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There is gotta be Friday. Joe confirmed it with the Blue hoop. Uh and I a happy one to get brand TI. I'm right here looking forward to tech Friday with Dave Hatter. Every Friday at six point thirty we get to hear from Dave and get freaked out over the reality is going on in the computer world. Today we'll talk about a watchdog watchdog group that broke into the US federal agency and nobody noticed. Uh huh, it is unhealthy to always be on your phone. Topic number

Why not?

Emerson College poll just released. Well, she got a little bit of a bump anyway. In the swing states, Trump still leads Harris in Arizona forty nine forty four. That's actually the widest margin of lead right now. Georgia forty eight forty six. Trump's ahead of Michigan forty six forty five, within the margin of era. I might point out, he's head in Pennsylvania forty eight forty six, and they are tied in Wisconsin.

All five swing swing.

States have a decided a sizeable rather number of undecided voters, not double digits though, Arizona seven percent.

That's the largest.

Well, Pennsylvania, Arizona seven percent, Michigan nine percent undecided, Georgia's seven in Wisconsin five percent undecided. And I honestly maybe it's because I pay attention to politics so so much. How could you be undecided? Your choices have been made for you, Democrats, most notably you. You didn't get a say in the matter. It's Kamala Harris sucks to be you. Maybe not, at least on the Republican side, right or wrong. The Republicans decided in their primaries who they wanted to

So really, for young people. It's about age.

I would argue, maybe they're not paying attention to politics. Sadly though, in the Senate races, this Emerson College poll reflects that Democrats are ahead in some pretty key elections. Arizona the Democrat leads the Republican forty six forty two, Michigan forty five forty one, Pennsylvania forty eight to forty four, and in Wisconsin you got Tammy Baldwin leading Republican Eric Hoved forty nine forty three. So some positive built in

It's maybe the fundamental problem in America.

Only eighty four percent of registered Democrats said Harris was qualified.

Did I read that correctly?

Nine percent said she was not qualified, seven percent of Democrats not sure she's qualified. Among all respondents across the board, Democrats, Republicans, Independence, everybody forty seven percent to forty seven percent on the qualification question, which is kind of funny half and half. So you'd think that someone who's been chosen by the Democrats to be the nominee would be pulling a little bit higher on just the simple.

Question of qualification.

And finally, this one is a throwaway, I believe you gov Times of London poll conducted July twenty second to twenty third after Biden's announcement that he was leaving and

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It was rather nauseating, Joe. I'm really it isn't.

Kind of like my initial gut reaction was just sort of bile in the back of my throat. At least we pronounce their name right now. I wrote Genie out of the bottle on this one. I think stick a fork in it. We're done rather interesting, and I gotta give Reuter's props for doing this. This is it's absolutely

Now.

They were quick to point out multiple times in the article, I think because their lawyers told them to that they did not make the fentanyl.

But they did interview people who made it, and.

They saw an online article on how to bake it, and they say, you only need a basic grasp of chemistry to turn these precursor materials, which you can get via mail order in dark web, and you don't even need dark web in many cases. They had interviewed one twelve year old dropout who is a cook of fentanyl.

He called it.

He said, quote it's mega easy making that drug. Close quote twelve year old dropout can make fentanyl. Guess what, so can you. The United States is the biggest consumer, Mexico is the biggest manufacturer. China well is the manufacturer

I know, right?

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One hour for now. One of the reasons Tech Friday with Dave Hatter and Tomorrow's a big day. Before I get to Tom on the phone, Tom hang on one second if I won three seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred two three talk Payton's Lemonade Stand. Tomorrow's a big day. I had Joe add the link back up to my blog page for this morning's page, even though we're not talking about it necessarily this morning except a reminder tomorrow the seventh annual Peyton Lemonade Stand. It is

Hey, good morning.

How you been.

I've been fine, man, fine, fine.

Other than all the problems in the way to the world on my shoulders, which I feel like I gotta carry, I had to.

I had to call in this morning with all the recent events. Uh, other other than the attempt at assassination, not really much as things and that's a big deal, by the way, I'm not brushing aside. But other than that, it's not really been anything too drastically crazy that out of the Ornian. I am a slightly surprised they're going with Kamala because of how terrible of the candidating.

If they're really that's the best you guys can do.

But if they didn't go with Kamala, the backlash would likely be more than they can deal with passing over you know, a black email because they're all about identity, politician and a lot of stuff. So but you know you guys, you know Joe and and regular listeners. Though I don't go around saying, don't vote Biden, don't vote Harris, don't vote shared brown old vote to shared old vote.

Have have.

I I make a blanket statement because it really doesn't matter who is on the ballot next to the letter D. They're all the same. It's gonna be bad for the country, bad for your city or save or county. They're gonna and they're gonna try to push policies that are gonna take more of your money, take more of your freedoms. It really if irrelevant to who they put in there as the presidential candidate. It really doesn't matter.

They could they could.

Take the most finely polished person and best speaking whatever. It doesn't the politician, but it doesn't matter, or somebody that even looks like they're down home whatever, it doesn't matter. If they got to be next to their names, it's trouble, it's problems and the and there's a lot of evidence around we all we've all seen it. We look at our paychecks, we look at the grocery stores. But one of the biggest things that we could see around is

That's a great weekend, great hearing from you, Tom. It's been too long.

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Lower courts had also dismissed Berkheimer's suit. This one, of course, firms that dismissal.

Justice Joseph Dieters, writing for the majority, quote, A diner reading quote boneless wings close quote on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating chicken fingers would know that he had not been served fingers.

Hmm.

According to descent quote.

The question must be asked, does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings, or chicken tenders, or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken. Of course they don't. When they read the word boneless, they think that means without bones, as do all sensible people. Close quote Justice Michael Donnelly. For whatever reason, I seem to think, I feel the more the way Judge Donnelly does. Then,

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Station sour watchdog group group broke into US federal agency.

Apparently nobody noticed that.

One also talking about why it's unhealthy to be on your phone all the time. Finally, artificial intelligence boyfriends gaining in popularity. That one's got me puzzled. Well, that's why we have Tech Friday's Dave Hatter anyhow, And one hour Jim Neil, we need to vote for him for sheriff. Great guy, a solid guy, knows the job and of course tough on law. He's a big supporter of law enforcement. Not woke Jim Neil. So Jim Neil returns to the program at seven oh five talk about how the campaign

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The fivecare sea dot com are also encouraging you to get a copy of your iHeartMedia app Second Amendment guy. I am and also an anti administrative straight state guy. And you talk about threats of democracy that comes from the administrative state. Now, Thankfully, in spite of the fact that Democrats believe the Supreme Court is a problem, the Supreme Court has made a lot of or has issued a lot of opinions honing back the expansive nature of

Now, can the Bureau of.

ALCOHL to back on firearms regulate firearms to a certain degree. Sure they have for a long time, but in order to do that, they have to have specific guidance from Congress. Right, Okay, Well, just the other day US District Judge Read O'Connor in Fort Worth, Texas issed an opinion saying that the ATF exceeded its authority by classifying forced reset triggers as machine guns. All right, machine guns under federal law. You're not allowed to own them without an FFL license, is tax stamp

Well, what's the difference.

You pull the trigger back on a fully automatic weapon, it fires and continues to fire until you release the trigger. A semi automatic requires you pulling the trigger one time for each round that is fired. These force reset triggers reset the internal mechanism which allows you to hold back the trigger. And yet it does push the trigger back out, resetting it. But it acts like a fully automatic weapon. Some of my listeners probably even own one of those things.

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Each time an agency circumvents the legislative process, it chips away from It tips away at the most prudent reason for the separation of powers, ensuring unelected and unaccountable individuals do not make the law. Amen judge, he headed the country's foundational documents, granted lawmaking authority two duly elected officials in order to safeguard against future tyranny.

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While this case may seem focused on firearms, it represents so much more. It is emblematic of a devastating problem that increasingly rears its head in federal courts, rampant evasion of the democratic process.

I love this opinion.

Texas Gun Rights brought the case National Association for Gun Rights. Initial complaint challenged the ATF's classification of forced reset triggers as machine guns, on the premise that the ban was arbitrary and capricious and violated constitutional rights. Amen ATF argued in its brief that outlawing the devices was needed to protect public safety. Well, then you let Congress outlaw the devices.

That's the point. Turn to Congress, make it, do it, do their job. Oh but we can't do that. We'd have to wait. Congress is divided. They'll never pass this law.

Yeah.

Well, welcome to democracy, Welcome to representative democracy in the republic that we find ourselves in. Just because they're just just because they're dysfunctional, they're divided, they don't do their job, and you know, in some way, shape orform that represents the will of the American people, we don't agree. Ergo, maybe they shouldn't be passing laws. Maybe they should be in gridlock, because there is no unified agreement in this country.

He acknowledged that it's tragic. And here's the point.

Quote but no matter how terrible the circumstances, there is never a situation justifying a court altering statutory text that was democratically enacted by those who are politically accountable. That responsibility belongs exclusively to Congress. Close quote. This is the bad facts make bad law argument. Yes, terrible facts. We need to do something.

We need to ban.

Look what happened when we have these things out of the public. Oh my god.

Yeah, that's a job for Congress, not the regulatory state or the administrative State's see what Steve's got this morning. Hey Steve, thanks for calling today, and a happy Friday to you, sir.

Happy Friday. You don't you don't enjoy Fridays, So you like Monday morning and morning at.

Yeah, I see you're happy.

You know me well, and you know, I gotta apologize. They've been kind of out of states this week. I feel like the world's falling apart around me with everything going on, and you know, and it's easy to feel that way, but I'm telling you I am.

I'll be honest with you. It really really does wear.

On me emotionally, cognitively, and I think it comes across sometimes in my attitude on the radio and my apologies to anybody that I may offend or you know, sometimes I'm out of sorts. I'm just a regular guy like everybody else.

Well, thanks for taking the bullets for us. We appreciate it.

We just.

So a couple of comments about our brilliant vice president. When Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress, it's similar to a State of the Union. You will have the head of the House, the Speaker of the House, and the president of the Senate, the Vice President of the United States perched up there above the president of the State of the Union. And they are to do that when it's a joint session of Congress with the foreign dignitary speaking. But it's amazing how the media can

You to know that.

So that that's part of the media is not they're not delivering the news they are. If Trump had gone to a fraternity meeting instead of meeting, that that would have been they would have said that, so that.

Every single reporting, al uh would have had that been the headline, Trump attends fraternity reunion rather than seeing you the head of a of one of our greatest allies in the Middle East, absolutely be plastered everywhere. But you're right, And I laughed every time I read that, sort of in a sad and pathetic laughter. But you know, when you read it, she had prior commitments for an event in Indianapolis or something. It's like, never said it was

Yeah, to dig for it a little bit, and here's here's the good one. And I can't take credit for this. I wish I could, but I heard this on Clay and Buck the other day and it was a caller that called in talking about the pronunciation of the vice president's first name.

Yeah, Kamala Kamala learned from Mississippi James myself.

No, no, no, here's here's what. Here's what I want you to think. Every time you're you're you mentioned her first name. Now, uh, they said the same way with Victoria. You could say Vicky, you could say Tory, you can kind of shorten it, so for her instead of Kamala Kamala, it's just commy, So that that's that's all you do about saying her first name Tommy. And she was the most liberal senator in the United States Senate and the entity that compiled those numb those figures, she was more

Yeah, that's the most recent one.

Yeah.

I brought up both of those earlier in the week that the organization that tracked how liberal or conservative senators are did pull that. They said they recalculated their scoring, so they went to two years scoring, but that was about three or four years ago. They left the twenty nineteen single year scoring up showing her the most liberal senator up for four or five five years, and only this week took that scoring down, even though they allegedly

So we got to hide that.

It's I called it Orwell's Ministry of Truth yesterday of the day before. It's exactly what we're seeing. It is history, exactly, brother, exactly. Steve, you have a great weekend. Thanks for calling today six eighteen fifty five K Steve Talk Station. Your calls are welcome as well. And I want to save you money and I want you to be happy with services. That's probally my being high quality services and goods lower money. Isn't that what it's all about? Saving money and being happy.

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But notice a whole lot of people on Facebook dropping their Netflix account. And I saw the basis for that as the co founder of Netflix gave seven million dollars to a pro Harris political action committee and came out all glowy congrats to the Kamala Harris Now it's time to win. Seven million dollars described as the longest, the largest political donation this guy ever made to anybody that will be Netflix co founder read Hastings. And so I

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So anyhow, he's three profit all right, sorry, that's all right. Yeah, this is an interesting story. So SISSA is a cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency and there was a recent report out, you know, one of they amongst many things they do, they work with other federal agencies to try to secure them,

And this is why this is scary. Not so much that they were able to get in.

That's bad enough because you can you know, bet our adversaries around the world are doing this sort of thing for real. But they were able to explore you vulnerability without getting too deep in the weeds and too nerdy. There's something called the Common Vulnerability Database. It's also run by the government, and as software flaws are found, they will.

Be logged and categorized. You know, Okay, how severe is it?

That sort of thing, because I mean, let's be real, Brian, just because software has a flow on it, it might not be a significant vulnerability.

It might not be worth your time.

To patch, you know, so you've got to understand how risky is it and what does that mean for your organization. But they rated this particular bug nine point eight out of ten, so that is a very severe bug, a critical bug. They exploited that got into this agency. And then once they were able to get in, they spent some time. And this is what hackers will typically do. So they can scan the internet. They can find Okay,

So yeah, not good.

And the reason why I think this story is a important not so much because you know, there are federal government agencies out there that are insecure and being taken over by our own white hat people trying to help fight these flaws and then ultimately patch them and make other agencies aware. But this is exactly this sort of thing the bad guys are doing. The businesses, and when you're a business, it says, I don't have anything to hide, I don't have anything worth stealing. I'm a small business.

They want money.

They don't mind stealing your money, and there's really no repercussions to them because they're in places where they can't be touched. So by not patching these vulnerabilities, by not securing your systems, by not taking the kind of advice we give out every Friday, seriously, you are literally making it easy for the bad guys to steal your data, to steal your money, possibly both.

And this is just a perfect example of that.

Bit is if you really read through the details of this article, it's it's not shocking but depressing how easy it was for these Red teamers.

To get into this agency.

And trust me, that's very common across our business ah environment.

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Any very happy Friday to you, made extra happy because we get tech Friday day've hatter and talk about issues like this. Get off your phone, says, well, not just day, but apparently they've done some numbers crunching on this, and it's really bad for you.

Yeah, it is not good for you. There's a guy who's gotten a lot of attention recently.

His name is Jonathan haate, assuming I'm pronouncing that right, Hai Dt so called the Anxious Generation, and his book is focused on how, you know, all this technology, smartphones, social.

Media and so forth are bad for kids. And you know, at this point, let's be realistic.

Most people are accessing social media through a smartphone, right, It's not like the old days where they're you know, sitting at a computer in the basement on Facebook. So you know, when he's talking about this, you can just sort of think smartphone in general.

Is the sort of nexus that makes all of this possible. Yep. And you know, the book has gotten a lot of attention.

There's some states now in the US moving to band smartphones and schools, which I think is probably a wise decision because you know, not only the mental health.

It's a distraction from learning.

Yes, it's the distraction, right, I mean, let's face it, you and I both know. I mean, first off, just walk out in society and look, well, they really stuck in these things all the time. You know, how many times have you been to a concert, Brian where you're standing next to someone and literally they are basically watching the whole concert through the idiotic phone because they're filming it.

No, wait, go ahead and get on Facebook today. There was a Foo Fighters concert last night. You can basically see the entire concert through people's posts.

Yeah, it's nuts.

I mean, I can't say I've never taken my phone out and filmed some minor segment of something at a concert, but do you know how many times I've gone back and watched that again?

And the whole thing is nuts. But you know, this, this article and many people out there now are you.

Know, raising concerns about people with phones and how much time to spend a time, and kids in particular. We've seen the current Surgeon General come out and argue that social media should come with a warning label.

And you know, I think that's not a bad idea.

While I don't think that's going to stop anything, you know, we need to get people to realize that spending all day long looking at these devices, getting all their news, all their social interactions out of these devices is not good. And you know, I'm not a not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but studies increasingly show that people, when kids and especially spending all their time on these devices is not good. And like you mentioned, you know, think about

You know.

So I get that this creates a lot of anxiety for people to think about. Okay, I got to give up my phone. But I've also seen some recent studies where they've done this kind of thing in the schools, and after like the initial withdrawal period, which tells you some in and of itself, kids are actually like, oh, I'm glad I don't have all of this extra anxiety and stress and distraction.

During the day.

So amen, you know it's people. If you have kids, you should get the book The Anxious Generation. And I think we're past the time where it would be a good idea to start banning these things at schools at a minimum.

Oh, without question, I could not agree with you more on that one. Well, and the next this one's puzzling me. We're gonna be talking about artificial intelligence boyfriends coming up next. I don't understand that as a concept. Dave's going to enlighten us here. Just hold on for a minute. It's six forty five. If you bout carc detalk station, zero Res carpet Cleaning, zero ressinsy dot com online, I take

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Come on, man, I'm well yeah, it's malarkey, Brian. We better do it right.

You may recall we talked about this a few weeks ago from the reverse angle and mostly with a privacy focus. So Mozilla, before I jump directly into this, Mozilla, the people that make Firefox have a website called Privacy Not Included.

I bring this up every once in a while because the website itself is.

Full of useful tips for how to understand who makes privacy friendly stuff and who doesn't, And they did a deep dive into this, had an article recently called romantic AI chatpots don't have your privacy at heart and basically just proceed to rip this type of thing apart because their take on it is in order for it to seem like a real person.

Ha ha ha.

I think we can both agree to that you have to provide a lot of potentially sensitive and intimate data. And when you read the privacy policy and think about the possibility of them selling your data to make money and train their models, it's just crazy.

So you know, that's if I encourage people.

If you've used one of these or thinking about using one, whatever, you should go read what Mozilla has had to say on this topic first. But there's a recent headline, Yeah, the AI boyfriend business is booming, and you know, most of the press about this has been from an AI girlfriend perspective, but apparently these things are now popular for.

Women as well. And in this article, you know, they mentioned some stats.

For example, I campaign apps are surging and Resent Horowitz calls it a gross spurt, with eight apps making their twenty twenty four debut and the firm's list of the top one hundred gen ai consumer apps, compared to only two in twenty twenty three. They say engagement is also usually high compared to other apps. Average number of viewser sessions per month is over ten times that of general assistant apps content generation apps.

You like a chat to even, Yeah, what are they doing?

Uh?

I think eating up the time?

If they're online with an artificial intelligence boyfriend, what are they doing?

Well, I think they're just basically talking to it.

Talking to a artificial intelligence progress.

So if you if you dig into this article, uh, well, Brian, I guess because I think it speaks to the loneliness epidemic that we have in this country.

I think it is.

I agree, I think it's terribly sad. And then I think it also has to do with the fact that, you know, just reading some of the comments of people who are interacted with these things, you know, they basically say they're more empathetic and more friendly and easier to talk to than their human companions or the people in their lives.

Which yes, I mean the whole thing is really experience empathetic.

Yes, So, like one person here says, I spend a lot of time just sitting by myself and pretty much waiting for him to want to spend time with me. So she created her replica. Jack Replica is one of these platforms who case is exactly her type. The experience showed her she's been quote settling big time unquote. She also finds community with other replica users on Reddit and Facebook, and is in a new relationship with a human man. So again, there's some quotes from some people in here.

You know, I spend your the reality when you're interacting with it, You're you're talking to a computer and ones and zeros being generated by artificial intelligence. How can I just wonder how that can be in any way, shape or form rewarding to anyone.

Uh, I don't understand it myself, Brian. Now maybe it's because I.

Don't understand the depths of emotional emptiness.

Well, that's part of it. And I guess perhaps I understand how this stuff works too well. So I know, at the end of the day, there's it's not sinny in any way, it's not really talking to me. It's just using probability to put words together, you know, and now you know me too, Brian tenfoil Hack guy that am.

I mean.

It's bad and and sad, really almost tragic in so many ways. You know, I encourage people if you read this article from Axios, you know they do kind of dig into why this is not a good thing, both from a societal, societal and psychological aspect. But you know they touched briefly on the privacy Again. I can't state enough anyone that's considering this really ought to go to Privacy Non Included and see what they have to say

That's you know, I understand that. Is that going to be on your notes?

I'll put it in my notes. Obviously you're not going to share it. It's you know, it's kind of curse word in it. That's why I haven't shared it more widely. I wish he would have toned the headline the air so that you know, it doesn't immediately pop up.

Do my job. It's worth a read.

Try to self censor on the fly every single day for four hours.

Yeah, yeah, you know me.

When I'm off air, I mean I can have a spicy tongue sometimes they've had or God bless you, sir. I always enjoy our conversations it's always enlightening and this last segment pathetic sometimes and that's not your fault. It's just the subject matter we're dealing with. It's out there. It's reality. More with Next Friday with Dave Hatter. Always enjoyed. Dave, keep up the great work and thanks to interest it dot com for sponsoring the segment.

My pleasure, Brian, have a good one and I'll chat with you next week.

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Obviously, a huge election coming up November top all the way down to the bottom. All the races are extremely important, most notably here in Hamilton County, Ohio, where we have a decision to make on who we're going to vote for. For Hamilton County Sheriff. I think the man who was previously in the job is the man for the job. Jim Neil, welcome back to that. Do you have Carcy Morning Show?

My friend?

It's always great having you on the program.

Yes, it's been a while. It's good to be with you this morning, that's for sure. And I've been blessed to run into Joe Strecker on two occasions in the past couple of weeks.

Hanging out, hanging over price sal Chili Warrior or something like that. Hey, Jim, I'm gonna put you on the spot right out of the gate.

Here.

We're doing listener lunch at Jim and Jackson the River on the seventh of August, first Wednesday of August. You have an invitation to join us for lunch. I know you've been to listener lunches quite a few times over the years, and just an opportunity to meet some of your maybe voters and hang out with us if you are free. I'm not pressuring you, but I want to remind you about listener lunch in case you want to make it.

Do a fly by, amen.

Yes, I am free on the seventh.

Excellent, Well, you're welcome to join us at lunch. I hope to see you there. And Smith Aman is going to be there. He's a big fan of hers. Jim Neil. Oh, and by the way, it's vote Jim Neil a e Il Vote Jimneil dot com. That's his campaign web page. Let's just talk about your motivations for wanting to take back over the role of Jim. Do you have inside baseball about how things are going currently under the current administration? Because I don't read, I read very little. I don't

Oh?

Absolutely. First of all, let me clarify that we should be spending this opportunity celebrating the re election of Bruce Hoffbauer. But that didn't happen. So I had to ask myself, what are you going to do about a gym? So I decided to run because you're absolutely right about the morale. It's morale's bad right now. Staffing levels are extremely been impacted negatively. They're extremely understaffed right now, to the extent that you floors had to be shut down at the

Well, there is a need for the cells.

I mean, there was a one point, Jimmy, you and I have talked about this over the in past years, that there was no room at the end, you know, in other words, they were packed in there more than it was a design and built for. And of course we always have the staffing issues, the number of inmates far exceeding the number that's safe for the deputies who are guarding them. But you're saying they're closing down these beds.

That's a good that's a good question, because we have no control over you know, the decisions the judges make, but we do have control every police officer at FECTX and arrest, that offender is booked into the county jail and held there into they faced the judge the next day for arraignment. But when you don't have staffing levels to provide security the debt. When I left the office, Brian, the office was right sized when it came to personnel.

Is that because of attrition inability to get people to you know, pursue a career in law enforcement with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department? Is it lack of funding a combination all above what's driving then?

It's not funding because she's adequately funded. There's a budget that's you know, set for the deputies. It's when the deputies are eligible to retire. They're retiring a number of them have left for other jobs with other agencies and it's tougher today. You're correct on recruiting, but it's it's about leadership, Ryan. The deputies don't want to they don't want to work for an agenda. They want to work

Well, give us an illustration of that. So not operating.

Sheriff mcgufney's there with sheriff in the state of Ohio. Not working with immigrations and customs enforcement also known as silent And that's just an example one policy. When you drive by these county buildings, you're used to seeing what on the top of the building an American flag, correct, the state flag, maybe a pow flag. Now you're seeing a Pride flag. I mean, you see what I'm going with. The agenda of the party is working its way into

Well, this sounds like them for.

These these deputies, it really is. And morales down, they're leaving at record levels. It's hard to recruit period in law enforcement the way we've been demonized over the years. But she is adequately funded. There is funds available for staffing levels, but the staffing levels are really down, sir.

Well, and I can understand that you don't want to walk into a highly politicized environment when those politics don't well serve your own personal interest outside of work. But it shouldn't be a politically motivated job. I mean, we're talking law enforcement here. You know, this sounds like exactly

Amen.

So what is Sheriff Jim neil to turn this around? I mean, obviously you depoliticize the policies, but you've got to get you got to spread the word about that that it's a different operation, that it's a you know, a welcome environment for people who care about law enforcement in their community.

That that's a tough job. At this state we find ourselves.

In, Jim, it is, and that's going to be the challenge initially, is is hiring, hiring, hiring, recruiting and hiring to get the agency right size so that we are available to provide that quality law enforcement service.

But I believe a leadership will help. I've there's been a number of deputies that have left that already approach me, if you're elected in the office sheriff, can we come back? So I'm hoping that, I'm hoping that initially there's going to be a wave coming in the front door, coming back door. And that's exciting, and it starts with leadership, Ryan, and you know, and leadership that's focused. Look, as sheriff,

Oh yeah, to make that happen. Yes, sir, just we're out there. Let's pause.

I'll bring you back because these are important thoughts we're going to get into. I also want to ask you about the status of Hamilton County relative to crime. But yeah, you were big into collaboration and working with other agencies, which is kind of a unique thing in law enforcement. You did such a great job of it. Hold on in a minute again, it's vote Jimneil dot com will bring Jim back here right after a word or two for twenty two three on Route forty two between Mason eleven.

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Sevent twenty one to the gout KERRCD Talk Station, Brian Thomas swich for Sheriff Jim Neil. I hope he sheriff again, Jim Neil. You can check them out on the line to vote Jim Neil dot com. We put your website link on my blog page, Jim, so folks can easily find it if they can. Just remember fifty five cars dot com. And I was strongly encourage them to help

Yes.

It has.

The motto of the Hamilton County Police Association is cooperation and operation, and our federal partners even tell us that about law enforcement Hamilton County. They're really impressed on how while.

We work together.

So it's equally important for the sheriff to work with all of law enforcement, to share resources, including excuse me, human resources, and to participate in the task force, to create task force to deal with the trends. It's a force multiplier Brian when you do that, because no one agency will bear the burden of financing that task force. If I have two deputies in a task force, my

The program.

Yeah, and with that collaboration, I was informed by our detectives that while I was still SHARE, five of them cold cases were solved. And you know, that's why it's important to form UH that you know to embrace this cooperation and operation and to collaborate with public and private sector. And uh, it's just a win win and as a force multiplier, especially now when there's fewer of us in law enforcement, we need to work to gather the combat the criminal element.

And speaking of the criminal element, before we part company today, Jim Neil, what is the status of crime in Hamilton County? I get the impression it's not good, but again, not a whole lot of local reporting to give us a broader picture of how things currently stand. Your take on this current situation, Jim.

Yes, there is. It is not good, and the population of the county is you're going to see an increase because Cincinnati is a sanctuary city and what that means to the foreign nationals is Cincinnati is a place that opens their arm to receive them. And the current sheriff has expanded the sanctuary city and has made the county

Jim Neil find them online vote Jimneil dot com that you got yourself some votes right there, Jim.

Uh.

They talk about upholding the law. Jim, I wish you all about. You have a forum here on the fifty five KC Morning Show and access to my listeners. Ain't time you want. It's always great here in your message, and I'll keep my fingers crossed for the residents of Hamilton County that they choose you over all. We've got currently got when they vote in November, Jim, until we talk against stay well, have a wonderful weekend, and best to health you and your loved ones.

Thank you, and God bless you and your listeners.

Thank you, sir. I truly appreciate it. Seven twenty nine.

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Wishing you a very happy Friday. I been looking forward to this all morning since I saw him on the rundown. David Junks his name, is the first CEO of Universal Music in Moscow, and for a decade he promoted an international artist in Russia. You know the stars Mariah Carey, Elton, John You Two, Sting, Bonjo, just to name a handful.

Good morning, Brian.

It's an honor to be invited on. Appreciate it.

I just I'm a huge, huge music fan. I just love music.

I'm jealous of your life in the music industry, and I guess you got to see it. And I don't want to call it demise. I know there's still music being made out there, but the entire landscape of the music industry has been so radically changed since the advent of the Internet and music sharing. But this predates all that, doesn't it.

Yes, it does.

This is when compact discs were the number one cherrier for music, and then prior to that, obviously in Russia it was mainly buying that they boot legged in from Eastern Europe. So this predates modern technology for sure.

Well, and I've seen you know, articles, those reviews, political analysis of maybe how in some of the reasons why the Berlin Wall fell, which is the metaphor for the Soviet Union collapsing. But the Western influence seeped its way into the Iron Curtain for years and years. You know, VHS tapes were snuck in with Western content. It was under high demand. I remember the old days talking about how they loved Levi's jeans, remember that, sneaking those in.

What what was it like?

It was amazing, Brian. It was one of the great moments of the of the century for sure, when the Berlin Wall came down and and and the Soviet Union collapsed, and people like me over there to help Russians transition from communism and command economy principles to market and supply and demand and capitalism. It was really the peak of US Russia relations, and a lot of people went to Russia to help in finance, oil and gas exploration, things

Of the Cold War.

Well, it seems to me you had a pretty much built in, almost guaranteed demand for this content.

Oh sure, I mean for a long time, for decades, Russians have been listening to Western music, just you know, hiding from the censors, right, They would sneak in these albums, you know, when someone visited Eastern Europe, one person would bring back an out album they would hide and then they would make copies of it at a house party and share it. And and and and that was the

Now Motown.

Funny enough was allowed in the Soviet sensors would allow music because they liked uh songs, you know, showcasing inner city strife in America. It was good for the Soviet ideology to show, you know, and Marvin Gay saying about what's going on?

You know.

The Russians loved that.

Bobby Womack, Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, all right, well, well so that that's what happened.

But then, but then when Western music came and in the modern era, they devoured it. They were ready for it, they were hungry for it. And and and I was there to bring the best of American pop and rock and hip hop music to the Russians.

And of course, first CEO Universal Music in Moscow. You brought a corporate presence and organized money making ability with a team in place. How did you navigate and deal with the political sort of post fall chaos. I just get this impression. As soon as the structure the Soviet Union dropped and all of these mobsters, gangsters and oligars just rushed to fill in the void on that they

Or am I wrong?

Well, you know, it's it's interesting because there was no proper music industry when I got there. You know, there was no real ideas of royalty payments to artists or songwriter rights, copyrights, none of that. None of that was that's here too, and it all.

Had to be built from scratch.

But the biggest obstacle Brian was the Russian mafia had moved in so fast that they had controlled They took control of ninety percent of the industry by the time I got there.

Oh geez.

And they were they were, Yeah, they were manufacturing these counterfeit CDs that they were selling for a dollar two dollars and on.

The black market.

And you could have Elton John's greatest hits plus his new record, plus anything else you wanted for Melton John. They would just put it on one CD. You know, they would cherry pick all the great songs and and and put it out there, and and and and they would export that music also to UH to Europe and China, and they would use the money UH to to fund terrorism and and sex trafficking and drugs trafficking. So it was a really terrible situation when I got there.

Well, how did you wrestle that one to law and order or did you?

Well, we did have.

Success, we that we definitely were able to put pressure on the Kremlin to finally do something about it because they were you know, the Russians weren't taking uh, they weren't considering the possibilities of their own music industry. I I I used to always use Abba in Sweden as a great example. I would say, you know, Ab, you know, Sweden sells more Abba records than it does Volvo cars or anything else, and so could Russia, you know. And it's a great tax base, it'll bring you bring money,

That definitely had an impact.

Wow, it's you were in a sort of a help me, help you environment in that that particular.

Situation exactly exactly, and in a vibrant music industry is very good for any economy, but especially one transition out of communism.

Well, of course it's good for the soul.

I mean, what brings people together better than music, You know, it's uplifting, or sometimes maybe it's not, but the idea that you can embrace something, And especially when you've been so void of a presence that has been out in the rest of the world for so long. I just imagine what it was like just being there and being flooded with all of this new material. Just again, I go back to this sort of the exciting environment that

I did, And that's very important for a record company, not just to bring in Elton John and Brian Adams and Metallic, but also to sign and develop local talent. And what I did is I found a few artists that I could actually sell abroad too, So I was selling Russian music throughout the world as far away as

Rock in the Kremlin my incredible true story of gangsters, oligarchs, and pop stars and Putin's Russia the name of the book. My guest today, David Johnk's story career in the music business.

Did it end?

I mean, I guess we saw that we've seen the direction we've has gone to authoritarianism, and we thought this was going to be maybe a democratic reality in Russia. They might end up being a great trading partner or friends.

Who knows.

I mean, hell, in the aftermath of World War Two, you didn't really necessarily think that Germany be a long term trading partner. Look what happened Japan the same thing. But what of the Soviet Union post Cold War?

It's it's really tragic, right.

My wife's father was one of those there with Boris Yeltsen in the early nineties when he was up on the tank. Oh yeah, clamoring for democracy in the end of the Soviet Union, and there was so much hope forocracy and and and a future, a really bright future for for Russia. You know, the Russians have one of the highest literacy rates in the world. That some of the smartest people in the world. It really could have been a tremendous thing for for their economy to keep growing.

Uh does Is there still a presence of universal music in Moscow in Russia these days?

No, there's not, unfortunately, Uh well, but but it's proper. With the war and the invasion, Western companies have moved out, the record companies have moved out.

Uh.

And and Universal have definitely moved out.

There's still a hip hop.

Industry there that I played a role in creating twenty five years ago when we brought in Eminem and Doctor Dre and Snoop Dogg. That really led to the to the development of a local hip hop artist community. And by my hope is it's that community of young people that will eventually lead Russia to better days and perhaps they'll take back that country from the Kremlin somedays.

How about that.

It's amazing what music can do to change the country and the landscape. Saw it in the late sixties without question, Well real quick before we part. Comedy David Johnes loved the conversation. The book's going to be a great read for my listeners. You can get it on my blog page fifty five Casey dot com. Rockin the Kremlin. What's your perception? And I brought it up at the outset, but what's your perception of the modern music industry?

Is it even an industry anymore?

Given that Hell, when I was going to laugh at this, when I was a kid, one of the neatest things that was available at music stores they had a little cassette. It was a four track record studio, miniature things. You could put four tracks on a cassette tape and record at home and even over dub at home. Now I know, modern you can get a ninety seven track or whatever, an unlimited number of track computer software you can download online and just do all the layering with separate tracks.

Mixed feelings about that.

I'm old school.

I come from the era of the supergroups, you know, Journey, Rush, Pink Floyd, you know, yahb Zipline and I, and I honestly believe bands like that are not going to happen in today's modern industry because there's not people gatekeepers like I was trying to develop them, but also having to to not release every single record that comes out from somebody's you know, computer. Right, That's that's what happens now, is all music is out there. There's there's no gatekeepers,

People like it that there's thousands, thousands.

And thousands of more songs per year released than there ever was in the seventies or eighties. But I think we've lost that.

Supergroup mentality, you know, where where we'll really appreciate artist artistry of a really great band or a really great artist, and they sell millions of records instead of thousands of records.

So I think it's I don't like it myself, but I have two sons who make music themselves and put it put it on the internet, so you know it's a generational thing.

It really is.

Well, I'm in your camp, David. I think you and I Sonic were roughly got around the same age. You mentioned a lot of the bands that I like and grew up with, so I have a sense of appreciation for where you're coming from. David johnk author of Rocking the Kremlin, My incredible true story of gangsters, Oligarchson and pop Stars, and Putin's Rush You get it at fifty five Karst David, it's been.

A real enjoyable conversation. I know we're all going to love the book.

Thank you, Brian, it's been a real great talking to you, really really.

Grateful for it.

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Good morning, Brian. As always, you and Joe are true patriots.

Buddy, love it, brother, love it. What's on your mind today?

Man?

Well, I mean I think you and I agree that you know, if you have an American flag of your own, you can burn it. That's that's what our constitution is all about. But if you take down the main flag in Washington, d C. In the park and you burn their flag you created, Yeah, it's a probably crime and held accountable.

It's arson and yeah, yeah, yeah, it's we have to and.

When you have to bring out someone to powerwash the livery bell that's there, that costs money, and uh you know that. I mean, I just don't understand how one side can do it and the other side can't. And if the other side does it, they go straight to jail. And if this side does it, you know, and slap them on the wrists, you bad people. You And then of course I'm fifty eight.

And I would have never imagined if I lived to be one hundred and fifty, that anyone in this country would actually utter the words death to America.

I mean, I have no response to that.

I mean, I.

Mean, and considered in the context of what you just said, Jeff, that the folks vandalizing property, the folks committing property crimes and arson. If you want to just go ahead and improperly and legally definitionally characterize, you know, starting a fire in public, that that's the side that's not being prosecuted. The same people are screaming death to America, death to capitalism, death Israel, death to all these different groups.

They are the ones that are left alone.

What sort of message does that send to our adversaries, those folks coming across the border who are here to do us harm, not just looking for a better life. I mean, they look at that and they embrace that, and they take comfort in that and thinking, Hm, I can join in with them. They're not going to go after me. If I'm on the other side of the political ledger, like the January sixth folks, They're gonna lock them up in jail. I guess I'm on the right side in screaming death to America.

Right, And what sad is I would say a good fifty percent of them don't even understand again who they're working with.

I mean, if you and I put up a giant sign.

In front of this big crowd and said, Okay, here's Israel or Israel on one side, and here's the Palestinians on the other side. Let's put let's put up the very first thing gays. Okay, which side allows gay people in their society? I mean, none of these people even understand that. I mean they think, Oh, no, it must be the Palestinians. They're the oppressed. Oh they're the they're the poor little oppressed people, and they must be for everything we're for.

And no, no they're not.

And they're not for women's rights. Uh, women are property. I mean there's there's thousands of videos online that I can't even watch that are people in certain cultures, and I'll keep them. I won't mention them right now, but that I mean, they treat women as objects. I mean, they can actually kill a female that's part of their family and it's okay, you know. I mean you did it for the right reason, so it's okay. You know, it's okay, you know. And I'm just like, no, no, no,

This is not back in our biblical times.

You can't do that anymore. You cannot chop people's hands off, you cannot burn people alive, you cannot.

Cut people's heads off.

It is just not accepted.

It is not accepted, and if you want to stay that way, then you don't belong in this country. I mean, this country is the beacon of hope for everyone, and it's been that way since I was born, and I hope it stays that way. I don't understand why people that think they can say death to America here aren't kissing our feet, because if you say that in any other country, you're going to jail.

Man absolutely absolutely, and consider that they're willing to overlook

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Hey Brian, good to talk to you again.

Hey, I have not had much chance to listen to you since Biden's formal announcement. Sorry US Republicans that aren't retired. Most of us work, and you know, away, I want your thoughts on a scenario, and then I'd like to

But does that not make Speaker Mike Johnson the vice president?

Huh?

I think you are right.

I have not read that anywhere nationally, heard that anywhere national interesting, neither have I.

And you would think that would be the.

Speaker of the Yeah, the Speaker of the House is the next in the hierarchy. And that would create a couple quandaries for the Democrats as well as Mike Johnson. You know, the Democrats. First of all, the optics of now having a vice president who could potentially, you know, battle against their president for four months lead up to

Wouldn't that be interesting?

It would be interesting. I think probably unlikely. And I just have to observe that recognizing the role of vice president doesn't come with any normal roles. That the Harris administration for the period of time that it would have to share it with him as vice president, would just keep him in the dark. They would give him no roles, they'd squeeze him out, they wouldn't invite him to meetings, and there'd be no obligation for them to do that.

I don't think necessarily though, I.

Think it would impact his career. Also, I think it would end his career as a politician either way one you know, whether Kamala wins or loses, he's done as a vice president. I think it also tarnishes, you know, potentially him being able to go back and run again for Congress. You know, he's kind of a rhino and you know who knows where that is. But anyway, my prediction, we'll see how it goes. Okay, so we get to November fifth and Kamala Harris loses. Let's assume that Biden

Eh, they can claim it.

I suppose it would be true, but it would only be because of Biden's stepping down. It wouldn't be by virtue of the choice of the American voters. But then again, the American voters, least in so far as the Democrat Party is concerned, didn't choose Kamala Harris either.

So hollow vicion, Let's hope things turn out right on November.

Fifth for us.

Well, you can be certain they would take a victory lap along those lines. Steve, what it will be worth in terms of, you know, benefiting them politically, I think it will be just a mere gesture and worth not much. Nice observations of Steve. I certainly appreciate you calling today. Man, Stay well and have a wonderful weekend, doctor J. It is wonderful to hear back from you, Doctor J. I hope all is well in your world.

Things you're going as well as they can be. Fact, Ran, things are going pretty good. We're hoping news next week. But I had to call you, so it occurs to me. I haven't spoken to you.

Like in a few weeks. It has been, and I think.

I'n aged about five years in the past couple of weeks. I mean, look at everything that has happened.

I share your feeling in that regard, doctor, I mean, we thought history.

How many times in that's two weeks, wasn't it.

Yeah, when they say may you live in interesting times, it is not positive statement. We are living in interesting times, and I pray to God our day that we we wouldn't we aren't anymore.

But yeah, I'm with you, man, Yeah, it.

Would be nice to get up, be nice to get out of them. But hey, I had an interesting conversation with my barber, a female stylist, a couple of weeks ago, and I've kind of heard the liberal mindset a bit. I thought to mention to her that, hey, did you hear about the Trump uh no tax on tips plan? She lives on her tips, so she is a lit And she immediately her voice raised, and she got angry with me, and she said, we had never talked politics before.

And wore huh.

And obviously she got this from somewhere. She didn't just come up. This is the propaganda from the left. They're very very quick at coming back. That's the first I've heard of. This is a negative response to his plan for no tax on tips.

Well, okay, I'm hearing.

Okay, she would potentially drop into a lower tax bracket, but her overall total income would not change. It's just what tax a book, So she'd still be reporting to the lone person that she makes let's say seventy five thousand dollars a year, even though only let's say fifty thousand of it will be taxable, They're still going to look at the seventy five including tips that she makes.

Right, Brian, on your I R S form, they said, right, total income and then there's adjusted grossing exactly right.

Yeah.

Well, I tried to explain her step to her, but she just raised her voice to get angry at twenty twenty five. Then I said, well, that's not what that says. I We've already disavowed that. And then she said this is a safe space. We can't talk about this.

Oh no, she didn't.

She said the words safe spaced.

Well, it was her store, so she owns her store. So honestly she has point there, really is it't accurate?

She said?

So?

Uh anyway, Jay, at least you tried. I give you props for I give you props for at least trying.

But you know my point all the time, doctor j is when they start calling you names or giving you the old petulant child holding his ears and going la la la la la, you won. You won the argument in the debate, Doctor J. God bless you and a love and best of health to your better half. I've been thinking about cricket a lot.

Thank you here. I'll tell you we're gonna find out on Monday whether we do two more months of chemo or maybe we're done. So yeah, pray for us.

You got it, buddy, you absolutely got it.

And I'll encourage my listeners to keep a cricket Doctor J's wife and their thoughts and prayers as well. She's a wonderful, wonderful woman and cancer sucks.

Doctor J.

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Yes, spring from the comments of doctor Jay and I share them. Here's like a age about five years, the last five days, and yeah, it's tough to say it's a wonderful world. Given the state of affairs. We find ourselves in flag burners F the police, F America, F capitalism. And then there is a fun one of the biggest letters written in red graffiti on the Christopher Columbus Monument from the protests yesterday over net and Yahoo's speaking Hamas is coming. Well, I guess they mean coming to America.

It's just.

And the veneer has been ripped off, folks. This is more than about Israel. This is about capitalism. America. They want to disrupt America. Netting ya who's uttered those very words yesterday, So these protesters burn American flags even on the fourth of July. If you remember one thing from this speech, remember this our aime, our enemies are your enemies. Our fight is your fight, and our victory will be your victory. Well, I'm on Netanya, who's side on that one? Anyhow?

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