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And thank you to his grandson who roots for me, although he did look a little bored. Garbage of Mike. If you're out there, I really enjoyed. It's the great seeing you and your better half as well as your grandson. Anyhow, all the things going on in the world, you got the battle between now Elon Musky and Donald Trump. Donald Trump not happy with Elon Musk, who's against the Big beautiful Bill because it spends two damn months. Donald Trump

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He tested at the Ohio Senate Finance Committee last week, urging lawmakers to expand the homestead exemption program, cap how much school districts can get from property taxes, and stop a non business tax credit reward for out of state companies that buy up properties to rent out. I will

We're gonna have to. There's no choice.

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The sentence version of the budget that was released this or this past Tuesday, does have some proposals aimed at property tax relief, but both Nolan and Freeman said it's just not enough, calling them good minor steps. He said, I hope the Conference Committee looks at real relief for tax payers. What's including the Senate budget gives no real immediate relief to anyone. It only kicks the can a little down the road for future increases. So gird your loins, folks.

Provide real relief.

Whether that's going to go through, But in the meantime, you might want to start stockpiling some additional money to cover the additional presumably twenty percent increase you're going to see in your property tax coming up soon. Geez, it is unsustainable. But you know what, moving away from property taxes, I think we'd get taxed enough. Maybe we've got a

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I had a couple of callers online. I promised Scott he'd be first. Scott, thanks for calling and holding over the break. It's good to hear from you today.

Hey, good morning, Brian. We were down to listeners lunch yesterday and had a great time. Like my wife and I is like our third one we've been to. We're from up north.

Around Greenville, Ohio.

But we were blessed just to be able to sit and have lunch with Mississippi James and his wife.

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We just enjoyed our time, you know, all day long with him, and he just wanted to give him a shout out, and it was just nice to meet someone like him. You hear him on the phone every day almost it seems like and then you get to meet him and it was nice. We had a really nice time.

See you made a friend, isn't that great? That's why I love listening lunches. And there are tables of people there and you probably could spot a big table with the city and you know, they all sit together and they've been doing that for years, and it just warms my heart to know and that I was able through these lunches to facilitate the formation of friendship. So it's just it's awesome and I'm glad you're able to talk.

The Times sub Marine and Mike again too. That was you were just getting ready to You were just getting ready to play cribbage with him.

And I beat him. Yeah, that's three in a row, Scott in a row, Three in a row about a roll.

Well, just want to shout out. So we had a great time. Hey, I'll get off there.

Thanks a lot, next man, maybe I'll see it another one down the road. We're waiting for confirmation. I did not have and I still don't have absolute confirmation, but as of right now, all signs are indicating we are going to be at Wandering Monsters Brewery and they have a nice menu there as well. But I'll confirm it and let everybody know as we get a little bit closer, and we're gonna have it not on the second of July because of the Independence Day holiday two days later.

My friend, Yeah, good good morning, and my lovely bride is up this morning, and you kicked the hornets mass with this whole property tax U. Oh yeah, she sees all sees all work. This is this is one of her You know, everybody's got two or three subjects that you know what. Don't bring this up around so and so, because if you do, you're not going to hear the end of it. That one of those from my wife is the property tax issue. And you know it bugs me too, but I'll I'll blurt down a couple of

Frankly, Now, I will tell you Tom that you know I because like, for example, Dusty Rhodes, who used to be already he was at lunch yesterday and I'm thinking of him as I say this, and I know he's retired, but he would argue that, no, it's based upon the market valuation. And like the next door neighbors sold their house and they sold it for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars more than they bought it for, and they use that to compare the value of your house. Same size,

Okay, well, well still, it's that's not enough knowing that our property value is going up. That's not enough. They got to also jack up the rate. So yeah, we're getting We're getting hosed every which way, and I don't know, I frankly get fluckered sometimes what can we do about it? I mean it because I was talking to General off airs, like, what happens to these people when they get elected to office?

Thanks Tom. Yeah, I was immediately thinking of since a City Council and the Hyde Park Square deal, and then I also I am thinking of the so called Big Beautiful Bill, which doesn't go far enough to cut government spending. The Republicans are the ones that created this. Democrats are one hundred percent lockstep against it, and Elon Musk was

One.

No, we're gonna stop. We're not gonna spend as much. Never seems to happen, doesn't, So we find ourselves thirty six coming up on thirty seven trillion dollars in the hole. Anyway, speaking of home ownership, and of course the ever increasing property tax bill goes along with that. It does go along with certain expenses. Home ownership does come along with repairs and things you need to do and plumbing problems. And that's why I recommend my friends at Plum Type Plumbing.

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Five fifty one fifty five KA City Talk Station. I am very happy Thursday to you. After the top of the our news, get some time with Jack Windsor. He is the host of the Windsor Report and has been following as an investigative reporter the whole situation with medicaid in the state of Ohio. And yes, there's billions and billions of fraud in the medicaid program. Jack after the news on the phone right now, Jay Jay, Welcome to the Morning Show. Good to hear from you this morning.

Hey, good morning, Brian. Hey, I want to do I've got a little bit of your conversation with Tom, and I want to build on it about the process by which your property tax is assessed. I live in a call to Sack about eight houses.

I bought the.

Smallest house, least expensive house, and a pretty nice call to Sack. And I am sure I've seen the houses sell for about three four hundred thousand dollars more than mine is worth. I'm sure that's a solid number. I took a look at my property taxes and those of my neighbors, and I saw that I was second highest charged in that call to Sack. So I got a hold of a tax guy, put together an assessment, said, look, I'll.

Pay the average.

Just charge me the average. But my house is the smallest, least fancy house in this call to Sack full of very nice houses. It came out and took a look and went we went through the appell process and he said, well, the reason your taps are so much higher because it's a single story home. I said, explain that to me. I said, what's the rationale? With that, he said, well, I put a one point five factor on a second story. I said, then you're making my case.

I said, so.

Every square foot on the second floor is one point five cents to a dollar in the first He says, yes. I said that a second story would be much more expensive than a first story using basic map. He says, no, it's the point. It's point five. I said.

He said, no, it's half.

I said, well, then that would be point five factory. So now I see that this thing is firaling bad. I said, can you just give me the equation that you use it, because I'm kind of a faction and data guy. He said, well, he says, I use my opinion, which is the same as facts and data.

Oh my god.

And I told him no, your facts and data are are are light years away from opinion. In facts and data are light years apart. Can you not give me the formula? Well, my opinion is the formula. He went back and thought about it, and shockingly, I've got a response in the mail that says was carefully considered. Your proposal to pay the mean of all those bigger houses.

In your neighborhood rejected.

We'd rather go with our opinion, and that's up in Springboro, Ohio, between Springborough and Waynesville, just in case anybody's listening in that area. That's how your taxes are being assessed.

Oh that's bat crap, insane, And I think that flies in the face of the way they're supposed to conduct the assessments, which is comparable homes in the general area, and if yours is some smaller square feet, they should be comparing years to the sales of homes of comparable size in your community, not the ones on the street, which obviously are all much larger and therefore presumably more valuable.

Correct.

So, dunda, this is me being a public service announcement. They do not have a standard formula.

I'm convinced.

Did they use some comparable to my house?

Maybe?

Probably, but but.

Compared to what other houses are on the street. There was a there's a lot of twists and turns, And whenever he told me his opinion or facts and data, that's what told me. There is no map behind us, there is no standard process. I think it depends which guy you have and who shows up and what he feels like that day.

See, I'm out of my element to know about the like if there is a lit not that you want to go to court, but if there's some sort of litigation where you can you know you've been denied the reduction in property tax value. They obviously are pulling figures from their sphincter as opposed to relying on documented calm. So I thought they were supposed to pull out the comparable properties that they use to assess your home, Like here's the stack of the ten houses we looked at

And so I just there was a board hearing.

He said, if you would like to come down to the board hearing and schedule that, And I don't know if there was a fee. I think there was to do it. And but you know, honestly, I declined after thinking if he's if this is the guy that they hired, he's hired by the board in fact, and opinions are bad, our opinions are okay and not frowned upon. I honestly felt at that point this is so damn broken this, This won't even this is going to waste my time and money to go down there and argue it. So

Well, honestly, you know, I I if you know as your a journey, I would have recommended you gone through the entire process, even if you're going to be out some money. It would have a record documented. You have other people looking and listening at what you were told. That guy would probably be there, and I can't find I can't imagine anyone finding that to be an appropriate mechanism to evaluate the value of a property. One dude with the random opinion about the value of the home.

Jay.

Apparently, within the next year or so, according to Matt Dowan, the County Associate Autitors Association, your property tax bill is going to go up another twenty percent. Maybe you'll have another shot at contesting it. And I would recommend seeing it through the whole process to find out where it goes. And you could probably get some local reporter to listen in on that and report it widely to the general

Be right back us. Happens fast, stay up to date at the top of the hour.

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Please to welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show Jack Windsor, who's editor in chief the Ohio Press Network, host of The Windsor Report, and a bit of an investigative reporter, and he's going to join me to offer and you his expertise on medicaid fraud as well as the Ohio budget. Let's dive on into medicaid fraud. Apparently there is a ton of it going on here in the state of Ohio, to the tune of billions of dollars.

Well, Brian, first of all, thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here. And State Representative Mike Devilla started a probe into Ohio's medicaid system and what he found within one beneficiary population segment known as the aged blind and disabled. If you were to extrapolate that number out to the whole system, we're talking upwards of six billion.

Dollars Brian, six billion dollars with a bee.

Yep, billion with a bee. And here's how he did it. If you don't mind, I'll dive into that real quick, please.

Yeah.

He started this probe back in April, and what he said was give me records from twenty twenty three. And when I asked him about that, he said, because twenty twenty three's calendar year, all of that information should be finalized, audited. I didn't want to look at twenty twenty four because we're so early yet in twenty twenty five. I didn't want any excuses. I wanted to know a full year

I am shocked that you would get gobblygoog in response to the hard number of reports that he uncovered.

And that was just a sliver, Yeah, a.

Sliver of the entire medicaid population from one year, a couple of years ago. So and I guarantee you, and I'm sure you feel the same way, Jack Windsor that probably things have only gotten worse, but they certainly haven't gotten better since County.

You're twenty twenty three.

Well, a couple of things have happened in twenty twenty three. If you remember, we were just coming out of COVID, so there were people on the rolls in twenty twenty three. They estimated about three and a half million O highlands. Think about that, three and a half million highlands. We're receiving medicaid payments, our populations probably just north of eleven points or maybe close to eleven point seven million people, So three and a half million people, that's a pretty

Well, it's part of the big beautiful bill requiring folks who are able bodied and not really truly qualifying for a program it's supposed to help the disabled and and and needy elderly folks. They're they're glombing under the system without having to participate. I mean, I.

Don't understand how we've gotten to this place. Honestly, sir, I really don't. But going back to Lexus and Nexus, they're able to know, they know how much money people have, they're they're able to crunch those numbers. So when Lexus Nexus, who you described as a third party vendor, they are a vendor for the State of Ohio. This isn't some random outsourced, you know, think tank entity that did some separate number crunching. This is something the State of Ohio relies upon. Correct it is.

And let me tell you what's really weird about this. So Lexus Nexus is actually, I guess, a subcontractor of another third party that the state partners with. Nonetheless, at the end of the day, our tax dollars are paying Lexus Nexus for their service, right. And so when I read the Department of Medicaid's letter two things, the director Corcoran said, well, Lexis Nexus kind of has this wrong and shame on them. And I'm thinking, they're your partner,

That was the follow up question.

Yeah, why are we paying a company that'd be for service that we're we're not following up on and we're not putting into practice. The things that they're telling us might be problematic.

Well crazy.

If you disenroll them, you send them a letter say we've identified that you have far too much income to qualify for Medicaid. You are hereby disenrolled or otherwise disqualified from the program. They would have an opportunity to then.

Go whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

I don't know where you got your numbers, but I don't have that kind of money and make an argument over it.

Right, that's right. Well, two other stunning things I want to make sure I unpack here. Based on my preliminary investigation. Lexis Nexus isn't just small potatoes. This is a company. This is stunning to me, and this might be another story down the road. They have eighty they have access Brian to eighty eight percent of all banking account information in the country. That means if you have a name and a social Security number, they're going to find your

On ODM which is passing the BUCKS saying it's not their obligation to remove unqualified people from the Medicaid roles.

Yeah, that's right, and so Devilla has said, look, I'm going to write legislation to compel you to follow. I'm going to open investigations because the General Assembly has oversight authority to bring them in and question them in subpoena records. But I think what's really going to happen because of the way that they've talked to him and Lexus and Nexus,

It's phenomenal to me, and you know, it's just illustrative of the broader problem with the government generally speaking. They're not in business. They don't need to earn the money they take. They just take it from us, and then they have no incentive to really follow the money trail or keep track of our money. There's no fiduciary obligation by elected officials or people working behind the scenes over at ODM.

That's right, and I think there are about seven hundred employees, Brian and I think probably the third follow up report we do, we're gonna let everybody to know how much money they make. I think people are going to be appalled at the money that these folks make. If you're

Yes, you are six thousand stacks of a million dollars we're talking about here. It's just the amount of money is amazing. And all right, Well, this story is going to continue, and it's got legs for sure, and I sure hope that they're successful in writing this ship and for the sake of the American tax payer. Let's pivot

VV.

Ramas Swimming, who I Ramaswamming, who I believe will be our next governor. He's in favor of getting it down to zero, so or at least moving in that direction.

Jack, Yes, two point seventy five percent flat tax is what we will see. And I think it's going to be the second part of the biennium, which I think just means twenty twenty seven. So we're going to ratchet down one bracket and then we're going to get to that two point seventy five percent flat tax. Now, everyone that I talk to, the economists, the people who crunch the numbers, say that's very attractive for industry, for businesses

Well, and the predicate it was that this whole complex is going to generate enough revenue I guess from purchases fifteen dollars, beer sales and everything like that to basically pay the pay Ohio back and form of tax collection. Literally every business out there generates revenue in the form of income tax for the state of Ohio. They generate revenue with foot traffic. If it's a restaurant, they generate

Yeah, I caught tax cuts, Brian. That's why we've got to be one hundred percent bullish on a flat tax. And you know, there's going to be a lot to I think there's there's gonna be some stuff in there about property tax too, and making sure that schools are very fair with how they advertise and promote their levies

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Jack Winsor, editor in chief the Isio Press Network, host of The Windsor Report on ninety eight point nine FM, Columbus. I'm sure you can stream it. Check him out.

Jack.

It's been a pleasure having you on my show man. Maybe we can do it again real soon.

I'd love it. Brian, God bless you brother.

Take there have a great week to you.

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Six thirty one and a happy Friday to you one hour for now. Jennifer Gross, representing District forty five House Representative Gross in studio to talk about Medicaid. She is on the Medicaid board. Maybe she can solve some of the problems that we just addressed with Jack Windsor and one of the few Ohio Republicans who didn't vote for the budget, and since taxes are going to rise again, started out the program talking about that that'd be property taxes.

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It's six forty one. I heard me the abas. Next work, Jay ratt Love, he'll be on at eight thirty. We'll get here from Jennifer Gross will be in studio High State Representative Representative Growth Gross seven point thirty two eighty thirty one. We'll hear from Jay thereafter. In the meantime, over to the phones. Let's see what Corey's got this morning. Corey, Happy Thursday to you.

Welcome, Hey, Happy Friday. Is the there Ryan, Thanks.

For couble re quick on property text? What Jay the song got earlier? The auditor value in his property. If he goes gets his own appraisal, I go get a home equity loan. That's what I did. Found out my you was one hundred thousand dollars less than what the county said. Yeah, Homeport, that might be one way to do it.

You are absolutely carry, You are absolutely right. That is I failed to mention that. It obviously wasn't in the forefront of my mind when I was mentioning the comps and the other sales in the general neighborhood. So that is an excellent idea, and it is something you can do to take in when you make your case, appreciate that.

And then the secondly, I think as far as property tax, I think there's it's an American for there property tax on the residential property from something you bought, be taxes for to it sports a recurring thing. That state can take your home that you paid off and lived in for years because say a thousand dollars of vote back taxes. I think that's an American And I support elimination of property tax or residential properties, and I think that somebody

Well, that's what that ballot petition is being circulated, is right now be a constitutional amendment to eliminate property tax in the state of Ohio. And I'm sure if one of the petition circulators comes to your front door, I imagine

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Six point fifty one. It's coming up on the fifty five KRCD talk station. Looking forward to having Representative Jennifer Gross and studio to talk about medicaid in Ohio and the budget that's going on. We'll get her thoughts and comments about what we can do about property taxes anyway. Shall be in the studio for a full hour beginning at seven thirty, So looking forward to that. And then

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Sevenh six fifty five kr CD Talk Station, a very happy Thursday slash Friday Eve to you and I hope you can stick around. We've got a little time between now the bottom of the air when Jennifer grows So High State Representative District forty five joins the program. Sho'll be in studio for a full hour. We will talk about Medicaid since she is on the Medicaid Board. Perfect timing considering Jack Windsor from the Windsor Report was on.

It was fabulous as always good time. The problem with the property tax they solved it in the nineteen seventies, I believe. And what they did was when values jumped, they rolled back the millage of every voted levy so that you're voting for money, not millage. And if your value doubled, your taxes went down. Most of them, everything above the first ten mills, and that's most of eighty

Well, and wonderful explanation, and I appreciate it, but I'm going back to the now. I believe twenty year old Supreme Court decision was just says the way we fund schools here in the state of Ohio is unconstitutional, and they haven't done anything about it in twenty years.

Well, that's another issue. I'm talking about the fact that property taxes aren't supposed to blow out of sight when values go up. There's a kicker in there that rolls back the levees and the schools evaded with the twenty mili floor option, and the property owner gets screwed. I mean, it's that simple, and I know the Supreme Court ruled

Well, Dusty, none of this is a curveball if you can address or do you have any thoughts or ideas about it. I mean, all of this massive increase in property taxes as a result in this grassroots group collecting signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to eliminate property taxes altogether. Is that even something that's feasible?

I don't know, that's the problem, and you put your finger on it Ramaswami said he was going to end property taxes, but he didn't say he always going to replace the income So that's a problem. But on the other hand, they brought it on themselves by getting around that rollback and taking unvoted tax increases, So they brought it on themselves and lots of luck. I mean, you could put a fifteen percent sales tax on everything, I

Yeah, yeah, well, and you know that.

I would actually, you know, conceptually, even consider a sales tax increase as long as it wasn't outrageous to do it that way. But the problem with that is it's like federal tax dollars. They take them from us here locally, it goes to Washington, d c. And then anytime you want to get the money back, it comes with strings attached,

For sure. But the property tax they solved it. Uh, and then the school's got a work around in the late eighties and that up end of the whole thing. If that rollback was an effect for all every voted levy, the increase wouldn't have been that much it was in miniuschool. But that's the problem, and nobody wants to mess up, so lots of luck to them. Ask your state representative guest what she thinks about the twenty milter floor, and

Replace them with? Yeah?

But so now the spear real quick does before we part company. And so the idea would be to reduce the twenty mil floor down to what ten Just repeal that.

Yeah, I repeal it. Let the school taxes be treated as every other tax. The fire department didn't get any more money when the values were not because their levy rolls rolled back. The police department didn't get any more money, but the schools, if they were under this funny mill floor, got a wind fault.

Well, you answered the question for our listeners. I'm glad you were out there, man, because I'd been scratching my head over the whole reality of this, and I figured you were the man. Hell, you were at the Helm for such a long time in the auditor's department, you at least have the answer to why we're dealing with is right now. Great seeing you yesterday, man. It's always a pleasure to have you in our company, and I'm

I'll see you then, Brian, thanks a lot.

Thanks brother. Great hearing from you today. Five three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two three talk found five fifty on the at and T fund.

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Seven twenty fifty five KRC Detalk Station Friday. Jennifer Gross waiting in the wings should be joining me at the next segment and spending a full hour in studio talk about matter here in the state of Ohio, including medicaid, including the budget, including the twenty mil four of the Dusty just brought up. Unless she's ready for that, we're gonna get it anyway. Bobby, welcome to the program, Thanks for calling this morning. Good to hear from you.

Good to hear you, my friend.

I got some information about the EPA and FEMA and everything with East Palastine just came out in the last couple of days, but the unmet needs reports were never issued. All this information is coordinated by FEMA, the White House, EPA, National Security Council, and the Department of Justice. Emails are coming out now from Lee Selden and everything. I'm just wondering what our governor in the state of Ohio and the state EPA didn't want to publish the information.

Your term about Palestine.

Yes's Palestine's Yeah, if you said that, I didn't, It didn't register in my thick skull, so I thought, yeah, you know it.

It is really damning.

The information we so far about what they didn't tell us is damning. And you know, you stand around, you go, wait a second. You got people's lives at ask you here. You got livestock dropping dad, you got waters polluted, You got a bunch of people who are worried with this top literally undeniably toxic intentional burnoff. And then they find out that cancer clusters are a problem, and yet they don't bother let anybody know.

They knew it in the very beginning. They just didn't want it out in the public sphere. But you know, that's the whole thing. But my question is, what did Mike Dwine know and what did that lady in the EPA in the State of Ohio though, Why wouldn't they release the information to the public.

I agree completely. Regardless of the names of the individuals, they are elected officials. They are supposed to be looking up for their constituent's best interest. Why wouldn't you give the information out? Obviously there was a you can call it a cover up or a refusal to provide value information. But what's the motive behind denying us access to something that's so critically important?

They didn't want people to know how severe it was?

No, again, I go, but why not? What's what's wrong with letting us know the truth? I mean, we can handle it. I mean, that's that's the part that really always irks me when something like this is held from public, you know, from from the public. Why is it held? I mean, why don't we have all the Kennedy documents yet?

Why do?

I mean, there's a million different areas that the federal government sits on information that I think we can handle if we're just told the truth. All I want is the damn truth, you know, whatever it happens to me.

They bear false witness number one. Yeah, and if you don't, a man with that word has no honor, You have no honor, you have no soul. I mean, look at him right now. They're not a lot of these individuals. They're nothing but a bunch of liars and hypocrites. Those are the worst too, that you can get well.

And I undeniably agree with you on that. But again, the big looming question for me in the room is always why are they just sitting on the information that we could use. Why weren't we told they knew the COVID nineteen vaccine caused myocarditis early? Why didn't they let us know? And you could easily come maybe draw a more clear conclusion on that one. There could be some nefarious reason behind that. This this is where conspiracy theories

You warned me.

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It's seven thirty one, fifty five Ker City Talk Station. Real exciting day for me in studio representing District forty five here in the state of Ohio. Jennifer grows Always great to see. It's been too long since I've seen you, but it's a real pleasure having you here today.

Thank you, Thank you, Brian. It's good to be here.

All right.

Since we were on the topic of property taxes, you were listening, we heard Dusty, and I know there's a budget going on now and all these things. We're going to talk about the budget. We're certainly going to talk about Medicaid because you're on the Medicaid board. And I don't know if you heard my conversation with Jack Windsor earlier.

Get to that.

But I want to start with the property tax thing. As you know, there's that petition being circulated just eliminate it all together. And I'm struggling with how I mean, While it sounds like a wonderful idea because I hate looking at my property tax bill, which has gone up dramatically since we built a house, but I don't know how funding for anything would work in the absence of that since everything is built around that property tax, so

It's coming again.

You're going to see another twenty percent jump, right, and there are seniors out there. I feel so sorry for seniors on a fixed income and they've been in their house, it's all paid off. They think they've got nothing to worry about except maintenance and upkeep, and then boom, you get a property tax bill that's jumped by a thousand dollars or something crazy like that. So how do we

That's right.

What's your takes all?

Well, First of all, Brian, you know we know that homeowners are being crushed by by property tax, and especially our over sixty five who've given largely they've lived in the community's twenty thirty forty years, but they have unrecognized gains on their homes, and so a lot of people we can we can't wait for them to move and say move to somewhere else and use your record, your unrecognized gains. So it's an issue that the House is very very aware of. And we do actually have a bill,

Now, I understand that the.

Average person who works for a capitalistic company and not the government doesn't typically get a three point five percent raise every year. However, it will limit the schools, that that bill will limit the schools to a and the rate of inflation, which will greatly help because we do see that in January we will have another windfall of property tax increase and we can't have that.

No, we cannot. But you know, in terms of addressing the schools, Oh my god, what are we going to do. We don't get an increase. We can't keep up with inflation. Problem solved, that's right. Oh, yes, that's right. And fortunately, at least right now, projections indicate and we've already seen the inflation is down. Now, it's going to be terrible

That's right, that's right.

I can swallow a two percent increase of my property tax built, but not a thirty percent increase, that's.

Right, and it will be recalculated. You know, there's a It creates a property tax credit that's equal to the amount of the tax generated by the twenty mil floor. And I can't get into particular details. This just came out yesterday, but I'd encourage everyone to talk to their legislator.

But this is a whole entire package.

So not only does it adjust the twenty mil floor, but it also addresses those that are on the homestead exemption. It gives local government the opportunity to match what the state does, so so the funding. Remember that your local property tax. Let me be really clear to every single listener, all of your local property tax stays local. The state makes the laws that affect those taxes, but all of the taxes you pay stay local. None of it goes

That way everybody participates well.

And that is something that I've heard from my constituents. They talk about, how you know, we have a school levy and everybody votes yes on the levee except for maybe some of our elderly who are on a homestead exemption. They don't want their property taxes to go up, but everybody votes yes.

School levies pass. But here's the thing.

If you don't own property, there's no skin off your teeth in this way. It will require local governments because there's more coming. We'll talk probably more about this today, but it will require potentially counties to consider an increase in sales tax and also potentially an income tax for the school systems because there is an opportunity for them to do that if they so choose, but the people get to vote on that.

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Seven forty two fifty five KRC Detalk Station. Brian Thomas, Jennifer Gross, State representatives some District forty five talking property taxes. Welcome, refreshing a dose of information here. We have local tax commissions and how do they factor into this property tax equation?

Is your mic on?

I don't know you are now it is it on? So?

Well, the local and I'm not an expert in all things all things, but there's a local tax commission at every county and they have the ability to work within your sales tax and raise revenue that way. So Representative Thomas and others have been trying to go around the state and say, hey, you can take a little prop you can take a little pressure off of your homeowners by working within sales tax. But commissioners don't typically want to raise taxes, right, No.

Unless it's for a stadium. Yeah, sorry, I get that in there.

Because you're from Cincinnati. I'm in Butler County. We don't have to worry about some of that. I don't take county issues, but yeah, so they can be working on sales tax and that gives buy into everybody in the county, and it increases revenues so that it can take pressure off the homeowner. And that commission usually consists of three people. And I don't quote me on this everybody, but I believe it's a commissioner, the prosecutor, and the auditor maybe those three.

So yeah, so we have some possible relief in sight. I mean, do you have any idea what this might translate into in terms if this bill passes, or this Property Tax Relief Bill Act and all that's involved with it, the sort of work that's right, what that might translate into in terms of reduction in tax and property taxes.

The average homeowner in Ohio should see eight hundred and fifty dollars removed from their property tax. It provides approximately three point five billion in direct property tax relief to Ohioans.

Immediately.

Well, that's going to be welcome. Welcome.

Prevent spikes and unvoted property tax I mean, there's multiple bills that can rattle them off. Maybe we'll talk about them in this hour, but it aims to keep taxes

And yeah, and we need to address that right now. Well, that's the Supreme Court case that I was mentioning earlier. This our school funding mechanism has been deemed unconstitutional for the last twenty years. And yet it's like people complained about Donald Trump defying the courts, and you're going, oh, he's defying the courts.

This is the downfall democracy. Well, we as a state have been defying our own Supreme Court now for two decades.

True.

True, a lot of people level.

We also have the death penalty in Ohio, but we've had no people that have had to pay for that so during the the wine years.

So I'm not a fan.

Of the death penalty because I don't believe in the state's ability to take a life away because you know what, sometimes they screw up.

True, that's the.

Reason for not I know, there's some terrible people out there that I would love to see struck down by God in a bolt of lightning, or run over by a truck, or die in some horrific meat grinder incident because they committed a horrific crime. But we know of a lot of cases where their death penalty has been overturned because somebody lied. Witnesses were lying, prosecutors were lying, police didn't do their job right, and then you can't

That's another example lot of us not following some of the laws of the land.

But I hear you on that.

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You are distracting me, Jennifer Gross is a distraction in studio, but a welcome distraction anyhow, Jennifer from District forty five were too breaking things down. So we really did a good job of the property tax thing. Let's start. We'll just get do the tip of the iceberg in this segment as we introduce a more far reaching conversation on

Yeah, okay, the ones that most needed Yes.

The ones that I walled off as a chair and didn't even touch because I thought, I mean, how do I go back to your listeners and the people and say, well, we're going to cut the age, blind and disabled off Medicaid.

You'd have my head on a platter, right.

Yeah, I mean, theoretically, if anybody's going to be deserving of some assistance, it would be them, Yes, But if they've got a lot of money, then they don't need to be in a public assistance program. That's where the public assistance programs comes from, or the need comes from.

Duh.

Then I'm not man explaining, but I'm just so disturbed by what our state's third party vendor, a company contracted out to do this kind of work, and that's Lexus Nexus, according to Jack Windsor, and by all accounts have access to eighty five percent of every everybody in the country's bank accounts. They took looked at one slice I think it was twenty five percent of.

The fifty six percent and found twenty nine percent.

That's where outside.

So they look at a little over half of the entire blind, disabled, elderly community and determine that twenty three percent of them have more income, they are not qualified to be in the program. And so he goes back to the High Department of Medicaid and it's like, what's the deal here, And they gave him some long winded, wordy goofy response. He's published it today, but which basically said nothing and my question to him is like, wait a second. They're

What in the hell?

Yes, and let's pull that out. Four thousand Ohio Medicaid beneficia areas were found to be holding one hundred thousand to.

Nine hundred.

Nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine in assets, and twelve people had over a million dollars and they were on Medicaid.

Let's break that down.

For that population, they're getting in benefits twenty four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month. So the taxpayer is on the hook for those four thousand people who do not qualify, or twenty nine percent at two thousand, four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month times twelve times every year they were on.

You can do the math.

That's where the billions of waste is coming from.

That would address a lot of claimed budget shortfalls.

And their legs and property tax. I mean, like we should be moving now. We need to be clear. The federal government matches. We pay thirty five cents on every dollar the federal government.

We call it a pull down. I do not like it.

Ohio is thirty to thirty five percent dependent on the federal government. And we could talk about this in the budget.

It's our neighbors in every other state the tax. I mean, I don't care. It's federal government money. That's our money. I don't want people in Kentucky for paying for our fraud, waist and abuse. I mean, that's what pisses me off so much. I just see I'm getting unhinged here, Jennifer. I mean, it's always well, the federal government's gonna pay. Well, you know, go ahead and expand medicating your state, because the federal government's gonna cover ninety percent of the expansion.

Damn it. That's taxpayer dollars.

The federal government we are That's right, that's right. People forget We're gonna draw that down.

And don't even get me started on snap benefits that are spent in Orlando, Florida.

See again, if they would more closely look at that, if we would more closely looked at if all the states out there would finally say, no, Moss, We're gonna do a deep dive on this. Now, welcome to the world of artificial intelligence. It's made the job of ferreting this out so much easier. I'm sure some geek like Elon Musk could put it into a computer and have

Oh my gosh, you aren't kidding even more.

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I fifty about KRC Decaux Station, having a really enjoyable conversation here, cutting through the chaff and focusing on the week with Jennifer Gross High State Representative District forty five. Outspoken she is, and I really appreciate your conviction. You know, it's it's nice to have a politician who knows exactly where they're coming from and why they're coming from where they're coming from. So in our on air and off air discussions, that's come through very loud and clear. You know,

My congressman, best congressman in Ohio if I don't say so myself. Yeah, And Massey with his debt clock, I mean, how do we how do we we need a debt clock in Ohio to be able to show or not in debt?

But Trump wants to scrap the debt ceiling outright.

Spending.

I mean it's saying you know, I'm usually in line with what Trump wants to do. And you know, anytime I criticized Trump, oh my god, I'll get an earful temple. You know I do. But you know, it's like listeners are called. We say, Brian, I agree with like eighty eighty percent of what you say. I believe that I agree with about ninety percent.

Of what you say.

I f it's a pretty good batting average. I'll take that, and I expect everybody who agree with me one hundred percent of the time.

Your wife does your wife agree with you? One hundred percent mine doesn't.

Of course, she's listening right now.

My husband's listening.

You know, if she does disagree withment something, it's going to be something so trivial because we don't fight about anything. We have nothing to fight about. We get along great. Thirty three years this.

Month, wow, twenty two for me.

We've been together longer than thirty three years. We started dating in eighty seven.

So we have a bill.

We have a bill that that was sponsored by Representative Beth Lear and Josh Williams that focuses on the foundation of the nuclear family with a mom and a dad. The month between Mother's Day and Father's Day is natural family month. Oh well, we're working on legislation for that doesn't discount o their families, right, but it does. It does focus on the solid foundation of There.

Have been so many studies reflecting that. You know, part of the problem in America is the the the eradication of the nuclear family. And you know the Johnson administration is largely responsible for that because they would only give welfare benefits the single moms. There was no in senator to get married, no one senator to have a guy

That's right, Brian.

One of my goals as chair of the Ohio Medicaid Committee has been to open up the vision for people to see what's actually going on. One of the problems with bureaucracy, no matter where it is in government, and that includes Ohio Medicaid, is lack of transparency. So we really need to doge Ohio Medicaid. And we have a director, Director Jada Brady. She's the director over the Joint Medicaid over Site Committee and in my part of the budget,

We'll see what's going on.

The current director of medicaidas shall we say, not as transparent as I would like.

Well, maybe because that person doesn't want to see how poorly and inefficiently the system is run.

But you know, Brian, I mean, if someone's an alcoholic and they realize they have a problem, that's when we get somewhere right, that's when they go get treatment. So if we and we know that we do in huge government programs Transparency will only help us get well. Transparency helps us fix the problem. You know what, we know we have a problem. It's like we know there's something going on, and.

Quite often under those circumstances, there will be an intervention.

Y's right.

People, the family members are responsible in this particular alcoholic related type scenario. Are the representatives and senators in Columbus that need to intervene. This is one department within state government, and you all know who the problem is, and you

That's right.

Well, Representative Davilla has been the one started the intervention.

Jack Whitwindsor from early in the program got his information and that was at least he got the ball running. That's right, man, and I hope he scores it.

Can can I just say Representative Davilla is a Navy commander. I mean those of us who've been in the military are we are used to working hard, and we're also used to government, but we also are used to accountability. And I love that Representative de Villa through people that have helped him in his district. They're the ones who brought this, you know, to his attention and showed him where to go. You know, it's a government of the people,

Every little bit helps.

All right.

I think it's a topic we can probably address in the remaining three minutes of this segment before we go to break. So six hundred million dollars for the blank in Cleveland Browns Complex. I don't want the Bengals to get state taxpayer dollars that you might talk in earlier about our local tax commissions. That's where the tax came to build a stadium in the first place, that was our decision as Hamilton County voters. We made We made

And why should people in southwest Ohio be taking out a bond for a Cleveland stadium?

But here's that was the worst proposal because the bond would have been paid for over twenty five years with interest rates, and it would have been to be more like a billion dollars. So they've thrown that out in favor of raiting this this fund that no one knew we had.

I was unclaimed fund one seven billion.

I read it was four point seven.

Wow, Okay, baby, you're right.

They got a pile of money. Oh was this grab it from that? Like wait a second. First off, you had that that pile of money, and apparently you're allowed to take from it to give it to the Cleveland Browns.

And shouldn't we save that for property tax?

See that's welcome that.

Let me tell you, let me go back though that's six hundred million though, Ohio people are on the hook for that. So not that a billionaire is going to default on a loan or a bond, which is a loan right to them, But they're putting fifty million dollars of earnest money down like buying a house six hundred million. But if they defaulted on that loan, the Ohio people would be on the hook for the five hundred and fifty million.

That's the truth about that.

That's kind of like student loan for business.

So so my sixty five and over who just retired are having a hard time paying their property tax, are giving a loan to the Cleveland brown stadiums the stadium there.

So quickly, do you have any idea who has the pictures of the people who proposed this and voted for it, because clearly there's some information out there that wants to be kept hidden otherwise, I don't know how the Cleveland Browns ends up with all that money to the exclusion of literally every other sports team you know, minor league or professional. You know, Ohio State's got a football field, they got a great team, since at Bengals are there,

Well, I believe that there was pressure obviously in the Ohio House of Representatives to support this, But the day before the vote, I got a request from Paycorps, right, they want some you know, a different version, and then FC Cincinnati, so we of course do.

And then you're handing out money to sports teams.

You're going to ask everybody else is going to want it too, So that was part of the reason we didn't. It's not that we don't like Cleveland. I mean, we love the Bengals better down here, of course, but but we don't. But we don't believe as conservatives that that this money should really go in that direction.

So that's my only point. It is not against the Cleveland Browns. I got no problem with the city of Cleveland. People who live there. I think they're they're they're Ohioans, they are my neighbors, exactly. I've been to Cleveland, you know, I don't care about that. If it was Columbus, or if it was hell War in Ohio was getting this kind of money.

I'd still asked the same damn question. It's not right principle.

Let's go back.

So the Senate is changing that funding from a six hundred million dollar bond in the House budget to taking the money from the unclaimed funds pile in.

No, but that's to me, beyond the point or beside the point.

Right, right, It's it's Ohio money.

It's Ohio money.

That's right.

It's my taxpayer dollars. It's your taxpayer dollars, and it's going to one family.

It shouldn't happen.

It shouldn't. Somebody was threatened behind the scene. I bet there has to be a reason for this. It just it just burns my eye. Eight sixteen fifty five KRCD talk station. If you want your kitchen model, you want to real remodel, right, you want to you want to work with a guy you're gonna love working with. And you know that's Prestige and Tiers specifically John Ryan. He is the company. He's the one that you will will be your partner from initial design to final installation, with

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We got a few minutes left with Jennifer Gross again representing District forty five here in the state of Ohio, doing a great job. This morning Jennifer and enjoying our conversations and then topic near and dear to your heart. And I just sent Maureen an instant message saying, hang around. You're gonna love this because she just sent me a message. Maureene listens in Florida, but she is all over and has been all over the whole COVID nineteen, the vaccine,

We tried.

I've got an idea. Maybe this will help you get the relief you need. They were stopped from doing that.

That's right.

Cold, No, you're gonna lose your license. That to me, that blew my mind.

That's right, that's right, that's right.

So my answer to that in Ohio was HB twelve, which is due to be voted out of the Ohio Health Committee this week. So if you have a representative in your district, or even if you don't, and you like a bill, it's called the Jeff, Dave and Angie Right to Try Act. And Jeff Smith was a man

That's what pharmacists are for. No, you're taking that medication. If you take this one on top of it, you're going to die.

And that is protected in this bill. They still have the ability to do all of that, but they don't get to tell a physician I'm not going to give this because I don't I don't agree with your plan.

I'm not going to give you this because Moderna came up with a vaccine. Well, that doesn't mean you have to take the Moderna vaccine. You're entitled to try something alternative and that, you know, especially with a demonstrably safe pill.

Yes, you know, I remeke them.

It's been around for decades, it's solved all kinds of problems, and you may reject the idea that it's going to help you with your COVID and you're allowed to be in that camp. That's where the informed decision comes in. No, No, I believe what everybody's telling me, that you're crazy to take a orse warm pill or whatever. But it's been well documented that you know, in the final analysis it did actually kind of work for a lot.

Of folks, and it's over the counters.

Well, that's why the pharmaceutical companies hate it. Because it's no longer subject to a patent. It can be manufactured inexpensively and cheaply, and.

People don't understand that sometimes. And I want to remind your listeners that twenty to sixty percent of all prescriptions prescribed by providers are off label. So doctors see that it works for something else that it wasn't originally indicated by the FDA, but the FDA determines any drug that's out there is safe for human consumption.

Well, that's how you got vi ager because it was supposed to be a blood pressure medications, right, And they pet guys were coming in and going.

Hey, can I get some more of this?

Like well why Like they discovered, oh my god, it really does work, Amen, and making made billions and billions and billions of dollars stumbling upon it as an off label use. Jennifer Gross, this has been a wonderful conversation. You can come in anytime. We'll talk again more. And I appreciate your time with my listeners of me today. Thank you Brian stick around, I heard me the aviation

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Hey, thirty one, fifty five carsite talk station. I love Thursdays at this time because you get talked to. iHeartMedia, aviation, extort and all around. Great guy. Jay Rattliff, Welcome back, Jay, my friend. Pleasure to have you on as always.

Hey, it's a highlight of my week. Brother. So yeah, I'm glad it's.

Thursday, and we have a seemingly unlimited number of topics to go through today based upon the list you gave me. I didn't know you do you know why I did that? Though, Okay, you didn't mon any curveballs.

There you go, nineteen different topics. There's no way I'll get a car. Forgive me for underestimating your curveball ability.

My friend, that's okay.

You have any boy, but you always hit him. You always hit him. I mean, you know, I'll tell you a curve ball, you hit it. Ye listen, it doesn't matter whether it's a slider or Yeah. I real quick without having to go down that road. I saw Boeing's paying one point one billion to avoid prosecution for the seven thirty seven knots crashes.

No criminal charges. We're not gonna, you know, we're not gonna say that we did anything criminally. We're not gonna blah blah go to court where it might be drag out and a lot of this stuff be rehashed. But you know, you and I talked about that's exactly.

What was going to take place.

Oh yeah, look, look when President Trump was elected and I saw Boeing and all the airlines lining up to donate one million.

Dollars to the Trump Inaugural Fund.

My thought, here we go again, Yeah, because they're going to be allowed to pull this crap time and time and time again and once again yeah Boeing after admitting they did things, in my estimation criminal criminal.

I appreciate that.

No, no, absolutely, I mean other than money. And the families are just like beside themselves thinking what does it take to get justice or just deliberate over an extended period of time that.

Should have resulted in a massive punitive damage award. Anyway, Why would United Airlines want to delay additional cockpits safety requirements? You think that they be all over that.

Well, you know, the thought is right now, the safety and it's just not United, it's it's several airlines, but it was right now. The safety protocol is if one of the crew members in the cockpit needs a laboratory, you've got the flight attendant who gets the beverage cart and they block access as best they can to the galley area into the cockpit as the door opens and shuts. And the thought has always been, we've got to have something that is more secure than just a male or female flight.

Attendant beverage cards. It does so kind of half assed, but.

Again it's it's the best we can do. So it was decided in now two thousand and nineteen, but then finalized in twenty twenty three that we would have a secondary cage door, if you will, that flight attendants could pull locked shut right there at the beginning of the galley that would in essence prevent anybody from getting where near that hallway between the galley and the cockpit, where someone could exit the cockpit, go the lavatory and come back out without any worry at all of anyone being

Going to do it.

Now they're being told to add a very heavy security cage to the aircraft, when many of them may think this is Jay's speculation. Here, Wow, what we're doing works. Why do we have to add extra weight which costs us extra money blah blah blah to the airplane when what we have right now works. So that's why when a lot of these bozos talk about safety, is are number one priority? I just want to throw up or throw something at the TV or whatever I'm watching, because

You know, at least you can say that it's the way it costs issue. Period.

In the story, they're not again security they're just against moving in that direction because of the thing.

If you want it delayed, can you not say that you're not as security minded as as we like? And again that's my speculation, that's my opinion. That may have nothing to do with it. But if airlines are consistent, and believe me they are, you'll look at a lot of things that the FAA recommends, Hey, you should do this because the engine has had issues. Well, no, right, you're not being forced to, so they're not in you know, contray or any contradiction with an FAA mandate they were offered.

They said no, yeah, but believe.

Me, safety is still are number one priority. The engine blows up and they're like, oh, yeah, I guess, I guess we'll check there.

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Have you ever been in a cockpit before? Hey? Forty one fifty about KRCD talk station.

Jay Ratliff has I ared me the aviation expert going through the topics. I want to jump ahead on your list because I'm wildly curious to know why the TSA is warning travelers against using airport charging stations.

They're being hacked.

Oh no, what happened.

What happens is a lot of times when we travel, most of us carry with us the devices we need.

To recharge our electronics.

Sure, but sometimes you go to an airport and they'll have the central charging station with a lot of different outlets that's provided by the airport, and you go up and you know, just plug it in and go right. Well, apparently some individuals, through technology that I don't understand, have the ability to utilize these charging stations, and if somebody charges the device, there's a way.

That they can hack into that device while.

It's there, allowing them to gain access to everything that's on your device, which means passwords and financial information and anything else that you might have happen to have that you use that device for. So the TSA thing being very careful as you do this, because several people have reported this taking place.

It's a lot like the ATM.

Sometimes people slap something on there that looks like where you would put the card, and when you do, it's not to access the ATM or whatever. It's for somebody to read the information, get your information, then use that to steal from you. And it's a similar type approach here where these charging stations are being used as a conduit for people to access some of our private information.

A little advance into tech. Friday's Day Hatter. Every Friday at six thirty.

I'll leave that dar brother Dave to go deep in the weeds there. That's as far as I can go.

That's great, Okay, Now, how is it that airlines are charging solo travelers more than couples?

I mean, don't.

Aren't tickets purchased individually, whether you're going as a couple or an individual.

They are, But then you're you're giving airlines far too much credit. If there's a way that they can zing us, they're gonna do it, because what happens is a lot of times when you have people that are traveling, let's say on a couple, they're traveling, they're cost conscious and as such, what happens is they'll look for the cheapest fair and they're not as interested in schedule as much as they are in the cheapest fair. But individuals are

Six, it's four to twelve.

Oh wow.

And the thought is, wait a minute, time out here.

We're all on the same airplane, we're flying at the same time, and checking what airlines are doing is saying, you know, that business traveler has to be there, so let's you know, I had a little premium to that man or woman's fair. So it's it's something that you know, forgive me for saying this, but it's true. It would never have happened under the Biden administration. This kind of crap where airlines are blatantly doing things, is that the

Fair There you go.

American Airlines, American Airlines, United and others have been caught excessively charging passengers and they're gonna say whatever craft They're gonna say as far as well, it's based on demand, blah blah blah.

Yeah, it's based on.

Them trying to squeeze every penny out of us as they can't. And when you catch somebody doing that, if they're your airline of choice, maybe find another airline.

Yeah, there you go. Appreciate the pro tip there too. Day it's eight forty five, will continue, won't get through the whole list today, though we've got some good stuff to go over. One more segment with day Ratliffe a series of events.

The most important event make four eventful days the Middle East making.

Peace deals and trade deals.

Gatari funded air Force one.

It's a great gesture.

Cutting pharmaceutical drug prices in these eventful times.

More time to pass this big beautiful bill.

Buying time with time.

In any event important events, I'll press it into events.

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That's over a twenty minute delay.

I found seventy one slows a bit at Redbank, Chuck Ingram, I'm fifty five krcs.

He talked station Hey forty nine.

I think about Kersee talks DAS one more with IRMDIA aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Jay Dave had it from interest I to you is listening. You know what that concept is called juice jacking. Juice jackie, juice jacking. So when somebody's still.

Going to steal that, I know, No, don't like it was my word.

It's a thing.

I mean if if Dave says it, it's a thing, I don't think he's pulling up the whole cloth.

So he's gonna steal his words. Juice jacking.

Yeah, I can.

Guarantee you I will get it wrong and say something totally stupid.

It's close to that, but well we'll see.

But thank you, Dave.

You get a phrasing button from Joe on that as well. All right, just because it's a funny story, and even though I will be sixty in September, it still sounds like something I'd like to do. The two year old at Newark Airport.

Cue the music mission Impossible music.

I guess.

Yeah.

Mom and dad are checking in at the Jet Blue ticket counter and this little two year old is doing what two year olds do, just you know, everywhere. Next thing, you know, he kind of gets away from mom and dad, who apparently their attention was elsewhere, and he goes over the little step over behind the ticket counter.

The Jet Blue.

Agents, yeah, I guess they don't seem he remains invisible, and he gets on the baggage.

Belt and down he goes.

He's down and turning the corner before he disappears, before anybody really spots him, and by that time it's too late. Now, this isn't a toboggan kind of ride, because what happens is those bags have security codes on him, or codes that the labels that as it's going through there, they had these large arms that are calibrated for bags that could be forty to fifty pounds that move those bags with some force to other belts that are going in other places, so that the bags can be directed where

Oh oh yeah, it's oh so it's not as it's not as comedic as I was thinking it would be because we.

Know the kids.

Okay, no, but because we've had some we a lot of times. You'll see them put the really really small bags in a in a toboggan thing and the because the reason for that is when the arms hit, we want the carrier to take the force of it because if not, you're gonna damage. Bag claims go lower as those bags go flying off the wall. But what happens is there's a video that's gone viral of a TSA room.

Careless parents, Well, look.

Every one of us have momentarily lost track of our kids. You just don't want it to be in a point where they can be in that kind of danger and believe me, could have ended that way. But if you if you want to a chuckle and I hate to use that word, you can go to YouTube and there's several examples of kids that just.

Went for a ride.

One poor lady who thought that the bag behind the counter was the moving sidewalk to her gate and she stepped on it and wrote it around until the wall kind of knocked her down and she disappeared on the other side of the wall. It was an elderly lady. Fortunately she was okay. But wow, yeah, those things happened.

I guess they do. I understand.

Atlanta Airport is changing the way they screened their crew members, the airline flight crews. What's this one about.

It's called non crew members.

It's a program that allows if you and our pilots in uniform active duty lighting sentence as well, we can actually go through a separate line at the airport for screening. I found that most of the time, most of them, we're not gonna be screened, okay, which be sure, I D Boom will go right through. Occasionally the FA is gonna pull one of us out for screening. It's called random screening. That FAA loves random screening. I hate random screening.

Fair enough, all right, as we do. We have to part company, which I don't like, but we do. So let's end on hub delays.

Yeah, that's the quite fastest segment of the week for me, Detroit, Dallas and Charlotte. And I think Charlotte's going to be the absolute headache of the day. So if you're connecting on America through Charlotte.

Make sure they have Boay to get a hold of you.

Get to the airport a little early because we're going to be seeing some flight delays through that hub today.

Really enjoy our time together, Jay. I look forward to next Thursday and doing it again. And as always, best of health and loved you and your better half. Take care of my friend.

You too as well.

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