Five o five at fifty five g r C, the talk station. Independence Day Eve.
A vacation, and that's the way the news go.
It is unhappy Independence Day Eve. I hope you got some great plans this weekend. It's some information and interesting information about the level of travel going on over the weekend. It's like it's going to be a record setter coming up in the fifty five RCY Morning Show. It is Thursday, I recognize that, but since I'm off tomorrow, it be a best of program. Joe Strecker will hand select some of the interviews from the program and replay those tomorrow.
So no Gary, Jeff Walker or Dan Carroll. But that means no Tech Friday Dave Hatter, except we can move him back. So today we're going to have a Tech Thursday with Dave Hatter. I'm really happy about that. Thank you Joe for getting in touch with Dave. And thanks Dave. You're out there listening for Green to do that kind of be talking about. This is creepy. Wi Fi companies can track movement in your houses. That's right. Your Wi Fi system allows exterior forces to know you were moving
around and where you are in your home. I don't know what to what end they're going to use that, but it is kind of quite creepy and frightening. Artificial intelligence is now going after your wallet. Topic number two. And then finally a judge allows artificial intelligence testimony from a dead man. Oh okay, question mark looming over seven oh five Shas Khan, author of the Ultimate Vaccine Timeline,
on this schedule. It previously confirmed, but Joe sent the link for our zoom conversation and it bounced back, meaning we were given a bad email address or Joe was doing a bad email dress. So he's reached out to the powers it be to see if we can't shore
that up. It sounds like a really amazing book. Props on all the information in there, but it traces vaccines from their earliest days, like in five hundred DC or something like that, all the way through today, and of course discusses a lot of the risk and concerns and maybe behind the scenes information that you and I weren't told about vaccines. You listen to RFK Junior, He's uncovered a whole lot of really scary stuff, most notably in the COVID nineteen vaccine realm. In fact, just the other
day he was doing an interview. He suggested that doctor Anthony Founci played a key role in creating and releasing the COVID nineteen virus because game function research was outright banned by the United States, yet he was able to reroute money through a company he controlled over the Wuhan Institute of Virology, so they could create this virus in a lab. He said out loud, Why did he need immunity?
Why a preemptive pardon? He suggests voutch She wasn't merely an innocent bystander because he funneled and transferred critical technology to the Wuhan lab. So I'm sure that's something Chaskan has written about. I hope that she's able to join the program at seven oh five, but we'll come up with something else to talk about, if not followed by Morgan Gibson, CEO of First Step Home, a turned nonprofit and it provides support for women with substance abuse and
their children, so laudable goals there. So Morgan's going to join the program at seven thirty to talk about that. Maybe the way that you and I can help speaking to help Brian Ibel return to Brian Ibold from the Help Squad. Brian's a real just profound charitable guy. Hey, he's got a mission and that's to help people on life's margin. He does that through the Help Squad had him on quite a few times over the years. And a fun and interesting guy. Brian Eibold is finally Jay Rattliffe, Yay,
it's Thursday. iHeart media aviation expert. We're talking about Southwest Airlines trying to well be like everybody else, maybe changing the rules on their loyalty companion pass policy, which he describes as not good. FBI warning about additional cyber strikes against airlines and that they could continue, meaning they're ongoing scary moments aboard Japanese a japan Airlines flight, and finally the entire freight flight crew got suspended after a reported
theft of a passenger cell phone. I love talking to Jay Rheightloff Love talking to you too, five three seven eight two three talk fifty on your AT and T phone.
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It's still developing, the big beautiful bill. They're still talking about it, but it did move into its final phase this morning. Just about three o'clock this morning, lawmakers voted to proceed with debate on the bill. Debate a mechanism known as a rule vote that tees up the final housewide vote, which could happen as early as this morning. So they adopted the rules for debate on the bill
two nineteen to two thirteen. Only one moderate representative, Brian Fitzpacker, Republican, of course, voted voting to proceed, So anyway process could, they say It could still take hours. Democrats could call up various procedural votes to delay the final measure. They've done this before. Bill itself could still face opposition from both moderates and conservatives, which has been the big hold up.
As many as five Republicans were against it as of midnight overnight roughly so don't quote me on the exact time. Conservative lawmakers threatening to vote no overchanges the Senate made to the legislation, saying it's going to add billions of dollars to the federal deficits. Those concerns apparently outweighed by pressure from House GOP leaders and Trump, who was on the phone with all of them over the course of yesterday and overnight urging Republicans to coalesce or on the bill.
Moderates concerned about Senate measures that shift more medicaid costs to the states that expanded their programs under Obamacare. Well, you know, you got to ask yourself, why did you bother expanding your program? Well, the federal government's paying for all of it, Yeah, on a temporary basis. I just don't understand Red states that why they bothered expanding their medicaid program. I don't care if the feather are cover
one hundred percent of it. As someone a party that's supposed to be fiscally responsible, it's everybody's dollars, including the residents of your state who pay federal taxes, whose federal tax dollars are going to reimburse the state for expanding medicaid. I mean talk about definitionally at Charlie Foxtrot. So still looming question marks over whether it's going to pass, but it is moving forward at a slow pace, all right. Onto the weekend, seventy two million p people expected to
travel nationally. Triple A Travel forecasts it's seventy two point two million people will travel at least fifty miles from their homes over the Independence Day weekend. They measure the period between June twenty eighth and July sixth domestic travel presection. That's projection one point seven million more travelers than last year and seven million more than twenty nineteen. That's a lot us Transportations Security Administration's projections for airline which just
runs through July first and through the seventh. Highest passenger volume expected two point nine million for July sixth. Along court of the Transportation Security Administration officials, airports expect the highest passenger numbers ever. TSA staff at airports nationwide said they are prepared to screen more than eighteen point five million travelers at the various security checkpoints. It's going to
be a packed weekend for air travel. I'm sure Jay Ratliffe will be sure and have to say something about that. FAA predicting the busiest fourth of July week and fifteen years, with today expected to see more than fifty one thousand domestic and international flights. You know, when you think about that, you got fifty one thousand planes flying around on an air traffic control system it's built on floppy discs from back in the eighties. It's really a scary reality. As
far as driving. Some good news here US motorists on highways will notice slightly higher gas prices compared to the last month. This week national average of gas three dollars and twenty two cents, five cents more than a month ago. However, the good news gas prices twenty seven cents cheaper than this time last year and the lowest gas prices for July fourth weekend since twenty twenty one. How about that worst place to buy gas California four dollars and sixty
two cents. Hawaii would you'd imagine would be number one because literally everything in Hawaii needs to be shipped in. It is an island chain. Anyway, four dollars and forty seven cents. You got to pay four to forty five in Washington State, Oregon four oh six, Nevada three eighty one, Alaska three seventy four Alaska where they have all the oil that they can possibly deal with, followed by Illinois, ID, Idaho,
and Pennsylvania. At least expensive, it's going to be in Mississippi at least for gas Mississippi James, You're only paying two dollars and seventy three cents a gallon, followed by Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, and South Carolina as well as Kansas. Those are all the lowest, Kansas number ten in the list at two dollars and ninety one cents. So good news for gas prices.
And of course, you know, one of the positives of the big beautiful bill, ignoring the deficit creation reality, it'll free up more domestic energy production, which is a good thing, and roll back all these green energy programs and quit funding those. It's amazing how much money rolled out of the federal government in the waning days of the Biden administration auto pen and full gear. Apparently, Biden Administration's energy departments signed off on nearly forty two billion dollars for
green energy projects between let us see here. Actually between January sixteenth and January seventeenth of this year, Man Loan Program's office approved at least ninety three billion dollars in current future disbursements. This after Kamala Harris lost the twenty twenty four election in November, Biden had to get all the money out of the door as soon as possible, so billions and billions of money went out the door.
So I know the Republicans are busy trying to cls some of that back, but there are complications on that, and that's one of the things that's in this big beautiful bill rolling back some of those green energy projects. And then that's when you find out that the Republicans, who are usually you know, against this and find it to be contrary to their political leanings and dealings, well that's until their state is the recipient of one of
these green projects. That which time they all decide, well, no, no, the rest of them need to go, but we're we want to keep the one that's coming to our state, right, just like military spending five sixteen, fifty five krc DE Talk station. Feel free to call, got more coming up and I'll be right back after these brief parts.
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Five twenty we'll change of pace on this Independence Day for the bumper music. Thank you, just treker refreshing. All right, maybe you know and maybe you don't know, but Sarah Hennager, the widow of man who was stabbed to death, and they're over the Rhine apartment, Jim owner down and over the Rhine apparently successful guy, great guy, nice husband, all the great things, and he's no longer with us because
of violent crime in downtown Cincinnati. I'll get to Sarah Heninger and Herringer rather prologies to Sarah for mispronouncing the last name there anyway in a local story. I just I'm kind of curious to gauge your reaction on this Red Bike station. You know, there's rental bikes that they have all over the place, so they're going to be available this weekend. In a social media post, the city said Red Bike agreed to close stations and over the
Rhine in the Central Business District for the weekend. Also a restriction on the use of rental eatscooters in both neighborhoods between eight pm and six am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Delgy CPOs Taylor Whiter and Jay Score reached out to Cheryl Long's office city manager, and they said, well, trying to prevent the rise in crime in over the Rhine, both police and residents flag Red Bikes as part of the problem. Spokesman for the city said it's another intervention
to prevent crime. Coord to the City Sincinnati post, to prioritize safety Downtown. Red Bike agreed to the city's request to closed stations in OTR in Central Business District this weekend. The city also restricting the use of East scooters in the area. The suspension will be in fact eight am to six apm to six am Thursday through Saturday evenings. All right over to Sarah Hannah Aarringer commenting on this
nascial media post on Facebook, which is widely circulating. It's the topic near and dear to Christopher Smithman's hearty he was venting about it earlier this week and find that podcast thirty five k SE dot com. The murderer who took my husband's life didn't use a bike. The murderer didn't use a scooter, and yet this city's grand solution banned bikes and scooters for the weekend, just long enough to protect the image, the tourists and the dollars. Cincinna's
averaging thirteen homicides a month. Now, that's what's killing people, not bikes, not scooters. My husband wasn't murdered because of transportation options. He was murdered because violent crime is out of control. While city leadership chases headlines instead of solutions, I asked the Chief of police why they weren't rounding up the A wall criminals, the ones who are actually
putting lives at risk. Here's the reality. There are fourteen hundred and sixty five people on supervised release from Hamilton County, one hundred and fifty three violators at large as of June twelfth. Fifty two of them have been convicted of violent offenses. And what did I get? Jask? Silence? Probably because it was after five pm. Probably because they were leaving for vacation the next day. That's the level of urgency,
that's the priority. City leadership can scramble overnight to limit scooters, but not take violent criminals off our streets. They're addressing optics, not reality. What happens on Monday when the tourists leave, the bike's return, and the violence keeps going. How does banning bikes stop the bloodshed? It doesn't because it's only It isn't about safety, it's about theater, and it's cowardice. They can move overnight to protect their image. They could
move overnight to protect their people. They just don't want to. And here's what they're not talking thinking about. Every time they choose image over action. The trust of this city erodes every time they patch the optics but ignore the cause. The streets go more dangerous. Every time they move for tourists and not for residents, they reveal who they really
are protecting. Since Anti doesn't need another weekend stunt, it needs leaders willing to act before the camera's wall, willing to take the hard steps that actually make a city safe. And until they do, we see it. We see the failure, We see the cowardice, and we will not forget. But she has been outstoken, has spoken an unrelenting since of course her husband's murder, and good for her. A lot of bad things happen to people, but can you use that bad event in your life to help transform for
the better a community. God love her, and I hope she has some success getting these elected officials off their butts and getting them to address the crime prop in the city of Cincinnati, and getting them to become more outspoken on support of police and the relationship building with the various communities in the City of Cincinnati relative to
their support of police. You know, I'm sure a whole bunch of people out in the Greater Cincinnati area or in the Cincinnati area proper knows something about the one hundred and fifty three violators at large that she mentioned in her Facebook post drop a dime huh five twenty five ify five KRCD talk station local stories moving on advance or from that local story, more of those coming up or phone calls which I love. I'll be right back five twenty eight, coming up a five twenty nine
that about Kercity Talk station. Collect to saw these guys in concert. Man, they put on a great show of going back a lot of years on that good call on this Joe. Appreciate the change up there and all is right with the world. Times on the phone, Tom, Happy Independence Day to you, brother.
Absolutely, And I'll start by wishing everyone a happy Independence Day two hundred and fiftieth. Huh, big deal. Wow, Yes, we're still We're still babies compared to a lot of countries around the world.
Aren't we.
Yeah, as it rapidly deteriorates and falls apart red our very eyes.
There, we're still we're still trying to figure this experiment out, apparently. Yeah. I first want to touch on the whole h the victory for common sense with the whole transgender thing and letting men participate in women's sports. With the University of Pennsylvania decision, it's not like they had much of a choice. Kudos to Trump and the Trump administration for putting squeeze at these people and making things right. That that that was good to see that that that dude, he's a dude.
I don't care how many times they put her or she in any article.
That is it.
That is a man, so Leah Thomas, right.
Yeah, correct, correct, So I don't really mind the name it's I'm not I'm not calling a guy her or she. I just won't do it. So if I accidentally read it through an article, I'll I'll double back and I'll quickly correct myself because, uh, that I find had to be extremely extremely offensive calling a calling a man a woman, and referring to hers as him as as she. So anyway, move on from that. Uh your your thing. You just read your Facebook post? Is that Sarah Herringer? Is that what you said?
Correct?
Yeah, very very powerful story and uh the only thing missing at the end of her at the end of her post should be three words don't vote Democrat. Have a great holiday weekend, Brett, You do.
The same, Tom thanks for calling as always five one thirty seven nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two three Talk or go with pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Two. Have other local stories see we got a man facing a reckless homicide charge after his wife was shot in the head and died. UH charged with reckless homicide Tyrone Crawford, as well as improper handling of a firearm and a motor vehicle, as well as tamplering with evidence following the June twenty nine
death of his wife accord in the Middletown Police. Around ten forty five pm June twenty nine, police sit officers and firefighters went to a home on Roosevelt Boulevard for a shooting victim. Middletown Police so they found Curtis in the backyard. Alec Alexis curtis Is dead wife's name, with a gunshot wound to her head. She died at the scene. Officer talked with Crawford, who said he was Curtis's husband
and the two had a child together. Crawford told officers he and his wife had just gotten home and he was getting a handgun out of their parked vehicle. While holding the gun, Police said, he told the officers that it went off. Police said they later learned that Crawford ran into the home and hid the gun in the bathroom. Weapon later found during a search of the home. It was an accident, Joe. It just went off on its own. Oh,
you think like pulp fiction. Well, that's why all people who have any familiarity with handling of firearms, notably handguns, it's always keep your finger off the trigger at all times, unless, of course, you are prepared to use it. So like, you know, if your wife's standing there, you don't pull a firearm out and have your finger on the trigger just because it may be a really light trigger. Hair
trigger believes what they call them. Ohio Attorney General Dave you O suing Weapon X Motorsports Incorporated and its owner, Benjamin Herndon for taking payments for orders the business did fulfill or refund yoh said the businesses and its owner failed to fulfill orders for nine customers who reportedly lost it total of twelve thousand, almost nine hundred dollars. The
court of the lawsuit. Weapon Ex Motorsports has been registered in Ohio as a business since August of twenty twenty says though the business has a facility in Chapel Lane and Forest Park, that building is not open to the public. Court of the lawsuit and said the business sells aftermarket vehicle parts and accessories to consumers through its website. Court of lawsuit often defendants accepted money from customers for parts and accessories and then allowed more than eight weeks to
elapse without providing the items consumers ordered. When defendants failed to deliver the items, they did not refund consumers. They did not offer to furnish similar goods of equal or greater value. When customers got in touch with Herndon and the business, they were repeatedly promised to delivery the items, but with a pushback arrival date. Said the defendants knew those items would be eminently would not be eminently delivered.
That's what the lawsuit of ledges. In some instances, the court to the complaint, consumers waited over a year for delivery and still never received the ordered item. When consumers requested and canceled their order after months of delay, they were told that their order was non refundable. Wow, not much of a business model. In addition to Lawson claims Herndon took money from buyers for parts and accessories, then
delivered the incorrect product or a damaged item. When he received complaints, they failed to offer a refund or provide a replacement of item to equal greater value businesses cancelation and refund policies were quote substantially one sided. Close quote that's an understatement. For example, it says consumers were permitted only on one business day from purchase to contact the defendants to cancel the order or potentially not be able
to cancel or receive a refund one day. Top of that, cancelation policy also reserved the right to charge consumers up to twenty five percent cancellation and restocking fee for non custom manufactured item and up to fifty percent for custom manufactured items, twenty percent restocking fee for return unopened items
in their original packaging. Yes, lawsuits seeking Herndon Weapons X Motor Source to pay up to twenty five thousand dollars in civil penalties also requests that all customers damaged by defendant's unlawful actions be reimbursed by Herndon and the business. A rather unscrupulous business model, I have to note. Let's see here. We've got stack and stupid coming up. And since it's Thursday, there is no Friday show or well live Friday show. I have a stack of stupid that
of course is filled with naked people. Thank you. Joe Tracker dialoaded back a day five point thirty five Stick around the.
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By forty Friday e Independence Day Eve five one three two three talk. It's tad on over to the phones. Jay's gone again this morning. Jay, welcome back to the show. Hey, good morning, Brian.
Hey, I just heard your.
Points there about the story about Dave Yost taking action and protecting consumers and protecting citizens of Ohio. My question is, why isn't Dave Yost. Shouldn't he be stepping up in his office, stepping up whenever the state of Ohio decides to give unclaimed funds that really don't belong to the
State of Ohio to a private business. I mean, let's just say that instead of six hundred million dollars one to the Cleveland Browns that went to First Energy, you think the Attorney General might step in and and these are not funds that were tax revenues.
That we were.
You know, the legally owned by the state of Ohio.
Yeah, these are.
Unclaimed funds by Ohio on that do not belong.
To the State of Ohio.
I would encourage the listeners to light up the Attorney General's office, the top.
Cop for the state of Ohio.
That office should be the one.
And I've called them before this all.
Went into law, and they said, well, let's just stay tuned to see if the law passed way passed.
Yeah, so what are.
They doing now?
And isn't that their job?
And whenever legalized theft of this And I'm not sure. I'm not sure it's legal because nobody can put their finger on the part of the Ohio Constitution that says unclaimed funds could just be relegated to the business of choice of the governor or the legislature.
Well, I will be quite honest with you, since I wasn't aware that there was an entire four and a half billion dollar unclaims fund pile of money before this issue came out. I have read though, that they're deemed forfeited if there is no action on those accounts and no effort to claim those accounts, like after ten years. So let's assume that that's lawful and legal on the books, and that means it does belong and is under the
control of the state. How much play they have with it and what they can use that money for is a total mystery to me, my friend, because this is the first time I'm aware that it's ever come up. So might he like to.
Beg your pardon so it could be challenged?
I do believe it could be. Yeah, I mean, there's certainly a room in there the question of standing. Who has standing to challenge it? Now, if you're someone who has unclaimed funds in that fund and you've been denied the recovery of those funds or something, you might have standing since it's impacting you. Although they're not spending all of the money, so it's not as if some person who has a legitimate claim is they still can no longer get their money if they have a valid claim.
I'll admit, Jay, it does sound it's crazy for me fundamentally, just because the money is being given to private sports owners. But there may be a very well illegal challenge. It's in there. How it goes and how it unfolds and happens. Who has standing to bring it all remains a mystery to me. Jay, I guess we're gonna have to wait and find out. But legitimate concern Mississippi. James, welcome back
to the fifty five Kressey Morning Show. I mentioned you in the when I was talking about gas prices earlier. Apparently you're the guy who's living in the state with the least expensive gasoline prices averaging two dollars and seventy three cents. Welcome back to the morning show, James. Always good to hear from you, all.
Right, and I do need to fill up today.
Good. Well, you're in the best state in the Union for that, so I don't know if you're paying more than two seventy three, but it's a hell of a lot better than four dollars and sixty two cents in California. You're right, you're right.
Yeah.
We just finished up mayor city council votes this week. Well they went into office just started this week. The election was June the third, so I have more time. I've been nine hit and meiling in this poll.
Take.
I guess with the city and the county they all set for another four years now, so we'll see that road.
Yeah, are you Are you optimistic?
Uh?
I have to be that I That is okay. You want a default to be optimistic, and that's your nature, Jays. But that hesits That wasn't really you know, uh a stunning uh. You know, support for the current administration. You got to deal with that.
I have to be watchful.
I have to be watchful, but will will be optimistic?
Good for you? Good for you?
Not.
The guy was just speaking about the unclaimed UH funds And.
Did you say it was over four billion in there?
Yes, sir, my goodness, Uh huh no, better.
Check and see. I have a.
Right at one time.
But the process was so long and let this I think I stopped pays weight through.
Hmmm. Maybe it's by design that it's long, lengthy and difficult, James. People just walk away from it out of hell with it. It's only five hundred bucks that I left in that closed bank account. Let him have it. I can see that. I can see that, yep, yep.
So I'll attempt at a DN see what's in there. If I got anything. Hurry up, Dave is gonna get this.
What six hundred million? Cleveland Brown? Well, I got to admit, if you're gonna give money away. It's better to just take that money that's in the pile that you already have than going in debt to do it, which was the House original proposal to borrow six hundred million dollars and then pay debt service on it, which means with debt service it would have been overall more than a
billion dollars. So that was profoundly stupid. Not sure that this is any better because of my overall objections to handling it away to private entities, But we'll see what happens. Appreciate the call, James, have a great Independence Day. By forty six Federal Credit Union's nineteenth Annuel Charity Golf Tournament. This year, it's benefiting since a children's hospital Charitable Care Fund and it's taking place Monday, August eighteenth. Market on
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Internet research guru Joe Strecker, who all apparently is entitled to an unclaimed fund countering what Mississippi James said. He Joe just did it right now, I said. It took him a total of two minutes. You got to Colm, which stands for commerce Colm dot Ohio spelled out dot gov. Joe said, about two minutes to fill the format. You can search by your name and your address, and at some point it'll ask you for a social security number to see if you have any unclaimed funds out there.
But it is a secure website. It's run by the state of Ohio, so they already have your security number, so it may be worth it. Joe put a claim in for the funds that were there owed him, and apparently Joe looked it up again. Interser internet research guru. He is apparently ag yost did tell Dwine to veto the six hundred million dollar gift to the Brown provision, but obviously Dwine did not do that. Now phase two is whether he actually has a legal challenge to doing that.
And in talking with Joe, Joe thinks the idea that Yost would sue the Wine slimmed to none and slim left left down. It's this tradition, YEP. Police arrested a woman after a witness said she was running around at Jacksonville parking lot naked and attacking people and cars with a golf club. As this tradition. Nicole J. Petree, forty three, arrested described as homeless, hours after police reported encountering her earlier in the day standing in the middle of the
road at south West Chamber Street. Woman was walking around without a shirt, exposing her breast the cording to the Jacksonville Police, she was issued a citation on a violation of city ordinance against indecent exposure. Hour and a half later, police called a Lincoln Square shopping center after callers said a nude woman was hitting people and property with a golf club. One person in seventeen year old suffered minor
injuries after being hit two vehicles also damaged. She was arrested three phoney counts, one aggravated battery, two counts of criminal damaging involving more than five hundred dollars.
Drugs are made.
I'm gonna go with that. Denton Police arrested a forty year old woman after multiple people called the report she was lying naked in a residential area on Monday. As this tradition, UH twenty to three in the afternoon, please dispatched to Paisley and Heady Streets after receiving multiple calls about this naked person lying on the sidewalk. Officers got there witnessed a woman lying on the ground with no clothes on. She told officers she felt like she was
having a medical episode. Said she did not want to be transported to a hospital, but wanted medics to check on her. They arrived on the scene, the medics cleared her of any medical issues. Both medics and officers cleared the scene. Shortly before five pm. Officers were dispatched again to a report of a naked woman of the six hundred block of Janney Street. Officers support They found her again lying on the sidewalk naked from the waist down put her under arrest without incident.
Drugs are made.
Yep Uh charges penny against the driver of a Hyundai accident after he slammed into the back of a Houndai Elantra. Thirty two year old motorists was in custody Friday afternoon after ramming another man's car on East third Williamsport, pushing at at least seventy five yards before he got out and took off running, removing his clothes as he ran
as this tradition. Williamsport Police said. The man, who police believed was battling some mental health issue, bolted about two blocks to Academy in Church Streets, where he was restrained after an officer was forced to deploy a taser. Female witness described it as crazy. Started for one pm when the man stormed out of the leading electronics store where he is an employee, corner to the patrol supervisor. Upon
returning from lunch. He displayed some very bizarre behavior and got into a confrontation with another worker, smashing a display case and several monitors before leaving the store. Driving this Hyundai. He was heading west on East third Street at a high rate of speed when that's when he slammed into the back of the other car. Second driver not injured, though in spite of the significance of the the collision, charges Penning. As the investigation is ongoing. Drudge yeah, oh
real quick here. Naked man accused of attempted robbery On Tuesday arrested two thirty pm. Raleigh police called the Atlantic Avenue of the forty one hundred block for a suspicious person. Police said two people reported it man attempted to rob him. Police got there, they found a man and a woman that reported a naked guy approach them with a wooden post. I was waiting for that. Man told police he had just gotten out of his car locked it when the
suspect approached him and di maanit. He dropped everything he was carrying and give him access to the car. After complying with the suspect, man said the suspect assaulted him with the wooden post. According to the police, suspect also approached the woman eating lunch in her car. Told him the suspect hit her in the arm with the wooden post before pulling her out of the car and attempted to drive away. So suspect unable to shift the car out of park well. He said he fled from the
scene hidden the nearby storage room. Poleasee said the suspect later captured and taken into custody. They've not released the name of the suspect or the two people reported in the assault. Naked guy is in police custody though fivefty six. They typically end that way, don't they. Fifty five krs the talk station Tech Thursday with Dave Hatter coming up with six thirty A little frightening information about our artificial intelligence,
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Six to fifty five kr CE the talk station Independence Day. He hope you have some great plans for tomorrow. I'll be off tomorrow. I'm going to be doing a best of show Just struck Girl selects prior recorded segments and we'll do we'll deal with that. So there's no Tech Friday with Dave Hatter tomorrow. But fortunately at the bottom of this hour, we'll have Tech Thursday with Dave Hatter.
Today we'll be discussing discussed how Wi Fi companies apparently can track your movements in your own house, Creepy artificial intelligence now going after your wallet. And finally Judge allows artificial intelligence testimony from a dead man. Really looking forward to talking with them about that question mark looming over the seven oh five guest spot with Shas Khan, author of the Ultimate Vaccine Timeline. I'm really hoping she's able to make it. It's a called subtitled A fact Packed
History of Vaccines and their Makers. Apparently she poured through just hundreds of years worth of information about vaccines and revealing I guess the good and the bad. So apparently Joe was giving a poor email address link so he couldn't send her the zoom link. He's reached out to her people and maybe we'll get that short up by seven oh five. I'll keep my fingers crossed for that. Morgan Gibson to be joining the program. She's with First
Step Home CEO there. It's a nonprofit providing support for women with substance abuse and their children. Worthwhile effort there plus help Squads. Brian Ebold returns at eighth five. Is he gonna be in the studio, Joe great? Oh, that's wonderful. I always enjoy talking with Brian. He's a really good man. He's doing his best to help the West Side community
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you gotta face the truth. And it's nice when people are honest and at least forthcoming with their opinions as gloom and dooming as they may be, rather than hiding it from you. Headline for The Wall Street Journal chip Cutter reporting CEOs starts saying the quiet part out loud. AI will wipe out jobs. I think you and I could probably have concluded this on our own, but the CEOs of very major corporations tend to have a lot
of knowledge and insight into these things. They stay on top of them because it is the future of their business and the other ones making decisions on the future of their business and how much artificial intelligence they're going to be using. First with Chief executive Jim Farley of Ford Motor Company, quote, artificial intelligence is going to replace
literally half of all white collar workers in the United States. Now, I hope that's an overstatement, most notably because you know, you have to point out white collar workers tend to be the highest breadwinners in terms of earnings, the highest salaries, and therefore the highest tax If you wipe out half of them, can the economy survive? AI will leave a lot of white collar people behind, he concluded over to
JP Morgan Chase MARIONN. Lake, CEO of the Banks, Consumer and Community Business told investors back in May that she can see its operations headcount following by ten percent in the next few years because the company uses new AI tools to consolidate work and get work done by computer that otherwise would have been done by a real human being.
Amazon CEO Andy Jase and a note too employees last month he expected in June expected the company's overall corporate workforce to be smaller in the coming years because of a once in a lifetime AI technology being involved. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that have been done today and more people doing other types of jobs. And there was another article recently about Amazon. They're going to be more robot on the floor of
their sorting facilities and actual human beings. So that's happened, right that's happening right now. CEO Dario Amodi from Anthropic said in May that half of all entry level jobs could disappear in one to five years. And here's a real stunning exclamation point on the reality of that, resulting in US unemployment of ten to twenty percent. He urged
company executives and government officials to stop sugarcoating the situation. Yeah, this is the kind of information we're all going to need out there so we can make informed choices on what we do going forward, And most notably for young people pursuing their career opportunities, you know, starting out either
considering maybe a trade school or a college education. Ask yourself the fundamental question is this future of mine, this career path that I have chosen, is it possible or likely that it could be wiped out through by artificial intelligence? And there's a lot of industries where that could happen. I think of accounting for one. I mean, isn't that exactly what Elon Musk and the Doge people were doing up in Washington, DC, harnessing a power of artificial intelligence
to rifle through the books very quickly and efficiently. Now, to point out, it's been the norm for all these CEOs and folks in the know to sort of downplay the idea of artificial intelligence when they are interviewed about it in private, though apparently they had been talking about how their businesses will likely be run with a fraction of the current staff. Technologies including automated soft automation software, artificial intelligence, and robots are rolled out to make operations
as lean and efficient as possible. Micah Coffin, CEO of a marketplace, a freelance marketplace, Fiver that's the name of it, told his staff this is a wake up call. It doesn't matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer, support rep, salesperson or finance person.
AI is coming for you to w Lutke, chief executive at Shopify, recently told his workers that the company wouldn't make any new hires unless managers could prove artificial intelligence isn't capable of doing the job that the new hire would be doing. James Reinhardt, CEO of the online resale site thread Up, quote, I think it's going to destroy way more jobs than the average person thinks. Over at IBM, yes,
still around, Chief executive arn VN Krishna. So the company used artificial intelligence to replace the work of a couple of hundred people in human resources. So he did add that the company hired more programmers than salespeople. Apparently there's still a need for programmers and salespeople, but apparently not over in human resources, where artificial intelligence is now doing the job. This is kind of frightening stuff. Folks, you say what you want about whether or not you want
to embrace artificial intelligence or not. It's happening all around us in the future. Does not sound real good based upon these at least learned officials and lofty places in these massive, huge businesses. I guess we know that around here, Joe, don't we Automation they've gotten rid of pretty much everybody who is not literally nailed down in some capacity, and I will personally observe it to my experience that the quality has not improved with the adoption of technology to
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Well, we all know David's on permanent vacation. Anyway, I'm going to get the call here. Bear with me. I just want observation. I mentioned yesterday was reporting about how close we are to Social Security Trust Fund running out, and part of the article talked about the number of workers per retired person and the number is dropping and
it's getting worse. Which point where it's going to be like two point three people working for every recipient of social security, meaning taxes are going to have to go up, and so security recipient is gonna get less money if this prediction from this anthropic CPO Dario Dario Amadi comes true and unemployment, in fact, because of artificial intelligence, jumps to ten to twenty percent. Might I note that that's going to exacerbate an already serious problem we have on
our hands. Social services will be overwhelmed. You I mentioned a number of people on unemployment and what happened to the unemployment program, on and on and on, Hank. Thanks for bearing with me during that little tear there. Welcome to the Morning show, and Happy Friday Eve.
Happy Friday Eve to you too, Brian, and thanks for referring to Independence Sterek Day correctly. I get it just calling it July fourth, which is everywhere in the world.
I'm a stickler on that one, Hank. I had a friend of mine who was just really very serious about that. He took it very seriously. So anytime someone said July fourth holiday, he would stop and say, no, it's Independence Day. And that's an important distinction, because you're right, everybody gets to July fourth, but only we Americans get to live under the reality that we do celebrate the independence of our country and the creation of a free land. Thank you very much.
So anyway, the main reason I called was you were discussing AI and aside from the whole sky net scenario, and you're talking about the unemployment going up.
So all these CEOs are looking at.
Replacing all these people, and there's gonna be a lot less fewer people in those high paying jobs.
So who's going to buy.
Their stuff another ripple?
I don't think they. I don't think they thought that went out all that far.
Sounds like I get it.
Man.
You know that there are so many layers in this. If you look to see where the potential for artificial intelligence might lead us, there's good elements and there's some really bad elements. And I think you're right. Fewer people employed mean less money being spent on stuff and things. Stuff and things are what makes our economy run. We're a consumer driven economy.
Yeah, it's it's kind of like some people refer to it as war gaming. You don't just stop and look at one conclusion and go, oh my goodness, You got to think about Okay, so what's that one gonna do? And what's the one after that one going.
To do exactly?
So that's I think that's what they're either if they're doing that, they're not telling us, or once again people are just falling flat on their face with not thinking ahead, and.
Here we go.
Well, like I said, keep in mind, there's always still the skynet egleized scenarios.
Yeah, and people have been talking about that.
Decide they don't need us at all.
Yeah, they've been talking about that for a long time. But yeah, I guess it's gonna have to boil down to maybe some ethical and moral discussions about Okay, we could use artificial intelligence to replace some people, but isn't it better to have those people employed and busy and doing something, even if it's running on the hamster wheel to keep them out of trouble, you know, idle hands
of the devil's workshop. And if you get ten to twenty percent of the population that's completely unemployed and not employable because artificial intelligence has well taken away their employment opportunity, that could create some societal unrest. You think. It reminds me that I can't remember who it was one of our former presidents. I think maybe William Howard Taff anyway goes to a third world country and they're building a big project. It's a construction project. I don't know, maybe
like a canal or whatever that happened to be. And he observed that already had pick axes and shovels, so why don't you use modern equipment like bulldozers and machinery to get this job done quicker and more efficiently. In the response from the elected officials or authorities, there was this isn't a public works project, it's a jobs project.
In other words, they wanted to keep those folks busy with pick axes and shovels rather than to have one guy doing the work of twenty with a bulldozer, because it kept them busy. I think maybe the theory behind the behind the Civilian Conservation Corps and the WPA back in the nineteen forties, don't know, but lost the contemplate on AI and that's a topic that is not going away anytime soon. Keep your popcorn out. Six twenty five Tech Thursday. Speaking of tech things, they've had to join
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Six thirty Here fifty five KRCD talk station. Happy Friday Eve, Independence Day EVE, and it's a special edition of tech Friday. We'll call it tech Thursday with Dave had it from interest I find him online and his team at interest I dot com. If you have a business, I know you have computers. Dave and the team will keep you out of trouble or get you out of the troubles you've gotten in, So count on them. The Business Courier says, interest I t is the best in the area, so
interest it dot com. Dave had to welcome back and thanks for your willingness to do a special early edition of the segment.
Oh it's my pleasure, Brian, and Happy Independence Day to you and Joe and all your listeners.
Thanks brother, I hope you got some great plans planned. Maybe are some plans with the family or something, and enjoy that day of celebration real quick. Here this first report on Wi Fi tracking the movement in the house. I remember some years ago an article about maybe it was on Wired or something like that, about the CIA using this kind of technology to sort of look inside homes and see where people are located, or maybe it was the FBI. But this type of technology has been
around a while from what I gather. I mean, you can correct me on that, but apparently Wi Fi companies can figure it out.
Yeah, you're right, it's not brand new, but like so many things, that continues to improve. You know, the Wi Fi standards have changed over time. They've gotten much better from a usability perspective in terms of the speed and connectivity and that sort of thing.
So, you know, as the.
Devices that throw off their Wi Fi signals that make it possible for you to connect your other devices to them and ultimately get Internet access. And it's funny, Brian, I, you know, dealing with my family, I will frequently get Internet's down, Like.
No, it's not the Wi Fi's down. What's the difference?
Right?
Okay, let me let me see if I can explain this to you.
The Internet connection is the pipe that puts you into the Internet right from the Internet service provider the spectrums of the world or whatever you use.
That's the cable that comes from the outside to the inside.
Yes, yes, and you know the Internet was around before Wi Fi. You could get on the Internet with a hardwired Ethernet connection, you know, into a switch to your Internet connection in the past. We know Wi Fi is relatively new, but you know that's a you can have Wi Fi. You can have a local area network that's running Wi Fi, so you're connected wirelessly without Ethernet cables for example, that does not connect to the Internet. You're gonna have an Internet connection that is not accessible over
Wi Fi. But most people have Wi Fi that gives them Internet connectivity, right right. So I always like to try to explain this to people because I think it gets confusing, and it's it's the devices that create the wireless signal to throw up the radio waves that allow your devices to connect that can be used essentially like a radar sonar type of type of approach to figure.
Out where you're at.
And you know, Brian, unfortunately, so much of the tech that we have today, as convenient as it is and as much as it's made you know, life and business and everything much more convenient, much more efficient, much more productive, it cuts both ways because you know, if we all essentially know how radar works. I mean I'm not an engineer, but you throw out a radio signal, it bounces off things, right.
And A you know there's something there.
B you know how far away it is, see, you know how fast it's moving. I mean, this is essentially a form of that, you know, and obviously an unintended consequence of all this technology. I'm pretty sure no one had the idea when they invented this to hey, let's put this out there and make it real convenient for people so we can track them in their house, you know.
Right, but you know they pass it off or market it as a future It's extinity gateway, for example, allows you to get notifications about if there is activity going on in your house. So if you're out of town and you get one of these push notifications like wait a second, my WiFi has detected that someone's walking around inside my house.
I mean, if you think about it, it really could be sort of a cheap form of burglar alarm, right. You know, it's not necessarily going to know that a window is broken or a door was opened, but it could definitely, based on this research that's out there, know that there are people or animals where something is moving around in the house because it's interfering with those Wi Fi signals.
Well, let me ask you this, Is it like a bat with echo location where it is bouncing the Wi Fi signal off of something and then getting a response to it like, well that's a shorter distance, there's someone there. Or is it interference between the Wi Fi device and some other device that's attached to it, like a mass system or one of these Internet of Things devices.
That's a good question, and at the most technical level, I'm not really sure, Brian, I think it's probably the former, because in theory, you might not have any other devices.
Connected to it.
And I'm pretty sure it would still work because it's throwing out a signal, right, But I'm not one hundred percent certain on if it would require a second device that's connected. Let's say a smart TV for example, Right, I might have a smart TV in one room. I got the Internet connection coming in in a different room. The Wi Fi router is in that room. Clearly, if there's interference between those two devices, you could know that. But I don't think that's the way it works. And
then again, I don't really know what. I'm just speculating because Exfinity, for example, might depending on how you have that set up or whoever your internet service provider is it's providing the service, may not necessarily know what you have connected to that device on the outside. If it's all their equipment, they could know that, but they may not know that. Wow, well, but it's wild tech.
It sure is. And they said it's smart enough to even know when a small dog or cat is moving around. Affarent you can program it to ignore small pets from providing a So it's already factored that in and then an ominous ending to the article without further explanation. Oh did you know that you don't even have to move for the machines to be able to see you. All you have to do is breathe, and that's where the
article ends. Creepy stuff. Dave had or pause from them, and we're gonna be talking about artificial intelligence going after your wallet. That'll be sixty if if you've got krc DE talk station a little YYZ there for Tech Friday's Dave Hatter satisfying your rush needs there, Dave, great song, phenomenal song. Anyway, artificial intelligence going after your wallet. I read a really disturbing piece out of the Wall Street
Journal this morning. Some of the facts run about how much artificial intelligence is going to cause people to become unemployed. But moving away from that, I guess it's well going after our wallet? In what way is this happening? Dave Hatter? Yeah, this is interesting.
First off, Brian, I'm not I'm so sure about this unemployment stuff in the short run, and I'll tell you why, and it connects into this story. So let me give you two other quick headlines that are relative to what we're about to talk about hair, and I think it kind of helps paint the picture of what I'm going to say, which is there's an enormous amount of hype around this stuff at the moment, but a lot of
it does not do what it's purported to do. So here's in the headline from Axives, top AI models will lie, cheat, and steel to reach goals, Anthropic finds. And then from the Register top AI models even American ones parrot Chinese propaganda,
report finds. And then there's a third story that recently came out last week where Anthropic basically set up a vending machine and tried to have an AI sort of run it like a business, you know, manage the inventory and all that sort of thing, and it failed pretty miserably. So again I'm not saying first off, I don't know what's in some lab somewhere, as I tell people all
the time. And secondarily, you know, this stuff has continued to improve, especially the generative AI tools that can generate video and that sort of thing. And I'm very concerned about the deep fake aspect of all this. But when you when you really look at this and you get past the hype, I'm not entirely. Sure, we're on the cusp of all being unemployed because of AI in the immediate future. That said, there's something out there called agentic
AI or AI agents. Well, you know, people say it both ways, and what it basically boils down to is the ability to script things, to automate things, to say, Okay, I'm going to set up this AI agent and I'm going to have it do things on my behalf without me needing to sit there and prompt it. You know, I'm not actively engaged with it, typing and things telling it to do. It's been given some sort of goal or objective and it just goes and does it right.
And you know, I think that's where you will potentially see and if you future, as these things improve, some people may be impacted by that. And I'm also not trying to say no one has lost their job as a result of any of this yet, because some of these gender AI tools.
Can do a lot of things.
But again, when you leave them off to their own devices and you say, okay, I'm gonna let this do something on my behalf doesn't generally seem to work that well. And the idea and that this whole article is about the idea that perhaps you might give one of these augentic ais access to your bank accounts or to your retirement accounts and have it do things like watch the market and move your stocks around, yeah, or for example, look for cheaper deals on your behalf when you go
to buy something. And as the author points out in here, that has a lot of potential downside, because first off, all of these things hallucinate.
We know that it's a known fact.
So if I ask it to find me a better deal on something, is it possible that, either because of just some mistake or a hallucination, it actually spends more money than I would have wanted it to because it doesn't really find the best deal, or it doesn't make the right stock investment decision or whatever. And then you know, as the author points out, and I encourage people to read this, it's really interesting. And I can tell you, Brian,
because I know we'll run out of time. There was absolutely no chance, no chance whatsoever, I would give any sort of agentic AI access to any of my financial anything and ask it to act on my behalf.
There is just no way I would trust that. At this point, there's no way of having a legal fiduciary obligation for a computer.
Yeah, right, when it goes bad somehow, Well, who's responsible for that?
And who do you do? What do you do?
How do you get your money back? But as this person points out, well, how would you know that you're not being suddenly manipulated to do things that aren't in your best interest even though you think it's working on your behalf? So yeah, I'm again, Brian, I'm not saying we won't get to a point where A I would trust this stuff, and b it's not doing a lot more. But Gardner, big industry think tank, just recently put out a headline I'll send it to you man, we can
talk about it next week. That is, you know, some very large percentage of projects using these technologies are faded or are failing and will be killed off in the next year. So I'm not saying this stuff isn't gonna it's not coming.
It's not ready for prime time right now. That's that's writing for primetime.
And there is no way I would trust any sort of agentic AI to do anything serious on my behalf.
Fair enough, go back to have it writing fun punk songs for you on your topics here baster will bring Dave back. Apparently a judge allowed artificial intelligence testimony from a dead man de talk station Brian Thomas with interest its Dave had or interest it dot com say reached Dave and the team. Uh this this next story about artificial intelligence video testimony from a dead guy to let
you give the details. But on the heels of this judge Ahmed Meta, an Obama appointee, show cause order was issued against a lawyer that appeared in front of her submitting a case, submitting a brief that had a case that didn't exist. They used artificial intelligence, apparently, and created out of whole cloth a fake case called Moms against Poverty versus the Department of State that the lawyer used
in trying to establish jurisdiction in this particular court. So the show cause order, like why you shouldn't be held in contempt for lying to the court, basically given her an opportunity to explain herself. But that happens all the time. They call it AI hallucinations.
Yeah, Brian hallucinations or confabulations. Hallucination is generally the more common term you'll hear in regard to these generative AI tools. Just literally making something up is one of the main
reasons why again I'm stuck on. I don't think you're going to see enormous job loss anytime soon, because at some point, if you're using a tool and you can't explain when it's going to make something up, and you can't even necessarily know for sure that it did make something up, because often they'll argue with you, you know, and try to tell you whatever it came up with this correct.
It wants to please. You know, if I've got to go do a whole bunch of research only to find out that what it told me is false, well why wouldn't I just do it myself in the first place?
You know, Well, if it provides you with a draft letter version of a brief, for example, you know I've joked and passed you when my first letter to opposing counsel after hanging the phone a phone call up in anger, is this explative written piece of prose that I never would sign. Get it out of my system, then I start editing. So but it does the laboring, or of least the template. So in that situation, you have a generator brief for you want to submit to the court.
You have an allegation as an attorney to go pull up each and every one of the cases cited on West Law or Lexus Nex's and find out if it's real and it's accurately depicted in the brief that it turned out for you. There's still work to be done.
Yeah, And I want to be clear to folks, I'm not saying these tools don't have any value when you understand what their limitations are. Again, I'm a big fan of rock, very very helpful. It saves me a lot of time. But I also typically start out with things that I already know something about and can quickly gauge how accurate is what it told me? Right, it's completely complete confabulation or is this let's say, eighty percent correct?
But a lot of times people will But getting back to this idea of fully augentic AI, I'm not sitting there directly interacting with it. I've set it up and it's off doing things.
Well.
Imagine if it was automatically submitting briefs for you that you didn't read first, right, or it was changing your bank account, as we discussed in the last segment. But so again, you know you can't you just can't trust this stuff at this point, and whether it's seven percent wrong or seventeen percent wrong, can you can you afford to have something seventeen percent wrong on a regular basis and without knowing when it's going to be. But the
generative AI capabilities continue to advance. I think this is really interesting. Apparently a guy was killed in a road rage incident and his sister used generative AI. I think we've talked about it before. I encourage people to go check out Google VO three and see what it can do. It can create incredibly realistic looking stuff at this so much.
That being posted online these days, it's it's wild.
And you know, my big concern at the moment is less about what you know, what's the employment impact, and more around people don't understand how good these tools are and how easy it is to create incredibly realistic audio and or video. You can so in this case you really can't. You really can't, And go see what VO three can do and you'll see what I mean. But this woman created used one of these tools to create a video of the victim in this case used in
in court. Apparently it's the first time known instance that this has happened anyway, And you know, as you and I have discussed for years since this has become a recurring topic, you know, what does this sort of technology
mean for court? Whether it's something like this, and this gets into you know, even if you don't have an issue with someone basically creating an avatar of a diseased person and using that for whatever purposes, in a case like this, you know, would that person give their consent? Once you're dead, you can't really consent anymore to how someone might.
Use your likeness with these tools.
So there's an interesting ethical and moral aspect to this.
Obviously.
You know, it would have the potential to create an emotional reaction from people in court, like if you if you had a child that was killed and you use this technology to create some sort of video of that child, you know that would have impact on jurors.
And this was that a sentencing hearing. The friends and family were testifying about how has a death impacted them, and that's something that they regularly consider it sentencing. But this is a whole cloth artificial intelligence. I'm a good video of the dead guy testifying at the sentencing hearing, and I'm surprised that the court accepted it and allowed it. I'm sure that there we're objections from a defense counsel on that.
Yeah, it's I mean, you're the attorney in this conversation.
I'm with you. It's wild, but it just.
Shows you, you know, we are sort of in the wild West of all of this technology. And my concern with so much of it is, you know, as a guy who spent a lot of time writing code and making mistakes and building software that had problems. You know, I know you have very smart people in large companies with deep pockets building this stuff, testing this stuff, but
it's just not ready for prime time yet. And I even more so than my concerns about the tech itself, is the impact on people who don't understand how good this stuff is, how rapidly it's advancing, and how readily accessible it is to people who have bad intent for you, you know, stealing your mondy, defrauding you through the use of whether it's incredibly well crafted emails, it's audio, it's video, it's some combination of all of the above.
And what would ten years.
Ago have been an impossible scam because you wouldn't have access to the technology to create this very realistic stuff to now you know any criminal anywhere in the world has access to this stuff, and you know your data has been leaked all over the place. It's easy to find you, it's easy to reach you using these tools. So yeah, you said it before. You can't believe you can't. You have to trust nothing and verify everything because you simply can't believe your eyes.
Any frightening, frightening, frightening seven o six Here if you about gar Ced Talk Station, A very happy Independence Day to you. Please to see it worked out for us. I'm happy. Introduced to the fifty five KRCY Morning Show to talk about her book, The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline, a fact packed history of vaccines and their makers. Welcome to the fifty five CARSY Morning Show. Shas Khan a London born Swiss creator, designer, information junking, critical thinker, obsessed for
some reason. We'll find out why with Vaccines. Graduated from a Central Saint Martin College of Art and Design with a BA and Product Design complemented or education with certification, certifications and courses of nutrition, marketing, communications, anatomy, physiology and immunal biology as well as vaccinology. Shaskhan it is a pleasure to have you on the fifty five KRS Morning Show.
Hi Brian, thanks so much for having me.
All Right, with your interesting background, I mean, you didn't get to medical school and you didn't become a scientist research scientist, how is it you parlayed your background into this profound interest in vaccines, which led, of course to your publication of the book The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline.
I've always had a passion for science, and I almost did biology as a major in university and then went to art. But the reason why I decided to look into this is because simply I had a personal tragedy in my life. My father passed away two months after a flu shot, and there were just lots of rag flags that went up for me because he was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. He never smoked, it was pretty healthy, but in hospital all his symptoms were neurological.
So I just was a bit confused, and I didn't know anything about vaccines, and I'm not a parent either. Some vaccines went on my radar, but after that incident, basically I started asking questions, went and read the package, and start was surprised to find out the neurological injuries were actually acknowledged and recognized after flu vaccines, And that just got me started reading and then going down the rabbit hole in libraries and national archives in the UK and in Switzerland.
Wow. Tragedies like that, somehow often in up bearing fruit in the form of providing the rest of us with information it's actually being hidden. We learned a lot about this, you know, the behind the scenes read search and the
studies and the outcomes that the pharmaceutical companiesknew about. Most notably, I'm thinking obviously about the COVID nineteen vaccine, but they didn't disclose it to the American people, and they got this emergency use authorization which prevents them from being sued for this what I would argue was a holy whole cloth
experimental vaccine. And then we find out, like you, when you go to find out what the story is and what the realities are and is there any causal connection between my daughter or my son having a heart attack at age twelve with these vaccines, they don't want to give you the information. So did you run in any brick walls trying to discover information on these vaccines?
On COVID specifically, yes, like I think everybody else, and I think it's also because there's relatively recent, so we're still going to have to be patient and wait for a while before all the information comes out. But a lot of information is already available. But for the other vaccines and then the archives, the only roadblock I came against is there are lots of documents that are still
protected by by the freedom of information. To that I mean, sorry, you can't get access to them with the freedom of information that because they're still protected. So some of the requests that I made through the National Archives, some I got through to and others I couldn't get access to. And I'll try again, I guess, in five years, to get access to these documents. So these are documents from the government, like internal minutes from the meetings, different reports
that they might have received. And I could get access to documents from the eighties, but documents that are more recent and I say recent with like you know, comments comments from the nineties that I still couldn't get a hold of. So that's the only roadblock that I came across at the moment, because otherwise a lot of information is out there is just a question of really digging in and having to go find it, and most people don't want to do that in libraries.
Well, and your book is a historical one too, because I mean, as I read it spans over fifteen hundred years. Have vaccines been around that long?
Well, vaccines in the way that we understand them haven't been around that long. But the concept of variolation, which is the concept of giving someone a controlled like in back in the days, it was smallpox, so that was like they would either blow dried scabs up your nose or try to scrape it into an open wound, superficial wound on your arm. That's been around for almost like
one than three hundred years. We don't have any definitive records where it started, but it's believed to have started in Asia and then come over to Europe and then buy the seventeen hundreds, late seventeen hundreds was in Europe, and it was banned eventually in the mid eighteen hundreds because it was known to be a pretty dangerous procedure. It could transmit all kinds of other infections and people
could get like a crossed arms. And that was replaced with vaccination, which is the concept that Basically Edward Jenner in the UK brought up which is using cowbox to rarely against to vaccinate against the small pox.
Now, did you reach any determination as to whether there were particular categories of vaccines that were quote unquote safe versus those that you personally wouldn't use because you fear
how they are manufacturing. I think, and you're not talking to a doctor or a virologist or a and I don't play one on radio, but mRNA technology sounds to me from what I've read, they've known about this type of technology behind the scenes, but they've never launched any major pharmaceutical drugs based on that technology because there was a lot of risk associated with it. And then along comes COVID and that's the technology they use for the
COVID vaccines. Is there something inherently concerning about that type of technology mRNA?
Well, what's concerning about that type of technology is something completely new and was initially used in the concept of cancer treatment. So obviously you had various dick patients who didn't have much other recourse than mRNA was a real option because it didn't have any other options. The first mRNA critical trial for the infractious disease wasn't until twenty thirteen and it was done by kure Vacu in Germany
and it wasn't even very successful. They sold the results in one hundred people and it wasn't very wasn't very promising. So the fact that they're using this techology which turns people cells into a protein spike creating factory is incredibly because we don't know how long the protein is going to be expressed, we don't know how many you know,
spike proteins you're creating. That could be explaining as well why we see such a huge different types of problems like from myocarditis to blood cloths, to respiraty issues, to weird skins issues and neurological diseases. So for me, it's definitely a technology that is incredibly concerning. To have launched it like this on a mass scale under an emergency youth authorization is incredibly concerning.
Well, some would say criminal, and there in lines of the challenge, because you know, we had this, oh my god, we're all going to die global pandemic on our hands, and so people were inclined to pretty much like a cancer patient with no resources or no other options, go with whatever option is available. It almost seems like we
were all in that circumstance. But if Pfizer or the pharmaceutical manufacturers of these mrn NA technologies knew themselves that there were risks and substantial risks compared to other f like FDA approved drugs, what's with the rush to judgment and getting it out into the world. Is there something nefarious behind that or is just the old fashioned profit motive?
Well, obviously profit motive is one of them, because Fiser made a huge amount of money with their their vaccine, But I don't understand why the government would back that up because the profit motive doesn't really apply.
For them exactly.
So unfortunately, I would speculate that there's something either they wanted to see how we would comply. It was a social experiment, or there is something in that vaccine that will discover down the line at some point that was again tested to see how it could react in people. And so that's that's my speculation because I have no way of confirming.
So one big massive stage one clinical trial on the global population basically.
Pretty much i'd say stage two, stage three, maybe Stage one is usually only one hundred people but yeah, definitely an experiment in a mass scale.
All right now, in so far as other vaccines are concerned, moving away from the mRNA COVID vaccine, I am not a complete anti vaxxer. I know there are folks out there that are saying hell not of vaccines that you know, autism is a big concern, But I'm happy that we don't have rooms full of hundreds of iron lungs, which
is what people need when they got polio. And the polio vaccines who seems to have been wildly successful like a lot of other vaccines, is have you reach any conclusions about some of these long standing drugs or vaccines that we are usually regularly getting.
Well.
For me, polio was definitely one of the biggest shockers because if anybody has read Dissolving Illusions by doctor Susann Humphries and Roman Diystrionic, that goes into explaining very well the misconceptions that we had around the polio vaccine being
so effective. And I'll tell you two things, is they changed the definition of polio when the vaccine came out, and they also changed this funny because you see often the same playbook like they defined people who were vaccinated as unvaccinated because they hadn't they received polio or they had polio. Sorry, within two weeks of getting the vaccines, they were able to pull them uninocylated, which everyone knows is what actions happened exactly with COVID vaccine and polio
as well. Nobody looked into really understanding what the causes were. There were lots of people at the time who were stiging the alarm about DDT so pesticides that were being used and the reason why it was more prominent in summertime. And the polio vaccine itself was also very problematic. I mean it caused polio. That's why very quickly in the nineteen sixties, who shifted to the oral polio, which was the sugar cube live VERSI yeah, but even that also
caused problems. So I was my bubble basically burst when I looked into polio because I came out of this, you know, when I approached this research very four vaccines, believing what we were told, and the polio vaccine basically burst that bubble, and I had to realize that, hang on a minute, they've been telling us the bunch of propaganda. In my opinion.
So hmm, well, I would just think by the global numbers of people with polio compared to where they were, well say, at the turn of the century, last last century, obviously there's a reduction in a number of polio cases out there. I don't want to support, go ahead.
Yeah, So I was just going to say, what's interesting about polio as an infectious disease, Like all the other infectious diseases were pretty high in the beginning of the twentieth century, like you know, measles and justice and dipteria, but polio came out of nowhere. It was very interesting, like there was zero, zero cases and then suddenly nineteen sixteen there was an epidemic in New York City and then there were some spikes. But essentially polio pretty much
came out of nowhere. So it looks like it was more of an environmental thing that was causing these problems. And there's also something called provocation poliomylitis, which was known to be caused after DTP vaccine and smallpox vaccine, they knew that getting vaccines the kids could actually create polio, and that's in the documentation and that I show in my book.
Oh that's frightening. And is this and this is information. It's all well documented, I mean obviously not readily available to you or I. And you walk into your you take your kid into a pediatrician's office, it's just a matter of course. Well it's time at the polios, you know, sugar, it's time to get the measles and mumps vaccine, and no one really stops and discusses the potential downside risk of this. I don't recall that ever happening with my children.
No, no, they don't. But the information is readily available, but as I said, often it's available only through libraries or through paywalls of medical articles that most people don't have access to. So I have tried to put as much information in the book and also the website that will a company. It will give links to people so that if they want to go and find out more, they'll have, you know, places to go and look. But no, this information isn't like it's not on the vaccine information
sheets given by the CBC. That's for sure.
Frightening stuff. Well, I'm glad we have you out there. Chez Khan, author of The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline of Fact Back History of vaccines in the makers for we part company this morning, and I've enjoyed our conversation very enlightening. Is there some one thing that specifically jumps out at you if you had to let my listening audience know of some terrible or crazy fact you learn when compiling all this information, something immediately jumped to mine.
Well, apart from the polio issues, for me, I wasn't aware of the vaccine Injury Compensation program when I started my research. Oh yes, those who don't know. Since nineteen eighty nine, over eleven thousand cases of vaccine the harm have been compensated for over five billion US dollars and it concerns mainly mainly the flu vaccine, with the DTP
being a close second or third position. But this I wasn't aware of because obviously my dad passed away after the flu vaccines, and I was quite shocked to see that that was already seen as one of the most compensated cases in the vaccine injury Compensation program.
Well, condolence is on your loss, your father, and I'm glad you did the research to track it down and I appreciate you putting it all together in the Ultimate Vaccine timeline. My listeners can easily get a copy of your book on my blog page fifty five care sea dot com and I'll encourage them to do so. It's been great talking with you, and thank you again for your time.
Thank you, Brian, thank you so much for having me.
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Seven three fifty five kr c E talk station, EH, very happy Independence Day eight you have you have some great plans tomorrow, and keep your eyes peeled. Federal officials are warning there's some a lot of concerns swirling around out there about lone wolves as a consequence of the Israeli, Iranian and United States participation in that conflict. Department of Homeland Security said the agency's working closely with the FBI and of the federal, state, local law enforcement partners to
ensure a safe and secure Independence Day. But basically they want you to keep your eyes peeled. And isn't it an interesting reality when a pretty much a defund the police kind of mentality leftist like New York Governor Kathley Hochel is now embracing the concept of law enforcement being there for us. She says she's been brief constantly over the previous few weeks on the current threat landscape, given
height intentions around the world. Quote our federal partners reiterated yesterday that lone wolf factors remain the greatest potential threat, including during the upcoming July fourth holiday that will be called Independence Day. Miss Hochel, keeping New Yorker safe is my top priority, especially as families gather to celebrate this
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once again. Chuck Ingram on fifty five krc the Talk station.
Seven thirty one and fifty five KRCD Talk Station. Hey, very happy Independence Day Eve to you. Please to welcome to the fifty five KRCITE Morning Show from a wonderful organization called First Step Home, which you can find out information on your own by going to the website first Step home dot com. And please to welcome to the fifty five cars Morning Show. Morgan Gibson. She's part of the management team. Morgan, Welcome to the fifty five Carsite
Morning Show. It's a pleasure having you on today.
Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Well, I'm excited to let my listeners know and let you let my listeners know what you're doing there at the First Step Home, which is I guess you're unique in that you are an addiction treatment center, but you're the only ones in the area that allow children up to age twelve to live with their mothers while they're getting treatment.
We do.
We do.
We are providing gender specific care, and we have specific programming for our pregnant, postpartum and parenting women.
Well, I suppose, and you can correct me if I'm wrong. A lot of the reason people I'll call it self medicaid and quite often get addicted is because they have some underlying psychological struggle or issue that they're dealing with, and so rather than trying to wrestle through it with therapy or which is the kind of thing you're providing, it's easier just to mask it with the booze or the drugs. And I but along those lines, and again,
correct me if I'm wrong in my understanding. But if you're a mother and you're taken away from your children, why you're getting treatment, that seems it might exacerbate the underlying men mental health challenges you may be dealing with.
Definitely, And that's absolutely one of the reasons that women don't come into treatment a lot of times is because they don't have care for their children, and so for them to get help, it's very important for them to be able to bring their children and keep their children with them well.
As a component of them on the path to getting rid of the addiction, on their path to becoming well. Don't the children provide some measure of help along those lines, because you're looking at someone who's dependent upon you. You're in a situation where you found yourself in treatment because you have addiction. I would think having those children there would be an inspiration for you to stay on the right path.
It is absolutely a motivation for the women to do well.
And the women want their children with them, and their children want to be with their moms.
Yeah. Yeah, and now you arrange for or the children are still able to stay in school while they're living there with their mothers.
Yes, and we do our best to keep the kids in the schools that they're going to.
But when that's not possible.
We get the children into school in the schools that are.
Close to us.
Okay, and you are located in Walnut Hills, I guess I should say that we are.
We are in a nine building facility, and we're located all within one block in Walnut Hills.
How many women do you serve, generally speaking, on average.
Generally about two eighty annually two and eighty Yeah, and anywhere between thirty to forty children in our care during that time.
Wow, is there a sort of corollary between something underlying in these women's life? Like you can say, Okay, the most of these women have experienced the following, whether it's a poor childhood upbringing, socioeconomic issues, maybe family history, a genetic history of substance abuse. I mean, have you seen like a parallel or a trend from your working with these women since nineteen ninety three Rother?
Yes, absolutely, all the things that you've listed, in addition to a significant history of trauma, lots of women who have been in domestic violence relationships, physical abuse, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, also homelessness. Definitely, all the things that you listed as well.
Now in terms of addiction happens on every income level. I'm just wondering if you see a variety of socioeconomic a mix in the women that you serve and help.
Yes, definitely, we've had pharmacists, nurses, doctors in our facility before.
Addiction definitely does not discriminate.
Fair enough, We'll pause, I want to bring you back talk about some of the services you offer outreach and this wonderful organization again first step home dot Org and I'm sure they will be more than happy to take a donation. Look right there, upper right hand corner on the website, so you can help them out with these wonderful services. We'll bring Morgan back after I mentioned affordable imaging services so you don't have to pay crazy amounts
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More humidity today, eighty eight for the high sixty six overy night with a few clowns, plenty of sun Tomorrow's and they're saying humidity not an issue. Tomorrow ninety one will be the high about eighty by dust for the fireworks beginning overnight. Lowest sixty eight, clear sky. Saturday, a hot one ninety four degrees with humidity climbing. It's sixty eight degrees right now. It's time for a traffic update. Chuck Ingram from the uc how Traffic Center.
The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center has the most comprehensive blood cancer center in the nation. The future of cancer cares here called five month three five eighty five U see see see highway traffic not all that bads just to bid heavy northbound seventy five Dixie to Kyle's and southbound two seventy five Lawrence Burg Ramp to the bridge. There's a wreck in Claremont County on Nordyke at nine mile shuck Ingram on fifty five KR see talk station.
At fifty five KRC the talk station. Brian Thomas pleased to have Morgan Gibson, CEO of a wonderful organization called First Step Home, which you can find online at first Tap home dot org. And what they're doing is providing that's a nonprofit I should point I interject there providing support for women with substance abuse as well as their children. And the only area facility that allows children to live with their mothers while they're getting this residential treatment or
inpatient treatment. And how does that work? Now? Do you is it exclusively residential or do you provide also outpatient services for women who are seeking to get help with their addiction.
We provide a full continuum of care, so we have residential, intensive, outpatient and outpatient services as well as recovery housing.
Okay, and I guess what you've been around since nineteen ninety three. I did mention that my listeners could help donate your organization because of what the great work you're doing. But how do you survive? Obviously it's a very large complex you have there, and that doesn't go without a lot of overhead and maintenance and upkeep and salaries and all that. How do you generally cover the cost?
Yeah, it's a mixture of things, for sure.
We're definitely always looking at ways to diversify revenue. So we're primarily Medicaid funded, but we are also supported by significantly by grants and foundations and individual donations.
Good. Obviously folks are aware about you. But to the extent there's some business out there that wants to adopt a charity, I would stortally encourage them to reach out to you. We do have a significant substance abuse problem. I mean, I mean, are the numbers on the rise? Do you see any positivity in the numbers or is it a static thing over the years you've been doing this? Where are we right now?
So there's definitely been some increases in different substances, so different substances will be higher at different points. For sure, we're definitely seeing increase in alcohol.
Use in the community and.
Definitely trying to just help in any way that we can with whatever that comes at us.
For sure.
Now you involved with the court system, the family courts for example, are you getting referrals from you know, women that are in front of the judge because well, either it was the substance itself that got them there or a substance related problem that led them on some criminal enterprise which got them involved in the criminal justice system. Do they're aware of you in Hamilton County and elsewhere?
Absolutely, We're also connected with the local drug courts and the family courts and change Court and definitely with children's services.
Now, what type of treatments are involved and is there is there sort of a generally accepted rough time frame that this you'll be involved with counseling if you're a patient or someone seeking counseling.
There it's very individualized, so it really depends on how much treatment someone's had in the past, and so they can be in treatment anywhere between thirty days to a year.
Or more really and in terms of overall long term success rate, it's like a cancer diagnosis. You know, you're in remission for five years and that's considered a success. Is there a high recidivism rate in terms of the drug treatment and people entering back into the program.
Definitely.
Statistically speaking, we're looking at individuals entering treatment anywhere between four to seven times before getting long term recovery.
All right, so as opposed to one on one therapy, which and I don't know if you offer that Concerning the number of women in the facility, but this group being together, all similarly struggling, I imagine that creates a very supportive environment for the women. They're not alone. There's a woman sitting right next to them that's got the same struggles. They talk and interact among themselves. If I have sort of a picture of what's going on there.
Definitely, it's definitely a sisterhood in a community. These are relationships that women are going to have for the rest of their lives. And we do offer individual therapy and group counseling, case management, psychiatric.
Treatment and all those things while they're in treatment with us.
Now, as for the children, obviously, children are quite impacted if their mother has a substance abuse problem. They may have been dealing with neglect or abuse themselves. Do you offer services for the children that are staying with their mothers there along those lines mental health or other services.
So we have a childcare on site to help support the moms, but for treatment services, we are partnered with wonderful agencies in the community, including Gladhouse and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, to provide any ongoing care for the kids that they need.
Well, that's great. Well, I can encourage you know, to keep up the great work, and I will strongly encourage my listening audience out there to maybe pass a donation along your way first step home dot Org. I wish you didn't have to be in existence, but thank god there are organizations like you that are out there, Morgan, and keep up the great work on behalf of the women who really I guess they really are truly interested in turning their lives around.
They are.
Thank you so much for having me on.
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Seven fifty fifty five kre ceedy talk station looking forward to the top of the hour news conclusion because Brian Ibel returns to the fifty five krs morning show studio. He is from the Help Squad doing really great charitable work on the West Side. So we'll get an update on how the Help Squad's doing and some of the projects they've really helped out on. In the the personal stories. Brian Ibold really stepping up to the plate, and thanks to everybody who's involved with the Help Squad kind of
doing charity work this morning, which is wonderful. Thinking about Independence Day tomorrow. I will be off tomorrow they're gonna do Joe's gonna select some best of least. That's kind of what we call it. You draw your own conclusion whether it's best or not. But I will be off. Which is why we had Tech Friday's Dave Hatter in for a Tech Thursday this morning for just tuning in fifty five k see dot com is a place to
get that valuable information. And you know we're talking about health this morning with Shas Khan in the book The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline. We've been talking a lot about health lately. We've got RFK Junior in his work obviously exposing a lot of information about vaccines that we didn't know about. Of course that touches on the subject matter of Shas Khan's book, The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline. Scary stuff on that one food dies, an issue, floridation and water, on and
on and on. And everybody's looking for this mystery as to why we have this obesity problem in our country as well as other health problems. And I just saw this article that came out yesterday credit to the Gateway punded, and I always say anything from the Gateway punted with
them just a slight measure of skepticism. There are left leaning sites and there are right leaning sites, and quite often the way things are phrased and worded reflect a political bias that's just a little bit too much for me. Gateway punted it's one of those, but doesn't mean the information is not true because they're citing information from a Pentagon manpower availability study. US Army did hit its annual recruiting goal. It's way ahead of schedule, which is a
wonderful thing. But the problem is the pool of people that they are recruiting are having real problems. This Pentagon study determined that only twenty three percent of Americans age seventeen to twenty four even qualify for a million military
service absent a waiver. Ten years ago thirty percent, So we've gone down seven points in terms of the number of people even that can qualify so eligible youth, and they say the recruiting might not even be sustainable as we move forward, And then there's the idea of maybe getting embroiled in a much bigger conflict, you know, a
shooting war with the likes of China. Pentagon studies showed that seventy seven percent of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, drug use, mental and physical health problems. Now, physical health problems have always been an issue, and if you have certain physical problems, you don't qualify. They I mean, think back of the draft, but they say we're looking at disqualifications based on a single factor. The most common reason
obesity coming into eleven percent. The one single thing that's preventing that young person from joining the military is obesity number two. Drug and alcohol abuse at eight percent, medical or other physical health issues seven percent. In one fiscal year twenty twenty three, they disqualified fifty two thousand applicants. And the other fun fact is not that many people are interested in joining them in enlisting in the American military.
A very small percentage of the population serves. That's fewer than one percent of Americans currently serve in the military. And the connection with the armed forces, and you know, young people's awareness is kind of weakening a lot. Only thirteen percent of young adults surveyed by the Pentagon in the target recruiting age Again, that's what was that seventeen to twenty four only thirteen percent had a parent who served, which raises awareness, they say, accordingly, a lot fewer young
people are even inclined to serve. Last year's survey found that eighty seven percent of individuals age sixteen to twenty one said they were probably not or definitely not even consider enlistment, nine percent expressed some interest, lowest figure in fifteen years, and just one percent we're both eligible and open to having a conversation with the military about joining.
In other words, of conversation with a recruiter, you know these We have an all volunteer military, stating the obvious, but even you note within an all volunteer military the very small percentage of young people who are even considering it, and then they're met with a massive roadblock in the form of not even being eligible to serve due to
health and physical issues. We got a massive obesity problem in our country, and I sure hope and I embraced the ideas of RFK Junior and helping us move in a direction of eating more healthy foods and taking greater stock in our health, if not for any other reason than the security of our country. Seven fifty five ify five K Sedy Talk station, We're gonna be talking Eyebolt, Brian Ibold after the top of their news get an update on the help Squad plus j ratlif at eight
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Eight o five a fifty five KRCD talk station, A very happy Independence Day. Eve. Hope you got some nice plans set up for this celebration, and I hope you're celebrating the independence of our country. And I'm fully appreciative of the direction that seems to be going. But one of the great things we do have in our country are folks that willing to step up to the plate, engage in charity, help other people that are truly on life's margins. And you know, sometimes they have a religious
mission behind that effort. Sometimes it's a simple ultru but we've got a combination of both here in studio. Sam Jasper and Brian Ibold. You know he's got to remember Brian, he's the original creator of and founder of a charity on the West Side called the Help Squad, and I will recommend you stop by the website the Help Squad since he with a y dot com and their Christian faith based mission of five on one three c helping
struggling working families on the West Side. Brian, you've been on the and Sam both been on the program a few times and I just want you know, give my listeners a reminder about, first off, what you do and the type of services you offer, and we'll get an update on some of the great things you've been able to do for some folks who've gotten your assistance, and we'll talk about an upcoming fundraiser event we're going to
be doing. So somebody take the floor and talk about you're you're the creator of it, you're behind it, Brian Ibold, what was the impetus behind starting this out? And uh and and how many years you've been around now?
So uh, first, first of all, thanks for having us back out. Last time I was here, I was a little anxiety ridden, so I have my prozacts in half. This time I'm much calmer times so thank you for having us back. So, first of all, we have been around about four years, so I retired from the police department in twenty twenty. We were established in twenty twenty one.
But I think the first thing we need to do is just to figure out exactly what is the Help Squad, like, what do we do and so just to give the listeners an idea. So the Help Squad is a Christian based to five oh one c three nonprofit organization and we assist financially struggling families focusing on single moms and dads on the West side of town. Only just restricted to the West side as a brother Juviat Coleraine Dell High in Green Townships. Yes, sir, that's the only side
we can do. This is the west side right now. Our vision, of course is to expand this everywhere. I have a Help Squad, nor would Help Squad Blue Ash Help Squad Westchester. But that's a vision and with the Lord's blessing, we'll get there.
But not there just yet.
No, I understand that. And I'm honestly, being a West Side born and raised a young person, I'm glad you're looking out for the folks on the West side. I'm not sure where the allocation of resources are, but I would imagine probably more heavily concentrated in the city or unless you're working with something like the United Way and dealing with the bureaucracy associated with that. So you're you're kind of a horse of a different color when it comes to charitable organizations.
Yeah, you know, one of the toughest things we deal with is the majority of the people that ask for our help they don't live in the four service areas. So that just goes to show you that there are plenty of areas that other people need help that we can't help. So if anybody on the east side, west side, or I'm sorry, east side and north side, south side, anywhere that want to step up and create a help squad in their neighborhood, give me a call, give you my number, or over the air.
I don't care.
But because we need help and we need our vision is to have this in every neighborhood, not just on the west side of town. Well, and you can provide guidance to that newly started out organization. Staly what it's like to go from an inception to actually, we've already done the hard work. We're already established. So the template is there. Fun is challenge to get on the hell out flood in your neighborhood. Wake up, let's do it all right. So services you offer for the people you serve.
So well, we do.
Okay, So you have a lot of nonprofits to do the basics, and they're great, the food, clothing shelter. However, we take it to another step where we will assist people with utility shut offs. Let's say your water, your electric shot off. We'll turn it back on, or we'll prevent it from being shut off. Car repairs, that's a big one. I'll get somebody with a car repair, can't afford it, We'll fix it. We've gifted cars. I bet we've given almost a dozen cars away to people in
desperate need and dire need of transportation. We pay back rents to avoid eviction. Do you know have families we have prevented from being thrown on the street and because we save them from eviction?
How many?
Well, I mean just this year alone, what are we in half of this month, we're probably in i'd say forty families from eviction, no kids only the half of the year.
Something like that might be more.
And if you take the families and help many kids and what are with it? This is hundreds of people from being thrown on the street as what we're going. So I don't see how like people are not calling us, like politicians people in charge and saying, hey, you have a great idea. How do we get involved? How do we help? Because you guys are doing it right. So my phones are here, I'm waiting for it to ring.
Like I said, I'll give you my number. You want to go ahead and give it out, go ahead, okay, if you want to do the Lord's work and you want to make a difference in the world, call this number five one, three, six, seven, eight eight nine eight six. It's my direct number. And we can together, we can do this and we can make this happen because we've all been told well, you can't do this and you can't do that, and it's always going to be like this. It doesn't have to be and we're we're we're living
proof of it. So and I you mentioned that you have gotten people cars.
Obviously someone donates a car to you, do you accept those contributions? I mean someone calls you up and say, hey, I got a car, runs fine, don't need it anym It's got one hundred thousand miles in it, but it runs great. I mean, will you pick that up or do you have a place where people drop that off? How do you work with that? Because you know, I'm
thinking of like Saint Vincent de Paul. You know, they got trucks out there, they drive over to people's places, they get the furniture and they take it back and put it to the charitable cause.
Do you operate on along a similar line? Yeah, so, answers real quick, I'll turn over to Sam. So yeah, So what we'll do is, so somebody wants to donate a car to us, we'll certainly take it, even if knees repair. So we have a company over in green Township Brogan folds oil. Okay, they're on Bridge and the road right by Wardway Fuels. They give us ten thousand dollars a year. Matt Brogan gives us ten thousand dollars a year in free repairs. So if somebody wants to
do he's great. He is a wonderful dude. If someone donates a car to us for you know, for free, or even if we buy a car for two grand we take it there and get it fixed for free. For a two thousand dollars investment, We've just given somebody in dire need of transportation a very safe and dependable car. And we also usually the first three months of car insurance too to help the person out. So it's just really it's really good stuff, really good things.
Man. Well that's got to really make your day. Yeah, it's very rewarding. Man. You help somebody keep their job, You help somebody keep a paycheck coming in, You help somebody that's able to continue to live on with their life.
Yeah, that's cool. Let me just if I can just give you this real example. I don't want to turn over saying because I want Sam to talk about a couple of things. But so I've been here before. We talking about the humanity, humanitarian part of this, like help people, help people, help youp Okay. I don't know if it resonates with some people. So it does, some it doesn't. So I'm gonna turn it over to money. Now, this this will resonate to people because it's money. Everybody wants
this money, money, money, money. So if you have a single mother who is working every day, the mother of three works every day makes ends meet. And that's the people we help, the working poor. Right, Okay, I was raised by a single mother. I know how these women struggle.
I see this.
I saw it, and I see it today, this single mother struggling. Her car breaks down. Brian, it's five hundred dollars to repair it. Now you have five hundred dollars. I have five hundred dollars. Even if I didn't, none of us had, We could find five hundred dollars. We have friends, family, they have five hundred dollars. These people don't. They don't have five hundred dollars. Their parents don't have
five hullars. Their friends won't have five hundred dollars. They don't have a credit card to put five hundred dollars on it. They can't get the car fixed. Mom can't get the car fixed. She can't get to work, can't get to work. You don't have a paycheck, don't have a paycheck, don't pay your rent. And guess what, you're evicted, right, You're evicted. So there's a stat In twenty eighteen, eighty three thousand dollars is spent on a mother with at
least two single or two children. Single mom with two children in twenty eighteen eighty three grand a year. So when this mom who now because you can't get her car fix is fired or as loser job, now she's on government assistance for eighty three thousand dollars for a year. If we just would have invested the five hundred dollars, we've just saved eight two five hundred dollars on this family alone. Okay, So if you want to give us a million dollars, we could save the government twenty million,
fifty million. So this has to resonate with somebody. Yeah, Like somebody should be calling like, wait, these guys are onto something, let's help.
Yeah, And it's easy to do that and your money is absolutely well spent. I've criticized some other major charitable organizations because of the massive overhead they have, the bureaucracy, the salaries that are paid, and that's certainly not the case with the Help Squad. So it's the help Squad since he with a Y dot org. Can you throw some money their way and they will make the most
of that money. And it's great illustration of the realities and the practical realities of the problem that these people you serve face. So let's help them keep their job, let's get their car running, let's help them with that back rent and get them back on their feet and so they can move forward.
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Fifty five car the talk station our iHeartRadio Music Festival nineteen thirty five CARCD station from the Help Squad online at the Help Squad since with y dot com, The Help squadsincey dot com, Sam Jasper and Brian Ibold.
He's the founder of and creative of it. He offered his phone number for anybody out there and beyond the West Side who's interested in opening their own chapter of the Help Squad to help people on life's margins in your community. You'd be happy to free to give MC call five one three six seven eight eight nine eighty six. Otherwise, get over to the website and learn about what they do.
And you mentioned Brogan Foles the auto repair people, and what a wonderful thing donating ten thousand dollars worth of auto repairs to get those cars fixed for people to use. I imagine you're probably looking for some other community partners that can volunteer services along the same lines. Not necessarily an outright here's a check kind of thing, but hey, we do fill in the black like carpentry projects or something. I know you've done some other projects like in people's home.
Over the years as well, so right right, yeah, So we are looking for community partners like Matt Brogan at Brogan Foles. Such a great team out there, but we can't do this alone. We need community partners to step up. Whether it's auto repair, whether it's home repairs, whether it is also like AC units that's a big thing right now, air conditioning repair and heat and air those are all
very important services. So anybody out there who owns a business who would be willing to donate services and their time for our families, that would be great. You could reach out to us through our website and just fill out the contact form. Brian just gave his phone number, so you can you could contact him directly we yeah, or use the website probably the best option, and then
we can reach back out to you. We would love to have you join our team, and we are trying to build that base, you know, and our volunteers have been so great, but a lot of our volunteers do still work, like I work full time, and a lot of our volunteers do work. So we always need more volunteers to join the crew. And that way we can you know, cover when people go on vacation and things like that, and that really helps us so we can be efficient and effective helping people as quickly as possible.
Oh that's great. Yeah, so I understand. I mean, you've got some awards to prove that you're the real deal too, So an extent, someone's like, what's the help Squad? I've never heard of them helps glad since you with ye dot com? But what about some you've gotten some recent acknowledgments and awards for the work that you're.
Doing we have Yeah, I mean, well we certainly don't do this, you know, for the recognition, but you know, it is very nice when people step up and say, hey, we see what you're doing, we see the kind of impact that you're making in the community and the families that you're helping. We have an organization that is called Since He Serves and they're associated with at the Cincinnati Open and Fifth Third Bank that's coming this summer in August with the tennis tournament, and they are awarding the
Help Squad a fifty three hundred dollars grant. A nice yeah, and they're recognizing our organization for the work that we've been doing. So Brian's gonna receive that award, and I think that's on August fourteenth, so we'll be recognized during that Cincinnati Open event.
Well that's great, you know, word of mouth and it's just one more vehicle to get the word out about the organization. More people will find out about it, and hopefully more people will volunteer services, goods, and of course their time and money to support your cause and for the purpose of growing it. I imagine limited resources. Mean there's maybe are there people that you have to say no to so they are vetted. But the people that are vetted and that are deserving of help and need
it and it's legitimate. If we have the funding, of course we will help them. And what I like to report is that all our funds have been given. It's it's through people. It's not government. We don't get grants, it's people just give us the money to help other people. It's it's it's amazing.
What a concept, right, But if the four years we've been around, we have never had to turn someone down because of lack of lack of funds. Is that amazing? That's that's God's gift right there.
Amen?
Yeah, her well.
And then we also partner with other organizations like the five to one three Relief Bus and we also were just recognized for our work with them. So the Commissioners of Hamilton County presented us with the five to one to three Enhancement Award for the work that we did bringing the five one three bus to our community helping to connect families to services. So that was very nice to be recognized in that way.
Wonderful recognition. So, uh, I understand at least in terms of fundraising, you have the annual golf fundraiser coming up. It's August sixth teenth. Let me listen to some details about this so they may very well want to play.
Yeah. So our golf event is going to be at Pebble Creek Golf Course over in Coleraine Township, and it's Saturday, August sixteenth. It's a seven am registration, so it's an early one in eight am T time. We'll have some continental breakfasts and we'll have lunch and our awards right after the golf. But we are looking for golfers. We have VIP packages or you can just register as a foursome.
We need donations, sponsors, we need sponsors. Yeah, so we need tea sponsors, all types of different sponsorships levels and those are on our website as well. You can get registered for golf on the website. You can make a donation, you can do sponsorship, you can sign up as a volunteer. Again, we need those volunteers and so we'd love to have you come out and join us. We also have Queen of Heart's going on. That's over at Bucketheads over on
Harrison Avenue. It's Buckethead Sports Bar and Grill. They are such a great partner as well. We talk about the partnerships that we have, just venues like that giving us their time, their stayaff and the venue to make all of this happen and raise money for our organization. So that Queen of Hearts is done every Wednesday, they do the drawing at five thirty. So if you want to go out and support the help Squad and maybe take a chance on winning some money. That's a great place
to go. So at at Bucketheads.
Bucket Heads, Yeah, every Wednesday at.
At it's three thirty to five thirty.
Yea.
They sell the tickets and then they do the drawing by five thirty.
All right, Well, I'll tell you what the Help Squad sence you. I'm gonna courage my listeners. Please please please consider don at me some time, Consider being a sponsor for the golf event, consider a check, anything you can do to help out this wonderful mission. And you know, in helping them out, if you're inclined to have a Christian ideology or philosophy, you have an obligation as a
Christian to fulfill the goals of the mission. Listen, that's what you're doing when you're helping out the Help Squad. So thank you both for all that you do for the area. And I'll encourage my listeners to help you out and look forward to having you back on the program with some more uplifting information about the fine work that you're doing.
Thanks Brian, thanks for having us out. And I just want to give a shout out to all of our friends and family who have supported us along the way. We certainly couldn't do this without the support of our and the love of our family and all of those people who have stepped up. And then I wanted to wish everybody a happy Fourth of July. Be safe out there.
Amen to that too, Keep have a great weekend and a safe weekend, and keep up the great work. It's eight twenty six coming up in eight twenty seven, which you know means if you're regular listeners, I heart me. The aviation expert Jay Ratliff waiting in the wings close out out a last day of work for me anyway. For the Independence Day weekend of the right.
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Hey thirty one Up Thursday, Friday Eve, Independence Day Eve, call it what you want. It's that time of the week we get to talk to iHeartMedia Aviation it for Jay or Ratlift Day. Welcome back. My friend got some good, big plans for the special weekend here.
We're in Savannah, so probably sit on our porch and watch some fireworks over the water. Somewhere somebody will be shooting them off, so we'll enjoy the neighbors when they have some fun.
That's great. Good to have a relaxing weekend ahead you and over to the various topics, We've got some interesting ones to dive on in today. Not a good change is how you describe it. What's going on over at Southwest Airlines? Jay?
You know you and I've talked.
About how lines like Delta, American United have all changed their freaking flyer programs making it harder to earn your frequent flyer you know perks. Well, now Southwest is considering doing something with their Companion Pass. Now, the companion pass is great for their frequent flyers. They get the pass and the companion if they pay full ticket, the companion goes for free other than paying the taxes. Even if you use a frequent Flyer Award ticket.
You can still get a companion pass.
So it's a it's an incredible perk for the loyalty program that Southwest has built for all their customers over all these years. Well, they're thinking about redoing that where only the top tier people of the frequent flyer program would qualify for the companion pass and other people would not. So it's once again the idea that you know it used to be like with Delta American United. Part of their change is if you could only fly first our coach because that's all your company paid for. And but
you've got a gazillion miles. You've got a great status with the airline. You were in coach, and you know if they get an empty spot in first class, upgrade me for free. And you know I get to sit up there from time to time and it helps when I'm on the road. Well, now airlines have changed that, saying if you want to sit in first class, you have to pay for it. So you've got these frequent flyers with all these miles, all these decades of loyalty
that are on their way back to coach. The door shuts and they see like five empty seats in first class, Like, wait, what's going on? And these airlines are saying you have to pay for it or use miles to sit up there. In other words, you have to pay for it. You know you enjoy your loyalty program.
How South, you're not saying you can't use miles to buy an upgrade. They still offer that, correct, they do, but you've.
Got to burn it. Okay, it used to me just if they had it, they would sit you up there because it's an empty seat, Come on up, we want somebody sitting in there. But now they're not doing it, so Brian, what's happening is the arrogance of these airlines have gotten to the point where they know they're they're they're they're spitting in the face of their customers that have been loyal through thick.
And thin, and they don't care.
And Southwest is looking at changing their companion past program. I certainly hope they don't, but if they're going to continue this pivot, this transition from Southwest of old to let's be like everybody else, they're seeing what other airlines are doing and they're thinking, yeah, I mean it would be a way to kind of boost our bottom line, and obviously that's the main thing that we're after, and that's what we're going to do.
And it's really sad and it's just frustrating.
Well, obviously, you know they can get away with this because if everybody's the same as this homogeneous everybody offers as little or as much as the other guy, you can't better your situation by becoming a loyal Southwest Airlines customer. As opposed to an American or United or whatever else is out there. People are probably not going to change their decision about what they're going to who they're gonna fly with based on these changes.
And the same thing with the check bag feet, you know, yeah, it change throws it in there, and people are I go where you're going to go because everybody else is doing the exact same thing. So it's just a departure from what Southwest used to do. And anytime you have that, you're gonna people they're going to nobody's gonna love it, but they're gonna hate it to varying degrees and someone say I'll never fly them again. But you know, some of the changes in the past they've made, it pushed
people to other airlines Delta and United. When they you know, started preventing people from sitting in first class and joining those benefits, it pushed them to other carriers. And it's just the bottom line is, you know, you can earn a gazillion miles, but you're really gonna have to work your butt off to use them, and you're going to be paying more for the seat when you do use it. And it's just as long as we keep filling up
the airplanes. As we've said so many times before, Brian airlines have no incentive to treat us any better than what they do.
Fair enough, we'll continue with iart Media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe coming up. FBI warning about additional cyber strikes against airlines that among other topics with Jay, will be right.
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I think about kir CD talk station. Jay Ratliffe, iHeartMedia aviation expert in high demand considering our Heart Media has like seven hundred and fifty stations. But we get him every Thursday for a few segments and I dearly enjoy our time together. Jay always makes me feel better closing out the morning show on something that doesn't really truly involve like terrible politics, global war, famine, pestilence. But this one's got me a little alarmed. FBI warning about cyber
strikes against airlines. M.
Yeah, it's been happening.
In fact, multiple airlines have reported these cyber attacks, and we had west Jet, which is a low cost carrier in Canada. We've had Hawaiian Airlines that was attacked as well. And the concern is that other airlines could be impacted.
The Federal Avia Administration had a statement that came out saying, look, none of these have impacted safety, but certainly it's something that is on the radar as they're trying to find the people that are respons Apparently it's this scattered spider group that has gone for the.
Last several years attacking various sectors.
They went after the casinos in Vegas, then they went after the insurance companies, and they kind of pop around from industry to industry, and apparently now it's the airline industry that is being targeted. So the FBI is investigating, and of course, you know, we're hoping that during a busy summer travel season we don't have some of this stuff flare up, Brian, but just kind of have to.
Wait and see.
But now, now, are these like ransomware type situations? Are they just cracking in to grab data? Are they trying to shut systems down? Because when you talk about the airlines getting attacked, that's not like saying the air traffic control system is under cyber attack? Are those we're talking about too?
It's the airline system itself where it can be impacted to such a degree that you can't schedule aircraft, schedule flight crews, you know, reconfirm reservations, the things that make an airline logistically move hour to hour, minute by minute, And once you impede that, then all bets are off
as far as what can happen. And just like the FAA computers, airline computers have never been known as the state of the art because you and I've talked about how these airlines like pac Man have gobbled up five or six airlines over the decades, so they're kind of a combination of several carriers, and what they've done is kind of piece together all those computer networks to make them work, as opposed to spending hundreds of millions of
dollars to completely redo everything every time they turn the corner. The thought is, hey, if it's working, why spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. But the problem is that your firewall protections and other things that should be in place to try to prevent this type of cyber attack isn't exactly state of the art. So I don't want to say the door is opened, but it's certainly cracked.
And apparently this group is taking advantage of it and at least a couple of airlines that we know of, And there have been many times where we've seen airlines report computer issues in quotes, but they've not gone any farther than that. So there's a possibility that some of the past issues have also been a cyber attack of some kind that you know, just wasn't made public knowledge.
Well, considering it's this known entity, this hacking organization that is moving through these various industries, does what they have done to the other industries that they've attacked indicate what they're trying to do with the airlines? In other words, going back to my question, are they looking for a shakedown on money or they just been okay, so it's a ransomware thing.
In the Vegas one, I know that they had a ransom of a million or two million dollars or something along those lines, as I recall, But that's been a few years ago since that happens, so my memories, you know, a little bit foggy on that. Yeah, it's it's an inconvenience and you know, does it impact safety? The FAA is saying no. I think to a degree, it could certainly start to impact safety to a very small extent.
It would never prevent me from going out and jumping on an airplane, because what would end up happening would be if the computer's at an issue, that plane's not going anywhere until they work out the paperwork and all the stuff behind the scenes, and then you can go.
You're still going to be flying on.
A perfectly good airplane through an air traffic control system that's operating as it should. It's just the internal workings for that specific airline. Now, the fact that airlines are their own little separate entity is nice because they're not all interconnected, which means if you got in the door of American you could have access to United at Southwest and all the other carriers. So at least that part of it's working to our advantage.
Fair enough. All right, Apparently something scary happening on a japan airline slide. What's this one all about?
Yeah, thirty six thousand feet cruising a long All of a sudden, they had some sort of a mechanical situation that required the flight crew to get the aircraft under ten thousand feet in fast. Oh, so they went on a ten minute quick descent that wasn't a noseedown kind of thing, but believe me, when you dip a go down,
it's that roller coaster feeling in your stomach. And the oxygen mask come down because apparently there was a fear of a cabin pressure maybe being released, and the thought was get it under ten thousand feet so that you don't have to worry about the onboard oxygen, and the crew declared an emergency. They landed safely in Osaka. Passengers, though, so freaked out, they said some of the flight attendants were crying, oh wow, the kind of thing you want to see from.
The people in charge.
Now.
Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but the passengers were so freaked out they were scribbling out notes to the loved ones, convinced that the plane.
Was Oh my god, yeah, I guess.
But they weren't compensated by Japan Airlines. Each one of them got ninety three dollars.
Well that takes the edge off right there, I'm telling you. I mean, yeah exactly, and a great story on the importance of bringing along a change of underwear and your carry on bags.
It was a sam anxious moment, my friend, I guarantee you.
That yep, and justifiably so, talk about a flight crew being suspended, and will also get an update on hub delays. One more with Jay Ratliffe on this beautiful Independence.
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If if you got KERCD talk station based on that traffick report, My guess there's a lot of people taking work off today making it four day weekend.
Why not?
Brian Thomas here with iHeartMedia eighty as Nextpert Jay Rattler, We're going to pivot over away from soil inducing Japanese airline descents to a suspension of an entire flight crew, Jay, what's this one about?
It was?
It comes back to a Garuda flight.
This is it's an Indonesian carrier. The aircraft was flying Jakarta to Melbourne and there.
Was a man that was sitting in business class and about.
Halfway through the flight he drops his phone in the feedback pocket in front of him and forgets all about it. What until he was at baggage claim he goes, whoops, don't have my phone. So he was afraid that perhaps maybe it was already on its way to another destination. So with another device he uses that the apples find my app device to see where in the airport his
phone might be. Well, it turned out that the phone was at a nearby hotel and yeah, so's he's already contact with the Garuda representative at the airport and he said, my phone's at this hotel, and the guy from the airline says, well, that's the one our flight crews use. So this passenger grabs his family, jumps in a taxi, takes off to the hotel as the Garuda rep meet him there, and then the rep gets keys to the rooms for the flight crew and they start searching the
rooms for this phone. Now this guy's tracking it and he says, well, it's not here now. And what happened was he tracked it over a bridge and then it disappeared plunk.
It went offline.
Apparently somebody walked it over to a nearby bridge and dropped it into the water. And so was it a crew member or not. The airline doesn't know. But until they find out, they suspended the entire flight crew.
But I mean, you talk about somebody tenacious.
I don't know what was on that phone, but he was in a bad kind of way trying to get it back. And then some I mean, when you're chasing people down like that, that's saying something.
Yeah, well, and maybe it was at that point where they threw the phone in the water or off the bridge. That was the person realizing, oh wait a minute, I stole a phone, and it's really easy to track cell phone these days. I may as well dump it.
Yeah, I'm going to steal this car. Nobody will find me.
Okay, Well, anyway reminds me of the justice that was meeted down upon us in elementary school. Somebody made a noise in the bathroom that disturbed a teacher. She hauled every single one of the boys out in the hallway and threatened every single one of us with a paddle. Remember back in the days when you could get swatted at school unless someone Yeah, unless someone stepped forward in a minuted there with the person who made the noise, so one way of ferreting it out. Yeah, I think
somebody did step forward. I don't think that real.
Leave that story out there hanging. I got to know the end of the Yeah.
No, I was the recipient of corporate punishment without justice and without due process on one occasion. But I won't tell that story anyway. We always have your career got started, well, the always end on hub delays. What's it like traveling out there on this busy, busy holiday week, and I understand we're going to be setting a record out there.
We could be.
In fact, a couple of days we've already been at two point nine even three million, and I think probably less than six seven times we've hit three million in the course of a day. But weather wise, today Dallas and Houston could see some issues. Miami and Tampa are going to be really an issue. But Brian, I think if some of this tropical storm weather that they're talking about maybe coming up sometime next week, we might be having a bigger impact on the hubs for next next week.
But you know, most of these flights are pretty well full, so it's not like we're going to see a drastic increase in the number of passengers that are flying. So it's going to be busy regardless of the time. And you and I talked about it before. Remember that Galaxy Note seven cell phone that was made in twenty sixteen ye banned by the FAA. So if you've got one of those show up at the airport, you're certainly going
to be slowed down. But this is the time of year you want to get to the airport plenty of time because playing let's see how cuse we cut, how close we can cut it is going to be a game you'll lose because it's a little slower at the.
Airport's Yeah, I read an article this morning they said today there'll be like fifty two thousand flights. That just seems like, oh my god.
And the TSA is managing all of that, yeah, on those old antiquated computers. So if you want to understand just how good some of these men and women are, they make it happen with that. But yeah, I think the TSA indicated that yesterday we had two point seven million people fly, so and on the twenty nine, two point nine, so we've had several days again knocking at the door of three million, So that's a lot of people flying. So yeah, get to the airport at least
two hours before departure. Make sure that you get to the gate as quickly as you can, and yeah, enjoy.
Your fly and a lot of return travel on Sunday. From what I read, that may be the banner day, so definitely get there early on a Sunday if you're coming back this Sunday.
After Thanksgiving kind of numbers, but believe me. You're right, it's going to be a hectic time at the airport. Hopefully get tsa pre check and you can get through the shorter line a little faster.
Jay, always appreciated, best of health, loved you in your better half, and enjoy your Independence Day weekend. I'll look forward to next week and another edition of the Aviation Update with you a.
Lot to be thankful for, especially as we celebrate winning the lottery to be an American.
My friends, So yeah, planing and unenjoining.
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