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Seven hundred w LW. I'm Gary Jeff Walker excited to me that he has always and another fantastic show ready to go. We're going to start tonight with Lisa Klee. We spoke to her last year about Save Haven Baby Boxes in the area. Lisa's a volunteer. She works with these agencies to help women

who are in crisis and to mostly help babies. Save Haven Baby Boxes are in many different parts of the country, all over the country, in firehouses usually, And from two thousand and one to twenty twenty two, the last year we've got full data for, there were thirteen hundred and forty one safely surrendered babies in this country, totally abandoned, one ninety four left in a dumpster or in a backpack or some other horrible thing. And there have been

fifty six babies who have reclaimed by their birth parents. But thirteen hundred and forty one babies lives saved because of Safe havens like the ones that are going up in the tri State. To talk about a brand new Safe Haven box and the efforts that are continuing to save babies and to help mothers and really just I think they're doing God's work. Lisa Klee is back with us. Lisa, good evening, How are you good evening? Thank you so much

for having me on, and I can share about baby boxes again. Yes, absolutely, We've got a couple of big things happening here in the area. First off, there is a brand new baby box at a fire department in Northern Kentucky that you wanted to mention. Yes, we actually have our Live Safe Haven baby box dedication tomorrow and Ludlow, Kentucky at four pm.

And we're super we're excited about this location basically because it's the closest we have to Cincinnati and Newport and Covington. So we're super excited that we have an option for mothers who are in crisis that they're going to have a safe place to surrender their baby. So there are not any in Cincinnati. Do you deal with Ohio at all, Lisa, or just Kentucky? I do. I do not at this point. I'm just trying to get some in Northern

Kentucky. We only had one in Northern Kentucky and that was in Fort Mitchell. That box was put in I believe about four years ago. So after tomorrow and Thursday, because Thursday's Gallatin County Safe Haven Baby Box dedication. After that, we'll have five that we've that I've personally been involved with in this past year. But also several weeks ago the city of Edgewall, the fire department voted to do a safe Haven baby box and funded it all themselves,

So they had a dedication several weeks ago. So that'll put us at seven in the local area here. So you guys, you guys raised the money through donations and you volunteer. What is the cost of a baby box? And you guys, you guys foot the bill that your organization actually, I mean, how does that happen? Tell me how it happens is is first you go and present to the city, county fire department or fiscal court and

try to get the approval. Once you get the approval, you're pretty much on your own to raise the funds because you know, safe Haven Baby Box is a nonprofit. So each of the five boxes we've been able to raise twelve thousand plus and most of them have been around twenty thousand that we've raised. It takes twelve thousand dollars raised to order the actual box itself, which is climate controlled and alarmed obviously, So once you reach the twelve thousand mark,

we can order it. Place the order. It takes about eight to twelve weeks to get the box. They're made at say pay and baby Box. There, they're delivered and then they have to be installed by qualified contractor and that usually takes several weeks at that point. But it's a minimum commitment of twelve thousand, but that's a very low dollar amount because it's really five

thousand to get it installed. But so far, at the five that I've worked on, I've been able to get contractors to volunteer to do the installation,

which has saved us a tremendous amount of money and fundraising efforts. What do you think would be a hurdle or an obstacle for fire departments, be the city or county to say, you know what, we really don't have a need for that, because I can't imagine if if it's not costing any money out of their budget, right, it's not costing any money out of the county or city budget to have a safe baby box installed at a fire department, And all the fire department has to do then is whoever is on

staff or on tour the alarm goes off, and right then what's the next step? I mean, they obviously rescue the baby and then wait for what child services to come or a hospital, or what's the process when a baby is surrendered in a safe haven baby box. When a baby is surrendered in the box, the baby is placed inside the safe Haven baby box, the box locks, there's no putting the baby in, taking it out, or somebody can come and take the baby out from the outside. The normal response

time by the fire department is around two minutes there with the baby. They transport the baby to the hospital and child Services is contacted and then they're placed in a foster to adopt hall according to whatever the states. So why in the heck? Why in the heck if you went to a city or a county or a fiscal court and you what would be a good reason they would reject having one if you had the funds to install it. And I mean, isn't their job as a first responder to protect and serve every life in

their service area. Absolutely, And it's my understanding at secondhand information that Newport that they don't need one. They've been in that area for a long time and they don't need one. So I don't know if it's just a sense of pride that they don't want to admit that they would need that, or they could that could be an opportunity for, you know, to save a life of a baby. I'm not sure what that is, but I know in one of the cities that was more difficult to get it approved through city

council. They were concerned about their legal liability and finally the city attorney said, this is there's no extra liability than there isn't anything that we do. So after about six meetings with city council, they finally approved it. But so far, the fire departments have been absolutely amazing. I love to see how these firemen are just all about saving these babies. It's just like they

just melt. So, you know, the the Newport situations kind of a little bit outside of the box from what I'm familiar with so far on responses from the fire department, so I'm not really sure what's the whole forces driving behind that. I also approached Covington as well, and they said they maybe consider it when they do their new building. I know Florence Fire Department they're building a new firehouse on Dream Street. They voted on it long before I

even went and visited them. And they're using their own funds, so they've they're already going to implement a baby box at their location. They're using their own funds. Well, there's a shining example for first responders all over northern Kentucky. Thank you, way to go, Florence, uh Lisa. Tomorrow four pm the dedication of the Safe Baby Box in Ludlow at their firehouse, right, yes, correct, And anyone's welcome who would love to attend?

And Thursday down in Gallaton, Gallatin County, correct, Yes, at the at the EMS building and it's at two pm. And at both of the baby box dedications. Monica Kelsey will be there. She's the founder of Baby Save Haven baby Boxes, and she shares her story of how she was the result of a rape and an abandoned baby, and this is kind of her motivation for while it's not kind of, it is her motivation to save babies.

God, God bless you for everything to do. Listen, we're short on time, but I wanted to thank you for spending some time this evening to talk about the Save Have Baby Box. And again, if people want to know more, where they go real quick. They can go to say pay and Baby website. There's a Facebook page and they also have an Instagram page. All right, fantastic. Lisa Klee with us again tonight on the Nightcap. Andre Archie The Virtue of color Blindness. Next, a good day

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hundred WLW. I'm starting the new year by making my home feel like new with advanced cleaning at Zeros take advantage of their new year sale. Welcome once again, Joe the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW. Garry Jeff our Guest is an Associate professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy Colorado State University. Got his PhD from Duquane University. And somebody that I've been wanting to talk to well ever since I heard about his new book, The Virtue of Color Blindness. It's doctor

Andre Archie, PhD. And doctor Archie, welcome to the show. May I call you doctor or would you rather just be called Andre? I don't care. Oh, you can call me Andre, all right. I appreciate the opportunity, and yeah, just call me Andre. And it's an important topic and you know, we can get into the book and all of that, but yeah, I'm happy to be here. So you highlight I'm guessing

in this book from just a little bit. I've not read the book for a little bit, I've read about you, and the topic is that, basically, you're making the case that things like DEI and identity politics in general are antithetical to the actual founders and the way the country was supposed to run and all of the things that occurred in the past, segregation and the awfulness of slavery and everything in America. But all of those things required people to

not observe the morals and the foundations of the republic, and that's why they were eliminated. And it seems like today the identity politics crowd and those pushing DEI and critical race theory, for example, are really being antithetical to America's promise, and they're kind of a slap in the face to the civil rights movement and the early gay rights movement? Am I on base with that?

I think you're on base? And that's exactly right. So the book The Virtue of Color Blindness basically starts with the proposition that we all find intuitive, or at least a lot of us, and that is when we look at seventeen seventy six and we look at eighteen sixty three. So the country was founded in liberty, and then, of course it took nearly one hundred years

later to establish a new birth of freedom. So we have eighteen sixty three, that idea or those ideas, those two dates basically argued that we should all be treated equal, we should be equal before the law. And I think we've made a tremendous amount of progress, especially when it comes to Black Americans, in terms of that idea, those ideas, those founding principles.

But what we get today in the public square, and I discuss Kindy, ibramex Kindy, I discuss Coats, tany Hes Coats, and several others who are dominating the public square in terms of racial discourse. What they're doing is divisive. They're trying to pit Americans against one another in terms of race. And so the argument that I make oldultimately is that the only way forward as Americans is to take seriously the idea that we should judge each other based upon

our characters, not the color of our skin. Now the opponents will say, well, that's naive and that's simple. Well, it's not naive and simple because it's easy. It's simple to judge someone based upon their race or their ethnicity. That's easy. The hard part is is to assess a person's actions. Of course, it's aspirational. We're not perfect, we're falling individuals,

we're fallen human beings, right, But it's aspirational. And that's the only way forward is to strive to judge each other by the content of our characters. And so the book basically argues against all those who want to say, well, no, we can't do that, it's impossible. I say that's not the case, and I make an argument for the colorblind proposition. When I hear political speeches by people and I'll I'll just cite him as an

example because he's the current president of the United States. When Joe Biden talks in a campaign trail to a largely black audience and tells them, if you vote for so and so and not for me, they're going to put you back in chains, it seems like a very, very not only divisive statement, but it sounds exactly like the segregationists of the old Democratic Party. I mean, like I said, it's a slap in the face to the legacy

of people like doctor King. And you cite also a good friend of mine named Scott Powell, who's also a fantastic thinker and author, wrote a book called Rediscovering America, and he talked about last week for our Martin Luther King discussion about the letter from the Birmingham jail, which you cite. And I think this is in into the discussion too, is it not. Oh, it's very important, And how do you started off? The question or the

comment is exactly right. I mean, for people like Biden to make such I mean, it's condescending. I mean, it really says. It says a lot about how that crowd, how he sees African Americans, people of color, African American, African Americans, in particular, it's very condescending because what it does, basically, it takes away the agency that we all have, right, we have this, these these god given abilities to exercise our capacities to the best of our ability, to flourish, to be happy,

and for someone to argue that America is so systemically racist that there's no way that we can act out of our own volition. And that's the problem that we get with the way that we talk about race today. It's as if people of color, African Americans in particular, they don't have agency. There's something about maybe it's a genetic argument. Maybe they're really making a quite scary argument regarding Black Americans, but they can't. They're not in control of their

own fate, their own destiny. And so really I think the Democratic Party honestly might believe in some of that, or for whatever reason, it's been detrimental. And so again the book tries to take a square aim at that

way of thinking because it's dangerous. Well, you're an associate professor on a college campus, and that's not exactly I don't know, it's not what academic institutions started out with their goal of actually teaching people creative thinking and being able to think from themselves and learning how to do that instead of, you know, hoarding them all into groupthink areas. I mean, you've got to encounter that on campuses, and maybe on your own campus. And how do you

how do you deal with that, doctor Archie? Yeah, so, I you know, my campus is wonderful. Uh. So far, maybe people don't take me seriously in terms of what what this book argues, but they at least respect my point of view. And so I can say my institution, Colorado State University, they're open. They're open. Now there are those on campus who who argue otherwise, and and I and I get that, but so far, so far, and and and I'm keeping a watch.

It's it's been okay. But you know, as you go up the food chain in terms of academic settings, institutions, it's it's quite loud, it's quite it's quite pervasive in terms of this this ideology. So I do think that as you go up the food chain in terms of the prestige of of of of the universe, these of the colleges, you get more of an entitlement mentality both among the faculty and the students, and that hasn't been discussed a lot when it comes to this topic, but I certainly think there are

certain presuppositions that you find off the board. In terms of academia. Of course, it's left of center. With certain institutions that have a lot of influence, you find the predominance of DEI, of anti racism, etc. But you know there are other places, just real quick, there are other places that I would say are starting to trend in the other way. They're

starting to take a stand other institutions. I was just going to say that I think we're starting to see the reversal of these DEI policies not just on college campuses, but in corporate America too, and that's a move in the right direction in my opinion. Listen, I'm sorry we're out of time for this session. Here, Doctor Andre Archie, PhD from Colorado State University the book The Virtue of Color Blindness, and I got to get my copy. Thank you so much, doctor Archie, Thank you for having me. You

bet big fun. It is the Nightcap seven hundred WLW joining us again, and I am so thankful that he's willing to come on as often as he does. Of the executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America. Author of four great books on energy, climate and sustainable development, over one hundred

thousand copies of those in print, is newest book, Green Breakdown. The Coming Renewable Energy Failure is looking more prophetic by the day with what's happening with cold weather and EV car chargers and EV cars, electronic vehicles just in general due to the cold and now he says there's a brand new climate threat that the climate cultist are touting, and that's climate deaths. So we're going to get into all of that with mister Gorham. But first and foremost, how

are you, my friend doing great? Gary Jeff? Keeping warm now in Virginia? So I'm out of the Chicago weather. What So you've gone to a warmer climb? You say, how many degrees celsius is that warmer than Chicago this time of year, Steve, Chicago is about Chicago's about ten degrees celsius average temperature around the year and Virginia about sixteen. So it's twice as warm as what the United Nations says of a catastrophe. So I am I

am kind of concerned. I'm endangering my wife's health. And my help by moving down here. But nah, I was gonna say, Man, I mean you were living on the wild side, Gorham. You really are well. You know, in Chicago they got a new saying about electric vehicles. Yeah, they say that ninety percent of them, wherever made, are still on the road and the other ten percent made at home. That is a green breakdown in a nutshell right there. Yeah, So a couple of things

here off the top. You just attended a conference over the weekend. I don't know if you wanted to get into that at all, but you did learn that there is a new climate scare tactic and it's climate deaths. So tell me what you heard. But the latest, well we heard. We heard a little bit of this. Last year, Missus Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State presidential candidate, came out and said, you wanted to start

counting climate deaths. And now just this morning, there is a paper published by a guy by the name McCullin Carlson, who I think is at Georgetown University that says, after millions of this was in nature medicine, after millions of preventable deaths, climate change must be treated like a health emergency, and he claims that four million people have died from the climate since the year two

thousand. And they're talking about all kinds of things in there, things like malnutrition and diarrheal disease and malaria and cardiovascular disease even which is a proxy for heat related illness. So basically, if you die now, it's due to the climate. And christ has taken it up too with an article today and says that four million is an underestimate. So I'm going out on a limb

here. I'm predicting that this is going to be the next big push, that just like COVID nineteen, they're going to start counting climate deaths exactly what it sounds like. And we found out later that about two thirds of the people that were designated as having died from COVID nineteen actually died with COVID nineteen, not because of COVID nineteen. And if that many people four million is an underestimate of climate deaths, didn't they certainly have to take drastic action.

What will they do this time? Will they ask us, Will they ask us to live on the streets, Will they ask us to not drive any vehicle at all? Will they tell us that we have to spend spend every night in the dark. I was looking at the map you've got that you sent me. Thank you for that about the cost for electricity, rising electricity prices and the grid under the pressure. The average is US average is something like fifteen something since per KILLO what hour is that about? Right? That

was for twenty twenty two. The new numbers will come out in a month, so we'll have the update. But yeah, it was fifteen cents of kill a what hour on average? And Ohio was pretty good about fourteen cents of kill a whatt hour. Well, I live in Kentucky and Kentucky's even better about twelve twelve five per kilowatt hour. So I can't imagine it being more than that because the bills are still pretty damned high. Uh, but I'm looking at it and uh. And the other thing is liquified nature.

I want to get to the liquefied natural gas and what another one of the policies. It was instituted almost from day one of the Biden administration, and they certainly have continued this craziness where it comes to climate and energy. President Biden halted the approval of new liquefied natural gas tern terminals. Liquefied natural gas is one of the cleanest sources of energy ever thought about on the planet.

Is it not? Yeah, it is, it's uh. And I will when I when I have time in a presentation, I will often ask the audience which energy source it's done the most to reduce air pollution. And the answer isn't wind, It isn't solar, it is it is natural gas and liquid propane gas or propane, which have drastically reduced pollution indoors. If you put a gas furnace in, you reduce a part particular pollution in the house about a thousand times from a coal or a wood burning system, and our

air is very, very much cleaner because of that. So the environments, the environmentalists have it exactly wrong trying to ban natural gas. Of course they they're worried about the carbon dioxid which shouldn't be called a pollutant. But you're right, mister Biden today has decided to halt new export licenses. We still have three or four big LNG terminals, and we're the biggest shipper of liquified natural gas around the world right now. But he's he's doing this to appease

the environmental groups. Well, and when you say environ mental groups, what you really mean are these cults. Because the climate religion is rife with people who have made this their mission in life. This is what they feel that

they are called to do. Climate crisis is their God. So you can understand some of the craziness because these people are in something that's you know, maybe not as deadly as Jonestown, but on the way, because it is deadly when people do not have the proper heat or the proper amount of cooling, when they don't have the ability to you know, support themselves in their family because there's no energy in the strain on the grid prohibits them from having

the energy that they need to live. I mean, we're in a modern situation here, and these climate cultists want us to go back to the Caveman days. I believe, not just Agregiian, but you know, as small a living space as possible, because you are killing the planet. Did I assess that correctly? Isn't it a cult? Pretty well? Yeah? And in developing nations to the situations is different as well. We in the United States don't have much of a connection. But if you go to Central Africa,

for example, many people don't have electricity. The average temperature in the summer, and which is pretty long because you're near the equator, is about ninety five fahrenheit the average high and like four percent of the people have an air conditioner in Central Africa don't even have a fan. They either don't have

electricity or they don't have enough income to have a fan. So the way to solve this is not by putting up wind turbines and solar it's it's by getting them low cost natural gas and coal and and nuclear and other reliable sources of energy. That's the way you make people's lives better. So, yeah, we're way off base with all this sort of thing, and I just

need to have all this breakdown. As my book is predicted. Not only is natural gas the least polluting form of energy that we have available to us this day, Steve Gorham, but we also have an abundance of natural gas in our own country, do we not? We do it with the biggest producer natural gas in the world, biggest producer petroleum in the world, biggest

exporter of natural gas. We have pipelines going to Mexico and even I think we have a net balance who are sending some to Canada to although they have their own sources of supply. Nevertheless, the Biden administration wants to get rid of all that, wants to have us all drive electric cars where the batteries

come from China, wants us to buy wind turbines and solar. Eighty percent of the world's solar panels come from China as well, So we'll get rid of all this stuff which is low cost that we build ourselves and start relying on China for everything. Policy. No, if an individual had the wherewithal, had the ability to afford solar panels on their home just to power their home, that might be a feasible thing. If you could afford the solar

panels and the maintenance thereof for just an individual house. I mean, it's not that solar and wind are terrible ideas, but en mass and getting rid of fossil fuels and anything that produces CO two just for the sake of solar and wind, it's lunacy. It's ridiculous. I mean, for an average person, individual homeowner who wanted to power their home most of their devices with solar panels. That's that's fairly feasible if you've got the money right, it

can be done. It is expensive though, typically, and the subsidies are kind of going away for that. California some other places have cut back. So they have a thing called net metering in many states, maybe twenty five

states or so. And what that does is you're allowed to feed electricity into the grid and it pays you the retail rate for electricity, which is a big subsidy because when anybody else generates electricity, like a power plant or even a commercial solar system gets about, it gets a wholesale rate about three or four or five cents of the kilo what hour, not twelve, thirteen or fourteen. But some of these states are not cutting back on net metering,

so the you know, the value tends to get to be lower. You know, if you live in Florida or Arizona or somewhere you real sunny area, then those things can break even economically. But higher latitudes, Ohio, Illinois, you really need big state subsidies, I think to make them feasible, and that's what we've got currently, but maybe those won't be here for a while forever. We talked about the price per kilowot hour of electricity around

the country. It's averages fifteen cents per kiloo kilowatt hour and no surprise at all the states where they've gone hog wild on the green energy crap, the electricity prices are in the twenties and mid twenties or more. And no surprise either that California. And it's not because California is more populous than the states around them, that is true, but it's not because of that, is it. It's because of the policies that have been embraced by California, and

the craziness continues. That's why their electricity rates are so high. It really is green policies. And then the other thing is the lack of forest management that they've had for many years, and they've got these wildfires because they haven't taken care of their forests. They haven't allowed controlled burns or natural burns, and the electric and the power companies are really getting hammered. They have to pay very high levels for insurance, very high levels for claims and suits because

these forests tend to get blown around a little and start fires. So a combination of those things, I think, But Yeah, California is about twenty six cents of killo what hour, and it's going to go much much higher. They are requests in there right now to raise that thirty percent. So by the way, they're only Hawaii is the only state ahead of them. Well in the United States, everything has to be imported in Hawaii, and

you figure does the sunshines all the time? So if they just covered up all those beautiful parks with solar paths, maybe maybe it would be even higher.

So here's some storms. Yeah, right, you mentioned California twenty six point seventeen cents per kilowat hour for electricity right next door in Arizona, right next door thirteen point two since per kilowat hour, Nevada thirteen point seventy nine, Oregon to the north of California eleven point three five since per kilowat hour, and then you got California, you know, which more than doubles any of those other states. And it has nothing to do with the populations.

It has to do with the administration and the ridiculous forcing of these things that do not work efficiently and are expensive, so hurts. And by the way, the liberal states all have higher electricity Oh, yeah, Massachusetts and all of that. It's crazy. Pennsylvania, Michigan. Yeah, they have because they've gotten rid of their coal. By the way, a lot of states in the Midwest still use coal, and we have cleaned it up quite a

bit. They put scrubbers on the tower so that the pollution levels are very low. But the states in the Midwest use twenty thirty, forty fifty percent of their power from coal, and it's it's very inexpensive. Big business is starting to get the message when it affects the bottom line, it affects the bottom line. And Hurts has announced they are selling a pretty good portion of the evs that they purchased from Tesla. Yeah, so business only cares about

the bottom line ultimately, and that should be the case. And it's just not making any sense for Hurts to have this fleet of Tesla's. Is it Hurts committed by one hundred thousand. I don't know if they received them all, but they're now saying they're selling thirty thousand of them back, and they're saying the reason is the the insurance and the and the I accident claim costs, which is a big part of it, I think. But There's another thing too. I think a lot of people just don't want an ev when

they go and rent. Uh. There are just endless numbers of stories about people that got one and either it wasn't charged or they had to they you know, people don't usually rent a car to go three miles or ten miles. They want to go some distance and then and then they find out, well, I can't get there on the charge. I got to recharge. Then you got to charge a half hour forty five minutes before you turn it

back in. It's just not real convenient. So uh, part of the reason they're getting rid of them is people just don't want evs as a rental car. A large portion of the population. Well, I understand why I don't want one either. Where can listeners get your book, Steve Gorham? Yeah, and for my website Steve Gorham g O R E H A M dot com and I say, I'm assigned copy. They're also available on Amazon of course, the softcover book, and then there are ebooks as well.

All right, Green Breakdown is the latest from Steve Gorham and my friend. Thank you so much, and for gosh sakes, enjoy those warmer temperatures. In Virginia beach. Okay, take carry carry all right, it's the Nightcap seven hundred WLW. Open up our live stream on the iHeartRadio app and take a look at the screen. You see that little red circle with a microphone on it. That's our talkback feature. Push it and send us your thoughts

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That's perfectly fine. Expecting guests. David Ruben at any time, meadebjact. He's went on the program before, former mayor of Shilo, Israel, and he is the president of the Shilo Israel Children's Fund. He started that after he and his then three year old son were attacked by terrorists in their home country of Israel and injured in that attack, and of course that pales in comparison to October seventh, twenty twenty three, when from Gaza came Hamas

terrorists across the border into Israel and slaughtered butchered people. I mean literally ripping the guts out of women that they had just raped, or raped them afterwards. Who knows cutting the hands off babies, cutting babies out of women's stomachs.

In all, the death toll from the attack as of December of this past year, according to France twenty four, six hundred and ninety five Israeli civilians killed on October seventh, including thirty six kids, three hundred and seventy three security forces, and seventy one foreigners, a total of eleven hundred and thirty nine. You realize that the terrorist attack on nine to eleven in our country yielded almost three thousand dead, so they're more than a third of the

way to what we experienced as a country from a terrorist attack. With October seventh and just the awful, awful stench of anti Semitism and murder and death, Gaza has become a nest of death cultists, and that's why Hamas had to be rooted out, and Israel has done their due diligence to do that

inside Gaza, limiting civilian casualties as much as they possibly could. But you know what, when you're under attack, when you're at war, the rules of civility and decency often go out the window because they have to, because Hamas had to be destroyed. Well. Hamas, of course, is funded by Iran, just like Hesbalah to the north of Israel, funded by Iran and the Iyatolas and the Islamist death cultists who are always shouting death to Israel,

death to United States. And since October seventh, since the United States has supported Israel in this fight, since October seventeenth, there have been over one hundred and seventy rocket attacks on our own troops who were there. Of course, over the weekend, the attack that left three American service members dead at a base in Jordan from a drone strike from islamis terrorist funded by Iran.

What to do? What to do? Not a big fan of war, however, the Iranians have been at war with our country and Israel since the Ayatola took over in nineteen seventy nine. Let's not forget that. Don't ever forget history, because it will come up to bite you in the rump every single time when you do, and it is biting us and more acutely the Biden administration in the rump right now after Joe says don't and the Iranians continue to do. That's not much of a de terrence and throwing little strikes

back at post where there's nobody really there. And the Iranians, by the way, don't care how many of their constituents, how many of their proxies die in this, and they don't care how many missiles are blown up, as long as they can continue to create chaos and cause the United States to look weak on the world stage. We do, by the way, thanks to Joe Biden, this is going to continue. What to do again?

I think that the Iranians declared war on us when they took over our embassy in nineteen seventy nine and took all those hostages fifty two American hostages prisoner for four hundred and forty four days before Ronald Reagan got them freed. But we didn't keep up the fight against Iran and here they are back again. And when you have a week leader like Joe Biden on the world stage, everybody is going to take advantage of that, most notably in this particular case Iran.

So isn't it time, don't you think it's time to light a little fire and or maybe do what Donald Trump did with Iran. He killed Sulimane and he almost bankrupted them, And when Biden took off, he gave him six billion dollars which is still supposedly frozen in accounts, and cutter Iranian skin, and he let the oil from Iran flow again to the rest of the world, especially with our own domestic energy policies in this country. Iran is

an enemy. They've declared themselves an enemy of ours and of Israel, and they need to be dealt with, not by some feeble old man who needs to be in hospice more than likely telling them don't over and over again. So hopefully we will have a chance to talk with David Rubin again in the near future. But just some thoughts from the edge. And here's the other thing. The UNRAH, the UN organization that was giving aid to Gaza. Now we know that more than a dozen of those people employed by the UN

were helping in the October seventh attack on it Is. And we've been funding them like we fund every other arm of the United Nations. And of course, plus the United Nations is no big fan of Israel or the United States.

And UN Women recently published the Gendered Impact of the Crisis in Gaza Report, which makes the claim that among civilians killed in the Gaza conflicts, seventy percent are women and children, but a review of the actual numbers points to a different conclusion, suggesting the purpose of UN Women and the document is to promote a false gender narrative, not to encourage inform public debate. The UN

has been all over everybody about publishing and disseminating misinformation. This is a huge bit of misinformation coming from the UN pot kettle black stuff inappropriately combining women and children. The UN Women report repeatedly uses the phrase women and children as if the deaths of men and fathers does not matter, failure to report actual numbers. The Palestinian Information Center recently published a report regarding the twenty eighty nine hundred

and fifty one civilian casualties seen during the current war in Gaza. The PIC report states this toll includes twelve three hundred and forty five children, six thousand, four hundred and seventy one women, two hundred ninety five healthcare workers, forty one civil defense members, one hundred and thirteen journalists. Based on those numbers, nine thousand, six hundred and eighty six civilian men also died,

not included in the UN report because they have an agenda. So children represented forty two point six percent of all civilian deaths in Gaza, followed by men at thirty three point five percent and women twenty two point four But the UN Women Report never cite those numbers. The UN is something we need to defund immediately. Not the police, but the UN is a danger to your health

and to my health and world peace. They're ridiculous and they're unnecessary. Let's defund the UN, and let's take out Iran's oil platform island where all their oil goes through. If you bankrupt Iran and you get rid of the UN, the world will live more peacefully. Guaranteed food for thought. Don't eat too much. It's the night cap and we continue on seven hundred. Wlw Willy is the one person I know I can count on. My friend. I want you to know that I Bill Cunningham am here for you. He

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you are. You're sober now. I mean I'm glad that you didn't really ruin yourself because I mean that is a big celebration every year, Data Privacy Safety Weeks. So Dave Hatter is with us from Intrust to It or our tech guy on the night cap and first and foremost, let's talk Facebook tonight and what Facebook has been doing or meta or whatever you want to call it. Yeah, Gary, Jeff as always, thanks for having me on.

And I like to think of myself as the punks a Tony Dave or the Cincinnati Day that you will a privacy you know, PUNKSATONI Phil pops out of his hole right for ground came today. I actually pop into a Faraday cage for all of Privacy week, so I can maintain some privacy. You know. It's it's a beautiful thing. And what happens if you see your shadow? Then I hopefully get another week in the Faraday case, exposed to all of this insanity out here in the real world, you know. And I

just put another layer on my tinfoil hat. So Facebook, Yeah, I think this is really interesting. So just a reminder for folks scared. Yeah, Facebook's parent company is now Meta. Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and you know other very commonly used apps out there. And Consumer Reports had a recent article based on a study they did, and I really want to encourage people to go read about this for themselves. Don't just

take my work for it. Now. Of course, all this is alleged that neither one of us get sued, right, But here's the headline from Consumer Reports. Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies. I didn't misspeak the thousands of companies. And they also talk about how, for example, even if you're not a Facebook user, you may get sucked up in this because of this sort of background ways that they collect information. So let

me start out by saying, this is a reminder for folks. Meta is one of several companies like Google and others who thrive off the surveillance capitalism model. They don't make Facebook and Messenger and what's happened all this stuff for free? You're paying with your data. You're not the consumer or the customer in this case, you are the product, right, hence the name surveillance capitalism.

They're giving you these tools, platforms, technologies, et cetera for free, quote unquote because they are able to suck up enormous amounts of data about you and monetize that data. So if you dig a little bit deeper into this story, it's truly fascinating what they did, and I think extremely infightful because I have so many people coming ay privacy. I don't care about privacy.

I got nothing to hide, and I don't think people really understand how invasive and per of this is. So they say in this article, using a panel of seven hundred nine volunteers, you shared archives of their Facebook data, which anyone can go download for themselves at any time. Consumer Reports found that a total of one hundred and eighty six thousand, eight hundred and ninety

two companies sent data about them to Meta. One hundred eighty six thousand, eight hundred ninety two companies sent data on average each participant in the study. So again this they claim, they don't claim this is a scientific study. Seven hundred and nine people volunteered to do this, But of the data that they downloaded from Facebook and provided the consumer reports for this analysis, the average participant in the study had two thousand, two hundred and thirty companies who were

getting data about them. Now just think about that for a second, and then you know it's the number varied significantly. Some panelists had over seven thousand

companies providing their data to Facebook Splash Meta. So what does this inferring is that, you know, and they mentioned later in here, even if you don't have a Facebook account, Meta might be getting data about you because of the way they collect this and their voracious appetite for your data, which they then turn into money so you go visit a website, dit, sporting goods, whatever, and because they have a relationship with Meta and other companies too.

This isn't just Meta, by the way, okay, but Meta and you know through various tracking mechanisms, browser fingerprinting, hidden pixels, that sort of thing, they're able to collect data about you, which they then sincin

MEETA. Obviously at some you know, there's some financial compensation provided, I'm sure in there, but they also talk about how they have server to server tracking and other things that are more difficult to pin down, and it makes this, you know, really difficult for people to really understand how much data is actually being captured, you know, sold between these data breaker brokers and so forth. And I know we're not out of time here, but I

think this is fast. Another tidbit, one company appeared in ninety six percent of participants data. So of these seven hundred and nine people and all the data they submitted for this analysis, one company, Live Ramp, a data broker based in San Francisco, showed up ninety six percent of the time that they looked at this data. And they also mentioned Retailer's Home Depot, Macy's, Walmart. All were of the top one hundred most frequently seen companies of

people who are sending your data to Facebook. But live live Ramp. Live Ramp then is kind of like a collection pointed dissemination point for all the data. If they're on ninety six percent of those, then they're sharing that with the other companies, right yeah, and then he knows you know what else they're aggregating into your data and selling. I mean data brokers. There are

hundreds of them, that's not thousands of them in the country. And it's interesting when you look at the top ten that they broke down as part of this study. Live Ramp is number one. Axiom, which is a very well known data broker. To most of these are or sort of not very well known, kind of hidden behind the scenes companies making gigantic amounts of money off of this data. But Axiom has been out, you know, in

the public before for this type of thing. Experience number three. The people should know the name Experience, right, one of the big credit bureaus. And then you know, you see like Cone Depot is number seven, Amazon e Commerces number ten in this list. So it's a lot of the players we hear about all the time, but then they go on and they talk

about like what's in the data? Right. Custom audiences allow advertisers to upload customer lists to meta, often including identifiers like email addresses, mobile advertising IDs, these customers and so called lookalike audiences made up of similar people can then

be targeted with ads on metas platform. But when these data brokers are collecting this data, you know, who knows again what they're aggregating from all these different sources and then turning around and selling to other people, And they're making very large amounts of money doing it mostly behind the scenes, mostly without people's actual understanding of how much of this stuff is being sucked up out there.

And I would just remind folks, if you really want some insight into this, go take a look at the Apple privacy label of common apps like Facebook or TikTok, and when you see all of the information they can collect off

your phone, it's usually pretty eye opening for people. If you go to the Apple App Store, you can look up the privacy label for any app something Apple mandates, and most people when they see it the first time and start to connect the dots, especially after you read article like this Gary Jeff, it's pretty eye opening and I think for a lot of people quite hair raising. So you know, I appreciate you taking the time to help me

get the word out about this. This Consumer reports are definitely worth your time, and they have an app called Permission Slipt. I'd encourage people to check out. It's a way to not only get a handle on this, but try to start to scrape back some of your privacy. Well, it's about time, and we are running out of time, Dave, but real quickly. This is something we found out from testimony from actual Facebook people in the

past. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, knowingly developed platforms to hook kids into this to basically it's digital crack. Yeah, and I while there is a lawsuit out there filed by thirty three attorney generals. Again this all alleged, right, you know, they threw whistleblowers, public release information,

et cetera. This lawsuit has been file claiming that basically Facebook was well aware that their platforms are designed to be extremely sticky to get people on their you know, using them as long as possible, keep people using them, et cetera, and that you know, they're aware of the harm this is causing to young people and you know, basically have sort of turned a blind eye

to it. There's a whistle famous whistleblower who you know, basically absconded with thousands of documents that were least I'm drawing a blank on her name at the moment. But it's pretty interesting because while you know, Facebook is in the cross met us slash Facebook is in the crosshairs of this particular situation. You

know. It's most of these social media platforms ultimately have a similar goal, which is to get you on it and to get you using it as long as possible, you know, all the time, because they are collecting enormous amounts of data about you, as we just said, and then using it to make enormous amounts of money. You know, if you go look at the amount of money the Facebook slash Meta brings in from these so called free services, it's, you know, it's in billions of dollars you've had.

Dave Heater, thank you as always for joining us on the Nightcap and you can hear Dave six thirty five Friday morning on fifty five KRC I see on Local twelve all the time. Great information and something that we all need to be aware of. Dave Hatter with us on the Nightcap on seven hundred Wlwe welcome back to the nightcat find seven hundred wl W Garrett Jeff sitting in my chair getting ready to talk to somebody I've been looking forward to, really for

ever since i saw the pitch. Daniel Street is his name. He's an attorney and author over two decades of experience handling civil litigation in state and federal court. Is a three volume book series called Fake News Exposed about Trump, and he regularly appears on Substack and the Latest News. First Off, Daniel Street. Good evening, and welcome to the show. So thank you for

having me on. Yes, glad, And the latest fake news you say is in this verdict against Donald Trump in New York Civil Court, the Egene Carol defamation suit, where Trump was ordered to pay eighty three million dollars, most of that impunitive damages for defaming Carroll by calling her a liar about the supposed the alleged sexual assault years ago in Bergdorf's bathroom or a changing room or

whatever where she said this occurred. First and foremost, Egene Carroll is no stranger to accusing and sometimes we found out falsely men of sexually abusing her. I was gonna say that it kind of reminds me back during the Kavanaugh trial of the woman they tried to say that the Spike Bowl was punched and women were getting raped by Matt Kavanaugh and his buddies, his college buddies, because they were leading women to the Spike punch Bowl and was at she was at

three or four of those parties. And if she knew women were getting raped, was she standing in line to get raped or what? You know, what was happening here. So you kind of wonder about the motivation of Egen Carrol other than she's a Trump hater to make the original claim and to file this defntion lawsuit, don't you. Yeah. And I think an important thing for people to remember about Eging Carroll is she has no corroborating evidence of any

kind. She doesn't have a receipt from the stores, she doesn't have a contemporaneous witness, she doesn't have any security videos, she doesn't have an itinerary proving that she or anybody else is traveling on that day. So anything that will to substantiate the claim she has none. I mean none as a zero, and so it is it's just incredibly finn Yeah, I mean on the evidentiary say. And by the way, Donald Trump was never, never convicted

of sexually assaulting Eging Carroll. She just said so and then filed suit when Donald Trump said she lied. Is that basically the way this all came down in the first place, right, Well, that's not a bad summary of it. It's actually one of the most incredibly complicated procedurally. The procedural posture

in this case is incredibly complicated. And you know, it started out in twenty nineteen as a purely a state law defamation suit that Carroll filed in New York State court, and it got removed to federal court by President Trump and

the federal government. And I can explain how that works. But basically with Trump and the government saying, hey, look, anything she's accusing me of this was done in connection with my official duties, and therefore the United States Government has to be substituted as a party defendant and has to be removed to federal court. And that issue just Caplin ruled against the district judge, and federal court ruled against the government on that and went up on the peace.

And in the interim, while that issue was on appeal, the State of New York passed the statute that revived of fale prescribed or timed out sex offense claims or sexual harassment or sexual assault claims, and then she came back and added that claim in federal court in twenty twenty two. I believe it was. Yeah, that's when, that's when the New York that's when the New York law was juiced in twenty twenty two. So that opened the door for her to do what she did. That's right, and so any claims she

had. You know, this is another issue with her. The sufficiency of her evidence is that her own testimony is contradictory. She said in the past that this happened in nineteen ninety four, then she said nineteen ninety five, announced she's just like mid nineteen ninety She's not really sure. And so that claim was lost due to the passage of time, due to the status to

the limitations in New York. And then in twenty twenty two, the State of New York, the New York legislature passed this statute that revives certain of these claims for people who over the age eighteen whose allegations satisfy particular statute in the New York Penal Code, which is Section one thirty, and that gave all those people twelve months to file suit and of course, he's one of the people who had lobbied for the law. In fact, I think it

was probably drafted for her. I can't prove that just yet, and filed suit. And that's that's where this came from. So the original we started in federal court after being removed from statehourt on pure defamation claims from twenty nineteen. All right, So, in any regard, this judgment for any three point three million dollars against Donald Trump is now obviously going to be appealed by

Trump's attorneys. Do you think they've got a good leg to stand on when they look at the conflict of interest between the judge in the case and eging Carroll and all of the rest. Tell me how that house of cards could fall in very easily on appeal, Daniel, Sure. And the thing to keep in mind is the original judgment that where the jury actually found that was in May twenty twenty three when the first trial was held. The one most recently is the second trial. That trial, I mean, that case is

on appeal right now and hasn't been ruled on yet. That's how quickly all of this came down, So the whole house of cards could get pulled out from under the eging Carroll's feet, and I could explain how that can happen. There's a number of different ways. There are a number of appealable issues

with the most recent judgment of the one to eighty three million dollars. I think there's going to be some post trial motion practice on that to knock it down, to cut it in various different ways, and I can explain that intil some of it gets kind of This case involves a lot of hyper technical legal issues, but I think the big ticket items here are what people need

to understand. When the first trial was held, remember that suit was filed over the twenty nineteen statements when EG and Carrol came out and claimed all this happened and President Trump made some strong statements to the effect that didn't happen, and he know knows she talking about and things like that. That was the original suit. Then she added the rape claims, and then the cap went

to trial on the rape claims. But then she added in twenty twenty two, after President Trump was no longer president, she added more defamation claims. So the last defamation claims, the twenty twenty two claims, and the rape claim went to trial in made of twenty twenty three, and then most recently, the twenty nineteen defamation claims went to trial. So what we actually just got through with was the trial on the twenty nineteen claims, which were the

very first ones ever found. Got One of the issues that the judge did here was limit the evidence that could be entered by Trump on the twenty nineteen defamation claims on the on the grounds of what is known as collateral estomple. And the judge was like, hey, look, we already ruled on that, but they haven't. The jury hadn't ruled on that because they hadn't even heard the twenty nineteen defamation claims. Now, some of the underlying issues have

been ruled on. But keep this in mind. If the Court of Appeal affirms the dismissal of the government and say the government couldn't been part of this case, then once you have is a federal court exercising what is known what used to be called pendent or ancillary jurisdiction is now called supplemental jurisdiction, a case over which there would otherwise be no subject matter jurisdiction in federal court. Okay, because The purpose behind it being removed from state court was because the

US government says, hey, he should be the defendant here. This is the president action in the course of the president's job. If that's wrong, this case really should have never been in federal court. You should potentially have the Court of Appeal to kick the whole thing out, wipe the slate, queen, send them back a state court. On substack. You have this

continual fake news exposed Daniel lar Street's fake news exposed. Has there ever been a president, sitting or former who has been subjected to more fake news than Donald Trump? And Kenyons cite some of the most egregious examples. Dan Sure, yeah. Number one, No, I don't think anyone in the history of history has been the subject of more fake news than Donald J. Trump. And you know, there's just a litany of it. I think.

Let me highlight some of the worst lives and misinformation campaigns that have been wasting against President Trump. Number one is the Russia collusion hoax. That's what I call it, is the Russia collusion hoax because it was a hoax and it was concocted in large part by contractors working for the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democrat

National Committee. They hired Glinn Simpsons who in turned his outfit Confusion GPS, and then he subbed out the nastiest bit of it to a former British intelligence officer, nam Christopher Steele. So all of that turned out to be the worst form of misinformation, and it was in large parts bought and paid for

by the Clinton campaign and Democrat National Committee. So for years, literally President Trump's administration was hamstrung by illegitimate investigation into non existent collusion with Russia that was really based on uh, information and misinformation and malinformation bought and pagroll a by the Democrats. Well, they certainly had a lot of help from mainstream media who reiterated that that whole mantra over and over again every day about uh,

well they did and they yeah. They also had a lot of help from the federal government, from federal law enforcement and federal intelligence community. So it was all hands on deck, let's do whatever we can to hinder and undermine this president and his administration from implementing policy and uh, and that's what it was all about. That So it was designed to do and all probability and

that's what the effect was. But yeah, the you know, the news media, even to this day, most of the legacy media won't report truthfully about the Russian collusion hoax. Hey there's still not and it's been totally debunked. I mean over and over and over again, reams and reams of real evidence showing that none of this ever happened and none of it was real. So what about And it's amazing to me that President Trump got as much done in his four years as he did with all of that noise and then COVID

on top of it. You're right, and you know, the thing to keep in mind too, he was also battling the GOP establishment yep, his entire his entire term. I think that if you look back at what Donald Trump and his administration were able to accomplish in the four years that he was an office, it as a testimony to the man's ability to get things done. It just really is, because he had an incredible amount of obstacles at every turnery and people who are supposed to be on his team who are undermining

him and undermining him administration. I just think that the man is really remarkable in that respect. And if he could get another four years, they're just going to cook up more information, but they'll never be that successful again. So there's no telling what he'll be able to accomplish. Well, there was that narrative to when he want to talk about fake news about Donald Trump that he was while he was in office as president, he was using that position

to enrich himself and his companies. When I remember the table of all of the doc you remember the table with all the documents and Donald Trump's there, and that said, this is what I'm taking my hands off of. So there's no conflict of interest with me personally. I mean, I want to talk about one of the most transparent guys in elected office when it came to

not taking advantage of his elected office. And we've seen what's happened, you know, with both House Democrats and Republicans and Senate Democrat Republicans who are up to their over their heads in conflicts of interest when it came to enriching them. Donald Trump never did that. He donated all of his salary as president to charities. Every time he got paid, the money went right out the door. And you say, well that's you know, it's just out of

his abundance because he's a billionaire. He's doing that. It's a big show. But the fact of the matter is Donald Trump did not, I believe, want to run for president, become president, and now wants to become president again for his own benefit. I just don't see any reason why anyone would do that unless they just love this country and know that we need a

change at the top. I agree. And in fact, you know, running for office and holding office actually cost President Trump a lot of money, and not just to legal, legal fees and things like that, but you know, turning over the day to day operations of his companies to other people did not enhance, you know, his wealth. I mean, there's been a number of studies of President Trump's wealth, but before twenty sixteen and currently, and he took a big hit in his network by not running his companies

for four years. And so I think, you know, there's actually a chapter in one of my books, it's the volume one of the Fate News exposed about Trump's series, where you know, the fake news media says nobody's profited off the presidency like Trump, and you know, and that's just not true, and in fact, no one has profited off the presidency like the Clintons, and the close second to them are the Bombs and President Trump is a very very distant third behind those two. And you know they've always got

a sixty five million dollar advance for a book. I mean that anybody else would probably wound up being investigated by the federal government and federal law enforcement over sixty five million dollar book advanta. I mean, how much was your book advancement? Daniel? It wasn't club out the ospite of an advance. You had to pay to get it published, right, Daniel R. Street. Fake news exposed about Trump on substack and there's a three book series. And

thank you for taking some time tonight to talk with us. The latest fake news, which is this eighty three point three million dollars settlement against Donald Trump by in favor of EG and Carroll, which will again be on appeal maybe until after the election, who knows. Dan, thanks for taking the time tonight. Thank you, thank you for having me on. I'll be glad to do it. You bet. Another hour of the Nightcap just ahead on seven hundred WLW. Let's talk about Scott's loan. When do you listen?

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news is so bad, and sometimes it's not really even news. But you know what, every once in a while, you just gotta take a step and enjoy good friends, the conversation with good friends, you know, like say, this guy the fer Ball who claims Andy Furman actually claims that I'm his only friend. I don't believe that at all. He's got lots of friends at the point arc He's got friends who read him in the Brooklyn Daily

Eagle. He's got friends who read him online in the nk Y Tribune, and he's got all kinds of friends, as Strauss tobacconists, in fact, I don't know what he needs me for it all, but I think he's an invaluable resource as a friend and a guest, and that's why he is back once again. Furball, How are you great? You know my favorite theme song? You know, my favorite song is by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Where are all My Friends? That's my song, Where are

my Friends? Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Well, I would recommend to you then, and you're if you're listening in that vein, I would recommend to you if you don't know me by now, you will never. And I would recommend cut back and up yours with bad luck? What about the love I lost? That's a great sort, it really is. I

like her, give me a favorite. On Saturday when you talk to the music professor, bring up Harold Meldon the Blue Notes just out without even warning him that I'm gonna So he can't like write notes down about his personal experiences, So I should just I should just surprise him with it. Right, No, you could try it. So I'm sure you do a little prepping with him, and I'm honest that. But he's probably met them. Oh, I'm sure he has. He's met everybody, anybody, anybody that was

a star before nineteen seventy five. Jim Lebarba knows and has probably sat down with them for extended conversations or had parties. Okay, he's the party with Jerry Lee Lewis. For God's sake, if they ask kissing with Jim Lebarba, I mean, you talk to him on Saturday. This is my turn. Now, this is my thing. You're the one who brought him up. I just said, Harold Meldon boom, but a bang and that's it. You said music biography. Okay, he has enough time said it.

You know, I've got something that really and truly is is a news story, but no one's really touching it. Okay. That is Friday is Groundhog's Day. Yeah, okay, I think I know. Hold on, Andy, I believe everyone will be covering Groundhog Day like they do every year. There are wanna be There are want to be Bill Murray's and Andy McDowell's all over the country that want to go to wherever Poxatani up to Gobbler's knob to see the little furry rat come out of his hole. Right, that's Groundhog's

there. But there's a story connected with ground Dog's day. Sweet Peta feal good friends that Peta expressed concerns that the groundhog is being cruelly exploited for publicity. Are you talking about having about and hold on? Are you talking about please eat tasty animals? Is that what you mean by Peter? Could very well be really, but I will tell you this much what they want to do is replace the groundhog with a coin flip. I mean, you know

what, I credit them. I credit Peter because they're ingenious, working and morving their way into getting publicity. But I guess it's news. I guess it is. But I wish some enterprising news editor or news director of a TV or newspaper saying, you know what, God bless you, you're not getting any space or airtime on my network, on my newspaper. That's what they want. They want, And there's also people out there after they're reading this this here, let's have a coin to us the heck with it?

Come on, how many people have groundhoss of pets? Anyway, the only good thing Peter has ever done as an organization is occasionally have some of their volunteers and paid people be nude in front of in public. I mean, and in some cases it's a good thing that they're nude. In some cases it's like a nudist colony where the people who are nude should never be nude even in their own homes. But yeah, Peter does some great stuff when

it comes to newd in public. I'll give them that look. Peter said that they offered to send the organization to punks at twenty groundhog clubs in a circle. They admitted they wanted to send that organization to a sanctuary. Peter offered to send the organization a giant coin, a giant coin that could easily replace the groundhog as the Pennsylvania town's gimmick to draw in tourists. I'm not so certain to draw us some tourist against publicity. It's a one day thing.

It's a lot of fun, and that's basically it had to be quite honest with you. Last year was the third straight year the groundhog at spotted the shadow, something he has done one hundred and seven times. Just his first prediction when way back in eighteen eighty seven. So he's apparently seen the shadow and eighty four percent of his predictions. Phil has only been right about

thirty nine percent of the time. According to the Storm Facts. Weather Almond app well, you got a fifty to fifty chances like a coin flip, but nobody's traveling to Pucksatawny, Pennsylvania to watch a coin flip. Andy, we can sit at home in our in our in our homes and do that every time there's something really important that deserves a coin flip, like say the upcoming super Bowl. You know what, I think it's a choke. I mean you you're kind of like pooh pooing this off. This is ridiculous,

I mean a coin flip. You know, I'm not so certain how many people go to uh, Pennsylvania to see the grounds office. I do know what they do the Pennsylvania Poka. Didn't you watch the movie Groundhog Day. It's an incredible party. I feel like I'm talking to a wadi, I really do. Look, I'm sure Good Morning America is gonna have it. It's it's a news shot shot, it's tradition, it's funny, it doesn't hurt. Anybody had to have a coin flip. I mean, I don't

know what the rection this world is going into now. I don't know what the rection you were going in now. It's unbelievable. Good Morning is Good Morning America. That hasn't been relevant since David Hartman was a host. What do you talk? Good Morning America? Nobody watches that? Are you kidding? What the there you go? I mean that's because you don't watch it. Good Morning America probably, And I don't have any statistics to base of

course, this Morning the largest morning show in America. Let's let's not let's not confuse. Let's not confuse the listeners with the real facts and stories. Let's just conjecture and say that good because you watch it, you think it's the most watched morning program. I don't watch it because I'm not normally home for the entire show. But I will pay this. I did preface by saying I don't have any statistics to back me up, but I could rest

assure it is probably the most watched morning show in America. I can tell you that right well, based on what so, based on the popularity of the show. But if you don't have If you don't have the numbers, Okay, hold on here. Audience rating summary for Good Morning America. Two point six is the average rating for Good Morning America on a many people. I don't know that three and thirty million people in the country. What. Okay, So, what's what's the morning show on CBS? Oh? I

don't know, it's terrible. It's that that kingwoman who's a friend of Oprah. What's your name? Uh? I don't know if an Today Mason is still Today's Show. I have absolutely no idea. The Today Show on NBC hasn't been good since the Chimp left back in the fifties. Dave Gway, Yeah, and the and the Chimp. What was the chimp's name? Do you remember the chimp's name? No? But I number Dave Garaway. But see how many numbers of the Today Show. I would say of the three

major networks, the Good Morning America Show probably is number one. I can't believe we're even debating this, but uh oh, hold on, hold hold on, here we go. I'm going to look up the Today's Show ratings and see how Today's sure. Oh, Today's show was two point three. So Good Morning America has more viewers on average than Today America is one and it and it doesn't surprise me at all. Okay, well, let's go ahead and look at what's the other one CBS, CBS This Morning, CBS

this Morning ratings. I do I think they don't crack two. You don't think so, No, let's see ratings for CBS this Morning two point eight, which means that they are the champs, not Good Morning America. Andy, that I can't believe. Now, I'm sure this is Abitron numbers. I don't it's the ratings I just typed in CBS Mornings ratings, Good Morning America ratings, NBC Today Show ratings. So actually, numbers prove that you were wrong once again, Andy, Well, you know what numbers prove I'm

wrong. But I just said I think it's one of the most popular shows. I said it was the number one show, but I said I precftaceed this by saying I didn't have the numbers. Okay, so I'm wrong, all right. Well, and while we've been talking about this, my numbers have been going down precipitously. So let's move on to something else. I'd like to see your numbers, really like I would too. I would too, but they don't show them to me because they're so good that no,

they don't want to hurt everybody else's feelings on the station. Let's take a quick break, Andy, take a quick break and come back, and I want to recap. I want to ask you about something specific that goes well beyond the importance and relevance of morning show ratings on television. Andy Furman, are you brought it up? You brought I didn't bring it up. You brought it up. No, you brought up Good Morning America. And I

don't, No way, let me refresh you, madman. Let me tell you how you brought it up. Okay, we would talk about We were talking about groundhog Day, and I said, I don't think many people go to Pennsylvania for groundhog Day, but it's viewed on the newscast, including Good Morning America. And you say, oh, Good Morning America, I said, and I have this up. I say, it's probably the most popular morning show on TV. And then you went off on a tangent looking up

ratings, which I didn't even care to do. Little Under could have left it at that morning because it's one of the most popular shows I shouldn't. I should have just said morning TV is crap. Kind of an umbrella statement, a blanket statement. I want a subject matter that you actually like. I've got something for you. Hang on after the break, we'll be back with more of the fur ball on the nightcap. Meanwhile, in the integed forest, Goldie Locks is rubbing something. It's a lamp. A lamp.

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service is over the top. Vanderhart texting privcy policy in terms of conditions, posted a text plan dot us text two Tuesday evening, January thirtieth, twenty twenty four. And the question I had from you, by the way, Andy's wife Wendy in the first part of our conversation wondering what the chimp's name was on the original Today Show was Jay Fred Muggs with David. So, thank you, thank you Wendy Furman for that. What I want to do,

well, I know you drive a little bit. You don't drive all the time, but you like to get in your car and go out and run your errands and go to the ups store, go to Straus Tobacanis, go to the Point Arc, going down a little perk cafe and stuff like that. And you know, you get around for a septagenarian. Have you noticed have you noticed that more and more often as you pass cars on the road and you were behind somebody who was maybe swerving a little bit, or

going too slow and then going very fast. How many people have the damn phone right up on their steering wheel looking at it as they're driving, which I believe violates laws or should violate laws all over the country. There's no reason for this. I know you're a ten and two I straightforward guy because you care about safety. Well you're so nervous anyway, but you care about your safety and you care about the safety of others around You are very considerate

that way, Andy Furman. But I just find it. I find it infuriating when I'm behind people and they obviously I don't care much about where they're going or what lane they're in. All they care about is a stupid phone. Can't you put it down for frigging fifteen minutes while you're getting to your destination? But no, these people can't their addicts. Do you find the

same thing as true in your observation? I could live with the phone, although I know more often than not, when you're driving you could actually tell if someone's on their phone with just swerving in their lane. I don't realize they are, but they're coming right near the line. But I to live with the phone. I'm not happy with it. But when I see them texting, that blows me away. Now, there was a time when I would drive by these guys a woman who hump my horn and point at them.

I don't do that anymore. I'm afraid to get shot. Really, people are crazy. I'm not doing that. I know road rage is out there. I think it's disgusting. Although I saw a commercial on TV last night saying that put it down or if you get courts one hundred and fifty dollars making a phone call in your car. So maybe they all cracking down, but it's ridiculous, and it talk about people getting into recks and accidents. I will tell you this. I read something just the other day.

People in Germany are on the autobond doing one hundred and twenty miles an hour. There are less wrecks and deaths and accidents on the autobond than there are an I seventy five. How's that? That's because they're probably not on their frigging phone. Handy wowed, probably not allowed. You're right, you know me. I'm not a big fan of big brother or big Obese government.

The last thing we needed more regulations in general. However, this is if we're in a seat belt is a public safety health thing, then certainly being have your eyes glued to your screen while you're supposed to be driving has to be a huge public safety health issue and probably the most even more than DUIs, I would think. I'll go one step further. Okay, you want to talk about cars and car safety. I agree with you with the phones

one thousand percent. Next thing number two, if they if they don't want to use the directional, why don't they put directionals in cars? You know? I stay behind these people they're going to make left turns, and where they've got a four way stop and they don't even have directional lot, I don't know if they're going to turn or not use the freaking directional. Number

two. Sometimes you're at a full way stop where there's no light, you know, and you want to make sure you're supposed let the person on your right go first, that's the rule of right. But you can't tell sometimes you know why, because they're a freaking tint in their window. I don't want to see tinted windows and cars anymore. Maybe ten percent tent in the front driver's window. You don't need a tint and your window on your side. You don't need that every tint. I don't know why they do it.

You can't see. There was a time way back during the day when you could see the driver. I kind of wave to him or give them the signal. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, make your turn, do it. You can't do that anymore because the tinted window. You want to get rid of this, You want to get rid of the phone deal. Make it a package, no phone, no tint. How's that I use your directional? I have the cops going out there start ticking people that

aren't using the directional on that I wish. I say it every time I'm out Andy and Ohio drivers are the worst. They always blame Michigan, but Ohio drivers are the worst. I live in northern Kentucky and the difference between uh, Northern Kentucky drivers and Ohio drivers is just its mammoth. It is. They will get, they will give you, they will give they they'd

give Jay Fred Muggs the Chimp from Today Show. Way back when a driver's license in Ohio in Kentucky, you've got to at least have a trained chimp. You know, no, no, because there is a big because everybody in Kentucky don't have cars, they to have tractors. What are you saying, You're you're insane. There are great, great drivers, uh everywhere,

and they are terrible drivers every where. But the right the majority of terrible drivers around here have Ohio plates, I guarantee every single We got to challenge you on that, and I'll tell you why you challenge me on the Good Morning America. Ranging you've got to come up with stats telling me that Ohio drivers are in fact worse than Kentucky driver. Really, you throw out, you just put a blanket of for everybody who drives a car in the Great

Buckeye State, and I think it's wrong. Maybe there are some bed drivers there. We know that there are bad drivers everywhere, but for you to come out blattly and say that on a fifty thousand WAT station that goes to thirty eight states, that's wrong and it's just not right to do. All right, Really, you know what, you know, you know what that proves, Andy, What you just pointed out once you just pointed out right there proves one thing once and for all. I am a hater, oh

you are. I know that. I still like you, but you are. You are a hater. You are definitely a hater, and for you to put a blanket over the state of Ohio is wrong. I want a fact checker on your show. You're right, need one? No, you're you're right. Well, you can't trust the factor checkers because they're all libs, like Snopes dot Com, what used to be the great fact fact checking giant of the industry. They do admit they were wrong just the other day.

They're wrong. They're wrong all the time. That call Columbus and find out the the next time, the next time we speak, I will have the figures of fatalities committed behind the wheel by Ohio drivers and fatalities committed behind the wheel of Kentucky licensed drivers. I will have that information your and makes it makes you look Bitter's they're responsible, that's what it's. They're responsible to go out there and just throw that out there and say it. Well,

and I'm not here by in particular. I just want the facts. I want it with this correct and that's why I have you on the program to keep me in check, to balance me out. Thank you so much, and remember, as always, you can't spell furman without f you. Yeah, but seven hundred w l W joining us in studio, one of my favorite guests. We don't get to talk as as often as I'd like because you know, you've got basketball games interrupting good programming, right, Sorry,

you see sorry Xavier Gary Jeff with Roccocostelano trained with Rocco dot Com. And tonight, Uh, we're talking about What the Health, which is a movie, right, yeah, So, so I wanted to talk to your audience about veganism, the stupidity sometimes of of of veganism, and the propaganda of veganism a lot of times, and and What the Health is basically a movie that's all propagal propaganda and uh, it's it's made by the same people that

made uh, Cowspiracy, and so they really and Conspiracy is about is more about factory farming, and they and they talk about factory farming in this movie. But I want to bring it up because one of my clients it basically made him convert to becoming a vegan. And I was very shocked because I remember when the movie first came out, like in twenty or seventeen. I watched it and I was very unimpressed. To say, the lead you were turned off because you said it's a junk movie. There's no real science in

it that supports There was zero, zero science. It was all a scare tactics they're putting. They're saying that that one egg is equal to five cigarettes, and there's or that two slices of like bacon was equal to more cigarettes, and that basically you're eating cigarettes and they have these these cigarettes. At first, the Malayia, the way that that that bacon and that eggs go into your body. First of all, it's a great breakfast, so just

shut up right there. But then then to back up the science, the way that smoke and the carcinogens that that you and hal bind very differently in your lungs than how bacon and and and eggs bind in the gut and how they're digested and and all that, and and one of the big things that they say is absolutely science was the that bacon great yeah, yeah, I mean everything's facts now, right, And so so what happened is that they were saying that bacon and that lunch meat right uh still, and this has

been a debunked hundreds of like times. Uh. They tried to conflate that the the relationship between the nitrates and the night the night trites and the night trates in in like a boys head meets or or anything like that. And bacon. Two that it absolutely causes a cancer. And and what's really relevant here is that we all we all first have a cancer cells in our body. We all do every single day of our life, we are fighting and

our our immune system fights those those can cells. And every single person in America has a five percent chance of getting cancer with or without blown without Right now, if you eat lunch meat and bacon every single day of the year, right right, it raises your likelihood of getting cancer if you did it every single day, so you will be raised. It will raise your chi. You went from you went from five percent to six percent, six percent

just eating lunch meat and bacon every day every single day. So if you if you eat it, if every other day, I mean, okay, so let's just trying to hatch my bets here, Roco. Well, let's do the math. If you did it every every every other day, it'd percent, right sure, so maybe it's maybe it's five and you know, and and a half percent, and then maybe if you did it every third day, it'll be you know, I mean, there is a mathematical formula

to science and if you want to listen to the science. Well, you know, every time I think vegans, I always think of everything as soy. Everything is and soy is so terrible, especially like for men and and and women. But soy is if you overeat soy and you're a man, your breast grow and and all this other stuff happens to you. Internally, it isn't soy bad. Okay. So because I don't like I don't like me some tofurky at all, So well that's kind of annoying. But yeah,

it's just it's really just just annoying. I'm I'm not a big fan of these of vegans making food that tastes like meat and then but it's so it's so ultra ultra process. But there's another thing that really annoys me till no end is that if you were to not eat eat meat, and you said, okay, where gonna just have gardens and crops across America. There was a beautiful line in the movie A Yellowstone by Kevin Cosson says said, do you know how much death veganism causes? And if you if you didn't

realize this. When people grow crops, they have to kill chipmunks, squirrels, moles, all the gophers and there's a lot of birds. There's a lot of lives that are actually kill Yeah, a lot of those same people that insist on a vegan lifestyle and just growing crops are the same ones that are in favor of winds, of wind turbines and solar panels which also kill animals, and electric cars and electric freeze and the trees when the weather gets

below thirty two degrees because the supercharge stations don't work well well. And I you know so. And what what always makes me laugh is if you ever have dinner or you go out. I tried very very hard not to, but vegans are very much like virgins. For some reason, they have to state their their their virginism or their veganists, oh, their militaries. Yeah,

so when you're at a dinner table. I had this beauty queen at one time that I that I trained, and the second she sat down at the at the table, she goes, I'm a virgin, and I was like, who cares, I don't want it's twenty four years old. It almost sounds like an invitation, right, It's like I wasn't even gonna try, but now you put that gauntlet in front of me, maybe I will. Well, well, it's with vegans when you go I'm a vegan. I want to shove a steak down. You show. That's a perfect that's

a perfect place in this discussion. Roco's shoving a steak down a vegan's throat. I want to watch that movie more with Rocco soon. On the Nightcap on seven hundred w l W, I get ready for Wednesday nineteen, I have dot fair cat West millers Man make their way to Morgantown for a matchup with a mountaineer son a perfect swish. It's U see in West Virginia in

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he can make me an offer I can't refuse at any moment. Well, I always make you an offer you can't refuse. But right, so, anyway, Rocco and I are this time around talking about something called structured water. I have no idea what you're talking about, so please elaborate enlighten me well, and most people in Cincinnety, I don't know anything about structured water.

But the reason why I wanted to talk about water and structured water in a particular is because like there's too many water companies out there, and the water is just is just absolutely garbage. And on one specific waters are called alkaline water. Yeah, and alkaline water is literally one of the biggest scams.

I I probably shouldn't say scam. It's probably one of the most disappointing things I've i've really ever ever seen because if you ever look on the bottle of of a alkaline bottle, in the fine print, it says nine point five p h Right, so that's the alkalinity of the water, and supposedly alkaline. If you drink anything alkaline I would recommend orange juice or grapefruit juice. Actually the acidity the city, no, not just the acidity actually converts

to alkaline in the body. It's it's much much better for you. If you do lemon water, that's gonna be much much better water for you. And just taking minerals in general. But alkaline water at when it's bottled, it says, when you know at first bottling it is it is a nine point five a pH, but uh, the pH dies and actually a lessons the more shelf life it has on it. So so with that whole that reminds me. Water gets old, is what you're saying. Alkaline water gets

old. It reminds me of the movie Signs where the little girl had glasses of water all over the house. It's no, I don't want that water. I want a new glass that's old. So she knew, she knew, she knew. So take your your health advice from little girls in movies on the movies. ALIAS, right, that's right. So so I just want to say buying that stuff is really I'm not gonna help you. I've

actually tested. I have a video online that I tested the alkaline water from the bottom and I tested tap water, and the tap water was actually a more alkaline because of the minerals at a higher pH way way higher pH than the alkaline water the virus. I think that the alkaline thing is a scam. Oh well, if you say scam, you can get sued. So

I don't like people, so I don't like it. If if you say I think it's a scam, they can't see you because they can't see you for thinking something, you know, saying it definitely, yeah, I think it might be a scam. You could say that and be totally unlitigated. Call me right now, shut up, tell Gary, Jeff Walgan and shut up now. But there's something actually better, and there's something that actually holds

well, not not pH but it's called it's called a structured water. And basically what structured water is, and it's also called hydrogen water, it actually creates a structure that's hexagonal, so so the molecules form and it becomes it is three more hydrogen molecules in it. And with that hydrogen, it helps to facilitate a more cellular activity in the mitochondria and the and the ocellular structure.

So is it truly h two o. Then if it has more hydrogen molecules, it's not it's not H two oh, it's actually H three oh. Yeah. And so it's going to have you know, a more of of the hydrogen, like the hydrogen molecule, and it absorbs much much faster into you know, because we're carbon where carbon you know, or right, So so it's gonna be a much more much more absorbed and much faster.

Well, you listen to the green idiot's carbons destroying the planets. That's why, that's why their movement is an anti human movement because we're all carbon based

creatures. Well, and the and and that's the craziest thing I've ever heard where you know, I definitely see all the transhumanism and the and the and the evilness that's out there against a human's and and you know, we have to literally live with with the notion that we are carbon bing that's right, and we have you know, organic beings, all carbon based life forms please report to the detention center for elimination, right, And I mean that's what

they want sure, right, because the whole a whole group of them in dominos, That's that's what they're all about. And my my friend Karen Kataline says it all the time. Rocco. My advice to them is, Okay, you go first, Yeah, and why not do you believe it's a good thing for the planet. Maybe you can volunteer to be the first on the list. Well, and because you're really not that special, Yeah,

and we're gonna we're going away off off off structure. But I would really rather people look more into structured water, you know, and then and then start drinking that if you're gonna pay extra money for water, right, And I mean is it sold? Where would you find? Yeah, you can buy a molecule of hydrogen. You can buy it online. I think that a Fresh Time has has some and and there's a and there's a company called a Sprouts that's in you know, in Tennessee, Oklahoma. But I just

go online Amazon sells it. But structured water, yeah, structured water. And then you know, I'm and I'm just a big, a bigger fan of just you know, like the big Burkey filter or Alexa Pure where they have the the ceramic filters that take out the floor ride that take out Because we talked, you know, the other night about the floor ride and how you know how so so when you can and you want to pay extra for a water and and it's not sam pellogrino, and get some structured water?

How was how was sam pellogrino for your health? How is that? As long as you get it in the glass bottles, it's fine. We talked about the Yeah, like the microplas. I'm drinking out of a damn styrofoam cup again tonight, Rocco annoying as a train with Rocco dot co? Is it so annoying that you want to shove a steak down my mouth like I'm a vegan? Okay, good, all right, rap though, thank you brother. Well we'll talk soon. I know. It's the nightcap on seven hundred W l W