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tariffs in the Constitution. We talked to the disabled American veterans about the Patriot boot Camp. You want to get in touch with that if you're an entrepreneurial minded veteran. That is a wonderful, wonderful event and get in touch with folks who have been out there in the world, have built successful businesses and learn what you need to know about well building a successful business for your Yeah, it's a good podcast to listen to Corey Bowman. He's

running for mayor city of Cincinnati. I guess as a Republican and we all know what a Sissipian challenge that is going to be. You can hear what Corey Bowman has to say yesterday. And of course Jack Adaden who he and his wife Amesley showed up at Listener Lunch yesterday and thanks everybody mate to Listener Lunch. We had a wonderful time yesterday, and props and cheers to the Little Miami Brewing Company for allowing us to be there. Met the owner there, he was so pleased we were there.

He loves when we show up and thanked everybody for making it over there. So good fun, good good food, great time, wonderful fellowship, great conversations, and uh yeah, I lost again to cribbage Mike five points. I lost my It's okay, I expect to do it. Listen. I didn't spend you know, three months underwater in a submarine with nothing to do with this. I don't accuse him of not doing anything. Of course, people on submarines have jobs to do. But I get this sneaking suspicion. They got

a lot of idle time on their hands. Can you imagine, so they spent a lot of time playing cribbage, owning their skills. Anyhow, I don't really quite know where to start. I can start with DEI I can start with why not just start with the city of Cincinnati rather than gravitate, gravitate toward national issues. Sharon Colich from the Inquiry reporting on this. Remember the railway money. Remember we fought over the sale of the railway, and I was against the idea.

Christopher Smithman, vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, at one point, was against the idea. We had a lot of folks on the morning show talking about it, Folks in the know, folks with experience on railway matters. Folks that understood the reality of the value of owning that railway, and yet folks voted to sell it. Obviously, you're entitled to your opinion, you're entitled to make your cast, your vote.

But the promise was predicated right on the money generated from the investment of the railway proceed and it went into an investment account, and they promised to by rate a return, and it was going to generate, of course, like everybody's four to oh one k interest and money. And they'd leave the principle alone, except under certain circumstances like, for example, if the market were to crash or drop or it wouldn't generate money, they would be allowed to

dip into principle from time to time. All kinds of bells and whistles attached. But the primary predicate and limitation was that the money generated from the sale of railroad was going to do what fund existing infrastructure? And we had lots of conversations about, well, what is existing infrastructure?

And you remember there's a general fund. So you got the railroad money over here, and you got a general fund over on the other side, and the general fund funds well, maybe new projects question, If you build a new project from general fund money, does that then become existing infrastructure which allows you to use railroad proceed investment money to well service it, maintain it, improve it, build

on it. The streetcar is an existing infrastructure. Would adding an extra leg of the streetcar then becomes something that's part of a previously existing infrastructure program that we will be allowed to use railroad investment generated funds to service, maintain, upgrade, or maybe even expand on. All these questions are floating around and they remain floating around. But behind the scenes of all this is the reality that money is fungible.

And I brought this up a bunch of times. If you've got railroad money coming in, which allows you to deal with and let's just say that they're gonna take they're actually gonna treat quote existing infrastructure as something you and I would readily understand to be something that was already built. Well, you don't have to use general fund money to maintain and keep up with existing infrastructure to

get two revenue sources. But in the final analysis, because money is fundable, it's all one big pile of money. Just because you trace the proceeds from the general fund to some new project. You've alleviated the burden of the general fund to maintain let's say roads. It's a bait and switch. It was a joke from the get go oh lo and behold Sharon Cooledge from the Cincinnat Choir, reporting on this headline council proposal dedicate railway money to

fifteen underserved neighborhoods. If you are in an underserved neighborhood, why don't you ask Sincinni City Council why your neighborhood is underserved? How come you've been neglected for so long? How come? Oh, I don't know. Let's say over the Rhine got the benefit of millions and millions of General Fund dollars to rehabilitate it and turn it into this wonderful walking community where urban hipsters can live, thrive and survive, and that you can no longer afford to live in.

Thrown it out, just asking you and the underserved neighborhoods, ask yourself why five million dollars a year is being thrown at a streetcar that no one uses. Wouldn't that money be better served fixing your underserved community? So as Sharon Coolidge. Thank you, Sharon for bringing this to our attention. Some council members pushing to dedicate some of those since a Southern Railway sale product proceeds to benefit these so called underserved neighborhoods, despite that never being a part of

the deal sold to voters. Oh remember when you voted for an assale for money to go to the now paid Course Stadium formerly Paul Brown Stadium, and you were promised that, oh, at some point you would get their money back. They would. I'm sorry, we need to keep that rate at the rate it is, because well, of course we've got to pay. We've got to pay for upgrades and stadium improvements and that ridiculous contract we negotiated. Yeah,

we lied to you. Basically, this proposal seeks each year to allocate ten percent of the annual return on the sale proceeds to improve existing infrastructure and spend twenty five million dollars from the fund over time on new infrastructure. In fifteen, neighborhoods dubbed the quote rising fifteen close quote. Now, it's pointed out by Sharing that that latter part new infrastructure would be prohibited by state law which governed the railway before the sale and says the money can only

be spent on current infrastructure. Here's the bait and switch. Vice Mayor Jan Michelle lemon Kearney, who's the one, I guess that brought this idea up. So the city can comply with the law by doing a money swap projects using the twenty five million dollars would be done from the capital budget, with the railroad money paying for a current project outside of the fifteen neighborhoods that would have been paid for out of the capitol budget. There it is,

there's your fungibility of money, exactly as I anticipated. Look, we've got a new revenue source, so we can take that new revenue source which is limited to existing infrastructure which the city was supposed to be maintaining from the get go. And again I'll go back to Sunset Avenue. How come it hasn't been repaved? And I know there's a million roads out there in the city that have been neglected, potholes, terrible, looking, awful, and you keep waiting

around for them to take care of them. Because it's something that exists. And once you build it city, you got to maintain it. It doesn't maintain itself part of your job as an elected official is to take care of the stuff that you built at the first place, or that was built by prior administrations. Existing infrastructure, stuff falls apart, roads deteriorate, the world's an imperfect place. Screws fallout. But no, no, no, we got to have new stuff

and things. We got to build new stuff and things. And now apparently there are some underserved neighborhoods. Oh my god, really underserved neighborhoods who have been like many roads in the City of Cincinnati neglected. So she's actually saying the quiet part out loud. Money's fungible thanks to the railroad sale. We can now argue that it's only going to existing

infrastructure previously covered by the general funds. But no, there's that new revenue source over there, so we can free up general fund money to do new stuff and things. Vice mayor quote. We have to make good on this promise to neighborhoods. Apparently, the first vote asking the city manager to look at how money is being spent now could come to council as soon as I guess next Wednesday. Kearney said the goal was to pass a law in

the coming weeks. I guess creating this new project that way, she said, future councils would have to continue the investments. And does that mean the new investments that they are created by this concept then become existing infrastructure that future councils can funnel the railroad money over to keep and maintain. And even that is a laughable concept, isn't it, given that they don't keep and maintain a lot of the stuff that they've already built and have let fall apart.

And in case you're wondering whether you're in an underserved neighborhood, According to the reporting by Sharon Collidge of the en Car right now village of roll Hill, Millville, Millville rather English Woods, Lower Price, Il, Queen's Gate, Went Hills, South Fairmont, West End, East Westwood, Avondale, Roselawn, Mount Airy, East brice Hill, South Cumminsville, and North Fairmont home to twenty percent of the city's population and yet described as underserved. How long

have they been underserved? And how many years in a row have you elected Democrats to run the city of Cincinnati. Do you have an expectation when you continue to do the same thing over and over and over and over again that your underserved neighborhood is actually going to get attention by the elected officials and running the city of Cincinnati. Yeah,

good luck with that. Kearnyan. Council members Scottie Johnson and Victoria Parks was this motion to move this concept forward, argue and again relying on Sharon Coolidge reporting, argue, these changes would ensure there's that word equity in the disbursement of proceeds. Well, you know what, let's just dispense with equity and let's just take a look at what neighborhoods are served and which ones are underserved. I would argue over the rhine in the Central Business District perhaps well

if not overly served. And I imagine if you're in one of the underserved neighborhoods, in your roads deteriorating, and you have no services, crime may be high, on and on and on whatever constitutes underserved. You might look at that Central Business District and all the money that's flowed into it, including pay course stadium, and feel like, hmm, that's just not fair. Five point twenty fifty five cares the talk station. Feel free to call. I'd love to

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coming up to the next segment. Apps some phone calls, Joe Strekker observes that have Purvoll's panties may be bunching up. Why well. A few hours after she was sworn in, new Attorney General, Pambondi directed the Justice Department of pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities.

I mean you heard have to have Purval and you heard CHARMEI McGuffey utter statements which are inconsistent with the Trump administration's effort to get ice in and get rid of criminal illegal aliens, saying they wouldn't cooperate, only to backpedal, recognizing the Trump administration and now the new Attorney General Pam Bondi, threatening to well, perhaps prosecute them for obstructing justice.

It's a crime. Apparently, several offices within the Justice Department provided are you ready you again worked for this your money, your labor, resulting at one point five to six billion dollars and grants the sanctuary cities and county. You're twenty twenty three alone, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Apparently, last month US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit,

warned how slash funds could endanger sanctuary jurisdictions. Well, no, it would endanger the non governmental organization's mere existence because if you cut off federal funding, they're not going to make any money. They don't produce anything. They are suckers up of cash. Joke about legal departments and companies. They provide a valuable service for companies, but rarely do they

generate revenue. Non governmental organizations exist because your taxpayer dollars fund them, and in many cases they your your dollars fund activities that run contrary to your in Can you imagine of one point five six billion dollars rather than going to non government organizations helping illegal immigrants stay here went to Oh, I don't know how about underserved communities in the city of Cincinnati. Just the thought five twenty six, fifty five kres of detalk station, local stores coming up

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believed to be a silver vehicle with a hatchback. That narrows it down, doesn't it, Joe. If you're out of the roads right now, look for silver vehicles with a hatch back. I'm sorry the woman got had I just you know, surveillance footage of the incident apparently is out there. It shows the car striking a woman on a scooter in the one in the block of Fairfield to have it, and then driving away once the woman sits up and

begins screaming please. Chief. Jonathan McClain, talking with Fox nineteen reporting on this thanks, Brady Williams called the footage upsetting, said, I don't know how anyone cannot stop and render aid in that situation, Isn't that true? Woman who was hit does not have life threatening injuries, thankfully so they Officer mclaim could not say what her injuries were beyond just

a likely concussion, said. Police are continuing the investigation. They've been locating more surveillance footage ring doorbell cameras, for example. I'm sure someone in the area has got more of that. Anyone with information that was urged to contact the Cincinna Police Department, actually the Bellevue Police Department eight nine two six one eleven twenty two. I should have known that because I said Bellevue a moment ago, still firing on four of eight A five nine two six one eleven

twenty two. Now I just have to wonder if they have surveillance footage, couldn't they come up with a better description of the automobile beyond a silver car with a hatchback? Just asking three hundred and thirty million dollars mixed use development slated a break ground in the West End in early summer WCPO was mcconnor Steffan reporting, can we just talk about lack of funds and the allocation of money

to underserved neighborhoods. As the underserved neighborhoods look on, we have a new three hundred and thirty million dollar mixed use development going on over on that side of town, Noah O'Brien said. People are off the charts excited. I don't know if you can see it in my face. This is the kind of opportunity that just doesn't exist in the West End. Noah O'Brien enthusiasm shared by Jeff Birding, president and CEO of FC Cincinnati, the project's master developer.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of income levels, he pointed out, assuming you can afford the cost of a beer at TQL Stadium. Sentiment from the people in the West End is we want to have nice things in our neighbor hood. Going back to my comments about the underserved neighborhoods that vice Mayor is interested in serving with the railroad dollars as they look on with envy. The Entertainment District development recently received a twenty six million dollar tax credit from

the State of Ohio. Plan to include a concert venue, high rise hotel, restaurants and bars, apartments, retail and office space, and more. And I'm sure those people on life's margins will be able to afford the cost of any of those venues. How Joe Streker cracking me up, he said, there will be plenty more cars to break into. Wow. Anyway, Brian, there's so many people who are excited at the opportunity on their kid's birthday to be able to go sit down,

served a meal and just to experience something beautiful. It's a really a game changer. They say. Cruise will resurrect two thirteen story towers that will sit over fifty feet taller than TQL Stadium according to renderings. Birding said one will be an apartment building, so we look forward to

having more people living in the West End. The other building will be a hotel with some condominiums on top project expecting to create approximately two thousand, one hundred and two construction jobs and sixteen hundred and ninety nine permanent jobs at the project side. And before I part company, I know, Joe, that's exactly what it's gonna say. The word approximately immediately followed by two thousand, one hundred and

two construction jobs, and it even bothered around. If you're twenty one oh three, you're not going to get a job, Joe, five three six fifty five care see the tax station. Bobby is on the phone. I'll take this call and then we'll get to the stack of stupid, although I feel like I've already walked into it most of the first part of the morning show stick.

got a nineteen year old wings stop. That's the name of the restaurant manager now facing felony charges after she doused two customers with hot grease and ranch dressing during your confrontation. According to police, best here to say, the victim tangled with Carnaale Irene first last name, Carnale, iron wingstop worker inside Port Saint Luci, Florida Chicken Wing restaurant. Uh Carneale, maybe it's car Mail. I got a little printing error on this. Does it really matter though? Anyway?

This one told police that the customer, one of whom is a minor, were, in her words, loud and disruptive. They cause the disturbance. During this view, which is not further detailed in the rest report, one of the patrons pushed a container of straws off the counter. According to police, the conflict escalated when Irene responded by throwing ranch dressing at the victims. She then went into the kitchen returned with a bucket of hot grease, which she threw at

the victims. Amen, brother, and yes there is store security footage. It was reviewed by the police and showed an individual trying to hold back a carnal, but she he pushes forward and throws the liquid in the bucket. Cops say Irene admitted a spraying and ranch dressing on the customer and justified her actions by stating that the customers were being verbally abusive and had reached over the counter and knocked over the straws. She claimed the tossed oil didn't

strike the patron Joe. The recipients of the hot oil, Dowston, complained the liquid burned upon impact and resulted in shiny burnt skin. Crime scene investigator photographed their injuries when cops arrived there. At the wingstop, the eatery floor was greasy and slippery, that's in the report, and it appeared the workers attempted to clean the oil that was all over the floor. She was arrested in charge of aggravated battery

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his skills. And Mike got back of me saying, as follow standard submarine hour fifty nine minutes of boredom and one minute of sheer terror. The fifty nine minutes for us to hone his cribbage skills over the decades he spent underwater. And thank you as always to your service to your server, for your service to our country. Eggs extremely expensive these days. Saturday, Pete and Jerry's Organics in Greencastle, we're robbed. Thieves stole about one hundred thousand eggs from

the back of it doing distribution because they're expensive. This is in Pennsylvania. Yeah, well, if they were for walfh House, that's fifty cents extra per egg. It's a profit. Thief poachs the eggs from the back of a distribution trailer. According to those authorities, theft heurt at twenty minutes till nine pm Saturday. State police do not have additional details

that the incident was under investigation. Of course, last year, the average price of a dozen eggs in the United States jumped fifty percent, and I don't know how much it's jumped this year, but they're really really, really, really really expensive. And I'm looking forward to my daughter's chickens finally starting to lay eggs because we're going to get

free eggs. Rumky issued a warning about what people should not leave out on the curb less than a week after one of their trucks exploded here in Ohio Whitehall, Ohio, specifically caught on camera. Of course, it was in the Columbus area. Officials set an illegally discarded oxygen tank caused the blast inside the truck, which happened when worker was loading another gin. Explosion led debris being scattered across the roadway.

No serious injuries, thankfully, were reported. Rumpky said people and businesses often placed flammable items like oxygen tanks, propane tanks, and lithium ion batteries. In the aftermath of the explosion, the company warned people about putting car fluids free on appliances, pool chemicals, smoke detectors, and pesticides or fertilizers in the curb side bins. People who need to throw away these flammable items should contact their local solid waste district to properly dispose of them.

theft in progress. While on the way, police were informed that the suspect, thirty two year old Dylan Rockwell, had already left the store, intercepted at his home and detained without incident. Thorite to say. While he was being questioned, he admitted a stealing from Walmart on Walmart on multiple occasions, explaining that he had used a ring with a used a ring with a barcode specifically for tomatoes soup to

purchase larger items. During the incident, Rockwell had used the barcode to purchase the three hundred dollars grill, which ultimately was recovered by police following the arrest, charged with Well a number of different crimes. All Right. Miami, Florida, a woman was arrested after she beat her daughter with a

metal guitar and a wooden broomstick. Wh why are you doing that seriously injuring the girl, according to authorities, rest report says saida or Lania Castellanos, fifty two years old, picking up her daughter from school on Monday in Little Havana neighborhood when she became angry and frustrated that her daughter had her waiting for more than ten minutes. Oh dear,

what the hell? Mimi? Police says. She became more upset after discovering her daughter, whose age wasn't disclosed in the report, was late coming out of school because she was hanging out with a group of boys. This woman and her daughter got into an argument inside the car, at which time mom called her daughter a whore.

her repeatedly in the face. The victim tripped on a piece of furniture landed on the floor, which time the mom grabbed a metal guitar that was attached to the wall and began hitting her daughter with it, causing serious injuries. Just away God bless America. Then she grabbed a wooden brimstick from the closet and beat her daughter with it, causing it to break in half. Victim's fifteen year old sisters saw the beating and provided police with a video

capturing the abuse. Victims suffered multiple lacerations to her face, scratches to both sides of her face, and a bruised right eye and lydmark uh and marks on our back, according to the rest report. With the injury sustained by the doubt to show clear indications of permanent disfigurement. Mom arrested on charge of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and aggravated child abuse. Being held at the Turner Gifford Knight Correctional Center, with the bond yet to be set.

Convention of States, President, question, do we need one? A Convention of States? I get mixed reactions from my listening audience and the concept. You know, some people are thinking it's a great idea. Others think it'd be a runaway machine too, and you know, enshrine leftist policies and undermine the Constitution. But we'll get the opinions of Mark Mechler at ATO five together. And of course it's Thursday, so we get Jay Ratliffe. I heard me, the aviation expert,

Jay Ratliffe. We'll hear about the latest update on the DC helicopter plane craft Airlines sues a couple for on an onboard fight. Ninety thousand dollars at stake there plus Elon Musk says President Trump is ready to make the necessary technical upgrades the air traffic control network quickly. Man. The left is going out of their minds over Elon Musk. He's not president, no kidding, He's an advisor. You know, presidents can surround themselves with any advisors they want. Just

because he's in an elected capacity. And we can argue all day long about whether that's a good thing or bad thing. But you know, the best presidents out there have surrounded themselves with the best and brightest people. I mean, Reagan is a great illustration of that. You know, Ronald Reagan did surround himself with some really good people. Now you can go ahead and pick and choose some of the ones you disagree with, but the better people around you,

the better job you're going to do. And let's face it, despite what Alexander Acasio Cortes may think or conclude about Eli Musk, he's demonstrably a brilliant man. You may not agree with everything he is, but he is brilliant. Look at what he was able to accomplish. Look at the businesses he built. You know how he built them one because he's brilliant at two, because he hired the best and bride his meritocracy is what built Elon Musk's multi

billion dollar worth. He employs thousands of people, he helps fund the federal government because every one of those people makes a great salary and pays income taxes. Just pulling their hair out over him five three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred two three dog pound five fifty on eight and t fos fifty five krcy dot com getri. I heard media app but that out of

the way, real quick fun fact. What an amazing thing elections have in terms of consequences after years of no one wanting to sign up for America's military, probably because it had gone full on woke and the message got out about that the true American patriots who love their country and the freedoms and liberties that it stands for, are not inclined to join America's military. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth announced yesterday that the Army had its best recruitment

month in fifteen years during the month of January. Cord to the Post on acts breaking. In December twenty twenty four, the US Army had its best recruiting number in twelve years. January twenty twenty five, the Army hit its best recruiting number in fifteen years. Bottom line, he said, America's youth want to serve under the bold and strong America First

leadership of Donald Trump. It's amazing, isn't it? Already reaching the halfway mark toward what the goal is described as being ambitious of getting sixty one thousand active duty soldiers this calendar year, while fiscal year anyway, which started an October last year, in fiscal year twenty twenty four, of the goal was fifty five thousand. Don't think they met it because well, apparently no one wants to work or

actually serve in a woke military now. Some have blamed the recruitment crisis that we've been facing for years on well, obesity, academic performance, COVID pandemic. Hegzeth said the crisis stems from the military losing its warrior ethos. I'll let you decide whether the figures support Hegsath's conclusion. I would say that they do. Over to Andrew Grossman and Crystal Christian Shapiro, a lot of news and information about DEI and the

eradication of it. Google now has killed diversity hiring targets. One headline West Point has gotten rid of gender based in race based clubs because they're divisive and run contrary to the military ethos. But Andrew Grossman and Christian Shapiro, writing column headline DEI and disparate impact, The next step in restoring meritocracy is to reject the theory that proportionate outcomes equal fairness, and it's an interesting observation they make.

Writing on day two of his administration, President Trump ordered federal agencies to terminate diversity equity inclusion programs in the government and combat them in the private sector. And of course Trump can't force the private sector to abandon DEI, but he can focus on and point out that meritocracy

is what makes businesses great. Referring back to my comments about Musk, the order follows through on his promise to forge a color blind, merit based society and to end the engineering of race and sex in every aspect of American life. Content a character, not color of skin.

they point out it's unconstitutional. Disparate impact theory first recognized by the Supreme Court in a case called Griggs versus Duke Power back in nineteen seventy one, saying Title seven of the sixty four Civil Rights that prohibits discrimination by employers. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission applied this prohibition to any policy that had a disparate impact on racial minorities, even if

there was no intentional discrimination. They argue that the purpose of Title seven was to accomplish economic results, not merely to influence motives or feelings. The Justice is agreed and block power from requiring a passing score on a standardized test and a high school diploma as a condition of employment because these requirements disqualified black applicants at a higher rate than whites. Again, we're going back to nineteen seventy

one here. Griggs limited aptitude testing by employers, but not the need for aptitude. And that's the salient point. One of the ways you can judge meritocracy and your ability to do the job is because of these testing that ultimately has a disparate impact on one racial minority or in a racial group or another. I mean, you still

need aptitude to do the job. So what they did businesses pivoted over to a college degree requirement, which they said seemed legally safer because college is widely engaged in racial balancing. But applicants with ability but lacking the college education were blocked from positions. Griggs was limited to employment law, but disparate impact theory has since infected many levels of

the federal government. Get a load of this. It applies to federally funded programs under Titles six of the Civil Rights Act, creditors under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, landlords under the Fair Housing Act, broadband providers under the Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act. It's been used to block criminal background tests on rent applications, school discipline policies, and underwriting

criteria for home insurance. Landlords successfully sued the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota for quote unquote aggressively enforcing its housing codes because it required landlords to respond to roadent infestations, broken smoke detectors, and other hazards which could increase rent

and ergo disproportionately affect black tenants. Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that racial balancing is quote patently unconstitutional close quote that from Students for Fair Housing versus Harvard to twenty twenty three to CIS, as well as other decisions. Yet, as the Justice is explained in a case called Ricci versus di Stefano, two thousand and nine. Desperate impact theory dictates the policies with and quote undesirable racial effect close

quote are invalid. If a race neutral policy affects racial outcomes, or even appears to do so. The burden ultimately falls on the employer to prove the policy is essential, a daunting standard. In practice, this means employers, landlords, and other business must track and plan for racial outcomes and maintain racial balance before adopting policies such as drug tests. They must assess the racial impact and consider alternatives that might

achieve more desirable racial balance. Race must be constantly monitored to identify potential liabilities. As just as Anthony Scaliam noted in his concurring opinion in that Ricci case, disparate impact theory places quote a racial thumb on the scale close qui, requiring employers to make decisions because of racial outcomes. Mister Trump, accordingly, should direct his administration to reverse all rules and cease enforcement based on disparate impact theory, and he should support

litigation challenging its constitutionalities. Scalia Warren in the Reachi case that one day the Supreme Court will have to confront the question whether or to what extent are the disparate impact provisions of Titles seven of the Civil Rights Act nineteen sixty four consistent with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. They conclude, mister Trump should bring forth that day of reckoning Merit Merit six sixteen fifty five K. See the

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the listening audience. If we give away like concert tickets, the phones just like blow up immediately. I said, I kind of get concerned. I feel like I'm a lone voice in the wilder. And I said, nobody's out there listening. And you know, you got a listener to lunch. You got people listening all the time, and it's such a wonderful thing. It's it gives me an emotional boost. But I mentioned that the Bender one day because he is the program director for a long time, and he said, yeah,

I was having a conversation one time. I would say he was on the air covering for someone, and you know that was the conversation they were having off air, which is, you know, nobody's calling on the program. So he said, I tell you what, pick an item out of your office. I can't remember who he was talking to, but someone who he was, who was it Rich Wahlberg, go grab something we could give away from your office. It was like like a coffee mug or just some

random item. And they said, collar number six, gonna get this thing. It was a stapler. That's right, he was a stapler. And the minute he said that, the fuck lef just blew up immediately. Anyway, I can just yeah, well, what's on your mind? What do you want to talk about? Forty thousand folks so far have decided to resign from the federal government. And that's actually not that that has not yet met Donald Trump's target to get rid of

federal government employees. But so far, forty thousand workers have agreed to resign and take their salaries through September and go find another job. Officer Personnel Management yesterday on a call with officials, said the number of federal workers who've accepted the resignation offer actually more than forty thousand. Another person confirmed the figure was above forty thousand at least

as of yesterday afternoon. The deadlines today, so more people could take them up on the offer, and they expect the numbers to rise rapidly today given that the deadline I think is at five pm today, So the White House originally expected to be between five and ten percent of federal employees would quit. That would be about one hundred billion dollars in annual savings. As presently, there are about two million Americans working for the federal government in

civilian jobs. Some of those employees are exempted from the offers, So there actually are employees out there in the federal government that even the Trump administrations believed to be absolutely necessary. And as we reported and talked about yesterday, USAID, which funds all kinds of nonsensical programs around the four corners of the world with a forty billion dollar a year annual budget, all of them, or nearly all of them, have been placed on administrative leave. That was as of

Saturday morning. Dozens of Education Department employees already placed on administrative leave as well. They're doing their best to get rid of the Department of Education. Maybe they won't be able to do it. Congressionally created it was, but if you defund it, she could have a sign on the door that says Department of Education. If no one's working in there because they have no funding, you've effectually ended it more employees who were deemed as working in diversity

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I appreciate you bringing to my attention. I will endeavor on any going forward basis to not touch it. But sometimes it's a little challenging to kind of deal with the microphone. So apologies for that. There you go. Let's start with Rebecca. Rebecca, thanks for calling this morning, and a happy Thursday to you.

to the morning. Shown A happy Friday eve to you.

that way. I just thought i'd say it out loud.

God bless you, John, Thank you so much for making the point. You can go back to work now. It's what you should do. Let's see is that. Lois Lewis, Welcome to the show. Thanks for calling this morning, Brian.

in Gaza. I think he does that just to stir the pot and to get people talking about it. Gaza is a wasteland. I don't know if you've seen pictures of it. It's just been bombed into hell. There's really no place to live there anymore. I don't believe in the idea that he can displace Palestinians that live there, that want to stay there. What right does he have to tell people where they can live into what country they're going to be sent. So I find offense with that concept.

some pretty nice beachfront properties. If you look at it that way, it could be a habitable place. And if you make it more welcoming and the terrorists aren't running the territory. It would be a welcome environment for a lot of investment. I mean, it's the right thing to do, so conceptually, I have no problem with it, But the idea that we're gonna own it is nonsensical. And the idea that you can force people to go to some country that doesn't want them in the first place, I

think is nonsensical. But it's a conversation starter, and I think that's why he says things out loud, like let's Canada is gonna be the fifty first state. We're gonna buy Greenland. He didn't ask the folks that live in Greenland or Denmark about that concept, but he said it out loud, and now people are going, you know what, there's a lot of opportunity in Greenland. You know what, maybe we should welcome a relationship with the United States.

That's not a bad thing. Maybe the United States will start investing in Greenland, which has a population of like fifty thousand people. So conversation starters, and I think he goes broad brush in order to get people to start talking about it. It might take anyway. Got multiple collars online and thank each and every one of you for calling. I got to take quick break here six thirty seven.

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we need. We need the best and brightest people, regardless of race, ethnicity, your sexual preference. I don't care who you're sleeping with. If you're the best and brightest for the job, take it hired, Get hired. I don't think anybody cares, But don't hire somebody just because of who they sleep with if they're not the best and brightest for the job. It makes perfect sense. And you know what I would argue Elon Musk, can you find somebody

that's better? Probably be hard pressed. I mean, if your goal is to run an efficient organization, he knows all about organizational efficiency. Look at what the man has been able to accomplish. He buys Twitter and fires the vast majority of people who used to work there, and yet X renamed is still as efficient and operable as it was before they had all these thousands of workers employed there for apparently no reason whatsoever, demonstrably efficient. So there

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And these idiots that are protesting the fact that you're not going to have a trends opera anymore, I'm just sitting there and disbelieve.

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It's why I've always commented at the end of the week, I got a ream of papers worth of stories that I never got around to. And sometimes people want to talk about a particular topic and I'm not on that topic. So that's why I enjoy hearing from listeners to kind of steer the direction of the conversation, engage in thoughtful communications. Like the last color who observed that Benjaminett and Yahoo, he got it. He was almost cracking up when Trump

talked about taking over and running Gaza. I mean, nobody serious. People don't believe that we are actually going to make Gaza fifty first state or something. But initiating the conversation is what he's doing trying to get other people interested in the whole idea of turning a wasteland into something that's productive and valuable and useful so that human beings can inhabit it safely without fear of getting run over

by terrorists. That's how you get a conversation started. Maybe you know it's a little in artful, and people will be able to comment and criticize him for it, But you're dealing with Donald Trump here, folks. You got to take what he says with a bit of a grain of salt and sort of try to appreciate where he's coming from. Thanks, Gary's great hearing from you, Mississippi. James, my friend, how are you today, sir?

know that benefits the rest of the world. If we set the idea this free exercise of speech and our freedoms, our liberties, capitalism, productive producing businesses that hire people, we serve as an example for the rest of the world. But we're not taking over the rest of the world. We're not dealing with imperialism here.

globalist mentality. I don't hear anything from Trump that is that is globalist related. He's just looking out for our best interest.

your call. After the break. I gotta run though. At six fifty six, Right now, stick around Donovan and New Americans for Prosperity at seven thirty on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

to deal with the challenges. I don't know that being a murderer subjects you to more attacks or or harm or represents a bigger challenge for other prisoners than anybody else, because most everybody that's in a federal prison is probably

guilty of some horrific crime or another. So you know, whatever commit a crime, you're gonna have to deal with the time, and you're gonna have to deal with the consequences of being locked up in a prison, which I imagine is hell on earth, which is another reason why I'm not in favor of the death penalty. Some people are wrongfully convicted, and sometimes they're ultimately let out after

DNA evidence comes out. People admit that they lied on the bench, they admit that prosecutors engaged in suppressing evidence or otherwise not handing over exculpatory evidence to the defense council, and they end up getting out. That's why I don't believe in the death penalty, even for the worst offenders.

You know why, because it would be hell on earth being locked up into prison for your entire life also gives you an opportunity to get out if you've been wrong fully convicted, but there are also opportunities, and I was looking for the article as you mentioned that US Attorney General Pam Bondi seeking to reverse last hour commutations for the death row murderers, and again that would mean a commutation of the death penalty, but not freedom into

the general population of the you know, not being released from prison. But pointed out that maybe state officials could pursue death penalty against the inmates under state law because a presidential commutation slash pardon only frees you up or releases you from federal crimes, and quite often federal crimes mirror the laws in states. Is like, you can be tried under federal law, you can be tried under state law,

or maybe be tried under both. So just because you got off from a commutation of your death sentence by President Joe Biden doesn't mean that maybe the state couldn't also bring independent charges and pursue the death penalty under state law. Complicated slightly, but that's kind of the reality is. We're staring at it right now. Appreciate the call, my friend five one, three, seven four nine fifty eight hundred eight two three talk pound fixt fifty on AT and

T phone. As I mentioned, coming up at bottom of the hour, Donovan O'Neil, what is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? Donald to be talking about that? Mark Meckler coming up at eight oh five on a Convention of States and he's the Convention of States President, and do we need one?

of which would be challenged in court. Going back to the whole idea of taking over Gaza maybe for the purposes of rebuilding it, because we rebuild nations that we bomb into submission, like Germany Japan, for example, in the aftermath of World War Two. We put our money and our time and resources to making those places a better place to live and welcoming them into a mutually a

beneficial relationship. Now that is possible in Gaza. But the whole idea that Donald Trump can somehow pick up the Palestinian people and push them into Egypt or someplace else, I find rather offensive. Substitute the word Palestinian for Jews, and doesn't it sound remarkably Nazi esque. We're gonna round up all the Jews and send them to Egypt. We're gonna round up all the Palestinians and send them to

Egypt so we can rebuild Gaza. No, I just don't like the way that sounds, and I don't think it's legally possible. And kind of agree with the top of the air news there with the European Union saying that, you know, international law may have something to say about that,

you know, but talk amongst yourselves. But Donald Trump the other day said, in so far as Iran is concerned because they have threatened his life over the killing of Cassam Solomani, Trump ordered a rocket strike and killed that guy. It was a nasty figure. He led the Iranian a Revolutionary Guard Court cud's force, responsible for the death of many many people. So bad guy got killed, but we don't have a declaration of war going on. You know,

we bomb people in random countries all the time. So I always mentioned, and I've jokingly said, well, what if Canada decides there's some bad guy here in the United States and they rockets strike the guy. That's an attack on American soil. That could be viewed as an act of war. Right, So Trump's I've left instructions if they do it. In other words, if they killed me, they would get obliterated. There won't be anything left referring to the country of Iran. Okay, So here we have a

real life illustration of that flip side. We know the Iranians hate Trump. We know they are angry over the killing of that Revolutionary Guard corp Cuts Force leader. What would your perception be if Iran launched a rocket strike at the White House and blew up Donald Trump. Wouldn't your response be that is an act of war? And don't you think Congress might get together and declare war

against Iran? I think that will be an appropriate response, But there would have to be a congressional decision along those lines. They would have to decide whether American military resources would be put to the chore and the task of wiping iron off the face of the earth, as Donald Trump claims he left instructions to do if they kill him. But the world's obviously a smaller place in this technology. Look, Iron's like two seconds away from building

a nuclear bomb. So's North Korea and they already have one probably. But look there you go. Everybody and his brother now has drones, including drug cartels. In Mexico, We're about two seconds away from you having a drone parked in your driveway that'll fly you to wherever you work. This technology is pervasive, It's everywhere, and it offers an opportunity. It creates an opportunity for evil people to do evil things using the technology. So I am no fan of war.

This whole military industrial complex has always gotten me down, and I think we engage in too much warlike activity around the world. How much good did it get us invading Afghanistan after the Russians were there for thirteen years. It did them no good except cost them thousands and thousands of lives. We spend a longer period of time

there absolutely accomplishing nothing whatsoever. From the time that we spent there to pull the plug on it almost immediately and have more of our people killed as we're leaving, and leaving billions of dollars in military equipment for the designated enemies that we were there to try to eradicate to use to their advantage. Doesn't make any sense, does it anyway? I guess it just depends on whose ox

is being gored. But when you are the strongest military power in the entire world, and you've got stuff in things that the American military has that no other country has, you can make threats and you can carry out random killings on lands that we have no war with because oh, there's the bad guy. But that world was rapidly changing. This unique American military power ability and we still are the biggest and the best on the planet doesn't just

exist in the hands of us anymore. You've got to project that out into the world and think about that as we move forward and make decisions. But like I said, if ron launched a missile strike at the White House and killed Donald Trump, I think we all would agree there will be an active war, and we probably would have a declaration of war, which would be the only right appropriate mechanism for us to well obliterate them. As Trump said, your thoughts quite welcome here five on three

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We were talking earlier. Someone brought up the idea that Democrats are actually just just beside themselves over Elon Musk and his efforts to pair back the size and scope of government and find money and save money because we spend too much. I can't imagine a human being alive that thinks the government doesn't spend too much given our national debt, and that that national debt really does jeopardize

every program that exists. If you're hooked up to the bubilical court of government, maybe you're thinking about your Social Security payment, maybe you're on Medicaid, Medicare, Medicaid a curity, the social welfare programs that no one will touch because of the third whale of politics. All of those programs are in jeopardy because the government spends too much damn money. And going back to this Usaid program where forty million

dollars goes to stupid things around the world. Elon Musk identifying a whole bunch of them the other day in the morning show is identifying a whole bunch of them, like they think the gay Opera or whatever. Pick and choose whichever one you want that you find offensive or stupid. You paid for it, so cut it. The world won't miss a program like that. However, I don't think they hear what they're saying. Democratic lawmakers going after Elon Musk's

effort with this dodge program. Here's one representative, Diana Presley, Democrat from Massachusetts. Elon Musk is a Nazi NEPO baby, a godless, lawless billionaire who no one elected. And there's that no an elected point that people keep making it. Who's Elon Musk? And how the hell do you end up that position? He's an advisor and thanks to the color pointed out doctor Fauci, that was doctor Fauci elected.

The guy who told you you couldn't visit your grandparents in the nursing home, the guy that told you to wear the mask that didn't do anything. I remember, you know, these visions of people walking around Kroger, you know, with with pantyhose wrapped around their face. And then we find out even the best mask out there doesn't stop you from exhaling coronavirus around It just seeps right through. My parallel has always been picking up a handful of sand

and throwing it in a chain link fence. Well, the fence stops some of the sand from going through. Yeah, some, but the rest of it's going to go right through. Also, Iyana pressed, y elon, this is the American people. This is not your trashy cyber t truck that you can

just dismantle, pick apart and sell the pieces of. Well, you can also argue the flip side, which is, wait, wait a second, why are you in government, elected or unelected officials in charge of allocating the scarce taxpayer dollars, throwing money and approving programs globally that advanceed woke agenda. We didn't ask for that. I mean did anybody in

my listening audience ask for that? I mean, did you really think about when you were voting for someone that I'm really hoping we fund a gay lesbian opera in Ireland or something ore? Again, the creation of a virus that creates a pandemic that kills millions of people? Do you sign up for that? What elected officials decided that that was a good idea?

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original Act. We wanted to thank them for their work then and use that to begin to drive the conversation about how we need to make these Trump tax cuts permanent. And so it was great to go out and get a lot of signatures and start to engage folks on something that they've probably forgot a little bit about, because you know, twenty seventeen feels like a lifetime ago.

honorable thing to do, right. We want fiscal conservatives. We've folks who like that, But I think you could achieve a better outcome if you did what you're saying there, Brian, Right, make the tax cuts permanent and force them to go back and actually say we're gonna claw this money from our citizens, rather than reversus saying we're gonna we're just gonna let them expire so we can have a healthier fiscal note. We need more restraint across the board.

moving target for anybody making those statements. But then as we sit here and going back to Elon Musk and like, for example, that whole USAID program at forty billion dollars, showing out nonsensical money, massive quantities of money for really nonsensical problem or issues or projects throughout the world. Stop

and puzzle. Sometimes I think the LUFT just says we need to take more money merely for the sense of taking it away and depriving whoever they're taking it from of their freedom to spend it wherever the hell they want. And when you step back and look at what they're spending on, you're like, wait a second, you don't you don't need to take more money. You're already wasting billions and billions of dollars on stupid things that even the left wingers don't want.

our communities than we can. And it's just a fundamental conflict divisions as Thomas soul book, great book, but it's the conflict divisions. They believe they know better than us, the people, and it's wrong, it's wrong, and it's why we got to fight for these tasks. That's what we've got to fight back against, this effort to continue to grow the size and scope of government and support initiatives like this that are going to help keep the money

in our pockets. So we did support the initiatives in our communities and help our neighbors out, not wait for the government to show up and.

and abuse in just that one segment of government that Donovan. O'Neil, you know as well as I do. They can't even pass an audit. They can't even get in all. They tried eight times and failed every time. Hold on, Donald, I'll tell you what. Just leave that sit right there and we'll bring it back because we're out of time in the segment. I'm not through with you yet. Thought of it, O'Neil. I'll just pause for we'll bring Donovan

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We need to pay that down or something. But it's a laughable proposition because it just keeps getting bigger and bigger, regardless of which administration assigned, that the federal government just

spends too much. And then as we are finding out now more and more each and every day, thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, or Donald Trump and Elon Musk, that we have a fat, bloated government that just spends countless billions of dollars on stuff and things that nobody in the American public wants, needs or is benefited by, which leads me to conclude, and I'm interested in your reaction on this, it's not really about providing needed, valuable

government services. It's more about just taking money just because their perception is, well, you just make too much, we need to take it away from you. This whole concept of you know, from each according's bility, each courting is a need or socialism or some form of twisted Marxism. It's not about efficiency, it's not about doing good. It's just about leveling the financial playing field for no other reason than to level the financial playing field.

ourselves from the enemies abroad. And border security. Let's make sure that what we we have integrity as a nation, and we could secure our borders and know who's coming and going, and the good folks should be able to get here and the bad folks should stay out. Beyond that,

there ain't a lot the federal government should be doing. Now, you know, that's it's hard to get back to that kind of purity, right and clarity, and what the federal government subjectives are, but it seems like we're taking a good stab at.

need more money. And in fact, the less money you take out of our paychecks, the more tax revenue will flow into the Washington federal government because will be more efficient, will produce more goods and services and ergo more revenue, more people employed because we've got freedom to hire people with the money that they didn't take. That's the reality of lower taxes. No one seems to want to admit it, but it's been proven over and over again.

Trump was back and off it was in office. The first time Bidenomics made people have to spend twelve thousand dollars more a year just to maintain their standard of living. They want relief, and when they hear that billions of dollars are going overseas to wacky programs. They demand accountability.

And I think this is going to the conversation happening now in Washington around DOGE and USAID is helpful in the conversation around why we need to have the Trump tax customer permanent and we need to rein in the out of control monster that is the US federal government bureaucracy.

not keep feeding the system. To make these tax fits permanent and let us keep our hard earned money so that the federal government doesn't get its hands on it and go out and spend find new ways to spend it, and then some well.

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Self Government Governance. And what we're going to be talking about a Convention of States Actions. An active proponent of a convention to propose amendens the United States Constitution, a movement that's actually growing in size and strength. Welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning from Market's a real pleasure to have you on today.

thirty four states to call a convention. And the reason they gave us this method they said in Convention that they knew that the federal government we can become a tyranny at some point, and that the states would have to have a way to reign in the federal government. So that's why they gave us this second clause of

Article five. And basically what it does is allows the states, when two thirds of them want to to gather in convention, they have to state in advance the reasons they want to gather in convention, and the states.

seeing so exposed right now, staffers and bureaucrats. Number two, to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, like a balanced budget amendment, spending caps, tax caps, and number three, and I think most importantly personally, is to restrain the scope and jurisdiction of the federal government. So, for example, when the president is talking about getting rid of the Department of Education.

federal government said, yeah, exactly, you didn't do anything. That's why we can regulate you. Yeah, and even what do you mean?

but a whole line of cases that follow it. Indeed, so I think they might pair back on it. But if we want to make dramatic progress on that, we can do that in a Convention of States. We can reinterpret or go back to the original interpretation of the Commerce Clause, which actually just said that the federal government has the power to regulate, which meant to smooth out Back then, it didn't mean to prepare all these regulations interstate commerce, and commerce meant the shipment of goods across

state lines. Trying to do is prevent trade wars between the states exactly.

would reverse that. I mean, that's kind of that's kind of why I initially gravitated towards me bring even bringing that case up, Mark, because you know, we need to amend the Constitution if that one case was overturned and they took away the federal government's power to regulate stuff that we are not doing over across state lines.

to avoid some terrible consequences. But some people are worried about, you know, the so called runaway convention, and oh my god, if we convene a convention of States, all these left wing liberal nutcases are going to you know, enshrine DEI as an amendment to the Constitution.

propose all kinds of horrible things. Important to remember, a supermajority of states have to agree in advance to what the convention's about. Take thirty four states degree in advance what the limitations on conventions are. And I talked about what the ones we're proposing are, so nothing bad can happen under that. And then the ultimate stop gap in the end is anything that comes out of convention is

just a suggestion. Literally, the convention has no power. All they can do is discuss and suggest, and then it takes thirty eight states to ratify. And Brian, here's a thought experiment for you. I've given this to literally millions of people. I give out my personal email address, which is Mmeckler at coosaction dot com, and say, if you're worried about this, and you're like me as conservative libertarian, give me the the amendment that you're worried about, and

then list the thirty eight states that we're ratifying. And I can tell you that in doing this for eleven plus years, I've not received an.

it shares bipartisan support. Now, I mean, if you've got a majority of Democrats supporting it, which apparently there are, and sixty two percent of independence supporting it, and or seventy five percent of Republicans supporting it, why haven't more states just approved the concept, Ohio being one of them. They aren't marked in green on your map yet.

just been slow to allow it through the legislature. And Franklin, Ohio you know, Huffman is the guy who has the power in the legislature, and so he's just been.

has been able to accomplish. But I'm given large credit to Elon Musk for exposing how much waste there is in government held a USA Department and some of the programs and stupid, stupid things we spent forty billion dollars on that has to run contrary to the values of almost every American. You know, the idea of you know, funding gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology alone, they've literally killed millions of people we paid

for that. What elected officials said that was a good idea? Oh, that's right, not one. So the revelation of the waste, the revelation of all of this just absolute waste a tax payer dollars and the fact that we spend trillions of dollars more than they take in every year. I mean that crosses political lines. It's indefensible.

at long term legacy play and that's important. I love that he doesn't have another term, so what's he going to do to make things permanent? And a lot of stuff that he's doing right now can be reversed by subsequent administration unless we ensconce them and constitutional amendments. So we do know there's been discussions inside the inner circle in the White House about a Convention of States and I'm looking forward to Trump's support.

get Elon on board as well. The Vekramswami was already on board. So I think we're getting very close to the point where we'll see the administration in support openly.

then some rain in the daytime sometime on Saturday. Anyway, expect some rain Saturday. Hi's in the mid fifties. It's forty four right now, in time for traffick.

seventy five and Charles in the center lanes. Chuck Ingramont fifty five KR see the Talk station.

late we've had some pretty bad aviation news. But real quick, before we get to Jay, I want a special shout out thank you to not only everybody who went to Listener Lunch yesterday had a fantastic time, but if you didn't get a chance to listen Every Wednesday at seven oh five we hear from Jack Atherton. He's a brilliant, brilliant guy, great commentator. Jack in his beautiful better half Ainsley made it to lunch yesterday and that was quite a trip for them. Shout out to Jack and Ainsley.

Great CNISA. I had quite a few listeners chime in to me and letting me know that the how pleased they were to meet you. One of my fraternity brothers, Meggie. They said you are two of the nicest people he's ever met, and I can only agree with that all day long. One of the other nicest people ever meet, Jay Ratliff, Thanks for a biting by my words there and welcome back to the Morning show. It's always my pleasure to have you on the show.

take care of that. They've got the black boxes, they'll be able to determine some and a little disappointed that the black Hawk did not have a black box type of component that would allow them to listen to the conversations that were ongoing, and the Yeah, some black Hawks have it, and I was hopeful that this was the case, but the latest word that we had, and of course, Brian, it may change if my information is wrong, but it does not have that capability, which means that they're going

to the investigators are going to have to rely on the back and forth, the time stamps, the different types of things that they've got from a data standpoint to try to figure out why that aircraft was where it

was supposed to be or where it was. Because you're right, when the crash first took place and I heard the altitude, I thought they can't be right because they've got that ceiling of two hundred feet and I can't see any reason why any helicopter crew would go above that, knowing that the commercial lanes that are there, especially going in and had a runway three to three there.

But far too often in the history of aviation, when you look at the decades and decades of as accidents near accidents, the human element tends to come into play, and almost all of them. It may not be the cause, but it's a contributing cause many many times. And that's why a lot of these well meaning individuals, we'll say, Jay, that's why we need to have airplanes with no pilots, because then we can avoid these mistakes from being made

and make aviation safer. And of course I don't agree with that at all, but it is sad that there's always that human element that seems to be there, which is why, you know, you've always heard me say before this that we were enjoying the safest ere ever of commercial jet travel, but we had to be incredibly vigilant to make sure that that continued to be the case, because we get sloppy. Human nature is just that we get complacent, we get a little sloppy, and as a result,

mistakes can take place. And you know, we've already seen the FAA shut down that corridor for the helicopter traffic there at the Regae National Airport, which is good and that'll probably.

approval as you do all of them. Because many times the airline industry and their lobbying group and others can apply a little pressure saying we don't want to do this, this, and this because it would cost too much money, and then it would cause a raise, We would have to raise fares, and then that would be really bad for the consumers. Let's not do that.

happens at every airport. Most of the time, this operates exactly as it's supposed to. In this case, it didn't, and it with horrific.

in that aircraft. What could take place is it could actually cause the airplane to change its inclination to the air over the wing then gets disrupted. The lift is no longer there, and the airplane goes into a stall.

it's it's a horrific video to watch. But the airplane takes off and it has that shift of gravity where the cargo came loose, and you can see the moment at a very low altitude that that aircraft the crew lost complete control and that airplane just falls right out of the sky. But it is, it's that's why everything is strapped down. Everything is it just it's there's just no room for.

it's in, how many passengers are. And that's why sometimes when you are on a flight that maybe isn't full, you'll have the pass the flight tends come back and say, hey, we need you six people to move to the back of the airplane, or we need you to come over here. And what they're doing is at the pilot's instruction, distributing that weight a little bit better throughout the cabin so that it's going to make it easier for the crew

to maintain control the flight. So yeah, if you're ever asked to move, please please don't throw a fifth Please please don't throw f You know.

my mom. I mean, without hesitation. But when I recognize here in the United States, but we do it better than anybody on the planet, and there's a lot of things we can do better, and we will, but you know, it's I'm just I'm just thrilled that we have this dedication to safety as we have here in the United States, because the mechanics, the pilots, the training, the way the aircraft are built to the NTSB, even the FAA oversight. You know, many times I'll give them the credit that

they deserve. It's a large group of people that do an incredible job daily to keep all of us safe. And you know, when there's a breakdown, it can be costly, and it's one of the reasons you've just got to stay super vigilant.

the aircraft is too heavy to land. It's not yet a critical situation, so they decide to burn off the fuel for three hours and then land the airplane so that a the passengers that were disruptive can be removed, the damage to the inside of the aircraft can be repaired, and then they can take care of the rest of the customers. The airline decided to sue this couple for ninety thousand dollars in part for the damage to the aircraft the fuel that they had to expend trying to

land after the event took place. Because you can land too heavy and you don't want to do that if you don't have to, unless it's a dire emergency situation.

I guess two aircraft ran into each other on the runway on Wednesday, a Japanese airliner and I guess some delta flight. But that's an air traffic control issue, I would imagine, So what's going on and what do we need to fix? Jay?

the tour of the Federal Aviation Administration. Air traffic control says where they're relying on some of this equipment and technology that it goes back seventy years.

And I'll say that from a retention standpoint, it makes their job as controllers more stressful, harder to do. And you want to do everything you can to keep these men and women sticking around for a while. Let's give them state of the art equipment to you, so let's make their job easier. Let's let's make aviation safer so that we can do everything that we want to do.

As far as protecting everybody who flies. There's no way that you can have two two and a half million people fly every day, and I consider that a priority. But Brian, the problem has been over the last several decades, we found a way to make it work so in the eyes of the people that spend money in Washington, DC. Why spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars on this and then a like number here and hundreds of million because it's working now, so we can use that

money elsewhere, and they do. And it's really unfortunate because we're so far behind. It's going to take a administration or two to get us caught up. But hopefully Trump can get us pointed in the right direction.

morning flights are going to be impacted as well. So for the next twenty four to thirty six hours, this storm going through the Northeast is really gonna hammer operations across the country. So if you're headed towards the Northeast, just take an extra dissipation. It's gonna be a slow go.

a pretty good idea for me. And of course the conversation we just ended with Jay ratliffifty five krs dot com. You try Heart Media app. God bless you Joe's Trekker for producing the program. Folks, have a great day. Tuned in tomorrow for Tech Friday, and don't go wegg Glenbeck's next a.