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at six thirty dek Friday with interest. It's Dave Hatter. People are being committed with jet or chat, GPT psychosis. Well, we're all going to learn something new today on that one. Kroger scanning your ID when you buy alcohol. Why, yeah,

it's a new process at Kroger. Bought a twelve pack of beer the other day and they well actually they've been doing it for a couple of weeks now scanning your driver's license, which was kind of funny because there's a liquor store inside of Kroger where we shop and for it was at one time I made a liquor

purchase at the liquor store. They didn't card me, And then when we got our groceries, we went up to the front, and then I had the beer in the cart and they card me for the beer and even asked the question, wait a second, they didn't card anybody in the liquor store. How come you're carding me at the front. Apparently now they're carding the at the liquor store as well. Why. I mean, you clearly are over

the age of twenty one. Seeing them card some people that you know, my mom's age, it always seems so ridiculous, and you know, you can't take it out on the person asking for the ID. It's like they didn't write the rules, they just have to enforce them. I always thought it was really dumb that the people under the age of twenty one who are working the checkout aren't allowed to scan your liquor in either. They got to go to the guy next door who's over the age

of twenty one to scan it. So okay, anyway, I don't make the rules, man, I just think them up and write them down. And finally with Dave had he don't connect artificial intelligence to your vending machine, Guy, Joe, Joe, disconnect your vending machine from artificial intelligence. Bring mccollan, our energy expert, Charge Conversations. Bring mcowen's podcast, check that one out from the Hudson Institute. He's going to be in studio as he is inclined to do for a full

hour seven o five would bring him. We got lots of different things to talk about him, including the revocation of the alleged carbon dioxide emergency declaration. There, we got a new sheriff in town with the Trump administration, and they're taking away the whole notion that CO two has any connection with That is, basically, it's not a pollutant, and there's solid scientific evidence to confirm that. I can dive on into that a little bit later to the program.

So if we stop regulating carbon dioxide, which is fine, then you and I get a lot of control over our lives back. Certainly, this global warming hysteria climate change hysteria has provided a government a great mechanism to intrude into literally every aspect of our day to day lives. So maybe maybe we see a refreshing, welcome change in front of us here on that one. Bring them. I'm

certain we'll comment on that. Bill Sites on property Taxes. Yes, he is on the committee created by Governor de Wine in the aftermath of the veto of the the tax provisions, the property tax relief that was in the budget. Man, we can't have that line item them right out and here, start a new plan, get a new working group together, put Bill Sites in charge, and we'll see what they

come up with. In spite of the fact that a year's worth of effort and work and looking into how to get us property tax relief had already been done anyhow, eight oh five for that one five, one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phone, still making national news the city of Cincinnati, although not on several different networks. There was a Fox News reporting

on this, and I thought it rather comical. Media Research Councils NewsBusters took a look at ABC, CBS and NBC and these various programs there ut are that they have since the vile Cincinnati assault and found no coverage of the event through yes or through Wednesday of this week. Nothing didn't even mention it, and it's noted and a lot of people have been made this this parallel, this

sort of analysis. If it was a group of white people beating down a group of a couple of innocent obviously without a mechanism or means to defend themselves black people, this would have resulted in immediate riots in the street, organized protests, condemnation protests from every single mayor and every elected official across this great land of ours talking about

how vile and inexcusable this is. And that suggestion is that that's the point, because it wasn't white on black crime, that NBC, ABC and CBS didn't touch it with a ten foot poll because the optics look bad, something several of my black listeners have pointed out, Yes, it makes my community look bad, and yeah, I mean people tend to pay with a broad brush. So there you have it,

but still making national news. And of course Victoria Park's a big lightning rod nationally because she said that those poor people deserve the beatdown apparently sticking with her argument, and let us analyze the failure and fallacy of Victoria Parks analysis of her comment relative to the rights of free speech. So those folks deserved a beatdown, that's basically what she said. Now, can you extend the violence against those people based upon anything that might have started the

original fight? And that's where she fails in her analysis. In this country, she said, we have freedom of speech. However, you may not run into a crowded theater and scream fire. He was in a crowded theater and screamed fire. There are unintended consequences, but that's what happened. I think she is referring to is the guy that got the crap beat out of him by the angry mob. Now it's been suggested that he's initiated the whole thing by me

be using the N word. I haven't heard any definitive proof of that, but I do believe that some believe that's how it got started. I know there was a slap. Whether that slap was the first physical connection between the two that the fight started between, or maybe he got hit prior to the slap, don't know, but it was two people obviously engage in a bit of a controversy which exploded. Park said, it's a metaphor. Regarding the analogy in a crowded theater, I'm just going to let people

draw their own conclusion. That's my statement, obviously not retracting her idea they deserve to beat down. Now started from the proposition you can't screen fire in a crowded room. Why is that analogy used? It's from a Supreme Court case from a long time ago. Fine. The reason is because there may be not an opportunity for others to step up and say no, there is no fire. You get an immediate reaction from a crowd that might result in chaos, with folks stampeding for the door, which could

result in harm or injury. Unintended. It may be, But if someone were to screen fire in a crowded room and you reached over and hauled off and punched the living crap out of the person right next to you, a it doesn't excuse the person who lied and said there's fire here, causing perhaps a panic, but you would be prosecuted for battery and assault for punching the person next to you merely because someone utters a word that maybe isn't protected speech does not give you the legal

right to start committing violence and crimes of your own, which is exactly what happened. So maybe the guy did say something bad untoward, Maybe he deserved to get punched by the guy he was talking to. Let those two work it out between themselves. That doesn't allow a crowd of people to start committing independent crimes of their own merely because someone said something offensive. Does not give you the right to break the law and hurt other people.

And she fails the factor into this. They deserved a beat down was her original comment, which drew controversy because while you can maybe make an argument the guy deserved it because of something he said, which I'm sitting here telling you, no, you can't. But one of the poor woman who seemed to be merely rendering aid and got smacked cole cocked in the face with a closed fist punch, resulting in substantial injuries, did she deserve that beat down?

Victoria Parks, was she involved in the initial confrontation between the two guys where this thing sort of seemed to have started, seemed to have I think the answer is quite clearly no. This is embarrassing, she's embarrassing, well, most notably, she's embarrassment to herself. This is an elected official in the city of Cincinnati, you know. I mean I always laugh at the guy, the representative that thought Guam was going to capsize, he would put more buildings on it,

you know. And how embarrassing is that. I mean, that's just reflective of just an absolute ignorance of so many different things. And you know, it's like, there's that guy. He's from that state. Thank god, he's not one of ours. We don't elect idiots like that. Well, sorry, Cincinnati, you can't say that. And we have an illustration of what's going to happen in downtown Cincinnati real time, something that Sarah Herringer's talked about yesterday on the fifty five KARS

Morning Show. She no no longer lives in Over the Rhine. Their business had been broken into before her husband got murdered in their home. She had mentioned yesterday She's in studio for an hour talking about the ordeal in downtown Cincinnati, looking for ways to better this, come up with solutions, bring more information to people's attention, asking for follow up on all these non governmental organizations that are getting your taxpayer dollars in the city who are supposed to go

out into the world and come up with solutions. Does anybody follow up on that and report on whether that NGO or that outside organization actually has made any progress. The answer apparently is no, because she's looked for it, there is no follow up. But what she did live and her late husband lived in real time was the fact that they had they were victims of break ins burglaries, arson And there's only so much you can put up with when you're a business owner in downtown CINCINNTI or

a resident, I might add. She mentioned a bar that closed because it had been broken into so many times. You can't. I mean, the profit margins aren't big anyway, but you know you just like at one point say sorry, I'm just I can't put up with this anymore. Well, we got another business you can add to the list of folks who've already made that decision. Talk about that coming up. I got Todd on the phone top. If

you don't mind holding, I'll take your call first. Got to take quick break here five sixteen right now, fifty five KRE City Talk station fifty five car The talk station our iHeartRadio nineteen. It is Friday. It is based guitar from Lenny Kilmester and a few words the Bible and three seven four nine fifty five eight hundred eight two three talk hail FI fifty on a T and T phones. Caller decided not to hold over the break.

You can feel free to call. But uh, you know, it was kind of interesting because Jason Williams from the Inquirre, in the aftermath of the brawl and the beatdown, UH had these observations, What I care about us is not becoming viewed like New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, in the other places where city government has pushed public safety way down on the priority list. Perception is critical.

Perception drives decisions on events, which brings tens of thousands of visitors annually from the suburbs and hundreds of miles away. Perception helps drive a company's decision to relocate, which can draw employees from around the globe. Perception drives population growth, and he wrote, I feel more horror incidents will erode perception a point where events and companies and visitors and prospective residents decide to stay away. What if that happens.

Not trying to be an alarmist, but it's something any caring and competence city leaders should be asking. Yeah, and this is a problem that's been building. As we talked about yesterday with Sarah Herringer, our numbers have been down to this insin police force and aren't enough officers to go around. They're desperately trying to get lateral hires to fill the ranks that have been down for a long time.

City government failed to get ahead of the matter by staying on top of it and keeping a full contingent of police officers, maybe not funding other areas of government in favor of maintaining law enforcement levels to keep us all at least with the perception of safety. And of course, again Sarah Herringer yesterday talking about the violence that she, her husband, the residents of over the Ryan experience on a regular basis. Here's a real life illustration of what

happens when you don't take care of law enforcement. We got a logistics firm near downtown Cincinnati now relocating to Blue Ash after well the violence in and around the city over the recent weeks since I inquire Randy Tucker reporting that Victor Lewis, founder and CEO of One Logistics Network, set in an interview with The Inquire that the July

twenty sixth incident was in d day factor. I guess last straw in his decision to move the logistic company out of downtown Cincinnati and over to apparently the more safe Blue Ash community. He said he'd been contemplating this move for months, just signed a lease for new office spase near Summit Park and Blue Ash. We're out, he said. Nothing is going to change until businesses start drawing a line and saying no more, this ain't happening. July twenty

sixth incident reaffirmed his decision to relocate. Also, he cited previous incidents, including the July fifth shooting at the Banks near Smell Park injuring three people, and a recent stabbing of the guy near Third and Broadway Streets in downtown. He also wrote an open letter to city officials criticizing what he described as quote a decline in the liveability and professionalism of the downtown area, which he wrote quotes stem from a failure in leadership and a lack of

effective city management. He said, I understand the are complex issues at play, But I have employees who are freaking out. This just isn't a place where we feel safe doing business. Apparently he's going to continue operating from his Queen's Gate headquarters for the next several months, but he is trying to fast track the company's move quote. Cincinnati needs leadership that is ready to refocus on the foundational responsibilities that

once made this city thrive. And until that happens, I will be relocating my business along with the jobs and investment and brings to a more supportive environment. Well there's that, isn't it. And do you think he's the only individual who is thinking along these lines. Sarah suggests that people are moving out of Over the Rhine. I'm just kind of curious what property values has been impacted by this.

I don't know if you can do is zilo search and find what the current valuation is for any given urban hipster rehabbed apartment building that they were spent so many years trying to create and develop and almost very successfully so, only to be undermined by the deterioration of the conditions in the city of Cincinnati. Over the Rhine a hotbed of criminal activity. One of the areas that's

reported a substantial increase in criminal activity. If you're a would be urban hipster contemplating a move, what do you think. Obviously not, something's going to steer you in the direction of pulling the trigger and saying, Yep, I want the living walking community. I want to be able to walk here, walk there, take the street car to my job. All sounds wonderful until you realize you got to be out in the world, in and among people who might want to just give you a beat down for no reason. Yeah,

it's a sad state of affairs. Hate to see it. I'm one of those folks that dearly loves the city of Cincinnati. I've commented many times over the years, how much better the quality of life my wife and I have having moved back from Chicago to Cincinnati coming up I guess thirty years now, and I never regret that decision. But am I more inclined to go downtown and participate in activities and maybe go to the Brady Center and see a concert again, or maybe go to one of

the wonderful downtown Cincinnati restaurants? Uh huh. I'm usually not that guy who's I hate city. Since I used to laugh at people. When to worked at Anthem in the legal department, I had one woman say, I never ever going downtown. It's dangerous, And those are the days I used to defend going downtown saying listen, I talked to the police enough. I used to have Chief Tom Straker on the Show with the Cops show every Friday, and

it was the same repeated over and over and over again. Point, which is, if you're not involved in drug activity or criminal activity, you're safe in downtown Cincinnati. The likelihood of you being a victim of a crime, if you're not involved in criminal activity, most notably drugs, it's slim to none. You know, you can say that anymore about twenty six right now, fifty five kc Detalk Station. Comments are always welcome. Fel free to call otherwise I'll get into some local stories.

We've got here. Stick around you right back.

five per se. The Dog Station five twenty nine, Happy Friday, Yay one hour from now, Tech Friday with Dave Hatter five and three seven four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two three Talk Conflict fifty on eight and t Phone, Get the Toms call. But first, Yeah, my friend Maureene already happening. We've already had one person canceling their trip to my daughter's wedding after hearing about quote

how dangerous our city is. How many stories out there mirror those of Maren's Tom, Welcome to the show, Happy Friday, my friend, Hey.

changes made does something. Uh, And there's a couple of things that came out of it that that really struck me. Obviously, we all know that there is definitely a need for a deterreenty downtown and really anywhere in your family, on a job site, uh, in a in a town or a city, country, there has to be a deterrent. There has to be something in place where where people who are who are prone to commit crimes go. Maybe I'd better not do that. That's that's because I'm not I

don't want to go to that. There's gotta be something like that. And clearly there has been a push over the last tower many years to get rid of the deterrent, and it's intentional.

want their stuff, I'm gonna take it. And and and part of the reason why that is allowed to happen is because you have people like that being that councilwoman, same crap, like that, excuse me, woman, that's just flat out wrong what you're saying that there is no excuse for that kind of behavior. And when when you have people who stand up to are allegedly city leaders who stand up and say something like that, what do you think the criminals, Oh, well, she's right, maybe we ought

to just stop doing it. Now they feel even even more embolded. So we're we're electing people who allow this kind of behavior, and and in fact, they incentivize it. That's it, and that's we got to stop doing that people. We have got to stop electing people. And unfortunately, there is a political party that embraces this kind of behavior. It allows for it allows it to festor and makes it worse. And that's the Democrat Party. Don't vote Democrat. I have a great weekend, Broan.

any particular single person or political party. But really, you mean, when you step back from what we were talking about together yesterday, the lack of law enforcement, the lack of police presence, the insufficient numbers of officers that are even police officers, perhaps the failure of elected officials to engage in appropriate allocation of these scarce resources, and one merely steps back and well, who's making these decisions, who's responsible

for the selection of the police chief? And the Democrats. I mean, you don't have anybody to point to but Democrats. It's an all one percent Democrat administration in the city of Cincinnti's been dominated by and contro rold by Democrats now for a long long time. So to the extent you're going to point a finger at a political party or some group of individuals. You've got a long history of Democrats having controlled the city of Cincinnati, so I got to conclude that maybe it is in balls in

their court. Five thirty five. Right now, if you have cur City Talk station, Bobby, hang on if you have to take your call, got a stack of stupid as well. Your phone calls are priority over stack of stupid. I'm go either way, but we'll start with Bobby right when we get back.

coming from. Your anger and frustration is duly noted. Bobby, Faith, family, flag, and freedom. Take care of my friend of a great weekend. Hey, hell, let's go to the Stacker. Stupid Let's start off with a naked person because it is Friday, Stacker stupid, and why not. We'll putting aside the female tea. Every week, Joe's pulling out articles for the stack of stupid involving female quite often very active female teachers who find the need to have sex with young children. God, the world

has just flipped upside down. But we'll move over to the naked guy first found naked inside amen Naked inside the Minnesota State Capitol Friday night, a man had used a wooden wedge to prop a door open in order

to gain access after hours. According to charging documents. The records show that Dominic Terrell Peace, thirty six years old, charge of one kind of second degree burglar and connection with the trespassing arrests, also wanted to Wisconsin for violating terms of his probation, and a warrant was filed for his extradition.

he sleeps naked in his own house, I guess. Addressing the issue of why he was naked inside the capitol, investigators found a set of clothes in a woman's bathroom, standing water on the floors on the floor, suggesting he may have taken a bath there. Review of the surveillance footage show piece gone inside the building around two pm Friday, open to the public at the time, used a wedge

to prop an exterior mechanical room door. Returned at quarter to ten in the evening, entered the building and went inside the women's bathroom for about forty minutes before going up to the second floor. State patrol said Peace was taking a regional hospital for mental health evaluation and then was released. After the first encounter. He reappeared in the capitol grounds two more times, on Saturday seven thirty am and then again at seven thirty pm, with another trip

to regions in between. He was arrested upon the third encounter. All the while Peace had this arrest warret in Wisconsin for falling to show up in court. That warrant authorized law enforcement in adjoining states to arrest Peace, but when officers first searched him in the system, the warrant read

no extradition in state pickup only. Since that warrant wassitioned in February, Local Law News found that Peace had been cited by police at least five times for minor offenses, including an arrest last week at a target in Saint Paul for reported theft. Police said Wisconsin, Warren appeared as non extraditable when they arrested him on July twenty second. He also has pending competency evaluation on a felony matter

vehicle theft case in Ramsey County. He scheduled reappear in court and being held out a twenty five thousand dollars bond. Still not as crazy as Governor Waltz, Joe, is that?

with his nude body surrounded by sex toys. Police got a report about three am from a security guard at the Wing Fat mansion. He had noticed that the door of the unit was left for jess during his patrol, noted a strange odor emanating from the flat. Officers discovered a man surnamed Choo, lying naked on the bed with blood around his nostrils. Pronounced dead at the scene, Mortuary workers removed the man's body the following day from the unit.

Pulmonary autopsy results showed no obvious bruises on the man. Meanwhile, police sees multiple pieces of evidence from the premises, including sex toys and lubricants packaged in transparent plastic bags that filled an entire box. No doubt, case has been classified as a discovery of a dead body under investigation by the Yao Sim District Crime Squad. Does it make you curious about the cause of death, Joe, You're not going there,

huh Okay. Apprentice, Mississippi, where authorities arrested a Boonville man following a public nudity incident at Fossil Park in Frankstown, which also led to drug charges. Court to Apprentice County Sheriff's department to call about a naked guy at a park in the morning of July twenty fifth, prompted a response from Sheriff Randy Toller. He arrested fifty seven year

old Donald Ritchie Hatfield on charges of indecent exposure. In search of his vehicle by Sheriff Tolar and Deputy Colby Knight revealed a felony amount of hydra codon and a small quantity of math amphetamine. According to charges, may follow a pending results of the crime lab analysis. Hatfield appear before Justice Roy Hall set has bought at five grand Department of Corrections also placed a hold on him. North Mississippi Narcotics Agent's Grady Smith expected to present a case

to the grand jury for further consideration. Drugs are bad and what is it with female teachers molesting young people? Former Saint James High School special education teacher accused of several sex crimes against a student, plead guilty the lester charges.

October twenty third, last year, prosecutors charged Ricky Lynn Waughlin with felony count's possession of child porn, tamper or attempt to tamper with a victim, and a felony prosecution statutory rape second degree, sexual exploitation of a minor, tampering with physical evidence, and a felony prosecution furnacing pornographic material to a minor, and sexual trafficking of a child second degree

under the age of eighteen. Pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and creating substantial risk first degree first defense no sexual conduct that was her plea agreement. Twenty fourth of this month, got five years probation. Investigation said she had been sending pornographic videos of herself to a sixteen year old student. bestI Gadda said the boy who told him Laughlin had been sending him nude photos on Snapchat, and it also tried to pressure him into

having sex, you know. And again I turned to the mugshot photograph. I mean, she's just a seemingly very attractive young woman. What is with it? Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. Yeah, and welcome to the world again, to social media. I love pointing this out. It's out there in the ether. You created it, someone's gonna find it or see it, or as in the case with this one and so many other cases, the person you are molesting or trying to molest under the age of eighteen,

not consenting adult. It's gonna tell somebody you're out there. I know you're out there. What somebody in my listening audience is doing this or thinking about doing this? Heed my words? Idiots, you moron, And we go to uh, let's see here dayline Louisville, Kentucky. But it's a former Southern Indiana high school counselor been sentenced for having sexual relationships as with a student. Brittany Eisner pleaded guilty to child seduction and contributing the delinquency of a minor Early

on the month. Court document show the former Floyd Central High School counselor had sexual contact with a students several times and gave the student alcohol as well as vaping products. Fired October last year for neglect of duty and immorality after an invest district investigation found her, in their words,

unfit to supervise students. During the sentencing hearing Circuit court Monday, Eisner ordered to serve two years in the Indiana Apartment of Corrections for two counts of child seduction sentences running Concurrently, she received a one year suspended sentence upon strict terms of probation for contributing the delinquency of a minor. Also ordered to have no contact with a victim and has

to register as a sex offender. Beyond that, court records indicates she is still facing child seduction charges in Floyd County. Floyd County. Why the world's filled with lonely people, and filled with lonely people who are adults. Find one of those and have sex with the adult who is capable of consent. That is the law. You know. Five fifty

five fifty five k se DE talk station. More to talk, More to talk about after the top of the hour, News and of course tech, Fred mcdave Hatter, Breagha mcgawan Back in studio, our Energy Expert Charged Conversations. I'm a Steerian direction in his podcast Charge Conversation. He's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. He's with the Hudson Institute as well as he's a professor at Miami University. Back in studio at seven oh five, and Bill sites on the committee to try to give

us some property tax release. He'll be on the program at eighth five. I'll be right back after.

were talking energy policy. Presumably that's his area of expertise. Got some interesting developments coming out of the Trump administration on that rolling back the declaration that CO two is actually a pollutant. Yeah, wouldn't that be a wonderful thing for freedom and choice and everything else in America. They are micromanaging our lives on the back of this climate alarmism, and this would be an awesome opportunity to roll back

some of that micromanagement. So, uh, we'll address that subject matter coming up in an Now, of course, it's Friday to the Bottom of this Hour Tech Friday with Dave Hatter. People apparently are being committed what to mental institutions. Apparently it's a thing called chat GPT psychosis. Okay, Kroger is scanning your IDs when you buy alcohol? Now why, he asks question Mark, We'll find out. And finally, don't connect artificial intelligence to your vending machine if you have one.

Bring McCallen again. In studio seven to five. Bill Sitz

joins a program at eight oh five. He is on that Property Tax Board, the committee set up by Governor de Wine to try to figure out ways to provide us with property tax relief, and I still scratched my head over that, since all the work was done last year leading up to the bill and the budget bill it had some provisions in it for property tax relief, which the governor vetoed and then created this separate committee with Bill Sites heading it up Bill AT eighth five

five one three seven fifty eight hundred two three top pound five fifty on at and t phone A couple of housekeeping matters here last week. Earlier in the week, rather Levek Ramaswami, our next Governor, dve Ake, announced that he was going to have a town hall with former Cincinni Vice Mayor Christopher Smithman fan of the show You're out there, Christopher, good morning, my friend. Always love having

you on the show every week on Mondays. For the smith event, he'll be part of this discussion Ramaswami's post. We plan to invite city officials, community leaders, and any of the victims from the assault who wish to participate. When people feel afraid to speak their minds, that's when frustration festers and we can't let that happen. Well, the date and the time is set. It's Monday, August fourth, This coming Monday, five thirty pm at Christopher Smithman's favorite spot,

Jim and Jackson the River. So we got Leeveke Ramaswami and Christopher Smithman and you if you choose to be there for the purpose of addressing crime concerns, most notably after the craziness that happened early Saturday morning. So five point thirty Monday, Jim and Jackson the River, and good morning the folks at Jim and Jacks You've had listener lunch there quite a few times. They enjoy our company, We enjoy their service and their food and their hospitality.

So we'll get back to Jim and Jackson. In fact, we'll be doing that in October. October's listener lunch at Jim and Jackson the River. We try to have that at Jim and Jackson in advance of elections, and I think that's the last listener to lunch before the November election. So put it on your calendar and if you want to join a listener lunch next week. Parenthetically, we're going to be at Weedham and Brewery going back there love

that place. So next Wednesday about eleven thirty, so that little housekeeping matter, and you heard the top of the our news. Donald Trump is hard at work on these tariff negotiations, and by all accounts, he's making some pretty good positive steps. Question Mark, will they stay in place? Does he have the authority to do this? Talk about this with Judge Ednapalatano on Wednesday. Legally speaking, the judge is firmly convinced that he does not have the authority

to implement these tariffs unilatteralies. Is not part of the presidential executive powers. The power lies exclusively in the with Congress has the power of the purse. It's in the Constitution. They can exclusively have the power to levy taxes, are tariffs taxes. That's part of the legal arguments going on in court. They were in court yesterday. Now the District Court said, Donald Trump, you can't do this. It is

not within your constitutional powers. That decision, which would have stopped all this flurry of activity relative to tariffs, would have stopped the activity, presumably, but they court stayed its own decision and they expedited the appellate process. So yesterday the oral arguments in front of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and it doesn't look good for Donald Trump and his tariffs. And now, if you don't like tariffs, then you'd be pleased by the questions from the judges yesterday.

A little glimmer of possibility of hope there, but not much. Several judges repeatedly asked how Trump could justify these broad tariffs, and because he declared an emergency. Now there is a thing out there that was past the nineteen seventy seven called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act i ee PA, which some presidents have used to set economic sanctions and other penalties on foreign countries. But it's never been applied

to tariffs. We're on new uncharted waters here. And Judge Jimmy Rama yesterday said the iee PA doesn't mention the word tariffs anywhere. That's an obvious statement. Judge Timothy Dyke, Clinton appointee quote it was. It was hard for me to see the Congress intended to give the President of the authorities essentially to rewrite the entire US TAXI would

have passed the legislation. Some of the judges noted that large swaths of the nation's complex and long standing trade procedures would essentially become superfluous of the president could simply declare an emergency and without review by the courts, which is exactly what the Trump administration contends it can do,

and then impose tariffs of any size in any duration. Now, Nixon did this and it was upheld using emergency powers, but it only survived the legal challenges back when Nixon was president because they were targeted at a narrow problem and had a clear expiration date, which is not the case in this case. It's noted, regardless of what the Suppello Court does, it's probably going to land up in

the Supreme Court's lap for ultimate decision. But here we are with a bunch of seemingly skeptical judges, the majority of which we're asking questions, which did not look good for the Trump's argument. Now, Trump's justification for the emergency tariffs are long standing and massive trade deficit with foreign trading partners. He said, they've become that's become so bad that they are a threat to military readiness in Americans

manufacturing capacity. But then you pivot over Brazil. He imposed the fifty percent tariff from Brazil because well, free speech concerns and the country's trial of former president Jarbalo Znaro, that was a justification for the emergency relative to Brazil and the imposition of the fifty percent tax there. Now.

In the argument against the tariffs, both states and private companies claim that the deficit is neither an unusual or extraordinary threat or an emergency because the United States has had one for decades, and that's the point that Apolla

Tanum pointed out earlier this week. Both of those conditions emergency, unusual, extraordinary are required under the IEEPA Justice Department for its point disagreeing, arguing in favor of Trump, saying that the trade deficit has exploded over recent years, jumping from five hundred and fifty nine billion in just twenty nineteen to

nine hundred and three billion last year. Now, some judges in the oral arguments suggest that there might they might be agreeing with Trump's description of America's trade deficit as an emergency, and they said his executive order authorizing tariffs describe legitimate concerns about the effects of the deficit. So there's your slight glimmer of hope. A couple of judges at least raising the possibility they buy into the idea

that this is an emergency. Most of them, those expressing skepticism, which is exactly what the lower court found, know this is not an emergency. You can't use the IEEPA for the tariffs. Which next question, and I asked this in

Apolitano because this is where the train wreck happens. Now, I perceive what Trump has done so far, in spite of the obvious concerns over its inflationary effect, He's gotten a lot of different countries to work with him, lowering their tariffs on our goods and services and agreeing to us applying it let's say fifteen percent as the case, maybe whatever he independently negotiates with any given country. But they accepted that they reached an agreement. More of those

in the pipeline right now. That's called like sign deal, sign sealed, delivered. They agree, we agree. Things are better. Yay, let's all celebrate. Look, bill and billions of dollars in promised investment in the United States. It's all good. It's all great. So's if that's the reality. Everything's good and great.

If the court throws this out or rejects his claim under the IEEPA that is emergency, and then he does not have these powers, all of these agreements disappear, and we're back to where we were before he started this. Unless and does anybody believe someone proposes a piece of legislation memorializing Trump's already agreed upon a tariff agreements into law, rubber stamping and approving them and allowing them to stay in place. That would be the I think the best

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into this in more detail. But they cite several stories of people who seem to be, you know, perfectly healthy people. They had jobs, they had families, et cetera. They started using these tools and then sort of went off the rails after having these interactions. In some cases they thought they had you know, discovered new religions and things like this. These things are sentient. They're giving them all kinds of

weird advice. And I guess the main thing I wanted to start out with is, you know, these things are designed to tell you what you want to hear. They will, even though they'll tell you things that are completely and blatantly made up, they'll argue that they're true. You know, some would say they might be kind of sycophanic, and whether that's because they just want to please you or they want to keep you coming back and using them.

You know, I don't know hard to say, and I'm not a psychologist or a psychiatrist, but when you read this article and some of the mental breaks some folks have had using these things, it's it's pretty disturbing.

into thinking. And I'd be the last person in the world to believe or be influenced to that degree by something online like that. It's just I don't know. Is this a reflection of people's inability to just grasp that concept and be cynical, skeptical and in a state of general disbelief, which would force you into analyzing the information you're getting and make a more informed choice on whether

or not it is indeed believable. We're all, I mean, we've all been dumbed down to the point where this can influence the point of psychosis.

use these tools. I'm not suggesting people that I'm not suggesting that they're not useful and that you should not use them, but you need to understand the limitation and just let me read one line from this hero quick speaking to futurism, a different man recounted his whirlwind ten day descent into AI fueled delusion, which ended with a full breakdown and multi day standard mental health care facility. He turned a chatch ept for help at work. He started a new high stress job and was hoping the

chatbock could expedite some administrative tests. By the way, perfectly reasonable use of how you might use one of these tools. Despite being his early for forties, with no prior history of mental illness, He soon found himself absorbed in a dizzy, paranoid delusions of grandeur, believing that the world was under threat and it was up to him to save it. So, you know, again, these things allow you what you want to hear. If you start asking weird questions, you might

get weird answers. And I guess if your mental health is not great to begin with, you might eventually you have a problem like this.

using these kinds of tools designed for therapy. There is no way I would use one of those tools, especially in light of what we're continuing to see here in the fact that you know they're not under the same sort of patient confidentiality constraints that a regular doctor would be. So it strongly encourage people to think long and hard about what you're entering into these things, especially if it involves your mental health in any way.

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You know, in the near future, we're going to live in this beautiful utopia thanks to AI, or we're all going to be wiped out by you know, terminators from sky net because AI decides that we're not needed. And again,

lots of hype, lots of hyperbole. Lots of people on both sides of this, but there are more and more stories, whether it's the one we started out with about you know, people having mental breakdowns because of the use of AI or AI, augentics, AI augentics or augentic AI is this idea that you're going to have automation through AI that can just do things right in the real world, and in some cases that agency is all digital. In other cases, coupled with robots, you would have physical agency in the

real world to do things. And yet when you when you see some of the results when people try this, and this isn't somebody like me in their basement fooling around. Nanthropic is one of the main vendors of generative AI type models. They're famous for Claude. They tried a little test in their office where they set up like a little refrigerator and put a tablet on the top as a way to basically create a small e commerce store, so like, hey, I'm going to purchase this thing out

of this refrigerator. Hey, my inventory is getting low. Reorder this stuff, and tried to have the AI essentially run this little refrigerator slash vending machine in their office to

sort of see could it handle it? Okay, So here's what this article says, and again i'll post this link later says things that did well requests and it's products requested by shoppers and even adapted that's buying selling habits to more obscure requests, and also correctly ignored demands for sensitive items and harmful substances, although Anthropic doesn't expand on what that is. The things that did not go so well, which is much longer, it said that it hallucinated important details.

Again one of the main problems with these things. They just make things up, hallucinated important details, instructing shoppers wanted to pay by Venmo to pay into a non existent account that it just made up. AI can also be consoled into giving discount codes for numerous items and even gave some away for free. Worse still, when responding to a search for demand for quote metal cubes unquote, the AI carried out no search suitable prices and thus sold

them as significant loss. It also ignored potential big sales where some people offered to pay way over the odds for a specific thing, and then they show that the thing actually made no money and then in their report from Anthropic, they said, quote, if we were deciding today to expand into the office vending market, we would not hire Claudius, which is the name they gave this specific version of Claude.

hallucinations in there like that. So again the idea that we're all going to lose our jobs and your entire business is going to be run by these agents. I'm not saying that's never going to happen. I'm saying that's not going to happen in the immediate future. Because when you see these kind of tests, and again, this is

not somebody in their mom's basement. This is one of the main companies building these sorts of things, and even simple tasks like this, it goes off the rails, basically put the store out of business and just clearly made up crazy things.

deals when you shopping. There is no way, Brian, absolutely no way anytime in the foreseeable future, I would give a tool like this, especially in light of what we just talked about here, access to my bank account or anything financially related and let it act on my behalf. I mean, you see that even in a simple scenario like this, it did poorly.

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That is the EPA's endangerment findings. This is all about CO two. We've been busting our humps left and right green energy policies, inflacer reduction, acting carbon capture. We need to spend trillions and trillions of dollars to prevent carbon dioxide also known as plant food plant food from getting out into the environment. We need to stop exhaling Brigham because we're putting a pollutant in. But no, it's not

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dioxide does not endanger public health or welfare. It shouldn't have been included in the list of greenhouse gasses from the get go.

because the temperature is going to get warm. And they want to go after business and industry, and they want to make a connection between carbon dioxide and which is literally involved in every activity we do to shut down consumption. They view us all as you know, like like cockroaches consuming all the world's resources, and we need to put

a stop to that. Capitalism feeds that. Capitalism is based on the building and an expansion of capital, which necessarily includes the building and expansion and use of natural resources in order to acquire capital. Capitalism bad. How do we go after capitalism and create this Marxist utopia they're all looking for, Well, let's just kick the legs out of

business and industry generally speaking, period. And the only way we can get there because we have been successful at getting rid of components in particulate that may endanger public health or welfare. Some of the plutants I mentioned before, we've taken care of the vast majority of those. We need something that's impossible to take care of carbon dioxide.

down and I mean, it's just the hypocrisy is insane. Yeah, Brigham, But ultimately, if we have more CO two, we get encouraged plant growth, which is again good for the rest of the world. And there go again more oxygen.

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Question is whether they'll stay in place because there were oral arguments in a federal Pellet court yesterday, the going in connection with the lower courts ruling that No, Trump does not have the legal authority to impose these tariffs. It's exclusively within the purview of the legislative branch power of the perse kind of stuff, and that his declaration of an emergency is insufficient under the circumstances. No, a trade imbalance is not worthy of allowing him to have

all this leeway. So maybe all of this will be eradicated. We're gonna have to wait and see on that. You know, how the wheels of justice are, they spend slowly. But in the meantime, the negotiated agreements do include things related to well large scale US energy exports like liquid natural gas. I mean, what, there's a seven hundred and fifty billion dollar trade pledge in the US EU trade deal, Brigham. That's significant, there is. That's a lot of money.

because they have surpluses. They have money to invest in all their pet projects, including the exostential crisis of climate change.

states like we have here. You know, we got that whole tenth Amendment, you know, with the powers not specifically reserve in the federal gun belong to the states, which allows us more flexibility and freedom. We can do what we want in our individual states. If it's not a power reserve of the federal government over there, Brussels is basically taken over. They're basically taking over.

protected because it's important to them. Okay, got it. But what this does is it resets the playing field. It rebalances trade, gets American companies more access to European markets. Now here's where we're going to have to take away and see approaches. It requires Europe to buy more American stuff. But will they good question?

economy is contracted significantly. Right, the industrialization of Europe occurred after twenty twenty two, and the price of energy went through the roof, and it went through the roof, and it stayed through the roof because they said, no, we're not going to buy long term contracts. We're gonna buy stuff on the spot market because we're not gonna need it very long. Well, that's the highest price that you can pay for energy, exactly. And now they're like, well,

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Hudson Instituo. Let's move over to India and their dependence on Russian oil, how does that impact this whole tariff and negotiations and things that are going on because Trump is doing everything he can to try to call out Putin for his refuse to end this war with Ukraine and threatening additional sanctions. So far, Putin's like got his metaphorical middle finger rays going yeah, go ahead, try good luck.

trying to get a trade deal. They were putting on their full dog and pony show to try to avoid the Trump sanction, which did not go well, talking about how well, yeah, they used to sort of be aligned with Russia, but they would say things like, well, our line with Russia has the curve has turned downward, while our curve with America is increasing. And the bottom line is they say, hey, we just go out and buy oil.

We just buy cheap oil. And you know, Russian oil is pretty cheap, yeah, because it's sanctioned, right, But the deal is this, they buy more than they need. They went in twenty twenty two from really not even purchasing Russian oil to now they purchase forty percent of Russian oil exports, twice as much as they need. So they refine it and sell it back on the market as diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. They're whitewashing Russian oil.

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and thereby producing electricity, heat and water. That's the idea. The problem with it is it takes more energy to make hydrogen than it does from just using whatever the initial fuel sources to begin with.

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We were talking a little bit about nuclear at the tail end of that hydrogen creation conversation. You had a few comments you wanted to interject.

eighty percent nuclear power now. And you know when Spain in the middle of the day the clouds game and the wind stopped and they lost their grid, it was actually exporting nuclear power from France and allowed Spain to restart their power grid.

lower level than before. Remember that conversation about Iran needing sixty plus per Yeah, that's I'm raising the flag on that one. But and SMRs are even better because these small modular reactors are built in factories. We can we you know, you approve the license. The problem in America is every reactor is different and it goes through a different licensing.

I mean going back thousands of years. Duh.

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As my listeners are well aware, we just did the budget in the state of Ohio contained three provisions which I have been referring to as sort of baby steps toward property tax reform to help less than the burden of the property tax that we're all facing for whatever reason, and I don't necessarily know why. Maybe Bill can address the question. Governor to Wine vetoed all three of them,

which brought the legislative branch back. They overrode one of the three, but tabled the other because it looked like they didn't have the votes to override the veto. They may revote on that at some point, but in the meantime, Governor de Wine formed the Property Tax Reform Working Group, which Bill Sites is a member of. Bill, you congratulations on the apployment. I guess. Let me start out by wondering a question that a lot of folks have been asking,

is it really necessary? My understanding is they've been working on property tax reform measures and ideas and formulating lists of them for well over a year now, and that's where those three that were incorporated in the budget came from. So do you know why to Wine vetoed them and why we need to continue discussing this. Hasn't this work been done already? Bill Sites Okay.

contain the kernels of good ideas. But they said in their report I'm quoting some proposals may contradict others end quote, and they made no effort to prioritize among the twenty one recommendations which ones should be pursued. So we view our job first as expanding upon those twenty one recommendations, putting meat on the bones, and trying to deliver as much property tax relief as we can without breaking the bank of the state and putting too much state money

behind it. Why did the wind detailed three? Well, number one you probably have to ask him, but to my understanding, the reason was that he thought the measures were flawed in their language and that they created too much uncertainty and fiscal stress on units of local government. I'll give you, and you know, I'll give you an example. They voted to eliminate are They voted to prevent emergency levees and

substitute levees from being excluded from the twenty mil floor. Okay, that's fine, but they want to apply that principle to existing levees, and I think we have a problem with us because it's tantamount to changing the rules in the middle of the game. If the levee is a five year levee and it still has three years to run, it should be allowed to run out and expire before we go ahead and change the calculation of the twenty

mil floor. Another example, they voted to totally eliminate emergency levees, replacement levees, and substitute levees. I'm for eliminating replacement levees, I'm for eliminating substitute levees, but I'm really not for eliminating emergency levees. Because the Property Taxpayer Coalition said, and I quote that should be limited, that we should limit the definition, okay, to a true emergency and then limited to a certain period of time. I agree with that.

There could be true emergencies. For example, what if the Kerk County floods happened in Ohio for example, what about some natural disaster, for example, what if the levee did not pass, the district would be thrown into fiscal emergency and subject to state takeover. So I think we can do what they wanted, but make a slight.

on the ballot. Does this work that you are working on, and do you anticipate the work getting completed and giving us some property tax relief through any whatever measures are presented in advance of that, Because that's looming large, and it's possible that the voters in Ohio, if nothing's done, might very well vote for that, and then you talk about chaos. I'm not quite even sure how that would be, how it would work in the aftermath.

would be plenty of time to do it. The repeal of the property tax initiative would not be on the ballot until November twenty twenty six at the earliest, and you're right, it would cause absolute chaos because the property taxes in Ohio. I'm out up to twenty three b with a billion dollars, all of which goes to local services.

None of that money goes to the state. It is for local police and fire and parks, and senior citizens services, and mental health services and developmental disability services and schools. So eliminating twenty three billion dollars would obviously do great damage to all of those local services on which people depend. And it would create another problem, what do you replace that revenue? Gest you would need it. If we've done great work, Brian and cutting the income tax I was

there in twenty four years. We took the income tax bracket in Ohio that used to be nine brackets and a match tax rate of over eight percent. During my tenure, we took it down to two brackets, three point five percent and two point seven five percent. And so we made tremendous strides there, and the legislature just took another great stride forward and cutting it to a flat tax

of two point seven five percent. I don't see the legislature being at all interested in raising income taxes again when we are so cloked to having achieved that goal.

Increasing the sales tax a little bit, so literally everyone who buys anything in the state of Ohio is participating in paying for government services. The problem that presents for me is that's a giant pile of money that ends up in Columbus that will be responsible for choosing and picking how much money goes to any given entity.

in Ohio. In general, I agree with you consumption taxes are preferable to income and property taxes. But frankly, I always thought the income tax was the principle evil to be avoided because we've had property taxes in Ohio since the eighteen thirties. The income tax didn't arise until Governor Goes Illigan brought it to us in the early seventies.

And you know, we've viewed that as the principal target. Now, there's a lot we can do, a lot we can recommend, For example, why don't we let folks who are senior citizens and disabled homeowners, why don't we give them some tax relief, either in the form of an enhanced homestead exemption or in the form of some sort of a deal where you pay up to x percent of their income and anything on top of that the state will pick up, perhaps with the obligation on the part of

the homeowner that when they die or move out of the house, they have to pay it back. So that would be kind of a no cost option to the state while providing relief to the homeowner during the homeowner's occupancy of that house. There's an idea for you. How about letting people instead of paying their taxes in big chunks twice a year January and June, saying we're going to give you a monthly payment plan. Yes, there might have to be some interest factor applied to that, because

you're not getting all the money up front. But I think one of the reasons people hate property taxes is you get this job smackingly large bill twice a year. If it was spread out into more manageable payments, you would probably have fewer delinquencies and less outrage over property taxes. So there's a whole lot of great ideas like that.

And our group contains school superintendents, county commissioners, county auditors, county treasurers, mayors, business people like Congressman te Berry, and me as a former legislator and tax payer and property owner for twenty four years in the state legislature. So we're going to do our best to build on what the legislature has done, to suggest refinement of some of what they have done, and to agree with them that more needs to be done. We totally agree with that.

There's a great bill that's pending up there called House Bill one eighty six. I heard one of the leaders in the House say that bill has to pass. I completely agree that bill has to pass. So there's not as much division between the legislature and at least me as might be perceived, I agree with much of what they want to do.

Just a few break lights left between Dixie and Kyle's and south two seventy five continues slow onto the Carroll Crawford Chuck Ingram on fifty five KRC the talk station.

a better way of looking at it. Everyone benefits from all these things that are funded by property tax ergo, everyone should be paying for them. But his point was, and I haven't, but I haven't done the math on it. That's why out Loud said the sales tax, because that obviously would impose the burden on everybody who buys something.

He says, you'd have to raise the twenty percent. I haven't ever heard a number prior to my conversation with Bill Sites that will be required to make up for the loss of the so called twenty three billion dollars in tax revenue gotten from the property tax. I don't know if that figures actually, Dave, I agree with you.

to pay property taxes. There in lies a challenge, you feel like, and it really is a factual reality that you don't really own your property because you're always subject to this financial obligation. But again, moving away from that, I agree with that conceptually, but I do get the benefits of the Simms Township patrols. I do get the benefit of the fire department. I do get the benefit of the schools. My kids went to the Loveland School

District with my taxes funded in part. And you know they're successful adults at this point, or at least semi successful, depending upon your But you know, somebody's got to pay for that stuff. But the fact the challenge though, and I go back to the point I made with Bill Sitz. The challenge is, let's say you legitimately could substitute with a reasonable increase in something like a sales tax. Let's

say a percent would actually cover the nut. And you know the problem is all that money ends up in Columbus. Columbus collects all that sales tax revenue, and then they're going to be the ones subject to the feeding frenzy in the lobbyists and every municipality in the entire state going to Columbus and trying to argue for why their district, their schools, their fire department, or whatever is worthy of

more money or not, as the case may be. You know, we would have put a levy on, but you took that ability away for most You got rid of the property tax, and now we got a sales tax. We need twenty million dollars or our schools are going to shut down in line with a whole bunch of other school districts, fire departments or police departments, whatever, standing a line around a corner in Columbus, waiting to make the same damn argument over a finite supply of money collected

from the proper of the sales tax. Complicated. Yeah, you think it's complicated. Now, if you went down that road, look how complicated it would be. And look how much power that would put in the hands of our elected officials and Columbus to be the ones making the determination

on who gets how much. That's a frightening increase in their power, plus at a massive increase in the amount of work that they will be responsible for doing, and the headaches that would be created among our elected officials. They're not going down that road. I guarantee you appreciate the call, man, I mean, this is this worthwhile exchange of ideas. We're working on it right now. Obviously, eight twenty six, fifty five KC the talk station. Feel free

to call. Do you have other local stories? Either way we go, It's okay with me.

that's a worthy exercise. I would say, definitely, Bill Florida.

that process. Man on the same topic, go ahead.

Same thing with Hamilton County. If our commissioners decided we're going to get the revenue in Hamilton County, we're going to raise a sales tax from seven and a half or whatever to nine, then folks in Hamilton County to drive to Claremont County, Warren County, or Butler County. So it's it's your buying habits. You got that right. They also change the where they want to live habits in that regard to people might choose to move out of Hamilton County and drive.

all correlated. And you know, I bought a burner this week because I want to make sure when I go downtown, me and my loved ones are protected.

the only reason you know. That's why I'm a regular concealed carry holder, because you know it's deadly in all circumstances as long as you know how to properly use it. Appreciate your comments. So, Chuck and I got a couple of more developments to talk about along those lines. Pause. We'll come back in here in a moment. It's eight thirty five right now at fifty five KRC Detalk station.

right Heart media app to do it. My wife and stream right there from her cell phone while she works in the morning. Anyway, Tech Friday with Dave had her on earlier. Got some great subjects with Dave as always bring him account full hour of conversation about energy policy and studio. My conversation there on the podcast page with

Bill sites on property taxes fifty five KRC dot com. Now, I started out the program talking about this follow up from Victoria Parks councilwoman Parks who said on a social media post that the the at least the two that we know of that got the beat down. She said they deserved a beatdown. Notice the word they they deserved a beat down. Now you've probably seen the viral video

that's gone global. We don't at this point a moment in time, know exactly who or what started the altercation between the two guys that were obviously having a dispute with each other that led to this violent melee, including a whole bunch of people that had no connection apparently with that argument. Her response to the controversy that she stirred up by making that just really awful post, they deserved a beat down. She turned to freedom of speech

in this country. She said, we have freedom of speech. However, you may not run into a crowded theater and scream fire, and that suggested that that's the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes back in nineteen nineteen pointed that out in connection with the First Amendment, that yelling fire in a crowded theater isn't protected. Why because you might start a may a rush for the doors, people might get trampled.

You're creating chaos through a statement like that, and there may not be enough time for people to interject additional speech into the conversation to point out that no, in fact,

there isn't a fire. But now see this is her failure to understand and concepts of simple rather concepts of law using the fire in a crowded room analogy, and I do believe she thinks that maybe the N word was used her comment he was in a crowded he referring to the guy that got the beat down, most notably focusing on the guy, the guy that was involved the initial altercation, the guy who got knocked down in the middle of the street and started getting kicked in

the head, and in the chest and the stomach, and getting punched, continuing and repeatedly, in spite of the fact that he couldn't defend himself. He was in a crowded theater and he screamed fire. She said, there are unintended consequences, but that's what happens. So she's defending the beat down because of maybe the utterance of a word that is controversial, the yelling fire in a crowded theater. That does not excuse you from committing criminal acts against the person who

uttered the word fire. As I pointed out this morning, if you're in a crowded room and someone yells fire and people get up, that does not give you the right to start punching the person next to you in the face or shooting them, or committing violent acts against them. It has nothing to do with the word that was uttered. There is no justification. Your life is not under a threat. You're not entitled to use violence and maybe even deadly force in response to the utterance of any word or syllable.

Now pivoting over to another very charged and well strong reaction to this idiot, I will call him in Ross Township. One of the trustees now has refused to resign because he used a racial slur on social media. While discussing the violence downtown. David Young shared a video what police are calling a violent attack downtown Sunday. That's the one we've been speaking about. Quote. I can only read part of it. Ten on one is n word fun close quote.

You cannot defend that statement. That stateman since been removed from his social media account. He's refusing to step down in his position as trustee in spite of the fact that everybody's outraged by it, and I think expressing outrage against that is fine. Does his utterance of that word, essentially yelling fire in a crowded room on social media, allow us, maybe his fellow trustees to start wailing on him and physically assaulting him, battering him. No, it doesn't.

Can we condemn him with words, Absolutely, That's what's being done a lot on social media. That's why they're calling for his resignation. But it doesn't prohibit criminal or doesn't allow for criminal activity in response to it. Clearly where Victoria Park's argument and suggestion just flies right off the rails. In other words, it doesn't make any sense to try to draw a parallel between the two. No, Victoria Parks, your comment is inexcusable. No, those folks did not deserve

the beatdown. And I would argue even if that guy was full enough in a crowd of black people to use that word. And I'm not suggesting he did, I don't know, but if he was fool enough to use that word in that crowd, you know, you think a forward thinking person might think, you know, I might get subject to a beatdown. You might would that beatdown be lawful? No, eight forty five fifty five KRC, the talk station. We

got a little bit more time. If you'd like to chime in, feel free to give me a call me.

the chaos for a while. You deserve it. Let's go to the phone see what Brian's got to say this morning. Brian, thanks for calling. Happy Friday to you.

didn't want their lives in jeopardy. They want to have their names broadcast all over the place, and I certainly in this day and age, can understand why they might not want to have that happen. So, yeah, I'm a where there's other videos and that maybe other people are victims.

or saying anything she deserved a beatdown. Huh contemplate that one one, Jay, Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Friday to you, Hey.

coming from from those city departments. It seems to me that the city, the people of Cincinnati, the citizens have an overwhelming majority on City council, Mayor's office, all of it, they own all of it. I guess in a free country, people have the right to choose, and I'm going to put it at the feed of the people of Cincinnati.

refreshing alternative to the current makeup. Yeah, there's an option. And of course there's always Corey Bowman. You can give him a shot. And why not. Anyhow, problems Absolutely, people are going to pack their bags and move. We saw that happen a lot after CO or during COVID with New York and California. And yeah, if you have the means and wherewithal and ability to make a choice, you

move out of a dangerous location. You go someplace. Well like that local businessman preferred in the Enquirer who has moved or is moving his downtown business to Blue Ash the last straw? What happened on Saturday morning? Anyhow? Tech Frida a Day have had a podcast at fifty five car Sea dot com. Brig him Aawen in studio on

energy policy. Brilliant Guy he Is. Check out his regular podcast, Charged Conversation, produced by the brilliant executive producer of the fifty five Krsey Morning Show, Joe Strecker Bill Sites on property taxes. Check out those podcasts fifty five car Sea dot com. Tune in Monday for Christopher Smitheman, who's going to be doing that event with the Vake Ramaswami at Jim and Jackson the River. Five point thirty for that one. Get there early, says Westside Jim Keever, that's five thirty

on Monday. We'll hear from him at seven to twenty Monday on the Morning Show, and then of course Brian James with money Monday. Thank you again Joe Strecker for producing the program. Love what you do, brother, and I hope you all have a great weekend. Stick around Glenn becks Cup.