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Medicaid fraud. That was an eye opener.

that yes, they will require work requirement. The only problem is they kick the can down the road to light twenty twenty nine. So they're arguing and bickering over that. Lots of arguing and bickering among the Republicans, And as we find out the Republicans, a lot of them are to blame the salt tax levels. They want to go up to eighty thousand dollars on that's from the New Jersey,

New York, and California contingent Republicans. And if they don't get that eighty thousand dollars it's ten thousand right now, and they're all upset because they live in high tax states. But as it was observed, I I can't remember where I read this, but the point made a lot of people don't even make eighty thousand dollars in salary, and yet they want eighty thousand dollars worth of deductions. That's for very very wealthy people who own very very expensive homes.

So there's your problem right there. Republicans are their own worst enemies, at least the middle of the road, so called Republicans that don't care about fiscal responsibility anyhow. Sorry, get that out of my system. But over the blog page two to five KC dot com really important conversation with doctor Paul Winfrey, so I recommend strong if you didn't get a chance to hear that, listen to what

he had to say about medicaid, scary scary stuff. Learn from about diabetes from Tim Keller spreading the awareness about the diabetes epidemic as he refers to it, and or Secretary of State Frank LeRose was in the studio talking about a number of different topics. So that's it. You have, Caresy dot com, get your right heart media app. I're over there so you can listen to the content and stream the audio wherever you happen to be on your smart device. Coming up, it is Friday, meaning Tech Friday

with Dave Hatter six thirty every Friday. Bitcoin fraud in Arizona topic number one, followed by Apple to support brain control devices. It's a brave new world we're moving into. Plus Meta's new artificial intelligence app. Those with Dave Hatter. Maybe I'll get a word or two about him. But the Chinese Communist Party infiltrating our green grid via solar panels. Todd zends er Citizen Watchdog Todd Zends or he'll be in studio the latest Citizen Watchdog podcast, which you should

listen to. He really follows very closely City of Cincinnati issues and what I will call outright shenanigans. I said the city knew their maintenance fleet needed to be replaced and did nothing about it. We'll talk about Cincinnati's green energy plan, which is comical in and of itself. Plus the Hyde Parks Save Hyde Park Square project ballot initiative. He's really behind that. That's an effort to allow Hyde Park residents the opportunity to determine their own direction in

so far as zoning is concerned. Get a ballot initiative, vote for it, and tell the city of Cincinnati elected officials that they should stay out of your backyard. Fast forward to eight oh five. Alyssa McClanahan, she's a local author, written a book about the Zimmer Plan. Zimmer the movement

that defeated a nuclear power plan. I was looking at the notes on this because you know, I'll be honest with you, I haven't read the book, but that plan when they shut it down because of the activists and everybody that got involved in we don't want a nuclear plant in our backyard kind of stuff, it was ninety nine percent completed when they pulled the plug on it and converted it over to coal frightening stuff. That and

that's old school school nuclear plants. We know that there are small modular nuclear reactors now, so maybe we could still get one of those and have abundance of power plus satisfy all of the concerns of the global warming alareness, which I don't even think they believe in it. I do believe limiting us and our ability to generate electricity is directly tied to limiting our consumption and production. They'd all like us to go move back into caves or

something like that. Plus there's a law enforcement expo coming up this weekend. Should be a good time. Springdale Police Department hosting the twenty twenty five Law Enforcement Expo this Saturday between noon and three at the Springdale Community Center. Keenan Reordan's going to join the program. He's the Community Service officer with the Springdal Police Department. He'll join the program at eight thirty. Sounds like a cool time, especially

for kids. They got the SWAT team, dive team, police drones, a canine demonstration, and a taser demonstration. Would you sign up to be the recipient of a taser shot there, Danny, No, he's saying no, My sister had to because she when she went through the academy for she when she joined the police department, everybody got tased. You just you have to experience it. It's like going through the tear gas room.

They put you in a room full of tear gas and you got to take your gas mask off, so you know exactly what it's like and how to deal with the realities of tear gas. Because if you're a police officer, you may very well get hit with a tear gas, so it's just preparation for it. But I thought it was funny. She had a story one of her fellow police cadets I was a woman, and she actually said she enjoyed the experience. I know, I know,

Danny's given me that hairy eyeball. Look. I know it's like actually told my sister, can I meet this woman anyhow? In less comical news, this is frightening Secret service now investigating FBI. A former FBI director, James Camey. He posted an Instagram photo of seashells on the beach. They were arranged in the numbers eighty six forty seven. Now you know when you eighty six something you kill it or

remove it, right forty seven? I think it's an obvious reference to the current president of the United States eighty six forty seven, with the caption cool shell formation on my beach walk. He later deleted the post after everyone saw it and resulted in massive backlash from everybody, including government officials and President Trump's son. Of course, we all know someone tried to two people try to kill the president. Eighty six frequently used as a call sign for murder

or getting rid of someone. Forty seven, of course reference to Donald Trump. I don't know how you can come up with any other reading of that. And why would James Comey if he didn't intend that message to go out into the world. Why would he take a picture of seashells on the beach with eighty six forty seven? Here's what he had to say after removing the post. I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a

political message. I didn't realize some folks associated those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but I opposed violence of any kind, so I took the post down. Oh give me a break. How could you assume it was a political message? Knowing full well that you're in your life as old as you are, you know what eighty six means and only could be a political message

if forty seven was interpreted as Donald Trump. If you take Donald Trump, like if Donald Trump was the forty ninth president right now, and would you take a picture of eighty six forty seven? No, it wouldn't make it, wouldn't make it. There's no context there and you couldn't interpret that as a political message unless you meant eighty six to mean remove or kill or otherwise the typical meaning and understanding of eighty six eighty six forty seven.

How could that be interpreted as a political message unless that's exactly what you mean. Secret Service aware of the matter, and they will be sending and agents to investigate as well as interview Comy. Of course, Comy fired by Trump, obviously the cozy chumps. FBI Director Cash Metell acknowledged on AX the platform that agency personnel, we're in fact aware of Comy's post. We are in communication with the Secret

Service and director current, he wrote. Primary jurisdiction is with a Secret Service on these matters, and we the FBI, will provide all necessary support. White House can swiftly condemn Comy's post. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Cabinet Secretary Taylor butter Wich said, while President Trump is currently on an international trip to the Middle East, the former FDI director puts out what can clearly be interpreted as a hit on the sitting president of the United States, a

message etched in the sand. This is deeply concerning to all of us and is being taken seriously. One Representative Tim Burchett from Tennessee Republican said that Comy should be arrested as a consequence of this. But it must be pointed out, where is Donald Trump right? He's in the Middle East. White House Deputy chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs, James Blair pointed something out which seems rather obvious, a bit of a delicate time Trump

traveling in the Middle East. He said, this is a clarion call from Jim Comey to terrorists and hostile regimes to kill the President of the United States as he travels in the Middle East. Any Democrat or media outlet who fails to condemn this clear incitement of violence is

complicit and must be described as such. Now, can you imagine how difficult it is to maintain security in the Middle East for the president of the United States of America, someone who's been fighting terrorists and well, I mean not the only president to issue drone strikes on terrorists. They all do it these days, but not exactly a popular man among the more fundamentalist circles of Islam, and Islam is the dominant form of religion basically everywhere. Donald Trump

is traveling, so you've got a massive security thing going on. Already. Secret Service hasn't exactly demonstrated its competence over the past several years, most notably the poor security Trump was given well, which almost led to his being assassinated. I don't think go over the details of that. I think all my listening audience is aware of that, but not exactly a high level of comfort in the Secret Services competence. Now, maybe things have changed now the new sheriff is back

in town. Maybe they are more competent. I don't know, but all I know is it's got to be a hell of an uproad, an uphill battle to provide security. And then you have James coming with this message eighty six forty seven. This is the thing. I'm now with the representative. This thing should be condemned directly, the press secretary of this thing should be widely condemned by all because it's you know, there, but for the grace of God go I. Next time around, it could be your

guy sitting in the President's seat. And I'm sure that if some right winger came out and made that post, that the whole media outlet from coast to coasts and worldwide would blow up, absolutely blow up in condemnation, calling for heads. I'm Donald J. Trump, Can I improve this message? It's five twenty one if it's about par ceed talks nations. I missed Joe Biden approving this message owned because it always resulted in a text from my life.

neither pessimistic nor optimistic. But that's a significant drop. Optimism for Democrats regarding the party has plunged more than twenty points since July of last year, when it was around fifty seven percent overall. In the poll conducted May first through fifth, seventeen, or eleven hundred and seventy five US adults, four percent margin of error only seventeen percent surveyed are optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party. Nearly half

forty nine percent are pessimistic. Roughly a third responds and respond is neither optimistic nor pessimistic. Republicans, however, for their part half surveyed. More than half of the Republican surveyed fifty five percent are very or somewhat optimistic about the future of their party to intend, say the opposite. Another twenty percent has no feeling one way or another. So on a downhill slide there Democrats are. And I can

understand that. I mean, you know, when you see polling like, for example, their position on medicaid for illegal immigrants, or position on illegal immigration generally speaking, their position on men playing against women in sports. Many within the Democrat Party and sizable numbers are not with the party elites on their positions on that. And you just kind of wonder where the more common sense elected officials are in the Democrat Party. They don't stand up to this and say whoa, whoa, whoa.

Don't lump me all into that left wing progressive side of the party. I mean more traditional, say Kennedy like Democrat, which makes you a Republican these days, the party shifted so far to the left. But those voices are absent or have been silenced. Maybe they've been threatened. I don't know. Anyhow.

Since it is Tech Friday, Cash Bettel, FBI director, came out with a warning talking about malicious actors impersonating senior US officials via artificial intelligence generated voice memos targeting current and former government officials. If you receive a message claiming to be from a senior US official, do not assume it's authentic, the FBI said an announcement. They say since last month, scammers have sent messages and AI generated voice

messages techniques called smishing and vishing. Add that to your lexicon claiming to come from senior US officials in an effort to establish rapport before gaining access to personal accounts, the FBI said. The announcement said that, among other things, the scammers gain access to those accounts by sending their targets malicious links, which they claim will move conversations to a separate messaging platform red flag. Don't open anything. That's

my default position. I've said that out loud many times, and it's the rules that I live by. An apologies to my mom, who quite often will send me links, and I just like, I really don't trust links that are sending emails from anybody anyway. By accessing the personal or government accounts, these actors then target other officials or their associates using the stolen information. So this is sort of a chain of factor, house of cards kind of thing,

domino effect, I guess is the right phrase. FBI said. Contact information acquired through social engineering schemes could also be used to impersonate context, to illicit information of fun. So they fake it, you buy into it, then they get into your system, and then you are the one that's being faked in outreaching to folks with whom you're affiliated online. So just a warning it's out there and it's a growing threat every single day, which is one of the

reasons I really truly appreciate Heaving. They've had her on every Friday at six thirty keeping us up to speed on this kind of thing, going on local stories or preferably phone calls. If you want to call me up, feel free steer the topic of conversation. I enjoy that five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five D eight hundred eighty two to three talk FI fifty on eight and T phones otherwise local stories. It is five point thirty, it is Friday, and a happy one to you. To

send Danny the information about the eight thirty guests. We're talking about the event, the law enforcement event coming up this weekend at eight thirty. Not on the rundown, Danny. So I just sent you the phone number and information to talk to keenan order when eight thirty rolls around the community service officer with the spring Down Police Department. Great, without further ado, let's go to the phones. I got Steve on the line. Steve, thanks for calling.

Now tomato, cooked tomato, and I hope this is relevant to the other people listening, but cooked tomato, tomato sauce, tomato paste is a cancer fighter. I wonder in your mind, in your mind, does that negate whatever sugar might be in there.

it's a slow release of the sugar. It's not this instant infusion of massive quantities of sugar like you get with this soda. It's not nearly as bad for you, or maybe arguably even good for you. So there's naturally occurring sugars and then there's ones that have been added. And if you look at all the processed foods in the world, almost everything. I mean, we had honeybagd tam at Easter, and my wife bought a bottle of that horsepadish sauce that they sell there, and I think one

of the first ingredients is yes corn syrup. So yeah, I know you're getting it from all directions. So reading labels will raise your awareness on that. So there's a line on the nutrition label that'll say sugars number of grams, and then there's a lower line that says added sugars. So that's the difference between naturally occurring and then ones that have been incorporated into it by just well addition of just regular sugar. So that's what I try to avoid.

more nutritious for us. But as Tim Keller, the diabetes expert I had and you actually pointed out, I think it's just flower generally white flower, processed flower generally. That's the problem. So I'm not escaping it by eating sourdough bread. Except for escaping. The commercial added is that's why you know, you buy a loaf of wonderbread, you can put it in your in your cabinet to last about a month and a half, so you're got half life of plutonium.

track to stick with it. It's like I don't want to walk I don't want somebody to walk over of me down the street and say, so, how's that diet going, And you know I gained all the weight that I lost back or I'm drinking sodas and eating crappy foods in my diet. So I'm committing myself by saying it.

don't want other people to experience poor health. And if you can change your diet and feel better and improve your health that way, then you avoid a lot of additional complications down the road, because poor health can turn into obviously serious medical issues and you end up being on some pharmaceutical or something like that. Anyhow, you Fisherman, it is five forty one on any Friday, The answer is always yes, what do we do to five forty

or five to forty one? Time may change. We've got some great plans going on this weekend.

and another driver got into a confrontation that escalated. According to the news release from a local news and Constable Mark Herman's office in Harris County, deputies found that Villarial and the other driver, identified in the release only as the complaintant, exchange words in what is described as a heated spat. Villarreal then attempted to drive off when the driver. The other driver allegedly followed, then launched a burrito at

the suspects car. Suspect then whipped his car around and intentionally ran the vehicle into the other driver's vehicle, causing major damages. According to the constable, villa Rao booked into the Harris County Jail felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, bond seventy five hundred dollars. Other driver not taking it to custody despite throwing a brito, why

because it did not cause any damage. In other food related attacks, we got a Nebraska or a man's behind bars on a pair of felony charges after allegedly striking a female neighbor and the woman's seven year old daughter with the Star Wars lightsaber, not food Investigators alleged that Eiden Orion White twenty five, first struck the girl while she was playing with other children in the front yard of her Auburn hump. When child's mom, Sundra Lunzmann, confronted White,

he yelled at her, I'm not in the mood. Get back in your f wording house well, then allegedly charging Lousman wielding his lightsaber. Now see, if Strekker was in the booth, it would have been a phrasing. He would have said phrasing after that one. It's all just interjected right here for you, Danny. According to the Sheriff's deputy, Adrians struck Lousman on her right arm slash shoulder. Both Lunchman and her daughter said that they were in pain

following the lightsaber strikes. Two neighbors speaking with police that they witnessed White hitting the victims with the lightsaber, which investigators described as being one of higher quality, three and a half feet long, constructed of metal and thick plastic. Deputy noted it could cause significant pain and injury when

used to strike an individual. During questioning, White reportedly confessed to the attack, saying it was unacceptable behavior for which he wanted to apologize being cordial with the police, though White would have profaned during the police conversation. They described White as having profane and angry outburst, including him blaming the victims for a rise in his rent. He also warned of future problems for Lunsman and the child lightsaber

seized by police's evidence. White charged with criminal complaint two felony assault counts, being held in lieu of a fifty thousand dollars bail. He's Louise, obviously not in front of Judge Silverstein in Hamilton County five forty five. Here you go, Danny five fifteen. If about kersee talk station little little wake you up, get you out of bed? Bumper music there fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two three talk

found five fifty on AT and T phones. So I was going to wait till it really kicked in there. That's okay. Hey, We go to Echo Park, California. Are residentme mad of disturbing discovery for Mother's d weekend finding a stranger sleeping nude in his bed. Local news NBC four sportswriter Michael Duarte found his own ransacked late Saturday night food from his pantry and refrigerator taken out, miscellaneous

items found scattered around the kitchen. He's quoted to say, my first thought, did some wild animal come into my home and damage everything? Upon closer inspection, he noticed the glass on his back door had been smashed, and that's how someone had broken in. Surveying his home, Duarte took a look into his bedroom, and that's where he saw a man sleeping in his bed. He said, to see a man not just sleeping in my bed, but completely naked,

sleeping in my bed. I was shocked, like Goldilocks from the three bears and someone sleeping in my bed instead of a little bear. Following the discovery, Duarte told his friend, who was waiting in a nearby car, to call the police. Officer shut up and dressed the man and took him off to jail. Douarti said, as he was being walked away in cuffs and thrown into the back of the squad car, he was yelling to me and my friends

and also at the officers. They say, as if the break in wasn't enough, the intruder helped himself to the resident's kitchen, ransacking the home in what they described as a bizarre way, the man clogged the toilet with towels, eight a box of ice cream sandwiches, eight a box of Beyond Beef burger patties, and raided to our tastesash of chewing gum. He said, I had a fresh pack with sixty inside unopened. He opened it up, chewed all of them, and then spat a big watt of gum

about the size of a football. It says the intruder also killed apossum on the back patio using a statute. Neighbors said the bizarre break in left them a bit shaken. Law enforcement not released the name of the suspected intruder. The case remains under investigation. Wow we got to Charlotte, North Carolina, where the manager of a Popeyes Foo chain accused of shooting his coworker over burnt biscuits. Twenty two year old Rodney Wood arrested in charge with attempted first

degree murder. Shooting happened around six pm Ay eleven at the Popeyes on South Boulevard near Carolina Pavilion. Dry witness, who was a customer at the time of the shooting, told police that the altercation stemmed from an argument between Wood and another employee because of these burnt biscuits writtiness report of that both were outside, one challenged the other, which led to a physical fight, and during that fight,

would allegedly pulled the gun out, firing two rounds. Court documents state that a video taken from the steen of course there's video shows Wood's discharging his firearm twice at point blank rains, both shots hitting Wood's coworker, one in the groin, the other in the chest. That person rushed to the Atrium Health Main Hospital, life threatening condition critical injuries,

underwent emergency surgery. When officer showed up, Wood was gone, but according to witnesses, police found and apprehended him within the same shopping center center. Wood claimed the coworker he allegedly shot was also a manager. Claimed the police that once he and the other manager stepped outside, he was punched in the face three times. He then allegedly fired the two warning shots that were not intended to kill.

Mmmm would attempt to justify his actions, but the affidavit says he quote failed to articulate a credible eminent threat of deadly force necessary to support a self defense claim under state law. Amen Apparently, these two have been fighting in the past, which caused Wood to request a transfer to avoid working with the other employee. Okay. Winter Park, Florida, five men came forward alleging they were sexually assaulted by

the owner of a winter park massage business. They accused Ronell Mikhail Guterrez Galdus, the owner of Ramich Massage and Spa, Minnesota Avenue, You're interested in showing up performing an attempt to perform sex acts on them while they were on a massage table. Glavin's charge with sexual battery and other charges in one case free on a seventeen thousand and five hundred dollars bond, pending trial. Since the initial complaint,

four other men have come forward. Two of the alleged victims spoke spoke exclusively with local news w e SH. Most recent interview, man, who wished to remain anonymous, identified only as JF. Recalled he looked at me afterward, and he tried to make it like it was my fault. He said, why didn't you tell me to stop? I said I did three times. He said at no time

that he invites sexual contact. Details of the ledge assault described as too graphic to share, but at some point he said, I noticed his clothes were on the floor, and after his clothes were on the floor, he got up on top of me and was completely lying on me naked, and then started trying to massage my front, my groinarya and I told him to stop, please stop. JF said, he grabbed his clothes and left the business.

Another man identified his BF, said he was assaulted to old local news it was really a horrible thing that happened. After he filed initial complaint against Glavas Winter Park police arranged for him to call Glabs on a personal cell phone, and that conversation was recorded. Gutrez glabys, well, it was supposed it was a stupid thing to do, he said. After being asked, you were touching me inappropriately? Why? BF said,

it made me feel really uncomfortable. Gutrez gabs, this is something that never happened before, so I apologize for that. Catching him on his own statements, BF said, what made you think you could take my underwear off and touch me inappropriately? Here's reply? Yeah, I can't explain this. I feel bad. State health departments suspended the guys besides license permanent revocation for a sexual misconduct in the practice of

Healthcare Profession FIVEFTY six fifty five krs. The talk station plenty coming up in the six o'clock hour, including of course Tech Friday with Dave Patter at six point thirty. Looking forward to that conversation. I sure hope you can stick around and be right back six o four if it's five Care City talk Station by Thomas here, wishing everyone a very happy Friday. Reason enough right there to put a smile.

watchdog he is. We'll talk with Todd in studio about all the things that he exposes what I call shenanigans in the City of Cincinnati, including the city's green energy plan the city in the fact that the city knew their maintenance fleet needed to be replaced, yet did nothing about it. It's kind of an mo for the city council for the past several decades. Hyde Park Square Protect

the Hyde Park Square ballot initiative. He's behind that as well, just a few of the topics with Todd in the seven o'clock hour, a toh file with local Authorlyssa McClanahan her book Zimmer the Movement that Defeated a nuclear power plant. And finally, it's a law enforcement Expo week. We'll hear from the Springdale Police Department about this big expo going on.

Sounds like a great thing to take your kids too, So keenan Reordering the Community Service Officer for Springdale Police Department An eight thirty about the twenty twenty five Law Enforcement Expo. Some cool stuff going on there, including a taser demonstration. Maybe you can get in line to be the recipient of a taser five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three

talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Just really, really, really dismayed after talking to doctor Paul Winfrey yesterday about medicaid fraud and the expansion of Medicaid, and I guess really the ultimate goal of the Democrats is to get everybody on Medicaid. That nonsense from Bernie Sanders about Medicare for all, no Medicaid for all. So and they really did expand it plus illegal immigrants on Medicaid now and not a finger being lifted by Congress and this Reconciliation

bill to really do much about it. I think the work provision that they have incorporated into that bill doesn't kick in till twenty twenty nine. And you can ask yourself easily, well why why wait, it's one of the things they're arguing about, So start with some comments from rand Paul. Of course, the Senate's going to get to vote on it after the Republicans roll it out as paltry of the cuts are. He was asked about it. He was on Enough Box and friends believe it was yesterday, Yeah, yesterday,

speaking with Ainsley Earhart, who inquired about the bill. He said, Senator, what do you need to see in this bill to be on board? Because it's a squeaker in terms of the number of votes they can afford to lose, and it's not that many. Senator Paul a hard no. And what he knows on this bill, he said, the problem is that it's asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling five trillion dollars. That's historic. No one's ever raised the debt so that much. It'll be a record

for Congress to raise the debt five trillion dollars. But it also indicates that this year the deficit will be over two trillion, but it means they're anticipating close to three trillion fur next year. It's really a slap in the face to those of us who are excited about Elon Musk and Doge and all the cuts. Where are the cuts? He asked, if the cuts were real, why

are we going to borrow five trillion? So what I propose was this, I put forward a proposal that we vote on it to raise the debt ceiling for three months, so it is still raising the debt ceiling. So I pivot over to Kim strassel op ed piece in the Journal from yesterday, Trump's moment of budget reform truth. It makes some interesting observations. Let's get Donald Trump involved here.

Maybe that will help. So with House Republicans in the endgame of the reconciliation bill and at an impass, Speaker Mike Johnson may assume soon have no choice but to call in the big guns at wood Points, we'll find out if the political howartz are known as Donald J. Trump sides with his own agenda of reform in which he has already invested a significant political capital, or with the Republican Party business as usual current House do you piece standoff boils down to the usual to spend or

not to spend. Today, the spenders, or as the media charitably describes them as the moderates, have run the table. Their initial demands required House leaders to set a pathetic target of one point five trillion spending cuts over the next ten years, allowing the Joe Biden spending boom to stand and grow. They then proceeded to throw up a roadblock, or throw up roadblock after roadblock in the way of even that five point trillion dollar mark. Congress remains littered

with their red lines. No raining in Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, no messing with prior infrastructure spending, no serious overhaul of food assistance, no starting any real reforms until twenty twenty nine so that lawmakers have time to roll it back.

To add injury to entitlement, they're demanding that any money saved over their objections be earmarked for their voters, having already run a promise that they'd get a reprieve from today's ten thousand dollars cap on deductibility of state local taxes. No amount will suffice. Double isn't good enough, nor is

triple or quadruple. New York Republicans suggested this week that they might consider voting for a gepill that's GOP bill that spares the country four point five trillion in tax hikes the Trump tax hikes which this bill will extend, but only if their constituents are allowed to deduct eighty thousand dollars worth of state and local taxes from their federal returns. Most Americans don't even earn eighty thousand dollars.

But the cheek that tip conservatives frustration into fury was Wednesday's additional demand from fourteen quote unquote moderates on top of their salt extortion that to eighty thousand dollars claim on top of the reform roadblocks to continue spending with

abandoned on Joe Biden's Green New Deal. Virginia Representative Jen Kiggins issued the group declaration taking issue with reconciliation plans to Titan boondoggle teen credits to climate companies since clean energy matters read, continued corporate subsidies are vital for our reelection.

House Republicans who still believe in limited government spending restraint have been largely overlooked in all the focus on the moderate braying their warnings largely ignored as leaders catered to the squeaky wheels of Nebraska Representative Don Bacon and New York Representative Mike Lawler. But the fiscal hawks are no less necessary to passing this bill given them mister Johnson can't lose more than three votes, and they've now more

than had it. Texas Representative Chip Roy, he's been outspoken on this issue, suggested he would vote against the legislation in a planned Friday Budget Committee meeting, and he'll have company on the floor of changes aren't made, and equally fiery group of Senate Conservatives is throwing down a similar challenge. I refer you back to this day from Senator Ran

Paul yesterday. These interpartied chasms may now be too wide to be bridged, which means the more likely path to a bill, if one even remains, is for one side to bend. Only one figure in the party has the political muscle to force such an outcome. The President has kept deliberately quiet in public about the state of negotiations and his own preferences. The assumption was always that he'd engage at the end when the time came to knock

heads to line over formal outstanding questions. Only where does he come down? That will be the test of whether he actually believes in the reforms he promised on the campaign trail and the actions he's taken in his first months. What was the point of Elon Musk in the Department of Governmental Efficiency and the media and litigation onslaught If Congress whiffs on even the basic cuts and changes necessary

to lock in Doge's work. What's the point of the president's far sighted actions to unleash America's energy If Congress is kneecapping it with distortionary renewable subsidies. Why should the president of even whether the political storm that came from stating important truths Medicaid has a lot of waste fraud

work requirements should accompany welfare. The climate agenda is punishing American businesses and consumers If Republicans in Congress ultimately surrendered to the left's talking points, for Trump, standing his ground is the obvious course, especially because voters believe that he would do what he says is what won in the office. Yet don't discount the populace whisperers who seek to reduce

this debate to simple vote buying. They are telling mister Trump he needs to up the salt anti to buy the New York and New Jersey House seats, to water down welfare reform, to buy more low income voters, to abandon Medicaid changes, to buy working class support. Never mind that vote buying is the Democrat Party's approach to elections, and look how that's turned out either way. Enter mister Trump. The party will needs some pushing to get this done.

And watch carefully in which direction mister Trump shoves. I astute observations by Kim Strassel, so it props to her putting pen to paper and sort of summon all that up. Yeah, where will he come down? And where do we want him to come down? We are on a sinking ship. That's what I said to Congressman Messi earlier in the week. It's time to rip the band aid off. Guys, quit worried about your footibile onely jobs. There's always going to be some set of constituents out there that are going

to be upset with what you do. Regardless of what you do, say no to the green energy boondoggles. And that's what they are picking and choosing the winners in the green industry to receive taxpayer dollars for products and services that none of us would ask for absent the creation of edicts and men aids from the federal government. Give us efficiency when it comes to energy production, that's all we want. We don't want the lights to go out when the wind doesn't blow, the sun doesn't shine.

And we sadly find out that all of these components of the green energy grid are now being used as spying mechanism by the Chinese Communist Party, and we're supporting the Chinese economy by buying everything related to the green energy products from while China. It's crazy. They have an opportunity to stop this in its tracks. You see where the Republicans really are. And well again we know where

these so called modern Republicans are. They're the ones that are staying in the way of us getting some writing of the ship in terms of our fiscal reality. Where's Donald Trump got to come down on this? Five three, seven hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk six fifty five K or detalk station. David, you're happy it's Friday. That can always count on me.

The committee projects these one point four million illegal aliens will be removed they're already on the program, removed due to the requirements of citizenship. The all night session on Wednesday night, which was revealed yesterday, included a provision blocking anyone unable to verify their citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory immigration status from coverage. And here's where the you know, rubber

meats throwd. Near every single Democrat on the committee opposed that, and some even blashing the proposal about blocking illegal aliens. Democrat Leader Hakim Jeffries ignored the requests from CNN's Will Blitzer about the cost savings from striking illegal immigrants from the tax code. Fighting it if Trump opened up Democrats to attacks that they support tax dollars going to illegal aliens, this is actually another lie in terms of what Republicans

are trying to do, he said. The Congressional Budget Office has been clear that if these Medicaid cuts were to become law, approximately one fourteen million Americans will lose their healthcare. And the Republicans aren't even trying to make the argument that the overwhelming majority of those fourteen million Americans are actually citizens. Yes, those are the able bodied adults that got added to Medicaid during COVID nineteen when nobody was working.

They're capable of getting a work. That's why the Republicans want a work requirement put in there. And sadly, again, as they pointed out last segment, you know that doesn't kick in until twenty twenty nine. This is after they'll have time to again repeal it. So but every Democrats in favor of that, and I go back to where

the polling is even within the Democrat Party. I think you realize you're in fiscal problems here, and why are we catering to and putting all these illegal immigrants on the social social welfare safety net that is in trouble from a fiscal perspective. Bah, I hope they die on fighting that battle, I really do. I mean this is that that poll I read earlier in the program. While only one in three members are optimistic about the Democrat

Party future. That's their own people, and I can understand that because within their own party they don't agree on what the far left of the Democrat Party is advocating. And how is it that the farthest left wing, the Alexandria Cazia Cortes wing, Hawking Jeffrey's wing of the party ended up emerging and dominating the conversation. There used to be some you know, moderate Democrats. I mean, we were joking about moderate Republicans standing in the way of fiscal responsibility. Well,

where are the moderate Democrats standing up to this? That crap insanity the left is pushing again, like allowing men to play in women's sports, overwhelmingly rejected by the American people, Yet something that they are fighting tooth and nail over. Pyvy to go over to something completely unrelated helping Human Service Department planned to stop recommending that pregnant women, teenagers, and children get a routine COVID nineteen vaccination. Well good.

I mean every day that goes by, we learn more and more about the problems associated with the RNA COVID

nineteen vaccine, sterility issues, losses of pregnancies. I've had a whole bunch of guests on the program talking about this, and the information is there for all to see, and some are even accusing the pharmaceutical manufacturers of perhaps criminal behavior because they knew about the problems associated with mRNA vaccines, which they'd been working on for apparently decades, and all the failed clinical trials they had using these particular vaccines

and the dangers associated with them. They rolled that thing out in virtually no time after COVID came on the map and they got an emergency use authorization to use it. I've had guests on the program who think that that perhaps was sinister and intentional. But this is a routine,

This is like a flu shot kind of thing. Current guidelines from the CDC call for everyone over the age of six months to get vaccinated routinely, So there's supposed to be a shift in this report last month that Robert F. Kennedy Junior was considering a director to rescind the COVID nineteen vaccine from the federal government's list of recommended ammunisations for children. That will be rescinding it as a recommendation for even one shot. Well, let's face it,

children don't die from COVID nineteen. Teens don't die from COVID nineteen, and maybe they die from the actual injection or vaccination anyway. But at such a low risk, why would you take something that is demonstrably dangerous or at least been shown to be dangerous in a sizable number of people who've received it. Why would you run a risk and get your child vaccinated for this one particular virus corn to CDC. Not a whole lot of people

getting it. Just thirteen percent of children receive the latest COVID shot, No state mandates it, and in fact, twenty two states have enacted a ban on student COVID vaccine mandates. So that's the direction we're moving, folks. So just removed from the vaccine recommendation list and leave us to our own choices. Six twenty five, Right, now fifty five KCD talk station six thirty eight on a Friday, special time of the week to be tuned into the fifty five

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And then to see this story break. And you know, my one of my biggest concerns when you think about critical infrastructure is the power grid because it drives everything else right literally, and if you can knock out the power grid, you potentially, you know, shut down the whole country. So yeah, I think it's very concerning. I mean, I guess the good news is at this point not an enormous amount of our power is generated by soul organ

There are about one hundred percent attended on that. But the bad news is it's an increasing component of the overall grid, and the idea that there would be back doors built into these things that would allow remote control, including shutting it down, is pretty disturbing. And I'll just tell people, look no further than stuck in it and what we did.

Scammers will come at you and whatever media they can find you in and then tell you you know where the FBI, where the I R S, where your local sheriff's office, whatever, and you know you've got to find a warrant fill in the blank. And then they want to send you to an at that can issue bitcoin so that you can exchange your cash or credit for bitcoin and send the bitcoin.

say about how they will contact you. They will not call you, they will not email you, they will not text you and tell you that you have back taxes. But hey, everything will be fine if you just go get some bitcoins and they won't do that.

of band you go. Let's let's say it's the Kenton County Chrieff's office that's telling you there's a warrant and you're gonna get arrested. If you don't send a bigtoy you go.

lot more difficult to hack. But if you think that some where we're at today, you could have one hundred percent trust that some sort of brings implant could not be hacked somehow to either make you do things you don't want to do. And again, I'm not a neuroscientist.

I don't know that much about exactly what they're doing other than they're trying to build an interface between you know, directly between your brain and external devices like neuralink, and in this case, Apple is working with a company called synchron But yeah, with this, I just I have to keep reiterating to people all the time. One of the reasons why we're in the best we're in with all this technology is because this stuff is still fairly immature

in the history of the human race, right. I mean it's really only been maybe fifty years since you've had widespread use of technology, and really, you know, thirty years since the Internet and everything has turned digital. All of the technology that makes everything work and it's Internet related is all really old. It was designed in the late sixties and early seventies for the most part. And security, privacy,

all these things we care about today. Because everything is digital and because these tech people want to connect directly to your brain, we're designed without security in mind, and thus we have inherently insecure underlying technologies. You've got to do all this stuff to try to secure it. And you know, I could we could do hours of talking about vulnerabilities found in various products and the Internet of

things in particular. So this becomes the ultimate Internet of things, right, because you become an object in the Internet of things, if you have some sort of brain implant that allows you to interface directly with these external devices. And yeah, I'm like you, I'm a hard knowing this. I understand what they purportedly claim. The rationale for this is, you know, it's going to let people who have some sort of disability interact with their devices live in more normal life.

See again here again, et cetera. Right, But yeah, we're just out of place where there is no way I would trust something like this. And if you every day here in the recent past, as we become more and more dependent on this stuff, you see more and more examples where researchers find a flaw on this. There's a problem with that. Oh look, here's another thing that came from China that seems to have some sort of vulnerability or backdoor in it. Not a chance I would do something like this.

potentially act accordingly. But if I'm blind, it would have to be able to send some kind of signal back to my brain to tell me that it did it, and they wait for the next step, right, So there would have to be at least some sort of two way communication and knowing that, yeah, not a chance I would do that.

ridiculousness of it all. And again, Brian, I can only level set here by sayings there may come a time, at some future point when all of this stuff is much more mature, and I would have a lot more confidence in it because all the security flaws are fixed and the privacy concerns are addressed, and we live in a beautiful world like Star Trek where you can just talk to the computer and everything as swell right yeap. That is not our world today. So let me here's

a headline. The disturbing message is shared between AI chatbot and teams who took.

suit state. So there's a lawsuit because this kid was talking to Danaris Targon or I don't know, some character from Game of Thrones which I did not watch. He's in love with this thing. You can read all of this feedback between him and this AI bot that's telling him that it loves him and blah blah blah. It's really super disturbing if you dig into this a bit.

Here's another headline related to it. Boy fourteen sell in love with Game with Thrones chatbot and kill himself after AI app told him to quote come home to her. And there's screenshots of all this stuff. Okay, but yeah again, I'll put this in the notes and maybe we dig into this particular thing. It's super disturbing and people really need to talk to their kids. It's a machine. It's not your friend. Now that gets this back there where

we started. Mark Zuckerberg envisions the future where your friends are AI chatbots. There's another related headline once Zuckerberg is missing on AI and loneliness, and you know, several interviews recently he's talked about this. He's wearing these crazy glasses, which I think are the new ray band glasses, which they've conveniently built so that you know, while you're talking to someone, they can scan your face and learn about you and report your conversations and every other sort of

dystopian proelian thing you could possibly imagine. But he gets into this idea that Americans only have three friends, and so I'm going to read a direct note to the average American I think has fewer than three friends, three people they consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningly more. I think it's like fifteen friends. And you know, the idea is here that the meta AI, as opposed to the open AIAI or Google or fill in the blank rock from X, it's going to become

your friend. You know, don't don't reinvest in communities, don't build things for human beings can interact with each other. Now, just get on the line and talk to Denarius, car gun or whatever, and you know, then eventually you'll kill yourself. I guess allegedly purportedly, it's I don't know, man, this this stuff that is so insane, And I guess the takeaway for me is, you know a lot of these AI tools can be very helpful in a lot of ways,

but they're not your friend. And you know, if you think you have a meaningful relationship with some AI you're talking to online, I would ask you to step back and question that. You know, and we really need to be talking to our kids about.

with something that is computer generated. So how could I possibly go down the rabbit hole of taking what that particular generated text or communication is serious or in some way, shape or form actually real. I just I could never get over that. I mean, I'm talking to a robot basically, I know what I'm talking with. This isn't a human being capable of emotion or you know, being honest with me or anything like that. It's just I don't know.

You You got to take into a step into a different realm to to fall into the belief that you're actually talking with something that is substantive and genuine.

I mean, at least when you talk to a live therapist, right, there are rules around what they can disclose. Now you're telling your deepest, darkest secrets in this AI. That's capturing all that and stintly sharing it with any unknown third parties. Crazy. Absolutely are not ready for this. The technology is not ready for it, people are not ready for it. We really need to as people slow roll this it's getting out of hand.

fifty five kir CD talk station. Love when guests are in studio, and I love talking to todds Zenser even though the content we've always revealed Shenanigans most literally in the city of Cincinnati. He is the citizen watchdog and

the citizens of the city of Cincinnati. I think go you a debt of gratitude for the work that you do and your focus and your willingness to stick at something and look behind all the look at all the details and the documents behind the scene to point out the mismanagement of basically finances and well the government generally speaking. Good to have you back in studio, Todd Zenzer, Thank you, Brian,

good morning, good morning. And you can get his podcasts where you get your podcast Citizen Watchdog Citizen Watchdog podcast where he goes into detail about all these things he reveals. Let's start with I know you're behind and helping assist with getting signatures for the Save Hyde Park Square ballot initiative, which is a referendum to nullify the council's April twenty third decision depriving the residents of the Hyde Park area from their rights to control their destiny in terms of zoning.

And I had the guy who was I can't remember what the name of the site was, but he has the depictions of what this monstrosity hotel and all this upgrades will look like, and it just looms so large over the existing high you have to see it to fully understand it. I mean, because if you hears someone talking about, well, the elevation is only going to go up in an X number of feet, but when you see what that's going to mean for the look of Hyde Park Square, it's like, oh my lord, it's bad.

The hillsides are I don't I haven't looked a lot into it yet, but there's a Hillside Trust that basically is responsible for preserving all these hillsides, and the city is out there engaging in community engagement asking people not whether or not we should develop the hillsides, what would you like to see developed on the hillsides. That's how they operate. They start from.

Right now the fifty five cars Detalk station. Brian Thomas was citizen watchdog Todd Zenser in the studio. Let's pivot over to another area of mismanagement by city government. That will be the equipment used to clear our roads and service our roads and things of that nature. And we found out it was only January this year. Hell, they didn't even plow out of the roads like a Mount Adams and the like. A lot of equipment apparently, as

we learned at the time, was out of commission. Yeah, and they also had manpower issues, which we can talk about. But Todd Zinzer, you investigated this, what did you learn? Well your investigation, well what I did?

total two hundred and fifty and two hundred. They've never produced a list of that four hundred million. But that's the number they use. In fact, when we were in the throes of the campaign, they said it was five hundred million.

had twelve findings, which is very unusual. And some basic things. Well, they have forty five percent of fifteen hundred vehicles are out of life cycle.

to replace all those is eighty two million dollars. Oh great, And so you have the pension liability, you have the deferred maintenance, you have the vehicle of purchase and replacement. And I'm sure there are other deficits out there, we just don't know what they are right now. But those three items total one point three billion.

and gee, I wonder what it is. Seven twenty five ifty five Kara City Talk Station more with Todd Zenzer or Citizen Watchdog Ay thirty fifty five car City Talkstation. I hope you're having a happy Friday. I always enjoy my conversation with Todd Zenzer, the enlightening they are and times doing the heavy lifting and paying attention to the important bottom line figures for the city government. What's out there, what needs to be done, what's being neglected, and where

they're focusing their attention. And you alluded to it. We just mentioned it, the Green Energy Plan, which I think I learned from you or someone else that at least Mayor I have to have Purvoll and quite a few other members of council everything from a lens of green new deal sort of focus, as well as DEI Yes.

or pick your favorite example of money millions of dollars squad. Yeah, did anything get accomplished by the recipients of the money or was it just money that went to some identified not for profit or non government or governmental organizations who purported to address whatever issue they were told to do.

Safe and Clean is another program. And they have all these programs where all these nonprofits and and the amounts range from like nine hundred dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And so they have all these organizations getting money, and we really don't have a good handle on exactly how they're managing that money. And there's just a lot of risk there for a lot of leakage,

a lot of misappropriation. And I've found one audit of one recipient in the last several years, and it was a pretty good They had some pretty good findings actually, and that that should have caused them to look at a lot more of these organizations than they have looked at and well.

out there, That's right. So you we are basically so after the salary is paid, what what did you get in return for paying that person's salary? What's left over from that that allocation to cover whatever costs associated with whatever work they're doing.

and the mayor re elected. Seven thirty five fifty five k CD talk station seven forty one I fifty five KRCD talk station talking with Todd Zenzer CITs in Watchdog, former Inspector General for the United States, looking at what information is available, and it's kind of frightening stuff when it comes to finding out how many of these outside organizations are being funded by the city since an eighty dollars in the name of the Green Energy Plan or

whatever the hell it's called. And Todd's revealed already this morning of one over one billion dollars in outstanding obligations, and there could be a whole lot more than that.

We're talking about the equipment eighty two million dollars worth of out of lifestyle equipment, which is exactly why the plows weren't running around January four hundred, or between two hundred fifty and four hundred million dollars in road repairs that are outstanding and behind do so add that to the list and eight hundred fifty million dollars in outstanding pension allogation behind the eight ball by eight hundred and fifty million dollars. So there's your billion plus right there.

And as it turns out, a lot of money flowing out of the city since then, he going to these couple of one hundred different outside entities, mostly in the name of green energy and Green New Deal kind of crap, none of which we have any control overs. But that's where the nefarious part comes in. You know, we can't change the climate just by taking steps in that direction. With the City of Cincinnati on its own, we're all breathing the same air globally, So there's got to be

something nefarious about it. And as it turns out, a lot of people making a lot of money off the tax dollars going out to these organizations, and yet they can't show what they've done in return for the money. They can't even account for where the money was direct. You had that audit you mentioned, and you pulled it out, So explain to my listeners about that one, because it's it's just it's illustrative.

offend people by hitting them too hard. But number one is contract management review and oversight need.

are upheld. What that means is that this organization is not keeping track of how much time their employees are spending on city matters because that's what gets build to the city. So they can't even tell you how much of the money they pay their employees is for work that went to the city.

One more segment here with Todd Zenzers, citizen watchdog, former Inspector General, and he is doing as much suspecting as he can with the books being cooked in downtown Cincinnati. You had mentioned off air, are you mentioned on the air about these two hundred plus organizations that all have their hand in the cookie jar? They're not regularly audited. The one audit you were able to find show that

they were not well capable of even being audited. They didn't know where the money was going, how it was being spent. So that's probably illustrative of probably every other of the couple one hundred of these organizations. But you mentioned how much it's expanded. The number of these organizations has expanded. The hands in the cookie jar have increased exponentially over the past ten years.

In fact, a couple of years ago under this administration, this current administration, they had so many of these groups that they had to restructure the budget and create additional categories to put these groups in. It used to be one leverage support category. Now they've got three of those categories. And they've got several other programs like Act for Cinci

where they just give they give money. After Act for Sincy, I think there's like forty one groups the Green Cincinnati Plan, there's like seventy one out external organizations that get money. And if you remember our conversation about client tells them that was about the political dynamic that's created, the bond that's created between the incumbents and these grant recipients.

And now get this. Once that happened, the city manager's recommendations go to the mayor, and the mayor can add or subtract, and there's nothing written about that process how the mayor comes to determine those amounts, and then it goes to the council and the council can add and subtract, and there's nothing to say how they do their decision making there. So, for example, in twenty twenty five, through that process, they added one point five million dollars to

this city manager's recommendations, just arbitrarily. There's something wrong with that process.

audit firm is very mysterious. I've never seen anything like it, to be honest with you.

a lot. Think about if it's this bad in the city of Cincinnati, how bad you think it is on a federal government level. Todd Zenzer will have you back in studio hopefully soon. It's always a pleasure having here my friends. Thanks around, folks, Thank you my pleasure. ALYSSA Plan ahnd local author with The Reason, a book on the Reasons why Zimmer got shut down, Zimmer the movement that defeated a nuclear power plant. That plus so'll hear about the Law Enforcement Expo at eight thirty I'll be

right back eight oh five. They five care CD talk station. A very happy Friday to you by the Timas. Please to welcome my next guest, local author, and I enjoy

having local authors on the program, Alyssa McClanahan. She is described as a writer scholar specializing in historic preservation and public urban as well as environmental history, as a PhD from my alma mater, PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati, and she's also the author of a book that we'll not be talking about today, Findley Market is Cincinnati, which uses Findley Market as a vehicle to explore the larger history of US cities. Welcome to the program, Alyssa.

It's a pleasure to have you on today.

school cooling tower nuclear plant. Correct.

and seventies into the early eighties. One of the things that I want to do for readers is, as we're thinking about reinvesting in nuclear power now for right reasons, as you mentioned, I think we just need to understand this very recent history in the sixties and seventies and eighties. You know, we heavily tried to invest in it in those decades, and the industry faltered significantly at significant costs to utility companies, many of which went bankrupt, to utility customers.

And so I think I would I want to share the hang ups of that industry by looking at one interesting story, one local story, to give readers some you know, some good knowledge, some good information to think about it today. Because because you're right, they produce enormous amounts of energy compared to a coal plant, for instance, they are still incredibly expensive to build, which was one of the issues back then. They still, you know, have other hang ups too.

They still produce significant numbers of whistle blowing workers who say this isn't safe, this was installed correctly, that was an issue back then. The book explores they still have issues with quality control and assurance. We still have no safe way to actually dispose of the waste, so they're not you know, really renewable. So there's significant issues with

them that we just need to think through today. And I'm hoping that by exploring, you know, very recent history through a good story, that readers can get some of that good knowledge so they can better think about nuclear power today. That's what I'm up to.

a waste coming out of them, if any. I've heard many people say that there really isn't any at all, but ignoring the realities of modern nuclear actors when it comes to the whistleblowers that were that were coming out, and I even remember hearing news stories about that that it was unsafe with what was coming out the construction concerns. Were those legitimate complaints by legitimate people or were those motivated by political activism.

their family felt unsafe. They were incredibly hesitant to come forward. But these were men who ultimately felt like they wanted to point out some serious safety issues. Not all of them had serious have safety issues they were pointing out some of them were not in safety related things that they just felt like, I'm a quality control inspector, this isn't how you do this kind of a thing, you know,

the procedural things, which I respect. Others were pointing out thousands of very serious safety issues with Zimmer, to the point that they ended up having to tire lawyers to

represent them. And so there's a law firm actually out a DC that came in just this one guy who was very young at the time, and he represented them, and I talked to him quite a lot because he himself, like you, you know, isn't opposed a nuclear power on principle by any means, but he was just very struck by how all of these men were so fearful and

felt like I need to come forward. And when they would give public testimony, these would use they would use voice distortion machines, they would cover themselves in drapes looking like ghosts. Essentially, they didn't want to have any of their names released. As a historian, looking at my sources, very few of their names are actually out there. So these are people who were threatened with physical violence. Many of them lost their jobs, and so it was it

felt very very real to me, you know. The popular protest movement that emerged across the Cincinnati area was this gradual evolution of some folks that were opposed to it on principle. They were kind of the early activists, and later more and more folks signed on because they were listening to whistleblowers they were paying for Zimmer even though it wasn't producing power. And I think, you know, the whistle blowers, you know, the vast majority of them liked

nuclear power. It gave them a really high paying, good job, and so they were really really hesitant to come forward. And when I talked to the men and women that worked with them that got them to kind of come forward, those people just said, you know, we need to understand

Zimmer is not unique in this. It's not an aberration that the nuclear power industry, nuclear weapons production facilities produce a huge numbers of whistleblowers in the seventies and eighties, and so I think we need to dig into that whise quality control and assurance missing in that industry. And

the book explores that. You know, we've got a rather hands off regulatory system with that industry at large, and so again, if we're thinking about it today, we need to make sure that that is that that's not the issue anymore, because we want people working at these plans to feel safe, and we definitely want the families living around them to feel like you know, as a mom myself, you can raise your kid in the shadow of one

of these and know that it's safe. So yeah, I enjoyed researching this because the protests that emerged over it came from all these different angles where some people question, you know, well what if there is an accident, and other people question just the regular radiation that comes from it at low levels, you know, is that safe for my farm or my kids. Other people were really concerned.

that they're not even benefiting from. And so it's this really kind of weird, beautiful story of this protest movement that's not really a movement, but like twelve movements combined. And it was very interesting to study because it's like a lot of different perspectives, liberals, conservatives, all sorts of people that had something to say about it. And I very much.

fire of that activism. They thought every single one of these plants represented an existential threat to the general community, if not you know, the state, or the geographic area of rather large geographic area. But you mentioned government regulations, and it seems to me that in modern times, governmental regulations are the ones that stand in the way of progress.

And I thought maybe that was one of the reasons why it took so long to at least from the start of the project to nineteen eighty four when they pulled the plug on it, that maybe the regulatory environment was part of the problem. But you suggested it, No, it wasn't.

very important way. But it's the money that really really drives utility companies to cancel these projects. And to your point, part of the enormity of costs in that era was because there's this growing governmental review process, in part because of the environmental movement, and a lot of that was frankly very good. We want to make sure that these

things are built safely. But on the other hand, if you're you know, sympathetic to these utility companies, which I try to be in the book, you're just holding costs or growing and growing and growing as you have to go from one public hearing to the next, and then you need twelve different agencies to review this thing. That is a lot, and.

made it more efficient. They deferred pretty much all of the quality control to utilities, and utilities had no experience building nuclear power plants in the sixties and seventies because no one did. It was very much technology good, so they know, they kind of went at it with a lot of the attitude of well, I know how to build a coal plant, and they did. They were very good at that, but no one knew how to build

a nuclear power plan. And as you mentioned earlier, they were huge back then, physically huge, and they required redundant, redundant, redundant quality control to make sure that they were built well and that the men building them were safe and the families nearby were safe. And we just didn't understand that at large, that that's the way you got got

to do it. And so because of that kind of lack of quality regulation and deferred regulation to utilities, then they were built pretty poorly, and so then they had to go back and fix themselves over and over again, which is what happens was Zimmer. They get fined by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission babying c GENI for not building it. Well, they got to go back and fix it. They get another sign, they got to go back and fix it.

So you do feel bad for the Cincati gas and Electric officials at different points because they just seem like they're trying and they're not succeeding. They certainly were a group of rather arrogant officials. They thought they knew what they were doing. They were very uninterested in outside input. But you also feel sympathetic to them because you know, I'm married to a man that runs a construction based business. Those are really hard businesses to run, and is building

massive power plants. I mean, it's one of the most capital intensive industries in the US. And we also have to understand that another factor that sunk nuclear power was that they're building these things in the seventies. That was when the post war economic boom ended and it was yeah, and so that meant that whatever you thought your construction costs were going to be, they suddenly skyrocket. And that is not their fault. You know, they could have maybe projected, okay,

what if we do have a recession. They could have done a better job with that, but some of that was out of their control and So what's so interesting about nuclear power is that it's kind of like six different, big, chunky factors that converge to think the industry instead of just one singular thing and that so it's a really layered, nuanced story, and I'm trying to use just one singular place to help readers understand those different factors. And then again think about, Okay, well, what.

you're interested, it is available on Amazon. Zimmer The Movement that Defeated a Nuclear Power Plant. My regular producers out today, So I don't know that Danny is how to update my page, but it'll Oh, Danny, you can do it. Wonderful. Then we'll add the link ALYSSA real pleasure Day. Thanks for documenting this in this wonderful book.

Keenan reared and good to have you on the program. Keenan, good to be here. Thank you for having me.

He's like, no, no, no, no. But my sister, who retired from Cincinni Police Department after thirty or twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven years, she was a lieutenant, spent an entire working career there, and she told me about when they had to do the taser because officers get tased as part of the training, so they know what it feels like and know what to expect. Right. She had a friend, one of her fellow cadets, a woman who actually enjoyed the experience. I thought that was greatly.

I know there's all kinds out there.

where there's like thirty different police agencies. It's a great opportunity for anyone to come and get some name and face recognition. So I highly encourage that. And then a lot of our all these police departments, you know, they have lots of free trinkets and such to give away. I know we have whistles that we're giving away, and ink pens and all kinds of stuff, so there will be tons of stuff to give away, most of it geared towards kids. But you will not leave this event empty handed.

a career in law enforcement. Well, it's going to be happening again tomorrow Springdale Community Center one one nine nine nine lawn View Avenue in Springdale, Hile, of course, beginning at noon lasting until three. Get your free ConA ice, get your free dogs, get your free bike helmet and a lot of the chum will be offering out like that whistle he mentioned. But also get the chance to see all this equipment and meet some of the officers and thank them for their service to the community while

you're at it. I hope people do that. Keenan reared and community service officer, has been great talking with you. I'm glad to have the have you on the program to spread the word about this wonderful event.

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the money. They do a great job at helping track down bad guys, check them out. Fifty five KRSE dot com just shiv fifty one, fifty five KRSD talk station. So I started out the program talking about this, and I'm still I still am in disbelief and just kind of wondering if if somebody had done this relative to Barack Obama or Joe Biden or some other Democrat president, if they'd gotten away with it. But James Comy, you remember James Comedy, former ex FBI director that was let

go by Donald Trump. I guess he's got a bit of a chip on his shoulder, since some people believe he issued a message suggesting someone should assassinate Donald Trump. He posted on social media photograph of some shells and stones up on the lining up on the beach with the number eighty six, follow the number forty followed by the number forty seven. Many and that eighty six meaning like a hit job or elimination of because you know when you eighty six something, that's exactly what that means.

Forty seven, of course, suggesting President Donald Trump, since he's the forty seven president of the United States of America. Posted with a caption this photograph of stones and shells in the sand, cool shell formation on my beach walk. H So, when word hit and this thing went viral, and people are going like, wait a second, is the former FBI director suggesting someone actually eighty six the president

of United States of America. He took it down and he left this caption, removing any doubt that he knew exactly why he put it up there in the first place. I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but I opposed any kind of violence any kind, So I took the post down. You can't talk out of both sides of

your mouth on this. I assumed it was a political message when he posted it. If you're not talking about eighty six ing the forty seven president the United States of America, how could eighty six forty seven be interpreted as a political message? And by posting that political message, you're advancing it, or at least suggesting some I presume some level of approval of it. It wasn't posted with found this on the beach. This is reprehensible. No one

ever suggests this. It's a bad thing to suggest killing the President United States of America, and others observed, like James Blair, White House Debuty chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs. He pointed out Trump's traveling in the Middle East right now while the former XBI drafter director, who I presume has a number of people following him.

For a sitting president who fights against Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism, Donald Trump's not a beloved person in the Middle East, probably the worst possible place he could ever be when it comes to people maybe making threats on his life alone. For those reasons, James Blaer said, this is a clarion call from Jim coming to terrorists and hostile regimes to kill the President of the United States as he travels

in the Middle East. Any Democrat or media outlet who fails to condemn this clear incitement of violence is complicit and must be described as such.

We also talked about bitcoin fraud in Arizona. I don't know how people fall for that one. Apple supporting brain controlled devices that chip in your brain. Meta's new AI app also a frightening things data hell away from it. Summarizing my conversation with Dave Hatter, Todd Zinzerg in studio for a full hour talking about shenanigans going on in the city of Cincinnati, and he just lays it out so clear. It's just scary. How financially mismanaged the city

is and how corrupt it seems to be. So here what Todd has to say podcast fifty five KRC dot com and get a copy of Zimmer The Movement that Defeated a Nuclear power plant, as well as listening to the conversation with Alyssa McClanahan. Fascinating, fascinating insight into what that book has to say. Get a copy of it at fifty five KRS dot com. Again, have a wonderful weekend, folks, Thanks for tuning in today, and stick around because Glen Back's comin' up.