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our way. It's a really windy out. My car is getting blown all over the road coming down the expressway this morning, which was kind of strange, but so I guess ultimately, be careful and don't bother going to school today since they public schools closed due to the cold weather. We find that like are we whimps now? I mean, it just merely cold weather now, and it results in the schools being shot down. Imagine our world when we have to rely on solar power and wind, although I

guess the windmills would work really well this morning. We have climate change. Climate change is going on right now. You have nothing to do with it. Winter showed up and it got really cold out and didn't we anticipate that happening? But are are the kids just going to stay at home for the entire winter? Now, I don't get it, really don't get it was such a rare occasion.

Maybe I'm just waxing poetic about my childhood. We'd all look really forward to the day when they would shut down to the school because you know, there was like eight inches of snow out there innow applause couldn't deal with it. And don't ever recall the schools being shut down because of cold. And I lived through the seventies in the oil embargo when everything was really expensive, and a really good friend of mine went over his house

and his family was on a budget. You know, I understand that you could see your breath inside his house, and that's because they kept the thermostat down really really low, because well, the price of energy had gone through the roof. Welcome to your future, brought to you not by the laws of supply and demand, but by the laws of well climate change, which are literally dominating every aspect of our lives these days. Don't allow that to happen. Reject

the religion. Be like me anyway. Brian Thomas, right here, glad to be right here, had a wonderful time yesterday a listener lunch. What a great listener lunch. Not that they're all not great, I love every one of them, but everyone was interfestive in celebratory mood yesterday, which is all I was looking for. And then that parlayed over

of segued over into the iHeartMedia Christmas Party. We had a really wonderful time yere celebrating while the holidays generally speaking, so I can say that I had a really nice day yesterday. Anyhow, God bless the folks of Price Heal Chili. The service, the food was great, and of course the fellowship. Just a wonderful, wonderful day. Photographs, Thank you, Rebecca PROMGRAPPI Rebecca used to take photographs at every listener to lunch, and then her life sort of changed, went to a

different direction. She wasn't able to make it anymore. So we haven't had really good photographs from a listener to lunch. No offense west side, Jim Keefer, You've done a wonderful job filling in the blanks over the years, but let's face it, your cell phone has no substitute for Rebecca's keen eye and wonderful camera that she's got. So if you are friends with me on Facebook, or friends with Rebecca Grappy on Facebook, or friends with west Side Jim

Kiefer on Facebook. Lots of folks have you know, reposted the photographs and you can get a real big eye full of all the different food that people late over there. She loves taking pictures the plates of food before people dive into him. So God bless you, Rebecca. You know I love you to death. Coming up in the fifty five Jarsey Morning Show, I love Joe Strecker in you know, a non gay way. Joe, love you man, You're my brother, and thank you for winding up Lieutenant Governor John Houston.

He'll be on the program coming up at seven o five talking about the Ohio bathroom bill, somewhat controversial, at least among some circles. Listen, I'm a firm believer that, you know, if you're a guy, you should well be using the men's bathroom. If you're a woman, you should be using the women's bathroom. I have a daughter, and

I don't worry so much about my son. If my son's in in the men's bathroom and a woman comes in and goes, that's for whatever reason that doesn't strike me as scary in the same way that a young girl in a girl's bathroom having some forty five year old man who claims he's a girl walk in there. That really is creepy on a whole next level, and you can feel differently about that. That's what opinions are all like, like sphincters, we've all got one, but that's

you know that it's it could be very dangerous. I suppose it could be dangerous. I don't know why. I always project. I suppose there our instances with women could take sexual advantage of men. It typically happens these days with school teachers who think it's appropriate on some level to have sex with I don't know, young boys. I think it's a much rarer occasion. The whole concept of

you know, violence, rate that kind of thing. It usually, in my mind, it's a guy attacking a woman, and I think that's what is behind all of these bathroom bills. It's like, don't create a situation where an eight year old girl can get molested by somebody merely because that

guy claims to be a woman. I think it represents a much higher level of concern than again, the controverse or the flip side of it, but regardless, Lieutenant Governor John Houston is going to join the program talk about the bathroom bill, also ohioa dip and pregnancy programs two topics with the Lieutenant Governor at seven o five, follow by Donovan and Neil. Americans for Prosperity on school choice

expansion Yay for school Choice at eight o five. Big show lined up today William hazel Grove with the book Dead Air The Night orson wells Terrified America. I'm looking forward to that, moving away from politics and talking about one of the most interesting media phenomena to ever happen, when people actually thought that we were being invaded by Martian aliens. So a good show. Fifty five Casey dot com for the podcast when you can't listen to live

Judgement of Polatana. We went to law school yesterday. That was funking. Looking at the Hunter Biden pardon from a core constitutional perspective, stepping away from how he was treated differently, how the slow walk the investigation to more fundamental constitutional based discussion. For example, why do you have to fill out an FFL form when you buy a firearm? Is there is that constitutional even in itself when we've got, of of course, the more modern Supreme Court decisions like

the Bruin. You know, if that if the if the prohibition didn't exist at the time the Second Amendment was ratified. In other words, what was the perspective of the Founding father's relative of firearms? You know, what could you have, what could you use? And what I mean he pointed

to He loved that. He pointed out that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both grew weed on their farms and also were firearms unders So it kind of suggested that maybe those guys were walking around Stone that was okay back then. You didn't have to fill out a federal

firearms for him back then. So you can forgive Hunter Biden on some level for lying only because the predicate the FFL form itself under Judge and Palalaton's argument, and I would say, I share it is unconstitutional because that kind of prohibition, that limitation that you can't buy something until you fill out a federal form was not in any way, shape or form in existence at the time. The Founding Fathers told you that you absolutely have a

god given right to protect yourself defend yourself. The Second Amendment right to keep in bare arms shall not be in fringe, and that's an infringement. So I thought, why not, you know, wouldn't that be a welcome opportunity since unter Biden was facing those charges. It was so I'm guilty to defend yourself based on the Brewing decision. And maybe they raised that argument at court. I don't know, but you know, you can appeal a conviction and go up

to the Supreme Court. Maybe the Supreme Court that in front of them, they might have declared, no, you know what, He's right, you don't need to fill out one of these forms in order to purchase a firearm. So anyway, we talked about that, and I thought it was a rather interesting legal discussion because, you know, at the outset, I was a little concerned, if you like, wait a second, you know, Neapolitana thinks it's okay that Hunter Biden got

pardoned by his old man. Well, on a constitutional level, the answer yes, but you can't look at it from the base of the facts on Hunter Biden specifically, you have to back up and look at the core fundamental limitation document that is the Constitution. There are specific limitations

of the federal government. They only have the right under the Constitution to involve themselves in very specific matters too specifically, and there are five thousand, almost five two hundred now federal laws on the books criminal that exceed the scope of the authority the federal government has under the Constitution. So I loved that whole. Like I said, we all went to law school yesterday. So if you get a chance to listen to the judge, check that one out.

I think it's well worth it. Alex Chrantefiela was on the program yesterday the podcast at five Caressey dot Com. Talked of the state of politics here and also always wonderful commentary by Jack add and tying in biblical concepts to Donald Trump's cabinet. I didn't know how that was going to go direction wise, and it was. It was pretty cool. I suppose everybody knows at this point about that shooting in New York yesterday. Briefly, the CEO United

Health fatally shot. It was a it was a targeted attack. It seems premeditated. No one seems to be making any argument to the contrary. Someone mentioned this when I walked into the Christmas party. Yesterday. I read the news and it said Brian Thoms. Someone is like Brian Thomas. I thought was Brian Thomas god shot? No, Brian Thompson getting ready to speak of the United Health Group investor conference. He was the CEO now deceased. So no, it wasn't

me Thomas. My name Thompson his name. He was only fifty years old. Weird set of circumstances. The guy and we were talking yesterday and joking around about the red Bikes program in Cincinnati, kind of on a thin ice because it doesn't have the money to operate. This guy escaped on one of those type of bikes and he is at large still. They said he appeared to be an experienced firearm user using a firearm equipped with a suppressor. It's a suppressor, not a silencer. Okay, it's like it's

a magazine, not a club. Anyway, nine millimeter handgun with a suppressor. Calmly Cooley shot the guy in the back. The gun jam. He was able to get the jam fixed, which is one of the things they say points that he was an experienced shooter. I'll let you draw your own conclusions on that. My fellow firearms owners hey, walk down the Queen Rose Street quietly escape down an alleyway

on one of those rented bikes. I thought the weird thing beyond the person who thought for a moment that it was me Brian Thomas as opposed to Brian Thompson. The guy is married to a woman named Paulette. Brian Thompson and Paulette Thompson. So creepy, creepy thing there, since, of course, my wife's name is Paullette, not exactly a common name. Anyhow, you got a comment, love to hear from you, Steve. I see her on the phone. I'll be happy to talk to you. It's already five seventeen, though,

I gotta take a quick break. I'll be right back after these brief words.

John Hough said on a whole variety of topics. Let's go to the phone, Steve, thanks for holding over the brake, Welcome to the program.

new on me. I have, Steve, honestly don't have any idea why that would apply, especially with more and more young people foregoing the stupidity of a four year college degree, which is going to give them literally nothing for a variety of topics. Why wouldn't you be able to start, you know, ful fill the minimum requirement of time spent at work one year, whatever it happens to be in our company policy, and start participating plan ahead for your future. So all right, I.

and also perhaps illegal. But in as far as the contribution thing, if there's a listener out there that knows four one K law and knows that that there's a limitation on when you can start, I listen fifty nine years old, and I have never heard that before. Brother,

So that's that's strange. And you know what, you know, what's really cool about that, though, aside from the fact that that the eighteen year was deprived of the opportunity to prepare for his or her future, that there was someone out there at the age of eighteen who wanted to put away something for their future. That person, whoever that person is, Steve, if it was you, You're you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of success. You're thinking forward.

You are putting money in something that is going to earn money. You know, it always earns money over time because you get the benefit of that compounding interest in markets that you know, over history have proven themselves to always go up inspite of some setbacks. But whoever raised that eighteen year old, he did a good job. And whoever that person is wonderful. Give You're gonna do well in life, at least from my from my conservative West

Side perspective, at least conservative from a financial perspective. Anyway, stick around. Got more callers coming in Eric's online calling in right now. We'll take that call. Your calls are welcome five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight two three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. I also have local stories

to talk about. And we can still make fun of this insay public schools for closing, because gee, it's twenty four degrees out today, five twenty five right now, hang on, I'll be right back. Fifty five KRC fIF KRCD talk station any very happy Friday Eve to you. He's having an interesting work related conversation with executive producers Joe Strecker, which makes me want to thank him even more for the wonderful work that he does to make this morning

show come off usually without a hitch. If there's hitches, it's mostly meat, but a valuable employee. Joe Strecker is and man with the most experienced in the entire building at what he does. Without Joe, the show don't go. So, you know, I just want to thank Joe Strecker from the bottom of my heart for the hard work that he puts in and tireless efforts behind the scenes. Man has crazy, strange hours and I know it's impacted his life, but he's got a wonderful career here and he is

truly appreciated. And I will put a free plug in for him, not against FCC rules, to remind the world that Joe Strecker earns a little additional income on the side by producing podcasts. So if you're inclined, you think you want to do a podcast and you need someone to do the editing and recording and all that, get in touch with Joe Strecker. He is the man in the podcast business to help you out. He's got a whole lot of podcasts he's producing, does a wonderful job,

so consistent work for you. Independent of his consistently excellent work here on the fifty five care Scene Morning show. I love you Joe Streckeran, and thank you very much for being here every morning. Eric, Thank you for indulging me while I gave praise to Joe Streckeran for calling in this morning. Happy Friday Eve.

depends on what the employer chooses to select. I guess it's like some employers author wraw for a one K, some offer just plain old four to one case. So the options are out there, and I'm happy that employers have the flexibility. This is one of the ways they compete in the marketplace for valuable talent. So the better your your retirement plan options probably the more likely it is you're going to get a good, good talent. It's

like having great medical insurance. So yeah, Eric, thank you very much, not for the kind words about the show, but also supporting my support for Joe Streckers. So consistent information not just from Eric's real world experience, but from Joe Streckers on the fly internet research two to three talk interesting headline how did two Ohio at jail inmates die in a week? Camera Knight, since I inquire, thank you

for the reporting. Camera and two inmates have died in custody at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office in the past week. Matthew Dennier, fifty four, died and the Justice Center new Thursday, November twenty eighth, According to the department spokesperson Kyla Woods will be the Emont County Sheriff's Department. Denler admitted to the jail Tuesday, November twenty six would Say having been arrested on open warrants. Court documents related to the specific

charges not immediately available. Woulds said he was found unresponsive in his cell Thursday officers of medical staff attempted life saving measures, obviously unsuccessful given the headline. Jacob Grayson, twenty five, collapsed Wednesday, November twenty seventh in the common area of a pod. According to Woods, officers and medical staff responded and he was taken to UC Medical Center, where he

later died. He Corner's office at least not reported the date of his death as the time of the reporting, but court documents state Grayson was arrested on November twenty fifth on a probation violation. Pleaded no contest to possessing a fentanyl related compound back in February. Documents related to the prole violations said Grayson had a positive drug test for fentanyl and failed to report to the probation department.

According to Enquire's research, fourteen people died at the Hamilt County Justice Center between August twenty twenty and September twenty twenty three. Coroner's office working to determine the cause of death for both in main Sheriff's office also investigating both as. Wood said no foul play is suspected in either case, and she also confirmed that no force was used against either inmate, probably because there's not sufficient sheriff's deputies in

the jail to even be around the use force. Allow me the occasional political barb couple the five thirty five efty five kars to detalk station. Feel free to call, got some time, but going to dive into the stack is stupid as well. Prefer talking to you though. If you got a topic you want to talk about, feel free five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk be right back. After these brief words, the talkings were hung by the chimney with.

But my children went to public schools. But I didn't see any reporting this morning that the Loveland Public schools will be closed. So just remember Cincinnati public schools closed because of cold weather. What a perfect opportunity and segue to the stack of stupid. But before I get to that, let's get Larry. Larry, welcome to the program. Happy Friday Eve to you.

work and knows that pound five fifty works. We could at least address Larry's personal phone concerns, and I wouldn't mind solving that problem or having it confirmed that no, pound five fifty doesn't work anymore. And I'll have to talk to my superiors about that if I could ever find out who they are.

An engineering degree, a chemistry degree, a business degree, something concrete, something usable, something that maybe you know, crosses multiple different professions, which allows you flexibility. In my case, I got a political science degree. Now what would I have done with that, Larry, had I not gone on to law school. I have

no idea. The only reason I've removed my major over to political science at the time is because I had every intention of going to law Schoolical science was one of those degrees that a lot of people you know, parlayed into getting into law school. The only reason. So that's why I joke about it's like getting a degree in art. I like art. It's a hobby. Though you can learn about art and focus on some particular genre or era and learn everything there is to know about

it on your own. But having a degree in art, what are you going to use it for? How many how many opportunities for employment are there at Southeby's for example, probably none? And how many docents get paid? Docents are usually like a volunteer job at an art museum. So you know, you want to exit after four years with a degree in art, after spending one hundred thousand maybe dollars or more and paying interest on that over twenty

plus years. No, I think that's a poor choice. So the value of the degree should be the deciding factor on whether you actually pursue that four year commitment. That's all I really meant. I know I was probably way too short handed with the way I commented on that, but you know, I've made these kind of comments a lot of times over the years, so I just kind of maybe wrongfully assumed that there was some context out in the general listening audience for where I was going.

God bless you, man, and thank you so much for the kind words and for tuning into the fifty five casing Morning Show means the world to me. We've got another Is that another Larry Joe? Larry, welcome to the program in a very happy Friday eve to you.

really is. Five point forty five fifty five KR City talk Station. Feel free to call, or I will do a couple stack of stupid stories. It is the five o'clock hour. I'm still enjoying my wake up coffee, but I always enjoy hearing from you, So we could talk if you If you prefer that, feel free to do so. Five forty five right now for you do five KR City talk Station.

of the wind. Fifteen It's enough to call off school for the same public schools Claiest guys overnight a dramming to seventeen mostly sunny day tomorrow with the high on thirty two overnight low of twenty two with clear skies Saturday. I have forty two with sunny skies twenty two right now with about ker City Talk station in time for well maybe traffic.

I lost to Cribbage Mike. We were neck and neck and neck O just passed the skunk line, which I did pass, and then he got like two hands in a row that netted him thirty points and he crossed the finish line. So congratulations Cribbage Mike on another well deserved victory. Live to fight another day. I will. And speaking of that other day, we're going to try to hit some micro breweries next year. And so the next listener lunch you want to put it down to counter,

it's the eighth. We're not going to do it on the first, that being the well holiday, So eighth of January we're going to be at High Green Brewery. High Green Brewery which is on Winton Road. They had pretty nice menu. We checked it out out, and then we're going to have We're going to be back at Little Miami Brewery in Milford in February. So we may make it a year of microbreweries, at least ones that have really good food menus and who are also willing to

take on the listener lunch crowd. So let us see here over to the stack is stupid, Well, this is strange. Got a Central California teacher died last month after being bitten by a bat. They say presumably had rabies, and it happened inside the classroomchrys will no wait a second, marking the third such fatality in North America in recent weeks.

Lay Seang inn awake of her death November twenty second, public officials warning public with the dangers of bats, the most common source of human rabies in the United States. Fun fact I did not know. Even though fewer than ten people in the country die from rabies every year, it's almost all fatal if not treated quickly. This sixty year old Senang found a bat in her classroom. According to her friend, she tried to scoop it up and take it outside, but it bit her, which wild animals

tend to do. She didnt immediately have symptoms of rabies, but fell ill weeks later. Taken to the hospital where she was put into heavily and a medically induced coma and died days later. She was a teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Pados, California, referred in the school district referred to as a dedicated and compassionate educator, which I would expect. Watch out for bats, but don't kill them.

Bats are awesome and very important to the ecosystem. Oh wow, big news for folks following the Vatican and the various Pulpe mobiles that have been used over the years. The Vatican announced yesterday and unveiled the new open top Pulpe mobile and of course all electric Mercedes Benz that he

will use when he greets pilgrims at Saint Peter's Square. Vehicle, described as a modified version of Germany's Companies, a G class mid sized luxury suv, has an elevated seat so the Pope can well get a better view of the crowds and the crowds and get a better view of the Pope. Joe Gee, why was that in the stack of stupid? Sorry? Movie actress met an untimely end after consuming a potion containing a poisoned frog called Cambo idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. Never heard of this

person who's referred to a movie star. Marcella Alcazar Rodriguez was that a spiritual retreat in Mexico took part in what they called a cleansing ritual, which used a substance made from the giant monkey frog, whichparently secrets a hallucinogenic substance potion itself. They say it causes vomiting and uncontrollable diarrhea. It's thought to clear out the system for the retreat visitors. So you walk into this open eyed. By the way, here you go have this, you will start having uncontrolled

vomiting and diarrhea. Go ahead, drink up. Potion said to be forty times stronger than morphine. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. However, when she consumed it, apparently her whole body cause was started to spasm and when it edited her system. Local reports there said she died hours later at the Red Cross Hospital. Not yet confirm whether the poison caused her death. I'm going to go with yes.

Durango State Attorney General's office said they're investigating her death and looking for the leader of this spiritual retreat, who happened to have fled the scene after she died. Autopsy is currently being investigated, and it's thought to have a clearer idea of the car death once it comes back. Says she had a vast movie career, mainly worked in the United States, but also took jobs in Mexico, co starring in the indie rom com New Low.

with that the Stack is stupid. That if your quote unquote doctor H schedules your butt enhancement surgery at a Motel six, you might not want to do that either.

Fivefty five ifty five cares to detalk station. Feel free to call love to hear from You got plenty to talk about, including what the caller mentioned This Chinese hack latest in a long campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to gather information, made even worse by an article I found from the Rutherford Institute headline, you better watch out. The surveillance State is making a list and you're on it. Wow.

Mind blowing. It's like a boiled down version of literally everything Dave Hatter has been talking about in the Morning Show over the last ten years. And it's scary. Don't go away right back after the news ever changing world. There's one constant you can depend on. Fifty five krc D talk station at the top end, bottom of the.

of things real quick here. I probably assume that you've heard by now that the United Healthcare CEO got assassinated yesterday in New York City, was getting ready to go to the United health Group investor conference. His name Brian Thompson, no relation. Clearly thought it was really wild that he's married to a woman named paul Ette or the late Brian Thompson was married to paul Ette, since that's my name, so we've got a close name connection. But here's for

my conspiracy theorist friends out there, let's start one. No idea why it was targeted for assassination. Clearly everyone has concluded he was targeted the assailor or the assassin was waiting for him, apologize. Evan Proms this morning waited for him. Obviously wanted that specific guy, since he was hanging around

for a while waiting for him to come out. United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was one of a number of senior executives being investigated by the Justice Department for insider trading. Apparently he had exercised stock options. Nothing nothing to see here, sold shares worth fifteen point one million dollars in February, roughly two weeks before news of the federal antitrust investigation

became public. So go ahead draw your own conclusions, because I say, conspiracy theory can start stirring the pot of that one. Because after he died, United Health Group Incorporated stock jump five point five six percent. Yesterday it's up to six hundred and ten dollars and seventy nine cents a share. Now, I will acknowledge that the pre market futures are are trading down, but not much compared to

the five point five percent increase yesterday. I'm sorry, five point five percent, a five point five to six fifty six cents jump in the stock price. That was zero point ninety two percent, So almost one percent increase in the stock price now I get my facts right. Anyhow, nothing to see there. It'd be interesting to find out why specifically he was targeted, because no one knows where that guy went. He took off on the New York City version of a red bike. Apparently they have enough money

in New York City to pay for that. Anyway, Over, the frightening reality that the world, obviously of warfare, has changed dramatically since everything on the planet is now connected

by the Internet or so electronically in some form. The Chinese government hackers have compromised telecommunications infrastructure all around the world, according to US security officials in a release yesterday describing it as a massive espionage campaign press conference with Anne Newberger, President Biden's Deputy National Security Advisor for cyber and Emerging Technologies, said this so called salt typhoon, as opposed to volt typhoon,

which we've talked about before. Salt typhoon campaign is ongoing. And that's a word worth circling when you're reading about this, because it ain't over. And wait till you find out what they've been listening to and capturing by way of data that hit at least eight telecommunications firms in the

United States. They were all breached. According to her statement, the Chinese compromise private companies exploiting vulnerabilities in their systems as part of a global Chinese campaign that's affected dozens of countries around the world. Now, of course, the Chinese government denied it. Nothing is he here right? We don't

interfere with elections. This was first reported back in September in the Wall Street Journal, but her remarks the most specific public acknowledgment yet by our government regarding this vast scope and severity of the hacking campaign, which investigators of

Trace two. Of course, the Chinese Intelligence agency. Wall Street Journal previously identified Verizon AT and TT Mobile Lumen technologies among the victims, but also you, as was reported or released in her conference yesterday, saying, in her words, a large number of Americans have their cell phones and metadata accessed in the intrusion. They declined to say how many Americans, but said it wasn't believed that all Americans had their

metadata compromise. Well, isn't that comforting. Here's a list of everybody that had their data compromise, and here's another list of the people who who didn't. I'll let you guess which list is longer. Anyway, to this metadata attack and this capturing of all the data that's on, including probably your cell phone, they say that it was regional in focus, and thus they suspect the point was to identify phone

lines of valuable senior government officials. So you know, if you target the greater Langley area, you're likely to capture people the work of the CIA. You get the idea of how that works. They see the hackers then targeted the phones to steal uencrypted text messages, listen to some phone calls as well. Previously reported, President elect Donald Trump,

Vice President elect JD. Van senior congressional staffers, and a whole bunch of security officials here in the United States were among our the United States were among a whole bunch of folks described as scores who have had their calls and texts directly targeted in this particular attack. And I had read that specific report earlier, but now I suppose this release from our intelligence folks reflects the massive size and scope, far bigger than they originally had reported.

And it's reported that investigators are still working to figure out the full parameters of the ongoing intrusions by this Salt typhoon attack. It has not been eradicated. It is still out there. In opressed briefing, Newberger said that it wasn't believed that the classified communications were accessed in the breach. It wasn't believed. Now you go ahead and take comfort

in that statement if you want. It wasn't believed that classified communications were access to the breaches, but it's certainly possible that they were. She said, quote, we do not believe any have fully removed the Chinese actors from these networks, So that is a reminder that there's a risk of ongoing compromise of United States telephone calls until the companies fully addressed the cybersecurity gaps that they have which allowed

the Chinese Communist Party to enter it in first place. This, in addition to the compromising private unencrypted calls and text hackers were able to access information from systems maintained by the carriers to comply with US surveillance requests. In other words, there's stuff in there in the systems that the United States government made them put in there so they could get surveillance. Our government gets surveillance. Does that make it

any better? Is it cool that our government is surveiling your phone calls without a warrant? But uncool that the Chinese Communist Party is doing it as well? Again an interesting thought question. Our Tuesday officials conceded that they don't know when the hackers might be purged from the telecomis munications infrastructure and urge people to use encrypted acts to

protect their phone calls and texts. Quote, it would be impossible for us to predict a time frame on when we'll have full evictions that, according to Jeffrey Green, senior official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, guests are apparently is one of those. Well doesn't that make you feel nice and comfortable? So, in other words, I glean from that that this compliance with US surveillance request in

hackers that were able to access the system. Because of that, we in essence facilitated the ease of the Chinese Communist Party in accessing our communications. Hey, thanks appreciate that. Five one, three, seven, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two three talk pn FI fifty on eight phones. I want to mention affordable medical image because I want you to save a heapload of money, and yeah, it's worth the drive. It may be out of your way, but I'm just

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affordable imaging services. Yes, it's worth to drive. Don't expect any you know, fluffy, frilly kind of things to keep the overhead really really low. But you get the same equipment hospital as you used to do your MRI, CT scans, echo cardogram's, ultra sounds, lung screens, and cardiac scorings, and you only pay a literal fraction of the cost that would cost you a hospital imaging department. Go ahead, call the hospital imaging department. You've already got the order from

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Mostly clear ofver night down to seventeen tomorrow, mostly Sunday high thirty two uh clear skies every night down to twenty two, and Saturday is going to be a sunny day going up for high forty two twenty two degrees Right now. Traffic time.

Rebecca Grop you for taking this photograph. If anybody wants to know what cribbage Mike's looks like, and you're friends with me or Rebecca or Westside Gym or anybody else who reposted the photographs on Facebook, he's the guy with the Christmas jacket and sitting next to his lovely bride. So congratulations again Mike. I'm kicking my butt in cribbage yesterday. Let's go to the phone. See what Maureen's got today, Maureen, Happy Friday Eve to you. Thanks for calling.

Investigators said that Thompson and other company executives sold over one hundred and seventy million worth of United Healthcare common stock during the four month period when insiders knew about the federal antitrust investigation but the public did not know

about it yet. And the other things that are interesting about this is that on February twenty first of this year, United Healthcare discovered a cybersecurity breach on the same day that Nancy Pelosi made her second purchase of Call options in Power Auto Networks, which is a cybersecurity company that was later chosen to investigate the breach. And Thompson was ready to testify in front of Congress about United Healthcare's

hacks as well as their business practices. And now obviously he's not able to testify in front of Congress.

are more likely to be true than others. And we've been going back and forth for years and years, and I Maureen, and she's been a long time listener, just a really wonderful lady and listening live from Florida typically these days UH six fifty five KSY talk station five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on your AT and T phone since I only have a minute here. One more

acknowledgement from listener Lunch yesterday. Are you familiar with the man Ray Cummins and the awesome musical genius that he is? I mean, he is chet atkins embody when it comes to picking. He is absolutely an amazing guitar player, well known, He's done the Grand Old Opry. Everybody in country music knows him, and anybody who's a chet Atkins fan is probably familiar with Ray Cummins. I had the honor of

seeing him yesterday. Showed up be a listening to Lunch to say hi, and I bring this up one because I thought I was in the presence of greatness. Got to shake his hand, hoping that some maybe some of his magic mike ruboff since I suck at playing guitar,

although I'd love to be a good guitar player. His wife is a little bit ill right now, and I wanted to give a shout out to her because she's a really sweet lady and she was having some medical issues which prevented her from showing up at lunch yesterday. So I wanted to let her to know that I missed seeing her and that I was thinking about her, and I want to let her know that she's in my prayers as well. Six twenty five fifty five Karsneytalkxtation

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well let us speculate further. I appreciate it. Jeff, thanks for calling this morning. Man if I went three seven two three. You talk found five fifty on at and T phones anyhow, Hamilton County's proposed budget they got local festival organizers. Everybody's got their hand in the cookie jar, don't they? From your taxpayered hours? Anyway, Local festival organizers asking Hamilton County commissioners to consider an increase to a

proposed budget line item for large event grants. Apparently it's response to the County Ministry's proposed budget, which is one point seven percent smaller than last year, driven primarily by reduction in sales tax revenue over certain months. Thank you Andrew Rowan from WCPO reporting inflationary pressures driving consumers to

spend less, which impacts county governments sets their anyway. A County Ministry's proposed budget reduces funding for economic development slash tourism grants from one point two to five million to six hundred thousand dollars. Apparently, grant funding went last year to Blank Flying Pig Marathon Forbes thirty under thirty in the Cincinni Music Festival. They split that grant money up.

At a public hearing Tuesday this week, America river Roots Festival organizer to ask the commissioners to reconsider coach air. Tim Fogarty quoted as saying, in a year like twenty twenty five, once again we will be without downtown Convention Center events like American River Roots or Vital of the County's success. Thousands expected to gather on the banks for that America River Roots festivals, celebrating the region's music, cuisine and culture. So finite number of dollars and an infinite

number of things people want money for. Just a plain old, simple reality. And go ahead and ask yourself how it is that two inmates died in custody within one week at the Hamilton County Justice Center. No one has any ends yet. Fifty four years old Matthew Denlar died at the Justice Center a last Thursday. I guess it was the November twenty eighth, according to the department spokes first in Kylo Woods again speaking well speaking with Cameron Knight

of the inquiry on this one, Thank you. Cameron. Admitted to jail on Tuesday, November twenty sixth, Woods said Denlar was had been arrested on open warrants. Woods said he was found unresponsive Thursday in his cell. Officers and medical staff attempted life saving measures. They were unsuccessful in that. Then we had Jacob Grayson. Twenty five year old Jacob Grayson collapsed Wednesday in the common area of the pod. That was last Wednesday, according to Woods. Officers and medical

staff responded. They took him to UC Medical centerhere he later died. No report yet from the coroner's office, so we don't know the actual date of his death. Court documents say Grayson was arrested on the twenty fifth on a probation violation. He had pleaded no contest possessing fenton or related compounds back in February, apparently parle violation because he tested positive for fentanyl and then failed to report

to the probation department. In July, Enquirer said that fourteen people have died at the Hamletin County Justice Center between August of twenty twenty and September twenty twenty three, so they can add these two to the list. That's apparently growing. Corner's office working to determine the cause of death for both of the inmates. Sheriff's office also investigating six thirty five here fifty five KC talks station looks like Owl's on the phone. I'll take quick break here. I'll be

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a colossal waste of time. Don't go into debt for, for example, an art degree, because there's not a lot of employment opportunities out there in the art world. Get a degree, yes, definitely, if it's in the business realm or the like, for engineering or other there are many fields where a college degree is not only valuable, but

often absolutely required. So I thoughtful, you know, cost benefit analysis is really what I've always advocated for, rather than just saying I'm going to go to college and get, for example, I my degree, a political science degree. If that's all you're going to do, I don't recommend doing that, so go ahead with your thoughts and comments on that general topic.

that answer was to experience college. And what that left me was WTF moment several times a day. And the thing is, most of the foreign students, on the other hand, actually came to this country to glean as much as they could in some sort of stem subject there are My thought is that many of the parents and many of the students are taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and getting nothing for.

chemistry and he's actually using that degree. My youngest son three years and his education process decided, hey, this isn't for me, and I thanked him for dropping out, and he is now climbing the rungs of a successful company in Columbus and is now being put to school by that company to learn exactly what he was trying to learn in college, which was electrical engineering.

on that again thoughtful analysis. When you said eighty five percent for the college experience, you know what someone had set me down my first couple of weeks or months in college, I might have given the same response because, of course, in high school, yeah, I saw Animal House five six forty five, he talks, and I also had older friends who were already involved in the college experience, and most notably the fraternity life, which made me salivate

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he ode who would be shocked, you know. Oh yeah, I'm not saying that's a good thing, but I see some really bad scenarios coming up in the future for this. You know, I got my popcorn out.

don't call it conspiracy theories anymore. We call it pattern observation, which is aligned with what you're talking about right now that you know, maybe he was also on a pedophile Island with Mike geb Er, with Epstein and maybe he actually attended some of Ditty's white parties. Who knows the details that guests come out. It's why we keep our popcorn out at all times. Gary, great hearing from your brother.

Careful out there in that snow, watch up for school children who aren't actually going to school.

makes them really believe that they're that particular sex. So, in spite of the fact you got a twig and berries, think inside your head that you're a woman and therefore should be treated by like a woman and be allowed to use women's facilities. At least that's the concept of what's going on. That's why we have the bathroom Bill, which prevents biological men, biological men from now using women's restrooms.

And I understand why that is offensive to some people, me included not the bill itself or the law itself, but the idea of biological men going into women's bathrooms. Because I have a daughter, and I think of my daughter now twenty eight engaged. I'm so happy about that, But as an eight year old, or a nine year old, or a ten year old, any young lady, young person,

a girl. And I only bring that up again because as we go over to the top of our news and enter to this conversation with Lieutenant Governor, remember that you are a transgender woman, in other words, of biological male that believes to be a woman. That does not define your sexuality. What you are drawn to sexually is

independent of what's going on in your head. So, for example, if a transgender woman was attracted to women, and that is certainly possible, right if they weren't a transgender woman, that would make them a heterosexual male. Now, if you are a heterosexual male, should you be allowed to use women's facilities if you don't profess to be a woman. Isn't that generally the concern that we you know, rational, common sense, chromosomally based, scientifically based people think about this.

You know, the idea of men being in women's bathrooms, if you take the transgender woman label off of it, you're talking about a guy going into a woman's bathroom. Now, that guy may be attracted to men, in which case the idea of them molesting your daughter is probably pretty low, unless they're a pedophile or perhaps bisexual, in which case

they're attracted to everybody. It's a very complicated thing, But it's not that there's a discrimination against a transgender woman necessarily, so much as the idea of a girl being molested by someone, which I suppose a woman could molest another girl in the bathroom too, if a well trended lesbian right and guys. You know, over all these years where there's been separate men's rooms and women's rooms, we have may have been surrounded by gay men. I've been I'm

fifty nine years old. I don't know how many times that happened, and I'm guessing it's happened a gazillion times. I never got touched, Nobody ever tried to lay a finger on me. I never got hit on in a bathroom. Maybe it's just because I have a face for radio. I don't know. But that's the reality that we're dealing with here. So it's a question of one's sexual proclivities cloaked under the veil of this idea that you can

be a gender that you're not. So whether or not you believe that you can be a gender that you're not doesn't take out of the equation the whole concept of one's sexual proclivities. So just let that percolate in your brain a little bit, because we're gonna have Lieutenant comn to John Houston to talk about the bathroom bill as well as Ohio adoption and pregnancy programs. Then we get Donovan O'Neil for Americans for Prosperity to talk about

school choice expansion. That'll be after the news stigure out.

going to boys rooms, girls going to girls rooms. But transgender women means you are a X Y gender male. But believe and I'm not going to deny your belief structure, but believe yourself to be a woman. Question, John, you said, if you what test is there? This is why I justify the bill and think it's appropriate. What does it take to become a designated true transgender female? And I'm thinking about this in the context of the COVID nineteen

religious exemptions for vaccines. They started asking people questions about how often they went to church, what they believed in. There was all these layers, which was totally unconstitutional. But does anybody ever ask the transgender female, did you just declare this before you went into the bathroom? Is that

enough to allow you to get in the bathroom. This is the kind of problem we face because I have a daughter, and it worries the hell out of me that a guy, a forty year old guy, who just stands up one day, holds his hands up and says, I'm a transgender female. It's going to be in a bathroom with her. You know what I'm saying, Amen, I do.

of these kinds of things that.

to swim in the women's meat. And like, how in the world adults around this process could ever come to conclusion that that was okay, that this was that the whole rest of the world should change and accommodate. That really is what led to the need for these laws.

what their sexual proclivities are. In other words, they could be attracted to women even though they identify as a woman. Meaning there is a forty five year old guy with full junk in the locker room and it's still attracted to women. That's the creepy part. Now, I know I've been in bathrooms. I'm fifty nine, it's a little bit older than you. And I'm sure that all throughout my life there have been gay men in the bathroom. Never had an issue, no problem, never been molested or attack.

But I'm also in a better position to defend myself because I'm a little bit on equal footing with them. As you point out with Riley Gaines, men have a substantial size and strength advantage over women generally speaking, putting women at a significant disadvantage if they're in a situation where they're someone's trying to molest them in the in the girl's bathroom.

perfectly appropriate accommodations for somebody in that situation. But the rest of the world should not have to accommodate something that makes them feel uncomfortable or threatens their privacy. And so this is a very common sense way to deal with the issue, in my opinion. And look, this is, as you well know, the whole issue of transgender surgeries and treatment for minors was before the US Supreme Court yesterday challenging a Tennessee law that's similar.

and now they have irreversible situation as adults. And so this is this is an issue about protecting everybody. They might giving giving transgender individuals, particularly children, accommodations, but let's not go too far with this, particularly with kids.

Don't have adults making them for children, particularly at very very young ages, which was where we're seeing a lot of this happen.

and Judy Houston, adopted me. And so this is very near and dear to my heart because I know that foster care and adoption changed lives, not just the lives and children. Every adult who tells you that they've done it will say it changed our life too. Having this child in our lives made it more purposeful and meaningful, and so everything that we can do to promote adoption.

We have over three thousand kids in foster care right now waiting for us forever home, and we want to support that and we want to do all we can to support adoption and foster care because there's so many kids who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in just a terrible situation and they need the love of adults. I mean, I will tell you this, I

tell that story. It's not really about me. It's about how an adult can change the life of a child and give them a chance that they would have never had before.

we're having here on the Morning Show. But you know, planned parenthood is everywhere they promote abortion, they suggest, oh you have to get an abortion. You're never gonna You shouldn't bring that baby in a full, full term, you shouldn't have it. They're like constantly all over the place, just scream in that tune you know, wonder you wonder where the chorus is of Wait. A second adoption is a wonderful option, and great things come from families who adopt young people that are in need.

for you. They will help you through this process. They will make sure that you're getting the healthcare before your baby's born. That they have a plan for you to make sure you have the resources you need to support a healthy start for that baby, and connect you with the resources are out there. You're not alone in this. You're not alone. There are people who want to help you have a healthy baby.

let's help you. They wrap their arms around you, love you, care about you, and show you a way forward and know that that resource is out there for you.

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back Donovan, and Happy Friday Eve to you. Brian, happy to be back with you. Hopings are going well. They are going great in that holiday spirit, and I feel like it's not going to go away, so which is just putting a little extra spring them a step these

late days now. I love the topic of conversation and I hope it's all positive because I am a huge proponent of school choice, recognizing that the public schools in many cases not all my children went to public schools, and so of why we both came out okay from my perspective anyway, but some of the public schools are literally failing our children, and many children basically are trapped in them with no alternatives. I like the concept, at

least on some level. And the devil is always in the details of, you know, letting the money follow the child. So those who are on life's margins, who might not necessarily be able to afford, like so many in the public education system, do send their children to private schools. Can't necessarily do that. But if the public money were able to follow the child, that would give them a lot more flexibility. It doesn't prevent them from going to public schools. Of course, some of them are a magnet.

But there are other options out there, and some children would and parents would certainly welcome the option of a different alternative. I can't I don't understand, Donovan, how this bears a political stripe unless you're a member of one of the public teachers' unions. Beyond that, Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Communist, Green Party, doesn't matter. If you've got kids, don't you want choice?

group of folks who are afraid of competition. They just are afraid of competition, and when they see an opportunity for them to lose control, they kick back.

that need to happen. Still, we need to make it easier for folks to be able to take your kid from.

We understand, But does that conversation and funding mechanism ever come up when you're having the conversations about the idea of choice.

dollars rays that go to the local schools. What we're talking about is that money that everybody pays in through sales tax, income tax, and otherwise the state brings together

and then redistributes across the state to school districts. We think that money, right, Yeah, that money that comes from the state should follow the kids, so it stays in the education system and in fact is viewed as I say, at a frontline education dollars, it goes in that kid's backpack, it follows that student wherever they're getting their education in the state of Ohio. So we're not taking money out

of education. We're just making that money a little more flexible to follow the student where that student.

talking about. Of course, I appreciate Americans for prosperity, for what they're doing in connection with the work on this. What can my listeners do to help get behind this effort? And I'm going to assume that most of my listeners share our thoughts on school choice.

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these days. And I'm old enough to remember when you had CBSNBC and ABC and everybody just sort of intently listened to what Walter cronkit Tech said and took it at face value. That's what you got. You couldn't search for yourself, and he had the opportunity to decide and

pick and choose what information you actually got. There was as much information, legislation and issues going on back when Walter Cronkite was giving it to you in a half hour as there is right now, and Lord Almighty, you can't keep track of it with the unlimited resources we now have to access to try to figure out what's going on in the world, truthful or not anyway. So that's gonna be fun after Top of our News. Ratliffe

always fun. I heard media aviation expert we're talking about the Thanksgiving holiday week and was it as busy as expected. Someone decided to add up all the passenger miles flown since the last US aviation crash. We'll find out how many miles that is. Spirit Airlines employees are a little upset over executive bonuses as the airline goes into chapter eleven. Yeah, Frontier soon providing premium in first class seats for flyers, as well as a hub delay update with Jay and

maybe a curveball or two. He's always ready for it. What again, Thanks? Everybody, need to listener to lunch. It was awesome, wonderful, wonderful time. It was great seeing everybody, and we had a lot of conversations because I've mentioned many times that Keto diet and I kind of want a little bit of modified Keto diet. I only bring it up now because I with RFK Junior, sort of making the America healthier again. The whole idea of bringing to our collective attention. It's kind of like what I

was talking about John Houston about adoption. It doesn't get the marketing that it's deserved. You know, there's a huge amount of money bankrolling planned parenthoods. You hear about that all the time. Abortion, of course, now it's fully legal in Ohio, so there are alternatives, but sometimes the message is suppressed a little bit, either for lack of money

lack of resources. But in the world of food, you know you can read articles and talk about health, and you know you'll learn about it in school a little bit, although the food pyramid has changed like nineteen times since I was in elementary school. But the idea of process foods and I'm looking forward to having more information brought out to the American public's attention about processed foods. And

I saw an article yesterday on Epoch Times. They don't have to go into the details, but you know, the headline was ultra processed food consumption linked to higher muscle fat composition, regardless of calorie intake. So if you're eating natural foods other than those like ultra processed foods like chips and cookies and pre cooked frozen days as were all mentioned as illustrations of ultra processed foods, they're really

bad for you. And being on the only reason I bring it up is because you know, I'm not paying that close attention to it. I did pretty much eat anything I wanted before one of this diet, and I was trying to do it in an effort to stave off my cancer, because there's a lot of research that's coming out now about starving cancer if you deprive it of sugars and can go a long way to helping.

Like there's been some research studies published, research studies in legitimate you know, like Journal of American Medicine Types Reports, peer reviewed that you can reduce breast cancer tumors and things like that by reducing or completely eliminating your sugar intake. And there's a bunch of different protocols out there, and again I can't go into all the details on it, but watching my sugar intake alone, this diet do yourself a favor if you never pay attention to it. Start

reading labels, start just looking at labels. Yes, the bread you eat will convert to sugar, so you know carbs are going to do that anyway. But look at the amount of processed sugar or corn syrup that goes into geez, almost everything.

sugar intake collectively. But you know, as much as I may disagree with OURFK Junior on a number of things, most notably his you know, his idea that he believes also that you and I are exiling the planet into oblivion, that's not what his job's going to be. Is job's going to be to sort of raise our collective awareness about healthier food options. You know, you're my listeners, you're

my friends. I love each and every one of you, and it just it's I just want to get that out of my system because being on a dial like this it makes you, it forces you to pay attention, and then you're like, holy crap, there is a ton of sugar out there and we don't need it, and we do have a significant obesity problem in this country. So there, let me get it out of my system. I appreciate that, and let's talk about the night orson wells Terrified America with my next guest, William hazel Grove.

Right after the news followed by iHeart me the aviation erxpert Jay Ratlip. I hope you can stick around.

This is a cool thing. He got to actually write in the attic of Ernest Hemingway's birthplace. He's written articles for like every major news outlet, USA Today, Smithsonian Magazine, and a whole bunch of other publications. He's been featured on NPR, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune. I could go on, but I want to talk about his new book Dead Air The Night orson Wells Terrified America. William hazel Grove. It is a pleasure heavy on the fifty five KRSE Morning Show.

the air. They had actors doing different parts, sound effects, all that live in studio at CBS Studio in New York. What was the nature of radio back then? Because right now, of course, anybody can get any program anywhere in the world with the Internet. But I was wondering was this a syndicated thing that it went across to America? I mean, was the power feed from CBS New York City's radio studio so big like our local station LW that it went on over multiple states? How did this program get out?

small towns. The panic just emanated out and so they were literally running for the hills in California, Missouri, you know, all the way down to the south, down in Mississippi. It was just you know, it traveled across the country. As he said, radio was a new medium at this time that you know, everybody had a station. Because what it happened was it's a dayton Land crisis with Hitler wanting to invade Czechoslovakia. It just occurred two weeks before.

Said there was these breaking news bulletins going off all the time, and and Wells used that in his show. He used breaking news bulletins. He made it as realistic as possible, and he listened to it today even today. But so I had someone, so listen to it. You think it's actual news. Yeah, you know, you know Martians Lady.

Edgarburg and Charlie McCarthy, which had twelve million listeners. Okay, so what happens during during the Charlie McCarthy hour, they go to Nelson Edia singer and guess what happens with What happens now everybody started surfing the dial and they ended up on War of the World in Progress. After the station you know, identification and everyone it's like, oh

my god, you know, and growers. And in New Jersey, our Martians have landed and you know they're using poison gas and heat raising, killing everybody, and you know, so Wells got supercharged that night. Also, radios in Carns had just become a thing. You know, all these cars now had radios, and this was a very new phenomenon, you know, driving around with a car radio. So people in the cars for the first time, we're hearing this, and they

started just driving like maniacs. The police didn't know what was going on. Everybody started speeding, getting accidents and going through red lights and you know, not stopping for anything. So it was a kind of perfect storm, you know, on this this October thirtieth, nineteen thirty eighth that this you know, broadcast took hold and was like a tsunami of terror across the country.

arrive and they come into the control room. Well sees them and they try getting the studio and John Houston doesn't let them. Why because Wells wants to get to the eight thirty eight minute mark where who has to take a station break? So for thirty eight minutes after the initial intro, okay, there's no break, and by the way, we're the worlds. The first half is where ever everything happens.

The second half of the snooze just Wells walking around saying, isn't this terrible to airthless concenrit But the first half is all the fireworks.

him and kill him on the air. And my book's called you know, Dead Air and the reason for all that is because then Wells in the studio holds up his arms for everybody, everybody, musicians, the actors, everybody to not say a word. And as you know, dead air on the radio is just taboo. Well for six seconds he holds that silence, as says, after this reporter dies on the air, people freaked out. They thought, oh my god, we just heard this guy get Zapp.

on the Martians. I mean it's almost a minute. So when people panicked, they lost their sense of time because later people said, well, how can anybody believe that all that could happen? But you know, people weren't thinking, and Wells was brilliant because here's the thing you want to know. This is a broadcast, and a broadcast it starts with dinner music at a hotel in New York. Then they

cut from that to we've got breaking news. Something's crashed and Grover's in New Jersey, and then back to the dinner music, then back to the new you know, New Jersey. We've got breaking news. The Martians are out and the shooting people of the heat rate. So people, once you bought into the music, you thought, okay, this is real, and then okay, this is real. So you know you were in the tunnel, and then it.

radios are new. What about the idea of just changing the station to see if anybody else is reporting about the world coming to an end and if you don't hear it elsewhere, doesn't that sort of reduce the credibility of what's going on in CBS at that moment?

it happened. He was a Yale professor and he interviewed all these people and that was one of the questions, Well then you go on the down and said, yeah, we did, but we you know, we couldn't find anything else going on, or you know, some people said they did find other people reporting on also too. Terror was spread by the phone. People kind of phone said, you know, Aunt Martha, you know the world's ending. The Martians have come.

And then so they said the footspoorts and Manhattan, which are half block long just lit up, just totally lit up. So it was being disseminated to other people who never heard the broadcast. So it takes on that, you know, yeah, yeah, that our fact, and everybody starts running, people running the theater saying it's the end of the world. They're running

the churches, ants the end of the world. People are confessing to affairs to their lives that you know, I got to tell you, you know the broadcast, Oh.

I'd kill you if I ever saw you. They do an investigation and find out his wife did commit suicide on the night of the broadcast.

endure it. And the Senate panel was up there talking to these airline executives and of course they were grilling them over the seat fees and things that were their costs of business and how their business operations were. And I really think the government has z row zero zero role in that. But what I did find interesting was

when they were talking about like Frontier and Spirit. Oh I love this exchange where they said, why are you incentivizing your gate agents to find bags that are too big so they have to be charged a carry on fee? Because Spirit and Frontier have paid out in incentives.

miss something, we jeopardize that flight leaving on time. So therefore, we're going to incentivize our agents to get out there and look for things that could potentially delay our flight. That's where the focus should have been. But they were

trying to play along, skip along, whatever. And I'm just thinking, guys, you just go that they'd gone straight to the matter, because I would have told every one of the senators, Look, you want your flight to be on time, right, so if we do everything within our power to do so, you're going to be happy, right. And I would have shoved it right back in their face and say, this is how we accomplish that. Because passengers bring bags that

are too big. We've got to do this passengers. All of the things that could have been addressed, But the bottom line is the Trump administration, if it's anything like Round one, they're going to back off. They're going to let the airlines do whatever they want to do. So I think a lot of this stuff that's been being pushed right now is that is not going to continue. And that's sad because I've told you I the Bideen administration, it can't the end of it cannot get here too

soon today. But I do appreciate the fact that they were hard on the airlines. They held them accountable, they made sure that they did everything they could to help push them towards better customer service, and.

So this is like trying to create a villain in the airlines for providing this incentive, where there is They're not a villain. There is the only group of constituents out there that would benefit from this attack and maybe getting rid of this incentive are people who want to carry on oversize bags.

do this. But when you show up at the gate instead of paying to check your bag at the counter, a lot of people drag that bag to the gate. And when the airline says we're super full today, if anybody would be kind enough to let us check their bag. We'll do it for free. Okay, take my four bags and then boom. You didn't have to pay a penny in the check bag fees. Now, I'm not telling people

to do that. They do that all the time, and you know, if it saves them money, I guess they figure it's an okay thing to do.

what we expected. In fact, it was probably number fifteen or sixteen ranking wise in the quarter alone had nowhere near a record number of any kind, and a lot of that had to do with the weather and the number of delayed and canceled flights. So as the week progressed, we were fighting weather delays that caused a lot of problems. Delayed a lot of people, had people traveling on different days,

canceling their reservations, all kinds of things. So even though we ended the Thanksgiving holiday week on a record as expected, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, as we tend to do.

was a challenge. Now airlines made money, and they made quite a bit of it because this is their super Bowl week, the busiest travel week of the year, and they can charge higher fares, and it ticks us off when they do, but there's nothing we can do about it other than after the first of the year. A lot of people are looking at making next year's reservations.

pay the less two. I've told you, Brian, it's airlines in the irs. So if I can pay early to pay the airlines less, you better believe it. I'm going to do that every single chance I.

United States. You and I could go to the moon and back twenty eight million times.

Everybody's doing their job on the ground in the skies. And you know, the only danger is if we start to become a little complacent, and that's where the Boeing conversation begins and.

many are we gonna have this year? It was it was never a even though we wanted it a foregone conclusion, you know, could we have fewer or maybe none this year? But every when you look back at the history of aviation, sadly it's a reality that seemed to always creep up. A lot of it had to do with pilot there.

And thank god for the NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Board, are the all stars because every single accident or near accident, they would try to glean from that the mistake or mistakes were made, enhancements that could be made, and they would pass those on as recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration, saying here's our suggestions, twenty three ways where you can make aviation safer. Now, my arivation is the FA might take one or two of those only implement them into

new changes. But Brian, from every single accident or near accident, we've made aviation safer. When we had the horrific crash of Air Canada back here in the eighties of at CBGYE, the NTSB came up, I think with twenty six different recommendations on how to make aviation safer. Many of those were implemented after that crash and the lives that were lost, and you're always wanting to learn from the crash so that any lives lost, we can honor the memory of

those that we did lose by making aviation safer. And that's what they've done, year after year after year, and thirteen point three trillion miles. That's alone a lot more than my little brain. And I deal with numbers all the time, build numbers that big.

great Spirit aeroloids. I think their employees are legitimately and the word you chose furious explain to my listeners what justifies their anger.

with you. So they're trying to make it on their own. So they're selling off all of this, laying off employees. And then it's found out after the paperwork comes out on the Chapter eleven bankruptcy filings, because it's all right there that just before the airline filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy, they paid up five point three million dollars in retention awards to five of their upper executives of the airline.

kind of guy ever. But I tell you, when I see this kind of stuff where executives get this kind of money, when they are the ones responsible for the airline being driven into Chapter eleven bankruptcy, it makes me want to lose my mind because I'm thinking, but that's corporate America, and that's one of the reasons I couldn't wait to get away from it all those years ago, and it still.

low cost carrier Airbus Aircraft. The first two roads are going to be first class. And what they're saying is we're hearing what our passengers want. But they're also following the lead up. Remember Southwest Airlines is going to go to assigned seats and have some premium or coach plus seats. You've got other low cost carriers looking at this.

they're asking for. They're going to make more money as a result, and to fly a low cost carrier with a first class option. I love that because what you're doing is you're giving the passenger more options. You don't have to sit there. But like every other carrier, they're saying, we can really make some good money here by making this option available for passengers. And I tell you it's a move that from the low cost carrier side, airlines

are shifting in that direction. Spirit Airlines was also a carrier that's decided to do that, which is a long overdue that's going to help them type of move. I wish they had done it years before.