expenditures, like, oh, I don't know, not paying for a football stadium. Jack, you know, that really irks me to no end.
02:09:32
Speaker 4: I grew up a Browns fan and I'm still pissed about it. You know, I'm like, where's my 600 million? I do a better community service than the Cleveland Browns. All they do is cause heartache every Sunday.
02:09:42
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, well, at least the Bengals, quite often we at least get a slight glimmer of hope only to be left feeling miserable by the end of the season. Either way, private sports owners should not get the benefit of the taxpayer dollars. Okay, that's it. Anyway, moving away. Sherrod Brown's got a voting record. It's almost 100% Democrat. So if people tell you that he's not an evil, loony, left-wing, woke-come-communist ideologue, then you shouldn't believe him because that's the way he's going to vote anyway. Jack, isn't that what we've been left to believe and understand based on his record?
02:10:14
Speaker 3: Yes.
02:10:14
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm going to go from the big point and then we can get more granular. I'm going to do it opposite of the way that I would have planned to do it. The bottom line is Sherrod Brown voted with Joe Biden 94 percent of the time. I'm sorry, 97 percent of the time votes, Democrats, 94 percent of the time. And you go, well, OK, are those votes important? Well, yeah, they really are. In 32 years of votes, he's voted in one direction. In 2024, he backed the remember this, the Shrinkflation Prevention Act. which tells the Federal Trade Commission to police how many ounces a company puts in a bag of chips.
02:10:48
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
02:10:49
Speaker 4: So they want to run your chip business, right? The people who are sitting on $ 40 trillion of debt are going to tell you how to run your business. Think about that.
02:10:57
Speaker 1: As if I can't read a bag's label and see how many ounces are in there and decide for myself whether $ 5 for 11 ounces is worth it when it used to be $ 5 for 16 ounces. I need a government to take care of that for me, Jack.
02:11:11
Speaker 3: Right?
02:11:12
Speaker 4: I mean, it's insane. And then the Husted campaign has documented four votes, 2013, 2015, and 2021, where he voted against blocking a carbon tax. The National Association of Manufacturers put an Ohio carbon tax at 123,000 jobs. That's what it would cost. And he voted to raise taxes on social security benefits. 569,000 Ohioans by Husted campaign's count were affected by that. And on the border, he said in April, I support closing the border and to people so they just can't cross the border at will. Against a record, the Husted campaign lays out as he votes against sanctuary city enforcement, against deporting criminal aliens, against wall funding, plus his own comment that he was open to decriminalizing illegal crossing. He voted yes on the American Rescue Plan, yes on the Inflation Reduction Act, no on the 2017 tax cuts, and the number that ties it together, is he voted with Joe Biden 97% of the time. And don't forget, the Democrat Socialists of America are running that party. He is a rubber stamper. He will vote where the party tells him to vote.
02:12:23
Speaker 1: Of course, we're now painfully aware of the cognitive decline of Joe Biden behind the scenes that they all knew about. Kind of makes you kind of wonder who actually was calling the shots while Biden was president, doesn't it, Jack?
02:12:32
Speaker 2: 100%.
02:12:34
Speaker 4: And I will bring it into today. It makes me wonder who's going to control the puppet strings of Amy Acton as elected governor. Let's make no mistake. She's not qualified to be a director of health. How in the hell is she qualified to be governor? Well, because David Pepper is going to do the bidding and all the work behind the scenes. It's to me, Joe Biden 2.0.
02:12:54
Speaker 1: Amen, Jack Windsor. Don't go away. We're going to talk about news agencies dealing with Donald Trump's problems with the, well, media kicking people out of the press pool. Jack Windsor on that one finally coming. It's 846 at 55 KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 2: 55KRC. Quick test.
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Speaker 6: The Talk Station.
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Speaker 1: It's a 49 at 55KRC, The Talk Station. One more segment here with Jack Windsor from thehighpressnetwork.com. Just have to observe, though, I heard the Eric Conroy show. I saw Eric Conroy yesterday at the NRA bus event at a 22-3 firearms on Route 42 between Mason and Lebanon. I like Eric. I think he's a good guy. I didn't know that he said he drinks beer and eats ghetto for breakfast. Do you think that's the breakfast combo, or do you think that he's meant to convey that message separately? We're regular folks. We drink beer. And, separately, we eat gatta for breakfast. Or is that the breakfast of champions? Jack Windsor, I don't know. We had George Brenneman on the program talking about health and politics earlier. Maybe I should have posed that to him. Eric, I'm sorry. I'm not giving you a hard time. It is Friday. I'm just trying to have a little fun before we get to the battle between the press and Donald Trump. Jack Windsor, back on track.
02:14:00
Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 4: So, a federal judge ordered the White House to return CNN, MSNOW, and Politico's press passes this week. And I have a dog in this fight. And it's because in December 2020, Columbus Monthly, which was owned by the dispatch back then, published a list of reasons that DeWine should bar me from his press conferences. So in my view, same issue, not a single standard from the press, which to be candid, is my biggest issue. Let's have a standard. Let's follow the standard. Hard stop. But it's not that simple.
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Speaker 6: What happened?
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Speaker 4: September 18th, Trump announced the ban on Truth Social, citing fiction, and lies. Saturday, the Secret Service took the reporter's passes at the gate. Monday, the outlet sued. Tuesday night, after 10 p.m., four days after the ban, the White House sent the outlet's letters for the first time, listing reasons and offering an appeal, and objections are due today. But Wednesday, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump nominee confirmed 94-2 by the Senate in 2017, held a 45-minute hearing, and Thursday morning, he ordered the passes returned for 14 days in an eight-page ruling.
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Speaker 1: Leaving the status quo in place until the final decision can be rendered based upon the evidence and the briefing and the law. What he has done is said, listen, the likelihood of success on the merit, it leans with the press. So someone's going to win, and based upon my review of the law with a temporary or permanent injunction, or with a temporary injunction being discussed here, I've got to figure out down the road who does it look like is going to win. So likelihood of success on the merits goes over to the press. Ergo, the ban is paused. That doesn't mean it won't be revoked again, though, because they could go another way after briefing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. And so to your point, due process will likely win out, which is why we are where we are. Trump's lawyers did not dispute that the outlets did not receive notice and an opportunity to be heard before the passes were pulled. That's part of the process that they're contesting. And the appeal process was created after the revocation. So Kelly called the White House's standards so vague it hardly does the trick. And then there's this national security argument, but nothing in the record that predates this suit suggests that the revocation of the plaintiff's hard passes was motivated by national security concerns, is what the judge said. Trump's own announcement cited negativity and truthfulness. And the stories that they cited, CNN's report on a bunker under the East Ballroom, an MSNOW report on a leak investigation, a Politico story on ballroom funding and Secret Service security spending, stories on Iran munition stockpiles, Russia sanctions, a $ 1 billion East Wing funding request, and bad vibes at the Republican convention in Dallas, and on and on and on. But Judge Kelly called them routine, and some months to years old. And most of the reporters who wrote them did not hold hard passes. So there's a little bit of a challenge with how they're moving forward with this. But the law is pretty clear. Two DC Circuit cases set the process Sherrill v. Knight in 1977. And of course, we all remember Acosta, the Acosta case in 2018, which Kelly also decided. Kelly at that hearing said the process that the court laid out in those two cases wasn't followed here. The Sherrill rule is a pass can be denied only for reasons unrelated to the content of the reporting, with notice, a chance to respond, and a written decision. In March, Judge Paul Friedman voided the parts of Hegseth's Pentagon press policy that let the Pentagon revoke credentials based on reporting. So it's going to be interesting to see where this goes. If a story does venture over into a risk to national security, that's a different ballgame. But as it stands right now, I think as somebody who's had his press credentials revoked, I think it's meritless. I hate to say it, but I think it's meritless.
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Speaker 1: No, I think I'm on your side as well. I don't know that anybody has an absolute right to be a part of that very small pool of people that are providing the video. I mean, is every news organization, like is US News in there? Is CNN in there? Is Al Jazeera in there? Would they be invited in if they asked to be in there? I think it's an exclusive group of, select individuals because they can't have 150 reporters just videoing the same thing. Isn't that right, Jack, effectively what that is?
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Speaker 10: It is.
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Speaker 8: It is.
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Speaker 4: And so the people who have that right are the ones that stick together. And that was my other argument. The companies inside the rope protect each other. But would those companies protect me? Would they protect Daily Wire? Probably not. And so then it goes back to the argument, what is the standard? Have we defined the standard? And are we honoring the standard? And until we have that Honest discussion. We're going to go back and forth based on the content of the reporting, which should never be the standard.
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Speaker 1: Understood. Elections have consequences and administrations do change. Let's get this all squared away before, oh, I don't know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes president. Jack Windsor, TheOhioPressNetwork.com. Follow him throughout the week. Bookmark the website and tune in every week on Friday at 830 to hear these types of commentary from Jack and the stories that really matter. Jack, have a great weekend, my friend. It's always a pleasure to have you on The Morning Show.
02:19:11
Speaker 4: It's always an honor to be here. Thank you, brother.
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Speaker 1: Take care, man. It's 855.