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on and I start diving into the news again. So only get a brief respite from it, but I certainly enjoy it. And I can't thank you enough for tuning into the fifty five Cassee Morning Show. And I can't thank tech Friday's Day have Hatter enough for coming on every Friday, which has now been named by Million Podcasts one of the best technology podcasts in the United States. He had announced with guys say on Facebook, I'm thrilled to tech Friday on fifty five. Casey Radio has been

named a Million Podcasts. That is the name of the organization Million Podcasts. Top one hundred cybersecurity podcasts.

doing Tech Friday and interest it. Of course his sponsor the program, that's his company, so they're at number thirty nine on the list. The full list he posted on his Facebook length. So congratulations Dave Hatter. It is a distinct pleasure to have you on the program every week, and I can't thank you enough for sharing the information. It does keep people out of trouble, or at least it should if you heed Days Andvice every week. Speaking of that, everything you say on your echo is sent

to Amazon. There's topic number one everything Big Brothers in your house. You put it there. Nobody made you go there. I mean, you know, at least in George Orwell's nineteen eighty four. You were forced to have the Big but Brother monitoring system in your home. You guys have brought it into your own home. Will it mix things easy? Yeah? Well fine, yeah. I do not understand people's willingness to just do something like that. I never have. I'm not

going to participate. I refuse to abide. I mean, it's bad enough for the device all. Speaking of which teen eighty four and in the top three stories that we're going to talking about with Dave Ohio porn bill eighty four more like nineteen eighty four. That was kind of

my reaction. Also, it's a stupid bill because all you need to do is get a VPN and pretend like you're in some other state or country outside the confines of Ohio, and you can log in without providing your facial ID and your your driver's license everything else they want you to submit to watch porn online. You decide whether it's appropriate to watch porn online. I do not like the idea that children have access to it, but

welcome to the world in which we live. There are protections you can put on your smart devices and your home devices to prevent your children from accessing it. That should be your responsibility. But this thing is truly or well you know, and I'm glad you're at least from the topic list. Dave shares my concerns in that regard. And finally here's another one, moving from echo listening to literally everything you say and sending it to Amazon. Android

phones are tracking you before you even sign in. Unsettling. Yes, seven oh five Steve shoemake Dark World Saga Trillly Trilogy. There's three books you need to go over with Steve. I guess there are science fiction sort of books, works of fiction. Not a huge fan of science fiction, Honestly, I don't read much or I haven't read a whole lot of science fiction. But Steve will come on the program to talk about these three books and why they

are relevant to our world today. Corey Bowman running from mayor Apparently it's going to be a debate next week, Corey Bowman back in studio to talk about the Merrill race and what he's gonna well hopefully offer to the City of Cincinnati. By way of contrast to aftab per Ball score to the Phones five on three, seven nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight and two three talk eight pound five fifty if you got an AT and T phone, maybe something you want to talk about,

like mister Tuba and the Department of Education. But welcome back, mister Tuba. How many times you've been playing you play Happy Birthday over the last week.

defending the inevinsible and Department of Educations. One of the reasons that that problem exists.

But you know that's a political but still I was dominated by logic and reason, and if something was not logical or reasonable, if they couldn't come up with a single thing they were planning on doing for me as a consequence of my union dues, that would have said no, I mean, what's the benefit of belonging to an organization and paying into it if they're not giving you anything

or they're not doing something favorable for you. And the idea that you be pressured in some way, and I think you probably were, in spite of your reluctance to admitute today, I mean that, you know, that makes it even more wrong from my perspective. That's why I be willing to stand and just stand up and out loud say hell no, you're not going to pressure me to doing something because you're not offering me anything. Just my take.

dollars go. A couple of illustrations of that right after these preports. It's like, indeed, five eighteen gets you out of bed language and words from let Me.

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency received two hundred and seventy thousand applications from purported homeowners as a consequence of those recent Los Angeles fires. How many homes do you think were destroyed? Thirteen thousand? Nothing to see here, twenty times the number of eligible applicants actually submitted applicants. Now, Apparently, many displaced residents tried applying for FEMA relief, finding that someone else had already applied in their name with their

address and locking them out of the system. They attempted to make the relief funds easier to apply for, but that resulted in fraudsters making taking advantage. How easy it

is to game the system. To point it out that identity theft and natural disasters is not uncommon, especially when maps for affected areas and addresses are easily available online, and you have your online real estate sites and your online auditor sites, all of which identify the names and owners of the various the real estate property you own. Apparently only several individuals have been arrested for fraud and

connection with these grants in the LA Fires. One is suspected of having collected on a similar fraudulent application for two decades ago, going back to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Hurry up, rush, throw a whole bunch of money at it. We learned this with the PPP loans, didn't we ah tivoting over this one is mind boggling, but it's an illustration of what happens when you just throw gobs of money, American taxpayer money without any oversight. Finally, justice is served here.

Leader of Minnesota Anti hunger nonprofit convicted in US district court yesterday of masterminding what is described in the reporting a brazen scheme reaping more than two hundred and forty million dollars in pandemic relief funds through a network of bogus food kitchens that build a government for ninety one million meals. Leader of the nonprofit, named a woman named Amy Bach, forty four, convicted by a jury on seven counts,

including wire fraud and fraud and bribery. Another defendant Salem Said, thirty six year old who oversaw one of the bogus kitchens, convicted of twenty counts, including wire fraud and bribery. She was charged in twenty twenty two. Federal prosecutors set her scheme was the biggest known fraud against government's COVID nineteen relief program. At least seventy people were charging the scheme.

More than forty pleted guilty or have been convicted. Last year, another case related to the same scandal made national news when news when someone attempted to bribe a juror in a separate trial by leaving about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars cash at her home in a Hallmark gift back. Five people later charged with bribery in that case. Judge Nancy Brazil, after the jury verdict, ordered ms Bach and mister Sage to remain in jail to await their sentencing.

Charges carry potential sentence more than a decade in prison. Fraud's gem targeted two programs meant to feed hungry children. Oh it's the hungry, we need to help them. Oh, my God, who could stand in the way of feeding the hungry? Not me, but you know what. How about a little oversight Funded by the US Department of Agriculture

administered by the state of Minnesota. The system relied on non profit groups, which are called sponsors, to be its watchdogs, allocating financial oversight to some other outside entity that apparently was involved in the scheme. They were supposed to oversee individual kitchens and feeding sites and make sure they were not inflating the number of children served. Wait for it, when the pandemic hit, the federal government flooded money into

the program. I'm the problem. Trying to reach children who apparently out of school and therefore unable to rely on school lunch is another problem with the lockdown, Right, you lock down schools and then turn you turn away kids who otherwise would have gotten a free school lunch, exacerbating that problem. Then you create a program with literally millions and millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to feed the

kids who you locked out of school. The government apparently also relaxed oversight, putting even more trust in these so called watchdogs the sponsors. Ms Bach ran a sponsor nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. Prosecutors said she'd conspired with dozens of people to set up two hundred and fifty non existent feeding operations around Minnesota and use their oversight power to hide the network from the government. By law, her nonprofit got a cut of the money. Prosecutors said it

had eventually totalled eighteen million dollars. Now here's where the numbers come in. Many thick operations submitted invoices for implausibly large numbers of children. You know, I'm just drawing a parallel here the Social Security Administration having thousands and more than millions of literally impossible to be alive people on the books. There is no oversight. Thank you Doge for waking America up for that one. How could this go

through and have been a thing for so long? Mister Said's operations said it had fed six thousand children a day, which was more than all the children in the zip code. One other instance of a man said he was feeding five thousand children every night from a location that turned out to be a second floor apartment. Prosecutor said that members of Box network had used the proceeds to sche

on the scheme to buy homes, cars, commercial buildings. Bach herself funnel more money, funnel money to her boyfriend at the time, and used it to take trips to Las Vegas and rent Lamborghinis. Now, Minnesota got suspicious apparently back in twenty twenty so they were kind of onto this fairly early on in the scheme. They tried to stop payments. Someone wrote wtf after this the nerve and the huevos.

She sued the state government after that, after they stopped payments, saying the officials were discriminating against her network because it served many African immigrants and their children. So all this day called in the FBI, which then investigated and raided

her home back in twenty twenty two. In the days after the ray Bach told The New York Times that she was unaware there had been any fraud in the operations, and if there was fraud, she said, every test we have in place, every protection we have in place, didn't catch it. Is it possible, absolutely, And if they got one over on us, I will help hold them accountable. Well, welcome to the world of karma. Bite in the butt.

Maybe late, but at least it happened. And you think this is the the only illustration of the kind of fraud, waste and abuse that's going on. They make it so easy for people to get money and never ever ever look to find out where the money went. Check out usaid, did that twenty million dollars to fund Sesame Street and in Iraq? Really go there and do that? Or did it land in someone else's pocket? Five six fifty five car CD talk stations stick around more to talk about

local news rather hear from you. If you have a conversation you want to start, please feel free. I promise you I won't give you a hard time like I did mister Tube. But sorry, mister Toobe, I'd be right back. Thank you for taking me. There you go, Thanks show five thirty and a happy Friday to you. Get out of bed music man.

proposal to turn education back to the States. Of course, Trump directed his Education secretary living them and to take all actionable, all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States. Also calls for the uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely. Your funding isn't going away. In fact, you may have more flexibility with the funding.

Maybe they just give you a block grant that doesn't have obligations on your state to teach things like women can be men and men can be women, and you must abide DEI and CRT obligations to be taught in schools, using up valuable time which otherwise would have been serve by teaching children mathematics and reading something that actually benefit their lives. Yeah, well, we can hope for a future

that includes that reality. But for those people wailing and gnashing tea saying that the funding is going away, there has been one hasn't been one syllable about taking funding away. It's just going to grease the skids. So your local school district didn't have to spend all of its time filling out paperwork to show they've complied with federal government edicts and mandates. Oh, that's one area where they actually follow it, and they do force you to comply, and

they do monitor and regulate it. Thank you Local story for Mike to Wine showing up there allowing the to vent my spleen. Here in Ohio House Republicans approved the build to overhaul Ohio public universities and colleges over Democrats objections. Senate Bill one past the Ohio Representatives fifty eight to thirty four. We had donovantly on Americans for Prosperity pushing

this one just the other day. Happened pretty quickly. Proposed law would eliminate diversity, equity and Inclusion program scholarships, and along those lines, prohibit faculty from striking, prevent universe to use, from taking positions on what they call controversial beliefs. Maybe a First Amendment issue on that one, and allow tenured professors to be fired after reviews. Universities and colleges that refuse to comply with the changes will lose state funding,

or at least they risk losing state funding. So that passed and actually again went really quickly. Let's see here, Well, I'll take Pete's call. I can take him before I move on. We'll see if Pete uses up the time, or I'll go back to the local stories. Pete, thanks for calling this morning. Happy Friday, Sam to you, Brian, thanks for taking my call.

just mountains and mountains of cash to flow out. Who could possibly follow the paper trailer that money thro'n't enough human beings in the United States of America. If they were all if we were all accountants, we were all actuaries or you know, trained in following those dollars, I don't I think it would overwhelm the entire United States population. That's the problem. Federal government is too damn big, and

it takes in and spends out too much money. I mean, we lost our way somewhere along the way, and thinking the federal government had the solutions of all our problems. All there's starving children. We need a program for that. Who could be against that?

and ethics problem in this country. I'm not sure if it's people's you know, straying from the religious norms and believing that stealing is a sin, or if it's connected with something broader, or maybe it's just the Internet that's created an opportunity for people who otherwise might not have been able to figure out how to defraud the federal government. The online forms let you apply. Look, two hundred and forty thousand people applied for Los Angeles fire relief from FEMA,

and there's only thirteen thousand burned residents. How did that happen? I wonder and all Jinda this morning five thirty five, if stack is stupid, might mellow things out? Please put a smile on your face? Perhaps don't go away.

your food, bad things might happen behind the scenes. I've heard stories, Joe, have you heard stories along those lines as well. No idea what I'm talking about, he said, in language that I really don't believe him being serious. We got to Houston, Texas, where a janitor who worked at a Texas medical facility was just sentenced to six years in prison for spreading sexually transmitted diseases because he pede in women's water balls water bottles, what the hell,

infecting at least thirteen women. Proscu's in Houston charged Luccio Cartino Diaz fifty seven with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after epeed or spread bodily fluids other bodily fluids use your imaginational water bottles being provided to women and a Houston area medical office building. Plead a guilty to one count, receive a light sentence of six years in state prison. Remaining cases involving the other women dismissed as

part of the plea agreement. Indictments say that he urinated or touched his penis and bodily fluids into the water bottles and then placed them on women's desks. New Carney, Texas resident reportedly infected with herpes and hepatitis, which spread to at least thirteen women. According to Fox twenty six. Houston Reporting Court documents shows several counts of aggravatord assault the deadly weapon were dismissed for technical reasons. Cases re

indicted in twenty twenty four. Indictments signed by the three hundred and thirty ninth District Court Judge Teva Bell shows that Defendse was sentenced to six years at the Texans Department of Correct Criminal Justice. He got credit for eight hundred and eighty days he had spent in the Harris County jail awaiting trial eligible parole eligible parole as early

as two hundred and fifteen days. Women in the East Houston area medical building became suspicious after tasting and smelling the water in a bottle left on her desh later placed a hidden camera to watch her desk. Video show Diaz, who worked for a janitorial contract acting company, approaching your desk, rubbing his you know what on the interior of the water ball quote, even turning it upwards to ensure he

touched the water. When confronted by police, he admitted to the crime and was charge of aggravated assault with the deadly weapon. By twenty twenty three, at least thirteen women reportedly tested positive for STDs. Then a lowsuit was fought against Ez, the cleaning company worked for in the owner of the medical building. The management company lawsuit seeking one million dollars in damage, which seems insufficient given the gravity of these crimes. Thank you, Joe, the.

Never leave your drink unattended, even for a moment. Anyway, facing arrest for pelting his spouse with his lunch and a metal spoon, a louisianam, we aren't going to find out. Louisiman offered police a rather novel legal take. Investigators alleged that a recent verbal argument between Willie Cook, fifty eight, and his wife of thirty five years turned violent when Cook began throwing food at her. He also allegedly threw a through a metal spoon, which hit her in the head.

Cop showed up at the Monroe home. They were observed They observed food on the master bed where the victims state of the incident took place. Additionally, police detected a small lump on the back of the victim's head. After being read his rights, Cook declared that it was not unlawful to throw food at his spouse. That claim rejected by the police. Cook arrested for domestic abuse battery. Thank you, li Liam. He spent two days in custody before posting

a five hundred dollars bond on the misdemeanor charge. Forty five fifty five KRCD. Is that a crime? Yes, don't go away. I got more stupid coming up or phone calls. It's your choice. Be right back.

stack of stupid, Let's see what Kevin's got this morning. Kevin, thanks for calling a Happy Friday, you sir, Happy Friday.

take on the matter. So they can cut out fat, they can cut out excess employment, they can cut out form filler outers and people who read form from the school district's reporting on their compliance with DEEI and CRT initiatives. I view that as a wonderful thing. That's it, okay. I guess that was the end of the conversation. I did time on in that earlier in the program too, at the bottom of the hour, when commenting on Mike Dewines being there for the issuance of that executive order.

Let us see here go to Boca Raton, Florida. Naked sixty seven year old book Ratan woman allegedly threatened a young child and her family with ama chete Machetti, don't Machetti, don't text for those fans of the Machetee films. Vanessa red A Boca Cove Circle arrested, remaining in the Palm

Beach County jail as of yesterday morning. A Canadian native charged with indecent exposure of a sexual organ singular aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, who wrote in the report, Deputy M. Russ Russo. Upon arrival, I met

with the victims, who advised the following. They were walking with their seven month old child when they observed a white Nissan road driving recklessly through the community, and after the same vehicle circled the complex, it returned, at which

point they yelled for the driver to slow down. Driver later identified as Vanessa Reed, then parked, exited the vehicle, and retrieved the machete from the back seat, then stepped toward the victims one parking space away from her vehicle, waving the machete and threatening manner, then shouting obscenities toward

the folks there approximately six parking spaces distance away. Both baited during their interviews that they were in fear and they saw the female with the machete, and after a brief moment, Reid returned the machete to her vehicle and proceeded to her second floor apartment. Before entering, she lifted her dress and exposed her genital area in front of them and the child. Once the victims recorded part of the incident she was later it later submitted to the

evidence dot Com. Myself and D. S. Johnson went to Unit six twelve speak with her. She opened the door yelling obscenities, then slammed the door shut once she discovered it was the depties at her door and refused to come out and speak. Community service officer confirmed that there were cameras of the event. Of course there were there always are. Based on investigation, probable cause exists to charge her with aggravated assault with the deadly weapon indecent exposure.

Apprehended by the street team in front of a residence, she admitted having the machete in her vehicle. When asked about the e ues, she stated, I just swing it around.

to tell you me. Evansville, Indiana police investigating an indecent exposure call end up with arresting a man for possession of meth n fetamine. There's your answer to the question right up front. Officers called a motormart at the quarter of North Green River Road. Caller told police that a

man walked into the gas station naked. Police got there, they talked to a witness who said thirty nine year old Christopher Wolfe was in the bathroom, but actually walked through the store wrapped in his sheet due to end quote accident, close quote what an Officers approached him. They say he was wearing pants but no shirt, was sweating and off balanced. They searched him, found methan fetamine and two glass pipes. Arrested and taken to the Vanderburgh County Jail. WHOA,

that's a lot of feces. I think that's the answer to that question, and got time for another one. Go to Waco, Texas, where a man was arrested at a woman found him lying naked next to her juvenile daughter, who he had sex with earlier in the day.

You know, I'm inclined to say I might have asserted my castle doctrine writes on that one, Joe, you have children of your own, You have daughters of your own. Anyway, moving back, officer spoke to the juvenile victim Courdy. She was initially reluctant to give information about the incident, but the victim eventually told officers that he performed sexual acts with her on the morning of March fourteenth. Police found evidence in the bedroom, including a towel used after the

incident and a condom wrapper on the floor. Officers took the juvenile victim to the Baylor, Scott and White Hospital for a safe examination. Bill later arrested and charged booked into the mcclennan County Jail on a ten thousand dollars bond where I'm sure his fellow inmates were treating him appropriately mean five to fivety five KRCD talk Station. We got some time to talk between now and the award winning Tech Friday segment coming up with Dave at Or.

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your local fish fry. Love those things, Jay Ratliffe. Yesterday I heard media aviation expert on aviation issues. I hope you were to make it to Hunter Oswald's presentation on Herbert Hoover last night. Another great empower Youth Seminar Dan Hills having some problems with the Fairfield Police Department, they retain his organization to help them navigate contract negotiations, including having them figure out what in the hell their insurance

pays for medical insurance. That was crazy. They have no idea what they're going to be paying in medical insurance or what the insurance covers. That's really the boiled down version of what I heard yesterday from Dan Hills and a full hour with George Brenneman and his cohort Keith on health initiatives and health issues and better ways to manage our diets for the purpose of, you know, protecting ourselves,

feeling better generally speaking, and improving our overall health. As I mentioned two three talk got more to talk about. Of course, lots of stories this morning, but let's turn to the phones first because I see west Sie. Jim's on the phone. Jim, Welcome back, my friend. It's always good hearing from you.

got laying around. Let's do your blanking job.

know every time they redo that. I'm not mistaken around a quarter of a million dollars to paint that mural out in front of the city Hall.

Dayton Street and all these It's not that bad. There's some really beautiful homes down I.

Look forward to that. Have a great weekend, Jim. Always a pleasure. Let's see what Steve's got this morning, Steve from Independence. Good to hear from you, Steve.

what you're doing, but the schedule gets to you. Have you ever thought of doing it on a four day a week basis taken you know, three day weekend. I mean, I think that would do wonders for you. I don't I don't want you to do it because I like listening to you. But for your own sanity, you might you might want to keep it in the back of your mind and think about it.

it's amazing. The other thing I really appreciate when you do the nutrition stuff. I know you did it yesterday in case you're wondering if people are interested. I mean, I'm fascinated by that. And I do have a question from last week. You had somebody on they were talking about the sour dough bread your wife makes What was the problem with that that they that they had.

in America's Health Crisis. And you know, I still firm the believe that eating homemade bread because it doesn't have any additives or preservatives, it doesn't have a shelf life of you know, like half life of plutonium like wonderbread or whatever, but it tastes a lot better, it's fun to make, and I think it's better for you. So I chimed out loud about that, and she said, well, you know, there are some downsides, which is basically eating

bread generally. So nothing's perfect and I hardly eat any of it anyway, could my effort to keep carbs out of my diet. So I'm going to ignore that recommendation and continue down my path with preservative additive free homemade our bread Zarado bread from my wife, who is awesome at making it, and I appreciate you, honey, for doing it every week. And I appreciate the kind word Steve.

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itself took some heat for allowing a transgender athlete. This will be a man participating as a woman in track and field, and it happened before, and it just happened again. Running as a eight of Gar Gallagher is the name of this man. Woman ran as a tenth grader McDaniel High School in Portland finished first place in the tunor meter and foreigner meter races during the Interscholastic League. In

twenty twenty four, well at it again. Eleventh grader, now on the track Portland Interscholastic League, finished more than seven seconds better than the rest of the field in the four hundred meter time fifty seven point six to two, and the next of the girl who came in second had a one zero five point seven to two. Pretty substantial difference that which makes perfect sense since men have a biological advantage over women, even if they claim their women.

The biological biological advantage remains. In the twitter meter race twenty five point seven to six, the transgender child ran and the next in line twenty seven point three to one, and both season records one actual user observe. The experience must be so demoralizing for these girls, you look back later and be much more infuriated. Infuriated, especially if you have children of your own. The girls should all just

start refusing to run and it will soon end. Yeah. Now, The Oregon School Activities Association has a gender identity participation policy that quote allows students to participate for the athletic or activity program of their consistently asserted agender identity while providing a fare and safe environment for all students. Somebody

wrote ha exclamation point after that. As with Rule eight point two, they wrote, regarding duration and eligibility, rules such as this one promote harmony and fair competition among member schools by maintaining equality of eligibility and increase the number of students who will have an opportunity to participate in interscholastic activities. Somebody wrote, bs, run as a guy, You've

got an opportunity run as your biological sex. Maine University capitulated to Donald Trump's Title nine rules and said, no, we will no longer allow men to participate as women. So there's a victory there, and the University of Pennsylvania federal funding pause has maybe caused some people to react one hundred and seventy five million in federal funds of the University of Pennsylvania over its inclusion of transgender students

at women's sports. Many women who had to compete against alongside former transgender UPenn summer Lea Thomas have spoken out

in celebration. The issue is Statement of Fox nineteen, but they also filed a lawsuit and one of the things I learned in this According to lawsuit, Leah Thomas introduced by women's swimming head coach Mike Schnuerr to the women's swimmers during a team meeting in Fallow twenty nineteen, schnur allegedly told the women that swimmers that Thomas would not be sharing a locker room with them when they asked.

After the initial introduction, he officially began to practice and compete with the women's swimmers and Fallow twenty one, that's when female swimmers said they well discovered that the coaches alleged claim was not true. He showed up and got undressed and dressed in the women's locker room in addition to competing against women, plaintiffs alleged and here's where I

got really upset. University administrators pushed pro trans ideology onto them through the process of accepting Thomas on the team. In the locker room, former swimmers say they were led to feel their concerns over being being teammates with Thomas

were rooted in a psychological problem. Quote. The UPenn administrators told women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas's participation in the UPenn swimming team, they should seek counseling and support from something called CAPS, as well as the LGBTQ Center. The administrators also invited the women to talk

to a talk titled trans one oh one. Thus, the women were led to understand the u Penn's position was that if a woman on the team had any problems with a transidentifying male being on her team, that woman had a psychological problem and needed counseling. Oh so it's the people who believe in biological reality are the ones with this psychological problem, not the guy thinking he's a woman. Ah right, okay, six six If you I have CARECD

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gotten worse. Let my listeners know about this, Dave.

to secure it. They don't really engage with these things with informed consent because you know, you've got terms of service that are confused optly for lack of a better description, and people don't really understand or read that stuff, and then they just dump these things in. So Amazon's sent out of the email saying that as of March twenty eighth, if you have an Echo that uses Alexa, there you

had a capability. And this is another one of my issues with these things, you know, dark patterns, privacy washing. They make everything opt in and you have to opt out of it rather than being you know, consumer focused and saying hey, here's a feature and you can opt into it if you want. So Amazon's email essentially said, if you have an Echo and you use Alexa, you'll no longer be able to store any recordings that makes

locally on the device. So I want to also point out we've talked about this before.

to be sent to Amazon servers reportedly. Well, there have been many allegations in the past. There have been lawsuits in the past about storing kids' voices, human workers at Amazon listening to these things purportedly to make it work better. And now the idea is because of new enhanced AI capability, things like oh, I'll be able to know that it's

Brian rather than Dave talking to it. So when you say give me my calendar, it would know my calendar redder than yours, So you know, I get what they're saying. You know, many have speculated this has more to do about generating more revenue, but bottom line is you're going to have significant functionality limitations on the device if you attempt to not you, if you don't disable the feature that says store locally, the thing basically won't be useful anymore.

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old getting access to hardcore porn online. But the approach of you're going to have to enter some sort of information that would prove that you are who you are and that you are at the right age, that gets really tricky. Do you want these companies having access to potentially sensitive data like your driver's license and driver's license number?

on these websites and so forth. And the less sensitive information there is about you out there in the world at this point, the better off you'll be, simply because even if company A, the first party that you're sharing this with, does everything right, if they have to share it with any third party for any sort of reason, like to actually perform the verification service, well now you have to trust that they'll do the right thing, they

have the right security, they won't get hacked again. And I know a lot of people are going to say, well, all my information's out there already, Well maybe it is, maybe it is not. Though, Yeah, the more hands it's in, the more difficult it is for you to avoid unfortunate situations in the future, because you know, once the bad guys get a hold of your sensitive information, they can

really upend your life. See that Disney programmer who downloaded some malware inadvertently and now his whole life is just completely wrecked as a result. So arla Alo, I'm sorry.

carrier or have internet controls. This is where it gets kind of tricky, is where do you implement the controls to cover as many or all devices and or try to have a set of controls in depth. So if you're if your kids are savvy and they figure out how to get around one, you might block them with another. There's software out there like net nanny. It's specifically designed to do this, and I tend to agree with them.

We would be better as a society and you would be better off with personal data you might need to supply if you were going to use these not being out there and instead saying okay, as a parent, I'm going to get my kid's devices. I'm going to get any devices they would have access to in my house, and I'm going to lock these things down. Now that doesn't prevent your kids from going to the neighbor's house where they.

And remember, it was so funny if you had a law like this implemented, if you go to a VPN that makes it look like you're in some other state, one that may not have this, and you will be able to have access to the pornography without inputting your driver's license and photograph and all that recognition software stuff.

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you a piece of hardware. It's not in the software that's in the hardware, except to the extended collects your data, which they can then use to turn around and market all kinds of information to you, persuade you, some would say, manipulate you.

of information is being collected by your Android phone. Now it's interesting too, because you know, Android is an operating system. Pixel is the Google hardware. Android runs on other phones like Samsung and so forth. And I also, I always like to be clear to people, I'm not saying that other tech companies, including Apple, aren't doing similar kinds of things, right.

It's just that Apple, for example, because they're the main competitor and Android in this space, tends to be a lot more privacy and security friendly in there because their business model is different. They are selling you hardware and software. I'm not saying they're not collecting your data, and I'm not saying they may may not eventually sell it, but that's not their primary revenue driver.

time of updating your software. So you know, Google Play Store and Google Play Services are an important component to making sure the apps you've installed on the phone are updateable.

there's no ask for consent, there's no way to opt out. Ironically, Google explains one of the advertising analytics cookies, the DSID cookie as quote used to identify a signed in user on non Google sites that the users adds personalization setting is respected accordingly, So they give you a cookie you didn't know or want, and they make it possible for advertisers to quote respect your settings even though they don't

even know who you are yet. It's it's just you know, it's a way to track you, collect your data, aggregate your data, and push more content to you. Again, there is the legitimate personalization angle. I'm not saying that that isn't valuable potentially to people, because you know, if you're looking to buy X and you get an ad for X, well that might be helpful to you.

was a teenager. He wrote a hundred pages or so that ultimately become his first book, and at the prodding of his better half, put pen to paper and actually churned out these books. Welcome to the program, Steve. It's a pleasure having you on. How is your better half doing? If I can ask that first, you sure can.

I appreciate that, Steve. These books are fantasy books, am I correct and categorize them? It's not nonfiction? It's fiction, but within fiction there's multiple different subgenres. So how would you characterize these books?

help us through this. What was the purpose of the first book is something beyond just telling a fantasy story. I mean, I presume that there's messaging in there, as there usually is in literature.

is in Need of Protection. And then I got pretty busy at my building a firm here in town, consulting firm, and it took about an eight year hiatus, much to the dismay of some of my readership. But finally Book three has come out, and I chose justice, which I think is a fairly timely, fairly relevant to our culture today attribute the people look for from a higher power. And so Book three is called in search of Justice, and that is coming out in print on April seventh.

hate his endings. I think a lot of people do. Yeah, And even some of the other authors, like Susan Collins, they wrote pretty strong female characters without turning the men in their stories into into melli mouthed whimps, and so I like that aspect too. I mean, a lot of my female characters are pretty strong, but not at the expense of the male characters either. So I just took inspiration from a lot of different areas.

for darkness. And so that's actually the whole theme of this book, these this this trilogy is it's a world that has fallen away from the One True God and and what that entails. And in part it's it's a it's a quest to kind of rediscover a little bit of the light.

there's definitely quests. For I took, for example, each of those attributes of God and I embodied them into an artifact, and so getting that artifact, the Staff of Insight, the Shield of Life, and then in this book, the Blade of Righteousness are just objects if you will, that they compel the characters action moving forward.

You're talking to it all, seeing, all knowing power who can see through your bs if I may be so bold, so you can't lie to him. And it challenged you to find out you know where you are in your life and why things are going on in your life that sometimes have a negative impact, and perhaps learn from them.

And that's the point I wanted to make. Bad things do happen to good people, but maybe they provide a vehicle for us to learn something like, for example, spend a lot of time with the people you love because the world's an imperfect place. They may get hit by a train tomorrow. You know, that's just one little lesson. I wish I had spent more time with them. So start doing that. Call your mom up every day, you know what I'm saying exactly, or don't do stupid stuff, Steve.

Smart and you clearly did that with Taya. Love her and keep up the great work when the other books come out. You've got a place to talk about him.

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from the area. An invitation to barley Corn's brew House in Wilder, Kentucky that'll be listened to the next listener in lunch April second, and an opportunity for some fellowship get out of the house, support a local restaurant and brewery, enjoy yours still some really good food and the fellowship. Is the reason I bring that up because I see

there's a UN poll. Yes, I know it's from the UN. Nonetheless, United States fell to its lowest happiness rank ever due to a rise in the number of Americans eating their meals alone at least one of the factors that was contributed to the rank down to twenty fourth place in the globe. Our highest showing was eleven. They've been doing this report since twenty twelve. For its part, we're doing a lot better than Afghanistan ranked is the unhappiest country

in the world, I think again. And then Finland described as the world's happiest country for the eighth consecutive year according to this what is called World Happiness Report, Happiness rankings based on a three year average of individual's self assessed evaluation of life's satisfaction, as well as GDP per

capita social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption. Well, I could circle a few words in that litanine describe maybe why we're going down in the happiness rankings anyway, But if eating together, and they did cite that specifically and held that out as one of the things, it's where we come together. The number of people of dining alone in the United States, they say, is increase fifty three percent over the past couple of decades, noting that

sharing meals is strongly linked with well being. And maybe that's why I always have such a great time and get to meet the listeners. You're all just a bunch of fabulous people. It just reaffirms my belief in that great conversations, smiles on people's faces, getting out of the house, going to a place you'd never been to, it's all fun. So market down in your calendar. April second, it's four

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their neighborhood. What else is going on? Over to Columbus, Ohio marijuana enthusiasts apparently brought their own marijuana to the Ohio State House orly to prevent Republican lawmakers from passing proposed restrictions on the recreational weed. Right a joint on that. Well, apparently our elected officials in Columbus do at least the quantity anyway, if you're twenty one years older here in Ohio right now, you can smoke, vape and just marijuana individually,

you can grow up to six plans. But if you live in a household with others, you can grow up to twelve. Man that's a lot of weed anyhow, whatever, Yeah, but the two and a half marijuana two and a half ounces of marijuana in all forms except for concentrates, you only have fifteen grams of lows. The law gives ten percent of the tax revenue from each marijuana sale to four different venues, including thirty six percent to something called a social justice equity or social equity fund to

help people disproportionately impacted by marijuana related laws. I don't even know what that means. Sounds like a big ten to put your hand in and grab money. Anyway, thirty six percent to host cities, ones that have dispensaries, and twenty five percent to state's Mental Health Addiction Services Department. Finally, three percent to the state's Cannabis Control Department. Well, senates

already passed legislation. Senate President Rob McCauley from Napoleon believes the voters didn't really know what everything that was that they were voting for. He said Senate Bill fifty six should be signed to law. This which has already passed, makes dozens of restrictions of the cannabis access. Most notably limits THCHC content and reduces home growing to six total plants.

I guess you just take more of it, huh. Any other type of marijuana product like the edibles would be limited ten milligram for serving in one hundred milligrams per package. They eliminated the social equity fund that I just mentioned, so that's gone in this bill. House bill won sixty similar but it keeps homegrowing the same at twelve plants.

Finance House Chair of Brian Stewart Nashville disagrees with McCauley on the home grow, saying, listen, it's already been legal for two years, so it doesn't make sense to change it. I think exercising a measure of common sense in the real world. Folks who are growing twelve plants today are not likely to grow less than twelve plants just because we passed the law in the state House. Well, you can say that about a lot of laws, can't you. Anyway, it does reduce THHC just like the Senate bill, cy

see the same amount. I believe, unlike the other chamber of House would not limit the number of milligrams in a package a closed container would pick up at a dispensary, while the Senate caps at one hundred milligrams, keeps the excise tax at ten percent, changes where the revenue goes, putting it directly into the Marijuana Receipts Fund which was created to which is created in the State Treasure's office. It will be able to earn investment in the state,

will be able to manage tax refunds as needed. Joe's little Jaden cynical and skeptical about that one. Hut, Joe, Eh, just like the railroad fund anyway. Senate Bill one passed out of the High House Representatives fifty eight to thirty four, largely long party lines. It would eliminate diversity equity inclusion programs and scholarships, prohibit faculty from striking p prohibit universities from taking positions on controversial beliefs, and allow tenured professors

to be fired after reviews. There's a quick turnaround on that one. So if you don't follow the new law, then you lose is your state funding at your university. It's a lot more complex than the litany I just gave you, but I do believe in the taking positions on controversial beliefs. They may run into a First Amendment issue on that, but keep your popcorn out. I'm sure

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my friend, really truly not. But it's a good point though, because I trust me Rob, I have heard so many people complain about having to deal with the marijuana smell. I mean, you know, we had friends in California and they complain about it, and you read articles about it. It's like, oh my god, this is twenty four to seven. You live in an apartment building. You're gonna be able to smell the weed that's being smoked in the department next door to you, like cigarette. So I'm sure we'll

ultimately work it out as time moves forward. Rob, So, I don't think you're going to get a contact buzz though. You have to be like in the Specoli van from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to get a contact buzz from being in close proximity to it. But yeah, it may very well cause a headache for you. In legal news, some good news out of New York. Justice prevails. New York's highest court dealt the final blow in an attempt by state Democrats to extend voting rights to nearly a

million foreign nationals immigrants. Let's see. Democrats on a fifty one member New York City Council back in January of twenty two approved an ordinance giving more than eight hundred thousand foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the option to vote in the citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least

thirty consecutive days. Lawsuits were filed New York Supreme Court, that's the appellate court in New York and twenty two ruled that giving local voting rights to foreign nationals violated the state's constitution, which explicitly reserves voting for American citizens. Read the language for yourself, it says citizens. In February,

that ruling upheld by New York Appellate Division. Thursday, State of New York Court of Appeals, which is their supreme court, ruled that the ordinance is unconstitutional because the state Constitution, in the opinions word makes clear what our case law has long held. Article two, Section one restricts voting to citizens.

They pointed out that that Article two has been amended several times since eighteen ninety four when first passed, but the citizens requirement has always been There no evidence that any of the amendments subsequent changed the understanding that a voter must be a citizen to vote in New York. Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens. Accordingly, the Court of Pella Division, insofar as appealed from, should

be modified without costs, in accordance with this opinion. So done, Isn't it interesting? You have that very clear language and the case law supporting that you needed to be a citizen.

Yet the City of New York itself decided they were going to ignore the law and pass their own law, knowing full well that it contradicted case law on the books and the very language of their own constitution, a constitution that I assure you each elected official held their hand up and swore an oath of allegiance and a

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with the Department of Education. Of course, Trump's trying to wind it down and ordering the department head to start winding things down and it's not going to impact really anything that will effect your life, except that may get rid of the strings attached to the federal dollars that will still flow to your state schools cutting out giant

chunks of the employees there because they're unnecessary. A lot of them look over forms that your school district's forced to fill out to make sure you're complying with diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory and doctrination teachings. While your children's test scores plummet. So Department Education already laid offers, preparing to fire some thirteen hundred workers, another six hundred accepting buyouts. They had about forty one hundred employees before the move.

So getting rid of the fat and hopefully benefiting you in the final analysis, but pivoting over this is already was tried in California, unfortunately it got shot down, But

Illinois is getting ready to invade your homeschools. I talked to Steve Schuemach earlier in the program about his new trilogy book series or trilogy book series fantasy series it is, but his wife Tay I used to join the fifty five Case morning show regularly to talk about homeschool and she was at just an early pioneer in homeschooling and just got together all kinds of resources. And that's what a lot of people are turning to. Feeling the local schools have failed them, they go off on their own

and quite with a lot of success statistically. So California activists are warning Illinois families about a build that's advancing through the Illinois state legislator that would create more regulations and penalties underscore get to that moment for homeschooling parents. One advocate out in California, Sonya Shaw, reported by Fox News Illinois, California, Colorado. They all compete with each other. They're coming for homeschooling just like they've been coming after

public schools. They're attacking families, stripping parental rights and pushing their radical agendas while our kids are failing at reading, writing, and math. It's called HB twenty eight twenty seven Illinois, a Homeschool Act, which would charge parents with a misdemeanor if they fail to register their kids in a homeschool declaration form. That's what's called in the language, to the

nearest public school that they otherwise would be attending. If you don't do it, they call your child a truant and your and you as a parent could face up

the thirty days in jail with fines. Passed out of the Democratic dominated dominated House Education Committee and a party line this past Wednesday, in spite of the fact that fifty thousand and witness slips were filed in opposition and only one thousand filed in support of this that's according to the Illinois State Board of Education, so not exactly representing their constituents. Opponents point out that this bill would have mandated all homeschooling families and states to adhere to

involuntary home inspections. Well Estrada, senior counselor for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, speaking with Fox News, said that the bill's language was left open ended for unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats to be able to write different sections of regulations. That if this bill has passed into law, it's going to be expanded in the future years to put even more

restrictions on homeschool and private school families. The record of homeschoolers shows that we do academically and socially and emotionally well, so why are we messing with them, that's the question.

This bill is a solution in search of a problem. Now, for their part, Democrats say the bill which contains a poortion that requires parents to hand over teaching materials if it's suspected the child isn't being educated properly, and it's left outside entities and other individuals, outside the realm of accountability. In other words, unelected officials to decide whether you are educating your child properly. Hmmm, religious education going on in there.

They may view that as improper. It could be literally anything. Oh, you don't have a diversity, equity inclusion program in your curriculum. You need to put one of those in there. Why are they tinkering and messing with parents' rights? The government's tentacles reaching in beyond your front door and residing in your home. Knock on the front door, but you need to let us in. Your homeschooler, evil homeschooler. I hope

this gets shot down. But it's Illinois. It's Illinois, so I think you can see the writing is on the wall. That is, of course, if someone was not educated in a public school and know how to write. Five Krcity talk Station Corey Bowman running from mayor in studio, coming up next to hope you can stick around covering Trump's first one hundred days, every day, every day promises, may promises kept. Fifty five kr S the talk station.

Every time I say that out loud, there's a Republican running for a mayor in the city of Cincinnati named Corey Bowman, is like, yeah, Okay, we know you got a little bit of an uphill challenge, but maybe not as much as I think people's initial reaction might be. Corey, welcome back, man. It's great seeing you. Hey, great, thanks for having me my pleasure. I let's start with the debate. I have in my notes that it looks like you were scheduled to have a debate with purvol next week.

and spread the word responsible money management. We could go on for ours about the irresponsible nature of governments, generally speaking, most notably the city of Cincinnati. I've been so enlightened by the work of Todd Zen's or former Inspector General. He watches them like a hawk, and he has revealed so much much craziness in terms of where we spend our money, and I can go back to the streetcar, which costs US five plus million dollars a year for

debt service as well as maintenance, rarely used. I don't think it serves society a benefit at all. But there's that there's the deteriorating roads that we all face all the time. In fact, West Side Jim Kiefer Corey came into or called up today and said he's going to invite or has invited the mayor and all of the council members to an event that's being held up at Price Hill Chili. So they have to take Sunset Avenue

and drive over it. It's my favorite team Sunset is it's my best illustration of a street that looks like it's been torn out of a war torn area like Gaza or something, and it's never been fixed and it's been years and years. Forced them to drive over it, which will be a great idea, but it just is an illustration of infrastructure falling ap hard. They don't take care of what they've got. They want to build something new, like the skateboard park.

the infrastructure. See, when it comes to money management and budgeting, nobody has a perfect model necessarily, but I will say that the most important thing with money management is your priorities.

What is going to be your priorities, and then whenever those priorities are lining up to common sense and helping the people, and then no matter what, Yeah, there might be certain issues that you want to push like, but those things can't take a precedent or can't be first above infrastructure and roads and things that really that's what the city is responsible for. Yeah, I mean, I go

back to the broken windows concept. If you take care of something and it looks pleasing visually, it looks welcoming and accommodating, people are going to want to go there or perhaps consider it for business. I mean, you chose one of the more difficult neighborhoods to start your business over in the West End, right, I mean, and you've bettered that neighborhood by providing you know, jobs in at least a place where people get a good cup of coffee.

But it was challenging for you when you did that. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I have a co owner that you know, whenever he came and visited, he saw the mission of our church that's also in the West End as well, and we saw the community and basically, you know, when you have the mentality like we have, it's you go to the places that need help. You don't just go to the places that all we're going to obviously it's going to be an easy ride there. No, we have

a mission on our heart to impact the city. And when you see the people that are suffering the most, that's where you have to do something about it, whether it be with church, whether it be with ministry or business, whatever it might be.

doesn't fit the Instagram model of our city. It doesn't fit the social media model of our city. Oh well, we've got to make everything look a certain way, We've got to make people believe that we stand for certain issues. But yet there's people on the outskirts that there's people that are in other districts that are being forgotten.

as well. Coreybowman dot Com. We'll continue with them. We got in for the full hour here. I want to run some speaking of financial things, Todd Zenzer did some number crunching. I just want to propose a couple of ideas from that work. It's eight fifteen right now, be right back after these brief words fifty five KRC for more information with the Channel nine First Warning weather forecast. Got a sunny day to day with a high fifty four overnight clear and forty two fifty six under sunny skies.

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Provide an opportunity for residents to engage directly with the candidates ahead of early voting, which takes place April eighth, and then the May sixth, the primary. Enquirer Opinion editor Kevin Aldridge will be moderating the debate. So still no

answer to the question about live streaming. But there's the details and you can find those on my blog page at fifty five car se dot com and of course this conversation on the podcast page when I'm done talking with Corey Bowman who is in studio again, going back to Corey Bowman dot com and keeping in with the financial conversation. And I love the work that Todd Zenzer does because he stays on these guys like white on Rice.

Budget Finance Committee held a meeting on the seventeenth. Several items tabled in the agenda, but they included two proposed bond ordinances which will authorize the the City of Cincinnati borrow notice the sound of my voice thirty five million dollars. Five and a half of it goes to the OTR Center Health Center project. The other twenty nine for something called the Finley Community Center Project. And I have no concept of what those are. And he asked some simple questions, Corey.

What due diligence was carried out? What are the terms of specific of the bonds. There's nothing in there to explain what the interest rate is, What do you need? Why do you need to issue bonds? He points out, properly, the city took in nineteen million dollars more in revenues than was budgeted only a few months from the end of the fiscal year. Last year, the city had sixty five million dollars surplus, And he points out something logical

that no one really takes into account. The debt service on the bond will cost the city millions of dollars over time, So why are we borrowing money? And more fundamentally, Corey, And here's something that you, as a mayor, would have to ride herd over and insist on before these kind of proposals come on your in front of you. Todd points out the comprehensive financial statement report for fiscal year

twenty four hasn't even been published yet. He says, before you vote on such a sizable bond issue, shouldn't you understand the current financial condition of the city, for which the financial statement audit will greatly helps? Simple and that makes profound sense. No, you're exactly true.

a hole. And many people just assume that we can just do this or do that, but no, and I think that's the biggest thing when these issues come out, like let's say, you know, let's put a new arena in, let's do this or that, which are things that we agree with, but you have to know where the heck are we financially and do we have the ability to just set a good foundation to where the decisions that we make going forward are actually going to improve us economically, like planning ahead.

So we don't have it. Now, put a plan in place and start saving for it, and we have a reserve fund. It's something where you can at least allocate the funds and over time see them grow and build. Don't spend it on shiny new objects, but still take care of the stuff you're responsible for doing, and say, look, we've already got it on the list of things we

plan on doing. We're just not going to dig ourselves into a multi million dollar financial hole for decades to come servicing bonds when we have lived without a new one for a long time and I don't know that anybody's gotten hurt because of it. No, it's all about priorities. It's all about priorities.

so that doesn't depreciate. But the reality of it is that from what we're seeing, and you had Adam Kohler on earlier and you can see the stats on this, is that we're seeing maybe a one percent yield on it, but the inflation of the cost of this infrastructure keeps on going up and up and up, so essentially you're losing money every year that you don't put it into the infrastructure.

it's not a priority. It just shows that it's not a priority on your list, that there's other things that you would rather spend money on focus on rather than just going right from day one and just saying let's fix the damn roads.

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Those obviously have higher home prices, and if you can't afford those, that presents an opportunity for maybe some of these other neighborhoods with more affordable housing to turn around. I remember, and it's turned around a lot over the last several decades. Norwood was sort of one of those lesser desired communities, but you know, it's blown up. I mean, you're right next to Hyde Park, which was always expensive. You got Oakley right there, But nor has become a

desirable place to live. And I think the housing has gone up some in price though even a guess anyway, But there are other neighborhoods out there who are that It seem to be ripe and ready for that type of transformation.

it doesn't match up with the zoning. And what we're seeing specifically in the West End is a huge disparity between the low income government subsidized housing and high income. I believe the current statistics right now is that we're over eighty percent government subsidized housing in the West End. And so when you see that, there's no really ground for that middle class, that middle ground, and you're actually hindering everybody that's in that affordable housing because they.

to do the plumbing. I got to wait for some perhaps absentee landlord to come in and deal with that. And most like the city of City's infrastructure, the place starts deteriorating over time and devaluating the existing homes that are in the neighborhood. So it's a it's a vicious downward spiral. You know, We've had a problem with absentee landlords in the city forever. Yeah.

to contribute to the city in that way. And then but if you, like I said, if you have eighty percent or above in affordable housing, even if you say that there's some people that don't take care of their residents wherever, when you have that as the majority, there is no way that they're going to get out of that system.

are hindering these properties from becoming livable residents. And so if we just free up the policies and just say, hey, let's let people build, let's let people flood the market with housing, the crisis might not even be there if you actually have housing available for people and let people decide for themselves rather than having this overlord of oh no, we can only have these buildings the way that we

want because this is our vision for the city. No, it's for the residents of Cincinnati to dictate that.

do you think it needs? I mean, if there was an if you were an investor and you were considering the West End, and you had an unlimited plate of things that you might want to build or create or businesses, what do you think it's in need of that might bring about some greater success for the community.

to the investor. He's put one point two million dollars into this property and they haven't done one thing to the building because it's all about cutting, you know, red tape and trying to figure out where they can get it zoned at, and it's negotiating with the powers that be that own it to try to figure out whether

it matches with their vision of the community. And I'm telling you that happens so much throughout our cities where you have investors, you have people that want this business, that want businesses to thrive, that want the community to thrive, and they're being held back businesses like local markets are a grocery store or anything like that. And you can make the argument that all, well, it's not a good community to put those businesses in. No, Like I'm a

case in point. I know that it might not be the best community to put the business in, but you put in. And there's a video that actually released just two months ago from a major you know, podcaster that visited the West End and they were interviewing people and the people specifically said, this Bay Miller block right here was where all the I did.

about that. But there are powers that be that are standing in the way with all these rules and regulations because whatever rule, whatever mindset they have, what the community should look like in their mind doesn't fit with the business.

the crime goes down anymore. And it's because there was developers that got in early and that developed town homes or businesses there and then us you know, having the coffee shop there, and so it's not like the most you know, filled up block as far as businesses go.

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The Enquirer Debate is next week twenty fifth. We're taking place at Covedale Center for Performing Arts on Glenway Avenue beginning at seven pm. It's a free event open to the public. You two see what our contrasts I have to have provoll with Corey Bowman and also Brian frank So show up to that. We're gonna helpe it live streams.

We're trying to Corey's been trying to find out if that is OAKA, I mean if that if that's something it was one of his terms that he'd liked to have as a live feed, so no one can sort of edit it after the fact, Corey something like that. Yeah, just exactly. It's continuing the transparency, all right. I know

you're a fan of the Eastern Saint Police Department. Yes, you're not a detractor, You're not a defund the police kind of guy, and I would expect that you would, in a role as mayor, be an outspoken supporter of them and regularly bring it to the public's attention what they're doing. Because what always bothers me, Even if they're not actively opposing police like they used to be doing uncounsel, they're not out there supporting the police either, and there

is you know, the silence on that is deafening. I think the police, from a morale standpoint would like to hear the elected officials support them. I think, you know, putting money where the mouth is and rather than doing this, I don't know, what is that program where they have non police officers responding to what three to one one calls or nine to one one calls, and I think those resources should be more allocated to the police department.

And that sprung from the defund the police effort too, if I recall correctly, Corey.

We have police officers coming into our shop regularly. We speak with them, and before I knew a lot about these issues, I would just have these conversations and I would just realize that there is this disparity between the city support versus you know, what the police officers actually do and the training that goes behind it and their

lives being on the line. This is something that we have to set as This is the culture that we have in city Hall, is that we support the police department, that we support our officers and the fire department that lay their lives down for our citizens. And then through that, whether it be with funding and whether it be through policies that put that into their hands rather than just trying to divide this into all this is what the community looks like. You know, non emergency, you know responders

that they're really on your side. But if there is emergency, then we send out these people that aren't really on your side. That can't be No, it can't And like say, well, what's the big deal.

the bad guy that you know committed the crime. You won't show us where the hidden gun is. That's the multi use gun.

Then what happens is that you have judges and people on the post end of it that are going to limit or not eliminate, but they're going to release.

don't do that. And a police force cannot be afraid to do their job, and a police force cannot feel like their job is meaningless. A police force needs to be well funded and well supported by the city. And then they need to know that, hey, your city officials that hire you, that do this, that they have your back.

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most of your policy platform positions again. You can find Corey online at Corey Bowman dot com, and I encourage you to do that again the debate next week. We'll can one more plug for that Covedale Convention Center on the twenty fifth at seven pm, open to the public, and all three Merrill candidates will be there. Corey Bowman.

Of course I have to have Purval and Brian Frank, so feel free to attend that and learn more Corey anything else you want to get in the last few minutes we got remaining here that we maybe didn't touch on something revealing about you, something that might be interesting people get interested in voting for you or perhaps helping you out in your campaign trail.

so much encouragement there. And so if any of you want to get involved in this, obviously our website Coreyboma dot com. But the dates that we're specifically honing in on right now is April eighth is going to be the early voting starts for the primary. Yeah yeah, and then we're actually having an early voting kickoff at Price Hill Chili that night, and so if anybody wants to attend that, that's gonna be I believe from I believe five to seven.

morning show. Yeah, you see, but it's it's always like hell no. My first reaction and the most troubling part of running is for me, at least, I perceive that that you have to go around and ask people for money you need, so you can't run a campaign without funds, and that just the idea of that. And I'm I'm on the self deprecating side.

I need to make T shirts. I don't know. I wish you the best man. I'm glad you got the stomach for it, because you seem like a good man on policies and principles. And of course I think the city of Sin Sin could certainly use a change. It's been run by Democrats for way, way too long, and look where they brought us. It's all about a choice.

say that really have never been done. Excellent closing comments, Corey Bowman. We'll we'll talk again. I am certain about that, and good luck and or best luck with the debate next week.

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