The Night Cap with Gary Jeff Walker -- 2/27/24

Into this nightcap full throttle now with my Rep from the fourth District the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the US House of Representatives at full disclosure, a guy that I have voted for and will vote for again in this next election cycle, and proudly do it because I feel like he does truly represent my values and the values of the other three quarters of a million or so maybe more constituents in that fourth district. The one and only US Rep. Thomas Massey on

the nightcap, and Thom it's great to talk to you again. It's been a long long time, but I think it's high time that we do have this discussion. How are you. I'm doing well and I'm glad to be able to reach your listeners who listen at this hour. All right, first off, they're doing it again. Well, they being you as a member of this body, threatening us with shutting the government down and the omnimous spinning Bill and all the rest of this garbage. I've always thought that the budget

thing was ridiculous because you know exactly what you've got to do. You've got a cut spending if you're going to actually make a debt in thirty four thirty four trillion dollars in debt if you're going to not have to pay a trillion dollars in interest payments on that debt. And it's it's a pretty simple thing for anybody who's ever balanced a check book, and apparently most of a lot of your members at least have not ever had to balance their government pay checkbook.

And you know, you've been full, i mean fully voiced on this full throated voice on this toime all along about what needs to happen. So so tell me you're in the slim majority in the House. Are the Republicans going to pull together and get something together at the last minute just for political purposes like they always do? Well, listen, this is I think the fourth or fifth last minute that we have. You know, don't forget.

This spending bill was due at midnight on September thirtieth of twenty twenty four, and it didn't get done. We were working on twelve separate bills. We had had like seven of them done. They punted, they did a CR, they did a CR, they did a CR and so the next two crs they split these two and they split the twelve bills into like two sets of four all right, so there's two crs that expire on two different dates. This is like some strategy thing that's the forty chess, but which obviously

I don't buy into. But there's going to be. There would be if we don't do a CR or an omnibus or something we should be doing twelve separate bills, there would be some kind of partial shutdown in March, and then in the second or third week there would be the rest of the government would shut down. But you know, I've been there twelve year, and here's what they do, Gary, Jeff. They they come in and they scare everybody and they say, you need to vote for the shut or for

this omnibus bill. Yeah, and it's got a lot of crap you don't agree with. But if you don't vote for it, the shutdown will happen. The soldiers won't get paid, you know, the air traffic controllers, you know that that'll shut down. Like they give you this apocalyptic scenario,

and that's pretty effective at scaring a lot of my colleagues. Enough of them, and then the Democrats as well, they love more spending and big omnibus bills, so that's how they get a majority in the House of Representatives to go for the omnibus bill every year, and it's like groundhog Day. And

I decided last year, let's change the rules of the game. So when they wanted to raise the debt limit, I said, okay, if you want to want this to go through Rules Committee, which I serve on now regards us the weather, I vote for this thing when it gets to the floor or not. If you want it to go through the Rules Committee so it can get to the floor, then you have to add a provision which says all of government discretionary spending will be cut by one percent if six months

from now you're still doing CRS. Okay, now here's the It was my plan. So you know, I may think it's more brilliant than it is, but let me explain what's happening now. If they do a CR that goes past April thirtieth, all of government gets cut one percent, yes, and yes, all of discretionary. And I know people who are listening say one percent, you need to cut it, ten percent, you need to cut it thirty percent, and they're right. But Joe Biden has signed that

one percent cut into law. So here's what gives us the high ground of Speaker Johnson will use it. If we just merely put a CR on the table for the rest of the year, the Democrats have to vote for that. How can they argue against a bill that basically just cut copy paste Nancy Pelosi spending from last year to this year. I mean, we could basically just be carbon copying their last budget. That's what a CR is. So they would have to vote for it. But when April thirtieth comes, everything

would get cut one percent. And not because we have to put anything special in this CR. It's because they've already agreed to it last summer as a condition of getting the debt limit bill through the Rules Committee that I serve on. So it's not forty chess, it's just checkers thinking six months ahead. And we are almost to that point where you get that one percent cut, and Joe Biden can't go on TV and say this is austerity, this is

evil because he signed it into law last summer. Now, what I'm afraid they'll do, and what I know they're planning to do if we can't stop them, is they're planning to do an omnibus this month, this coming month, in March and they're planning to spend somewhere around sixty billion dollars more than Nancy Pelosi spent in the biggest budget she ever passed. Wow, and we control the House. We should not be doing that. The reason they want

to do that is they're afraid of the Senate. But I'm making my case to Speaker Johnson and their people in Ohio represented in Ohio like Warren Davidson and Jim Jordan who are making the same case to Speaker Johnson with me, that in order to gain the high ground, we should let them throw us in that briar patch, do the continuing Resolution and wait for the one percent cut

to kick in in April. And then at that point they are going to squeal, They're going to squirm, and there and there will be willing to negotiate for policy the things that we need to get done in America, like securing the border. Uh So, But and then if they don't agree to secure the border, then they get everything cut one percent and they get zero ear marks, no ear marks. Well, this sounds like a wonderful plan. Finally, there is a plan that has some some semblance of fiscal responsibility.

Tom, You're swimming. You're swimming with a with minnows a term you coin a majority majority in name only? Why now we know? We know that the Democrats are populated by leftist and Marxists who you know, don't really have the interest of their constituents at heart generally, or they'll they'll sell it that way, but the results say differently. Republicans, on the other hand, seem clueless as what to do when they have a leadership role. And

it seems that way again. And as your listeners are probably familiar with the term rhino, we have lots of rhinos in Washington, d C. Republican and know him only. But I coined this term mino a couple of weeks ago because I just feel like we're the Jordy and name only at this point. You know, when Nancy Pelosi's in the majority, she gets the Democrats to jump through hoops like poodles. They line up and do the thing. We are having a hard time getting any kind of consensus in the House,

But you know, I don't. Mike Johnson, our speaker, was put in a difficult situation. I do not think we should have changed horses in the middle of the stream. I don't think we should have vacated Kevin McCarthy when we did, because, frankly, he was working on the twelve separate bills. He helped me get this one percent cut into law as a condition of the debt limit increase. He was thinking ahead, and then they took him, shot him out of the saddle. So now we've got Mike Johnson

who doesn't have the tools to keep the majority in line. You know, when the speaker becomes a speaker at the beginning of a Congress, there are people who feel indebted to him because he helped them win their elections. There are people who feel indebted to him because he put them on certain committees that he could take them off of. There is none of that allegiance that exists

right now. You're saying, you're saying he doesn't have leverage. He doesn't have a carrot, and he doesn't and he's not willing to use the stick, and so he has no leverage. I've heard, I've heard the man speak, and I have immense respect for him, especially as a believing Christian and some of the things that he's put forth and kind of stood fast. But you're right, if he cannot leave from a speaker's position because he doesn't have the carrit or the stick. Then I get your point absolutely well.

And here's just an example of a couple of things that have happened as a consequence of that. We were going to reform the FISA program. That's a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. That's the program that's supposed to be used to spy on foreigners without a warrant. But they've figured out a way. They think it's a legal loophole. I think they're running through the constitution. Though they running over the constitution. They have used this Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to survive

to surveil Americans without using a warrant. And so Jim Jordan made this a priority to fix in our Judiciary Committee. I now serve on that committee with Jim Jordan. We put a warrant provision in that program, and we wanted to bring that bill to the floor. The Intel Committee, which is actually chaired by another Ohioan, Mike Turner, Yeah, disagreed with this. They

said, no, take the warrant provision out and we'll put that. We'll put the FISA bill on the floor and then you guys vote on whether to put the war you can have a vote of the whole House of Representatives on whether to put the warrant provision back in. Well, that feels a little bit putting the Constitution in jeopardy, but we agreed to those terms of engagement. This was a couple of weeks ago. We were going to bring the

bill to the floor. We was coming through the Rules committee that I serve on, and the Intel Committee just said, we're going to take the whole bill down if you bring this to the floor. So they threatened to basically shut everything down, and so instead of bringing the bill to the floor,

we ended Congress early. Mike Johnson said, Okay, we're done, no more things to vote on, and we went home early right before this latest recess without having taken up that warrant provision because basically, Mike Turner and some of the other Intel Committee folks just threatened to shut the whole process down if we proceeded even on the rules of engagement parliamentary engagement that they had demanded.

So what was what was the reason that Mike Turner, for example, didn't want to take the the warrant thing out of the Explain that to me again. Well, why why Mike Turner doesn't want to have the warrant in there? Yeah, and why didn't want to still allow to have a vote on whether to put the warrant in the warrant requirement in there, right because they want the status quo. The the Intel Committee is responsible for oversight over CIA

NSA outwardly directed Intel just activities. The Fights of program falls under the jurisdiction of the Intel Committee and the Judiciary of Committee, and we are responsible for the intelligence operations that are directed at civilians. In other words, the FBI and the Intel Committee, frankly, they're over writing their jurisdiction. They're trying to legislate in an area where they don't have jurisdiction. Want that because the

FBI has their ear on the Intel Committee. They're supposed to be doing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the Executive Branch, but I feel like they are captured by the Intelligence agency. It sounds like the FBI is doing oversight on the Oversight Committee. Yes, yes, yes, I wanted to ask you

someone we're talking to, Thomas Massey. By the way, real quick, if we had a police officer and everybody's living room, we'd all be safer, but we agree that's not how we want to live in this country.

Hell no, all right, Tom, you you caught flak on previous funding measures for for not supporting Israel. Can you tell me about foreign aid and what's going on in the in the in the Congress and why this has been so contentious and why you have been against this foreign aid because I again, you're you're championing things that I believe in too, so I appreciate it, but just explain yourself on this on Ukraine and Israel specifically. Sure. So,

we've we've probably had two dozen votes on Israel. I'm sorry, let me do Israel. Second, we probably had two dozen votes on Ukraine. Yeah, and I have voted no on every one of those. That is not our conflict. The Europeans, if they cared, they need to fund that. Uh. And I've just been against it. Even before the war started, I was against it. And so by the way, we can't afford it. You can't. This is the other thing. You can't balance

the budget and send tens of billions of dollars overseas. And now we're at the point in Ukraine where we're not just paying for the lethal aid. We are paying pensions for government retired government workers in the country of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government. Why Why Because because this whole war has devastated their entire economy so much and hollowed out their coffers, that they don't have money to pay the pensions of the people who've retired from their own government. So why There

is no good reason. I'm just telling what's happening, all right, So let's let's let's do let's do Israel. Yeah, So what they've decided now is, you know, typically we've spend about it's about three point eight billion dollars a year to Israel. They received more financial aid from the United States than any other country right now that we're out of Afghanistan used to be Afghanistan, but Israel's the number one recipient of US four and eight. I'm not

particularly for that. I've never been for foreign aid to any country. This year, there was that three billion dollars in our own defense funding, so and I voted for our own defense bill, even though I disagreed with some of the things in it when it was one of twelve separate bills. Right, Okay, But they've decided that now instead of three point eight billion, they need fourteen billion, which became seventeen billion, and Speaker Johnson had a

plan to pay for it. He's gone offset from this extra money that goes to IRS. I did not vote for the seventeen billion, but it did make it through the House with that offset. Now they're trying to remove the offset and just send them the money with no concept of how that's going to be offset anywhere in the budget right And something that I learned a few weeks

ago that really made me mad. And I learned this in a briefings public knowledge, so it's not classified, but I just don't think anybody's reported on it. Our small arms manufacturers are ready to send AR fifteen's to the people who are most vulnerable in Israel, and our government is stopping that transfer from

happening because they don't want the people of Israel to have firearms. And so the fourteen or seventeen billion dollars of additional money that's in addition to the three point eight that's in our own defense bill, because to Israel, that additional money is all for things that raytheon Lockheed Martin and Boeing by this is to enrich the military industrial complex, which they now call the Defense Industrial Base. Sure enough, some of that money will come back to Ohio and Kentucky and

your listeners in Indiana. But that is not it's not sustainable. It's not all of the money. And then it's ultimately getting drained and going overseas, and if it's in the case of munitions, it's being blown up. Finally, finally, Thomas, I'm just I'm just I'm just go ahead, please finish, just to close that out. The attack that you saw Hamas do on Israel is despicable, but you weren't going to stop that with these things that you buy from Raytheon. You need it. You needed small arms.

You need soldiers on the border and a better wall and being prepared for it right, uh, real quickly. But I'm sorry, time's so short, man, and we don't have a uh too many chances to talk, but uh on the border. Joe Biden said two weeks ago that there's nothing he can do. He's done everything he can. It's up to Congress. He needs more and more and more money, of course. And now and most people like me and you who have paid attention over the years and know how

the government works and what an executive can do. He could have just undone what he did on day one when he when he got into the uh he got into the Oval office yea, and reverted back to Donald Trump's policies on the border, and we not we would not have seen this invasion at all. And now he's correct. Now he's talking about uh, you know, well, maybe I'll just use my executive fen to sign Well, Joe, why didn't you do that three years ago? Yeah, the remain in Mexico

policy. There's three other different policies that he could implement that he just fails to do. And you know what he wants. What I worry he's going to use the extra money for is just to process more of these claims quicker and bring them into the country quicker yep. Or to give bunny to NGOs who are actually helping them in their in their travel through Mexico. Oh, the n g os you mean the cartel's partners. Yes, their partners,

they're partners. Yes, all those good charities who are partnering with the illegal uh human human smuggling, drug smuggling cartels. Answer, that's great here and if and if you don't believe any of that. Here, here's the best evidence he's insincere when he says that he can't do anything. The one thing he is doing is taking down what Texas has tried to erect to keep the illegal aliens from overrunning taxes. Exactly he did. That's how you know he's

in sincere. And he says he can't do anything because the thing he is actively doing is trying to let them in. By the way, we could address that problem in the next spending bill, whether it's an omnibus or whether it's twelve separate bills, or whether it's a cr All you need is one sentence that says, none of the money hereby appropriated to the executive branch can be used to disassemble barriers erected on the border by the States. Thomas Massy,

thank you very much. I love your one sentence bills too. Take care. Thomas Massey from the fourth Congressional District in Kentucky, my representative on

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you're a marketer, go to iHeart results dot Com. At Sharmon, we hired just shouldn't talk about going to the bathroom in public, so we decided to thing about it when you're rolling Showman thre WLW. One thing I enjoyed doing every once in a while on this program is to re air interviews that I conducted over the years with the late and I truly mean Great low Ponte. He was a great writer, thinker, He was a fantastic man. He was a personal friend of mine, and when he passed at well just

before twenty twenty three, it was a definite blow. But I'll always be grateful to God that he allowed me the chance to get to know Loll Ponte, who was also somewhat of a prophet. Let's listen to an interview from January tenth, twenty twenty two. As my wife Chris to two point zero is being tucked into bed right now or hereabouts, she loves to listen to Lowell's voice. So honeysweet dreams here once again, an interview with the Great

Loll Ponte on the Nightcap. Welcome back into the Nightcap. And because you asked for it, well somebody did. Maybe it was me who asked for it, because I asked for it. A full hour of Ponte power pontification from the highest level, from one of the best sources I could think of, or somebody who will actually talk to me still, the Great Loll Ponte, author and racconteur, longtime editor and columnist, and my friend Loll Ponte

joins us for the entire eleven o'clock hour on tonight's night Cap. Good evening, mister Ponte, what a pleasure to be here as always, well, you know, and I can never come up with a magnanimous enough intro for you, so I'm just reaching looking for, you know, higher and higher levels of worship and kudos that you deserve definitely, So that's another reason. Now, well, the challenge. The challenge is just to settle on a topic and do a lot of research on it, that's all. And you

have definitely demonstrated the ability to do that. And thank goodness you have because because I really don't have that kind of time. Well, somebody has to

do it, especially if they're bored and aging. But the challenge in this case, this is an amazing day in America because finally we have a definitive document from a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Luke Montaignier, winner of the two thousand and eight Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and he is concluding now that while people are debating should we be forced to take the vaccine or not, he has found that in the case of the Pfizer and the MODERNA vaccines,

that they lose essentially all their positive ability to hold back COVID after about thirty days. Wow, And that after thirty days, by ninety days, this is the part you would find especially endearing. After ninety days, you actually, if you have taken the vaccine, have a greater risk of coming

down with COVID than if you had not taken the vaccine's doing so. It actually, it actually is a pandemic event that Biden and company used to talk about, you know, that would spread disease, or that doctor Fauci and the philosophy of Faucism was teaching, if you have a Christmas party, you have created an event potentially that could spread the disease. Well, it now turns out that taking the vaccine may spread the disease. And this is from

a Nobel laureate scientist. Yeah, he's not exactly a slouch, and he's not a YouTube troll giving misinformation to the masses, even though I'm sure that at Facebook or whatever it now calls itself or Twitter or like they are, we have nineteen year old student radicals who know nothing about life or science willing to censor this Nobel laureate scientists because he is not following the party line. But even the party line has been bending of late, the party line on

disease. According to the head of the CDC, Rachel Wolinski, she admitted a day or two ago that seventy five percent of COVID deaths were people with four or more co morbidities such as old age, obesity, diabetes, other problems such as cancer and cancer chemotherapy. So, in other words, these

people are not really dying of COVID per se. In three out of four cases, they're dying of a combination of maladies, any one of which could have killed them, but they just so happened to be positive for COVID nineteen of the stars COVID two a coronavirus. Well, as you and I have discussed though in the past, the government from the beginning the bureaucracy was offering money incentives to any hospital in New York. It was at least three thousand

dollars per hospital. In Montana, one hospital was offered up to four hundred thousand dollars for every case that they attributed to COVID and put that on the death certificate. So there was a tremendous financial incentive. You know, we're talking about a condition where For example, let's look at New York University's Langne

Hospital as a sample for the nation. One of their chief physicians and experts on COVID admitted in a Fox interview a few days ago, and I'm saying, like, no later than a more recent than Friday, maybe and maybe no, it would have been Friday. But she acknowledged that at least sixty five percent of the people they had hospitalized with COVID in fact, were hospitalized for some reason other than COVID. And as we know, this incentive was

quite powerful. They were documented cases of people who died of motorcycle crashes who when their body was dragged to the hospital, was found to have some degree of COVID infection. There was a case of murder suicide famously in Grand County, Colorado, where a husband shot his wife and shot himself and they were both listed as COVID nineteen deaths by the state examiner or whomever, yes, or as a Bill Clinton political consultant put it, you drank one hundred dollars

through a trailer park, and it's amazing what you can pick up. So the government was raging thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars through hospitals, and it was amazing how many deaths they could attribute to COVID that way. Well, people who are listening to this, lol, because it becomes very personal if someone you know has died and the cause of death is listed as COVID and they obviously had a respiratory infection, whether it's COVID or not.

In many cases certainly it could be. And they hear this logic and sense being doled out by people who have more pedigree to know what's going on than you and I, and they still go, well, my mother passed of COVID and it's not pleasant and it's not good. In other words, their emotions get in the way because of their personal experience of the actual facts and what this actually is, don't they. I'm not saying that COVID did not

influence no their relatives having a tragic death. I mean, obviously COVID is not a nice disease, except in its current form, where it's more like the common cold, running nose and a sore throat. Yeah, but for instance, we had what last Friday, was it, Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor declaring that there were at least one hundred thousand children in American hospitals, many of them on ventilators, she declared, and all on the verge of

dyne. The CDC actually debunks what she said. The fact sector and said, no, this is not anywhere close to correct. What are you talking about, lady, Well, let me do their own exact statistics. Yes, for disease Control said at the moment SODO mayor spoke. According to their statistics, there were three thousand, seven hundred hundred young people, not one hundred thousand young people. And this is in the country of it more than

three hundred and thirty million people. And if their own director's analysis is correct, we are likely looking at in the death risk anyway, three quarters of those who are severely infected suffering from a series of comorbidities, any one of which could be the cause of death. Well, we've not been honest too about one of those co morbidities that has been associated with a good mini listed

COVID nineteen deaths, and that is gross obesity. We have a problem in this country saying that people are overweight, or you know, to use the most common term fat, which of course has been poo. Food is politically incorrect, And you can't call anyone fat, you can't fat shame anyone. But it is true that one of the populations that has mostly been severely affected by this infection lull. They all have that in common is gross obesity.

And no, but you made a very important point there, as you so often do, Gary Jiff, and that is we are now told by the politically correct that you cannot fat shame people. That's another way of saying you cannot bring peer pressure on them to lose weight, to stop eating as much as they eat. Now, an extremely obese person, I suppose has the right to be obese. You might get one of those cable television shows where you talk about you and your sister each weigh in a thousand pounds. I've

seen the promos. Wonderful. I've never watched that once, but I've seen the promos and I was just like, a really okay, people are into this apparently. Point is the politically correct are enablers of obesity because they attack those who would fat shame people who would encourage them not to be as fat

as they are. That is a kind of peer pressure that in that case might be beneficial, but they are not allowed to apply that peer pressure because it's so wrong to do that, even if it may cost the person's life. So you can decide for yourself. The Biden administration, at the same time it plays these games, is actively supporting the left point of view that one must not In fact, I imagine there's even an office at the CDC

which has recently issued a directory of language you should not use. I'm sure that includes language that constitutes fat shaming. So they're prohibiting people from actually using the problem that Biden himself is facilitating death from COVID by not put any pressure

on people who were overweight. Yeah, and then instead, you know, trying to force them to get the jab in their arm, which, as you mentioned at the top of this conversation, may actually increase the likelihood of you getting the disease as a fully vaccinated and boosted person, at least through

the Pfizer and the Madonna Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. As a footnote, we should add one proviso here, and that is the government, including the CDC in company, years ago, issued its conclusion that eating fat was bad for your health, and so the food industry promptly sought out other ways of making the food it was selling palatable and what did it choose, Well, it gave you no fat or low fat food, but food with higher levels of sugar in it. Not good because diabetic like imbalances, and of

course diabet diabetes is one of those potential mortalities. Yeah. Co morbidities with COVID, yes, no morbidities yes. So as a result, we are seeing that the government encouraged the changeover from fat, which it turns out is actually quite good for you. I mean, when you call someone a fat head, that could be a compliment because about a third of your entire brain is fat. I mean, fat is essential to health. So if you're if you eat, if you were eating someone's brain, it might be delicious

because of all the fat. I might also give you kuru. The disease from New Guinea that is like the slow disease in American deer and other thing. It's like the Great Beef slow disease that people were panicked over the way, the mad cow disease. Yeah, the Jacops Crutchfeled disease, an article about which I wrote and readers digest so well. I'm I could remember things

easily, I could discourse. I do I do. I do appreciate you bringing that to my attention, but I thought you did it specifically because you thought I might want to eat a human brain. I have no desire. Well, I'm reassured and deeply jumported by learning that in any event, we have this challenge. Oh, by the way, so the mayor, I think, if you have a Supreme Court justice as wrong as she was, as wrong as Briar was in his similar panic. See, this is one

thing that's very common on the left. Researchers have found if you ask a leftist how many people are at risk of dying over of this this COVID disease, they will answer fifty percent, sixty percent, whatever, when in fact, a miniscule fraction of one percent of the population on average is at risk of dying theoretically, and among children, among people say under twenty years of age, the risk is essentially zero. And yet we have this obsession with

forcing young people. It's down to age two now that they're pushing forward, amazing, it will soon insists on disgusting your child while it's still in the womb. It's disgusting well, especially since the vaccine may in fact cause the disease or may cause variance of it. And it's the variants that are now

a major problem for us. This Nobel laureent you quoted, this Nobel Prize winner in Physical and Health that you mentioned at the top, Who said, who made this claim about the vaccines actually making it more likely you could contract the COVID infection afters did he give any specific reason? What was a specific reason this was occurring. I've heard of something called immuological confusion that these spike protein vaccines, like the ones that are out now may cause in a human

body. Well, I don't recall the term he used, but what it amounts to is, if you create an ata body to a virus that's in your body, the virus will respond by endeavoring to mutate, because after all, the virus wants to live, yes, And as a result, mutation of the virus is speeded up by that process. Now, if you had natural immunity, if you had caught the disease and your body responded, your body responds with all kinds of different antibodies, so the virus faces a challenge,

can be killed or driven out. But if you are only dealing with the spike protein as these modern modern aphis or vaccines do. Then the virus simply finds a way around that, sure, and as a result you wind up with a significantly different virus. The general tendency in natural virus is to become more infectious but less lethal, And this too is part of the logic. You know, if not all parasites and virus do act like parasites in the human body, not all are as dumb as missiletoe, which is quite

capable of killing the tree that it has built a home on. Now, of course the tree dies, then you die, right as the missilete. So normally the pattern of a virus is to become less lethal. You don't want to kill the host ideally, and so you mutate in a direction that's more infectious, that can spread faster, but that is less deadly. And that now is for the most part, what we're seeing. The exception.

Course, we're plunging into winter, and every year as we plunge into winter, there are more covid like diseases, common colds and the like that strike us because we tend to go indoors with other people lol. Lol. Last week, I'm listening to the top of the hour news, which I rarely do anymore, even on our station, and the announcer the newscasters said, there are almost as many cases as there were last year at this time. Well, imagine that just exactly what you're saying, what you're pointing out,

it's a seasonal endemic. Now it's not a pandemic anymore. It's an endemic, and the omicron proves that. And more and more people are professional doctor people, researchers are saying this very exactly. But if Joe Biden gets his way, and if millions more are mass vaccinated, that will accelerate the creation of variants which could be much more serious. Absolutely, listen, Lowel, we got to take a break for the half hour news. You will come

back right, absolutely wonderful. Lowell Ponte is our guest. This is the nightcap more right after the eleven thirty news, which is coming up on seven hundred WLW. Fellas, if you've been feeling tired, grumpy, maybe notice a lack of motivation, drive into another hour on seven hundred WLW, Gary, Jeff Walker back, which you and I got to tell you of all the key landmark guests that we've had in this program. This guy's been one of the more impactful on me, and he will from the truth in the

data that he has brought out. He is the executive director of the CO two Coalition, a geologist, the author of Inconvenient Facts several years ago, which was a multiple times best selling book on climate and the actual data, the scientific data on climate, and now A very Convenient Warming, his latest book, How Modest Warming and more CO two are benefiting humanity. CO two is not a poison. It's necessary, folks, time to listen up and

listen to the actual truth. And that's what's come out of the UN or the WEF or any of these other places where their scientific research has been bolstered by lots of money, people who have an agenda, my opinion, to push a certain narrative, which is, you know, man is killing the planet, fossil fuels are killing the planet. This just does not, simply,

this does not seem to be true at all. If you look at the data that Greg writes, Stone and his other cohorts and the references in this book will show you plainly if you don't have it and you have questions, and as Greg says, Greg, I got to tell you I was talking with someone else who was kind of on the side of the facts and not a side of the climate cult or agenda that's being pushed. You're a strong proponent too, of the scientific process. The caller said, well,

why don't you just show both sides. When did protecting the planet become political? And I said, well, the other side is on display all the time, this side is not, and you are a proponent of that. Let both sides be fairly heard. So in an effort to do just that, we have got you back. Greg Writestone, Good evening and welcome back

to the show. Yeah, you're right. The other side, those that are promoting this false theory, as it turns out, of man made than climate catastrophe, just they get they get their message promoted twenty four to seven by the mainstream media. While we are silenced. Those of us with we call ourselves climate royalists, they'll call us science denials. Nothing to be further from the truth. So thank you for having me on. I appreciate it.

Well, the science denial is actually coming from the other side that's calling us climate deniers or science deniers, and it's it's all bast backwards, just from the the information that you brought forth and many many other sources are now you know, starting to a little bit come around anyway, First, go ahead, what'd you have? I say, we'll just get into it here.

I know you want to talk about historical data and human history. And so when we do talk about be thinking about this, they call us a science denial and I'm a scientists, but I would call them history redni ers because when we look at actual history, it doesn't conform at all with what

their contentions of unusual and unprecedented warming. Well from the data that is on display in your book of very Convenient Warming, I want to before we get to human and what humanity has been benefited from over time, whether it's warming or cooling, the correlation of which there is no correlation for three hundred and sixty years. I'm looking at this chart here, page forty four, Figure

thirty two between temperature global temperature and atmospheric CO two parts per million. One of the things that is always pushed by the other side of this issue, Greg, is that the warming temperatures increase the CO two levels in the atmosphere, and that just is simply not true if you look at the actual data between temperatures and the carbon dioxide in points parts per million in our atmosphere. Right, I'm looking at this, that's right, And we can in the

book I capture how it's incorrect that CO two is driving temperature increases. Whether it's looked on tens of years, hundreds thousands, or millions of years, there's just there's just no correlation between it. In fact, in many cases it's just been the opposite. We know over the last eight hundred thousand years,

actually temperature was driving carbon dioxide levels. That's changed all since the middle of the twentieth century because we started adding huge amounts of CO too, thankfully to the atmosphere, and so so now this increase in CO two is from

our burning the fossil fuels. Prior to that last eight hundred thousand years, has temperature increased to cause the oceans to increase, and in the oceans when they increase, they expel CO two kind of You can imagine if you take a lead container of ginger ale pulled out of the bridge it barely yes, here will go off. Put that out in August on your picnic table in

the sun and open it up. Man. I think I'll go off like a volcano because the liquids are expelling it like you dropped a Mento's tablet into it just expas. Yeah. So, in this particular chapter, and I don't know if it's a chapter, it's a part two of a chapter. Humanity and Climate is a title Blessed Warmth Horrific Cold And you start by saying, are we destined for the catastrophe of a climate apocalypse due to an unnaturally

warming climate? Or do the prognosticators of doom have it exactly backwards? Might a warming planet bring great bounty? This section will examine the historical consequences of past warming and cooling to find out if the Earth and human kind suffered or benefited from temperature increases over the last several thousand years. A problem right now is that a lot of a lot of younger generations in our society think that the earth began when they were born, and they're sadly mistaken, as you

talk about them, lacking any historical context for what has happened. Let's start with the early human history, going back to about five thousand BC. What does the data actually show you. Well, if we start with the first great civilizations, they first arose and profited and bloomed. The great empires and civilizations was up the first and in a really warm period called the Minoan Warm

Period. It coincided with the Bronze Age, and so we had the Assyrians, the Hittites, the Babylonians in the Indus River valley was the Corpas Empire that we may never have heard of that, but they were a huge empire in India, in the subcontinent there, China, Egypt, and then it was much much warmer than it is today. Oh no, I'm looking at the chart. It's it's like about almost ten to five to seven to eight degrees warmer Celsius on average during the Manolan Warm period. Yeah, I liked.

I like to use historical data. People understand that the graph you're looking at was was called proxy data, and they use oxygen isotopes to do it. But people don't understand that, but they do understand historical references. Like if I tell them that they were growing a crop called millet and Scandinavia, it's only grown in subtropical climate, so it had to we know it had

to be a lot warmer at that time because of things like that. Just global historically records of where they were growing, what kind of crops, and it was people prospered, great empires arose, and then it started getting cold, and it got cold quickly, and all of these great civilizations, with the exception of the ancient Egyptian Empire, and they barely survived by the skin of their teeth. All of these empires within they think fifty or one hundred

years, all collapsed and it was related to this cooling effect. And what we see every time it got cool colder, we had crop failure, crop failure, famine, pestilence, and nasty population. These were horrific times, the cold periods, and it really that led to what was called the Greek Dark Ages, where we really don't know a whole lot about it because all

these great empires and civilizations and the scribes kind of went away. It was masty population and things didn't really recover in terms of civilization and empires until the Roman warm period again christ two thousand years ago. Uh, the Romans were growing citrus in the north of England. Life was good again. The Roman empire and in its army marched on its stomach and there the supplier for Rome was North Africa, Egypt, Tunisia. We hardly think of them as the

bread basket for the world today, but at that time they were. And then again there are a lot of reasons why the Roman Empire collapsed. Uh we think that temperature and the cooling was part of that, and it could have driven the Germanic peoples come that came down the increasing cold could have driven them south into the u to take over parts of the Roman Empire. But again when after that, it was the Dark Age as a cool period with

again crop failure, famine, pestilence, and nasty population. And then the final warm period before our own was the Medieval warm time period. Again warm, life was good, was bountiful. And then the last cooling period was the Little Ice Age, and it was thought to be with pretty good evidence it was likely the coldest period of the last ten thousand years. This period in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and we know that again from historic record.

Just for example, I'm calling you from Arlington, Virginia, in just eighteen miles south of where I am. Martha and George Washington lived in Mount Vernon and Martha loved ice in her summertime, drinks so George constructed an ice house and they he would have his slaves and servants down cut the thick ice out of the Potomac River every winter, and they bring it up in June

August marth they had icebur drinks. Well, the last time the Potomac even froze over much less that's solid, was some twenty five years ago, so we know we know it was a lot colder at that period. Again from historical data and the current period of modest warming that we're experiencing right now. And by the way, the CO two levels in our atmosphere are not historically

high now either, but that's not necessary. That's not necessarily a good thing, because the more CO two in the atmosphere up to a point, the more the planet animals, plants, human beings flourish. Yeah, it's we're at four hundred and twenty parts per million. I'm not going to throw a lot of numbers at you, but that's that's fifty that's a fifty percent increase

since the Industrial Revolution began. And that's a good thing because the historical historic levels throughout our history was twenty six hundred, which is six and a half times what we are today, if we look at it in the big picture, we find out that our current carbon dioxide levels, we're actually CO two impoverished. We don't have too much CO two, we don't have enough plants

will evolved needing these higher levels of CO two. So even at today's higher CO two rates than it was one other fifty years ago, it's still not high enough for optimal plant growth. And in fact, at four to twenty if you have a marijuana greenhouse, you'll you'll talk to these guys. They buy canisters of CO two because they want they want that pot growing. And it's just not pot in marijuana, it's it's greenhouses that grow tomatoes and everything

else. They add CO two, they usually take it up to about twelve hundred parts per million, which is three times as much as what we are today, And plants would still benefit at even higher levels, but it becomes a cost benefit that they have. You know, it gets too expensive getting too much CO two. The plants even can grow fast or even in exceeding

twelve hundred parts per million, three times where it is today. Plus and here's the thing is that when these CO two levels rise, and the the best awkwards part about this greg that we referred to at the beginning of our interview was that the other side, the climate cultists who are claiming we need to capture CO two so it doesn't go into the atmosphere, they are actually

doing everyone and the planet a disservice. When do they talk about trapping CO two coming out of the back ends of cows, or you know, capturing CO two out of the ground or out of the ocean to make sure it's none of that nasty stuff is in our atmosphere. The fact of the matter is we could use more and not less, and CO two is not pollution. You're right, we just I just got back from Wyoming. I spent four days, five days actually in Wyoming touring the state. We are late

this report. It's Wyoming and climate change. Carbon dioxide should be celebrated, not captured. And this was a response to Republican Governor Mark Gordon's proposal to decarbonize the West. And he's teamed up, believe or not, with Doug Burgham and the South Dakota Governor Christy Noom. They're all teaming up because they think there's too much CO two and they're going to capture it. They want to decarbonize the West. But they're so misled, and so we wrote this

report and we looked at what's actually happening in Wyoming. We find that although temperature since eighteen ninety five has increased a little bit, it's mainly being driven by an increase in the coldest nighttime temperatures, which is good. I mean, it gets really cold in January and February Wyoming at night. And what this does with these warming nighttime temperatures means that growing seasons are lengthened. And

we can see that. I documented my book that the growing season the continentaly the United States has increased by more than two weeks since nineteen hundred, So we have killing frosts and earlier in the spring arrived later in the fall. If you're growing an apple orchard or you have apple trees in your backyard, what do you fear the most. It's a late spring killing frost that will just wipe you out for the year. Because of this warming, we have

more crop productivity. So we've got these things all turbocharging crop productivity and again in the brook a very convenient warming. I look at the top eight crops in the world by tonage produced to find that they're each one have been breaking records year after year after year, and this in spite of like global increase in temperature. So did you have a chance to talk with Wyomings governor or Doug Burr Room or Christine Nome while you were out west? Do you have

an audience now or a connection with them? But we did testify before the Wyoming Senate Agriculture Committee. I spoke at two community colleges and the University of Wyoming, all warmly received. People just thirsty for this information, and so it was it was great. I had a chance to tour the Black Thunder coal mine, the largest coal mine in the United States, very impressive,

along with the gigantic shovel of the largest of the world. And we toured a coal fired electricity generation station, Dry Fork Station in Gillette, and it was it's really impressive and they were in full operation and their stacks you couldn't even see anything coming out the top because the only thing coming out the top of that stack was carbon dioxide, the miracle molecule that's hugely beneficial in water vapor and so it's it's clean technology. They're calling carbon dioxide in a pollutant.

But it's just as not. It's again we call it the miracle molecule. Have you done any research, Greg, And we've just got a short time now on man made chemicals that are polluting the atmosphere and are harmful. Oh sure, you can. Just a Google search of EPA and pollution, those two words and you'll get the EPA's study of the top eight real pollutants, not co two real pollutants like knox socks, particulate matter. They've all

been in a fifty year significant decline and they've pretty much flattened out. Although they've because it's been our air is so plain. Now they're going instead of determining parts per million, they're going, now, well we want to reduce it down to parts per billion. And it's giving the very last This is really expensive, been probably unmed it's a but no, our air and our water are cleaner today than they've probably been for more than one hundred and fifty

years. If you remember, you know Lake Erie was a toxic mass with the three rivers in Pittsburgh were horrific. The Cauihoga River caught on fire for crying out loud. Well, even the Ohio River at a time, you know, not so long ago, fifty sixty years ago, was not in the situation it is now. That runs right through downtown Cincinnati. It's much cleaner than it used to be. Of course, its origin there is. It is at the point in Pittsburgh the Ohio River that's the confluence of the

Alleghany and the Monongalia. Again, it was so polluted, nothing lived there. Today they're having bass master bass competitions every summer there because it's so clean, and it's that that's what we should treasure that. That's a really good thing. We should be proud of that. Well, we'll leave it with this Greg for you the listener. It's late at night, and if you're

ready to bed down, you can sleep well. There is no climate crisis, correct, Amen, brother, Amen, A very convenient warming from Gregory Wrightstone, executive director of the CO two Coalition, once again a guest on the program. And thank you again for all the great data and information Greg, to set some things straight. I appreciate it. Thanks so much. You bet. It's the night Camp and it rolls on in minutes on seven hundred Wlwad Doscinnati, author of A very Convenient warming get to the CO two

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eleven o'clock. I'm Lee Mawen News Radio seven hundred WLW, seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, available everywhere with the iHeartRadio app now number one for podcasting seven hundred WLW and iHeart Radio station. I'm getting vaccinated with me back into the Nightcap on this Monday evening. And we have the author of the Traveler's Guide for Gun Owners in all fifty States. And if I botch the title,

I'm sure he'll correct me. He is from out of Covington. I believe his name is Scott Kappus, and he is a proud American, a proud Second Amendment advocate and our guest. Hey man, thanks for being on the show, Scott. Yeah. I thought with an introduction like that, I'd like to make a can that and use it in future future additions. Because that was great. I appreciate it very much. All right, So what's

the official title of this guide that you put out every year? You were very close The Traveler's Guide to the Fire arm laws of the fifty States, all right, And this is important for gun owners from people who are exercising their Second Amendment as they travel from state to state, because well, our federal Constitution says we have the right to own and bear arms, and that

right shall not be infringed. There are states who dance around that. Different states dance around that Second Amendment, and some are pretty creative in their tap dancings. The state of New York is one I know for sure that doesn't understand the spirit or the intent of the Second Amendment, or at least their governor, Kathy Hochel doesn't. And even though they lose in court cases with their absurd gun laws, they find ways to skirt around them, and they

did that with the latest, the Bruin case, I believe. But if you will tell me which states are the freest when it comes to upholding the Second Amendments, God, well, we have quite a few in the southeast and the Rocky Mountain West. I'd say Kentucky as very good as is Ohio. Ohio used to be not quite as free, and over the last ten years, through efforts like Buckeye Firearms Association, they have May Ohio a very good state for guns, as is Indiana. And if you go through the

southeast, most of your southeastern states are good. The southwest, the Northeast seaboard is probably the worst. And you mentioned New York, and it's kind

of funny because what you said it frames it perfectly. The Supreme Court said that New York's way of issuing permits was completely contrary to the Constitution, and instead of accepting that and saying, Okay, we've got to get our situation here in line with what the Constitution says, they say, okay, fine, we'll issue permits on a shell issue basis, which basically means there's no sheriff intervention. If you qualify along the preset line of qualifications, you will

receive the permit. Instead of simply doing that and leaving it as is, they said, fine, we'll issue permits, but we're going to ban carry in just about every public area. So you went from basically having restrictive permits

and relatively free carry. Once you got your New York permit, there weren't a lot of places that were off limits to where now, yeah, you can get a permit in New York without having to know somebody locally, but they essentially ban carry in quite a few public areas to where it makes it almost impossible to carry anywhere. Now they're challenging this in court. It's going

to probably go back to the Supreme Court. But it's an example of where even if you win at the Supreme court level, the state that doesn't like guns is going to find some way to circumvent that. And you know, their attitude is, hey, it's your tax money, we're going to use it against you, and if you don't like it, move out of the state. And I think that the local governor said the same thing a few weeks ago. She said that, you know, basically she wanted everybody didn't

agree with her to move move south. And of course that's what's happening New York and California. You're both losing population. They are hemorrhaging people both states. Yes they are, and it's because of policies like that. And of course when you tell people if they're not wanted, and that's even worse. It's like it used to be, theocrats would at least try their best to convince everybody. Now it's almost like they write off half the population and say,

hey, you don't like it. We don't care. We're just going to import some more voters and run over you with whatever we can run over you with. And you know, I've always told people this, there's no such thing as a blue state. You've essentially got red states with big blue cities. If you look at New York, New York, most of it is red. Western New York is just like Kentucky, Ohio in terms of the people and their attitudes. But the problem is the five boroughs of New

York City. They've got twice as many people as the rest of the states. So they're going to control the politics, and they're going to make it one one hell of a bad place to live. And finally people are realizing that and they're moving out, But unfortunately that's not going to help the people

that are stuck there. They're doing a great job of totally destroying New York City right now with the illegal immigrants and sanctuary city and the sensitive areas like Times Square where shootings and stabbings are happy almost on a regular daily basis. And if you know, a responsible, law abiding citizen who had a firearm could probably diffuse these situations and these migrant beatings and everything else that we're seeing

going on in New York and some of these other large cities. Chicago is another great example or a terrible example, depending on your side of the fence

of what I'm talking about. And the gun laws in Illinois, which have also been very, very contentious and have been challenged in courts and they still are being Tell me about Illinois, Yeah, well, Illinois, it was the last stay to not have any permitting system in place to allow public area of a loaded gun, and back in twenty thirteen they were forced through court intervention to reform that. And it did get better. I mean, I

will say Illinois is better than it used to be. And they did preempt a lot of the local laws that were in place in cities like Chicago for handgun carry, but there are still restrictions on local restrictions on say like what they term assault weapons, which are essentially semi automatic rifles. And also Governor Pritzker, he's been instrumental in passing assault weapon and magazine bans that affect the entire state. So it's a bad state by any stretch. But it did

get better. I mean, it got better from a permitting standpoint. They at least do issue a permit. They ban it in almost every place that you can possibly carry. They issue out of state permits to a few to

residents from a few select states. So unless you're for one of those states, you're not going to get outside permit or a non resident permit, and aven if you did, they charge you like three hundred dollars for that permit and you have to go through hoops to get pat The one benefit is if you have a permit from your home state, you can have the gun in your cars you're passing through Illinois. Well, that support helps. That was

my next question, Scott. If you're taking a trip and you're going west from Cincinnati from northern Kentucky and you have to pass through Illinois, if you've got your legal permitted weapon with you in your car as you're traveling, what do you need to know if you get pulled over? It Well, as long as you've got a license from the state that you live in, you're

good to go. Now. The way their law is written, it says if you're allowed to carry publicly in the state you live in, which technically that means even if you don't have a permit, if you come from a constitutional carry state, and you're not a fellow, you should be good to go there. However, what they require for proof, you know, the policeman on the street proof is a concealed carry license. So there's a bit

of a contradiction there. In court, you could probably win the case, but when you're traveling through I don't know if I want to risk it. I'd want to have a permit from your home state. And as long as you've got that, you can have that loaded gun in your car if you're pulled over. There's no requirement that you declare it when pulled over unless the policeman asks for it. In other words, some states were the states that

would require you to volunteer the information first. Illinois simply requires it if the policeman asks if you have the gun or if you have the permit. Now, a lot of these states, I'll caution you, they have a license plate readers, and sometimes your concealed carry status is on your license, and so they might know you've got the gun before you even get pulled over.

So to avert a bad situation, sometimes it's good to at least let the guy know you've got the gun with the permit, but at least you can do that going through Illinois, which you couldn't do that prior to twenty thirteen. Well, would you call an AR fifteen or an AK forty seven.

Would you call them assault weapons as they often are, not the ones that are currently being sold as over the counter semi automatics or simply replicas of what would be a true assault weapon is defined by the military is a weapon capable of select fire. You can go between semi and full auto. The problem is a lot of these bad states have redefined the term assault weapon. They've defined those semi automatic replicas of true assault weapons as being assault weapons. And

so that's kind of where you run into an issue. It's when the left controls the language, then they can control laws actually used. And and you know, there are plenty of examples of this, you know, just like when they refer to a normal straight guy assist gender. I had no idea what that meant, but then I realized they're you know, they're making me into kind of a weird sounding title. And they do that on purpose.

It's it's their way of controlling the narrative because they control the language. And that's exactly what they've done with with guns is they've they've redefined these these semi automatic rifles as assault weapons. They do and they're not in a technical sense. They become that. Yeah, they do this all the time with a lot of things, you know, gender itself. It's supposed to be about

language, not about sex. Scott Kappus is our guest again. Give me the full title of the book, Scott The Traveler's Guide to the Firearm Laws of the Fifty States. Where can it be found. It's on Amazon, It's also on my website, Gunlawguide dot com. And I advertise in the

National Rifle Association magazine. So if you're a member of n O, I'll price the display ad for it, and you can certainly use that because it's pretty prevalent in the American Riflemen in Shooting Illustrated and American Hunter and a few of the other magazines that NRA publishes. If you're taking a trip, you should have this in your possession and know what the laws are where you go. Scott Kappus, thank you so much for being on the show tonight.

Garry, thank you very much. I appreciate it. I enjoyed it very much. You bet you. We'll we'll have tap Scott back and we continue. The wild Man is coming up next on seven hundred WLW. Hey Cintinni's former Bengal and Pro Football Hall of Fame Anthony Munias. Are you or someone here? He is back for another bite on the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW. My friend, your friend wild Man forever, wild Man Walker? How you doing? Wild Man? Just back from the the Blue Jackets Rangers game

in Columbus yesterday, right? Uh yeah? Blue Jackets beat the Rangers four to two, ending the Rangers ten game franchise time winning streak. It was a nice win for the Blue Jackets fans. They haven't had much to cheer about all year. Of course, they cut the Rangers kind of in a down spiral because they were they just played the Flyers the night before, so they had to fly in and they probably really didn't have their legs. But I mean, it's a nice win for the Blue Jackets who are going nowhere

where the Rangers are going to the playoffs. They've had a great season. Yeah, do we really need another major league NHL team that close to Columbus? I mean, you think we could You think we could spread out the losing here in Cincinnati. If we had one two donkeys will fly first before that happened, Okay, wanted to talk to you over the weekend. Of

course. Major League Baseball spring training now in full full tilt. Man, they're going at it in Florida and in Arizona and over the weekend, and the Reds, by the way, are two and oh wild man, it's better than no one too nothing. It means a damn thing. But what if they were owing too, if they were owing to Gary Jeff social media know it all would be saying fire David Bell and bring back Joey Vado and trade this guy. Because that's how that's how they are. You know,

spring training means nothing, that never has never will. I remember the Washington Senators back in the late sixties. I think they lost like three games in spring training and everybody was all geeked up about the Washington Senators competing for the American League, the Pennant. They finished like forty five games out, lost, lost over one hundred games. Right, that's same Washington Senators team. Yeah, you know, you know we don't. We don't have Senators in

Washington anymore unless you count those adults up at Capitol Hill. Uh we I prefer no doubt, no doubt, storming the court in college basketball must and over the over the weekend we saw another instant, uh wake Forest. Wake Forest defeated Duke and one of the Duke starters was injured. I don't know what his status is for the next Duke game, but it was it was up in the air that they've got to find a way to stop this completely.

I mean, they used to storm the fields at football games like homecoming or whatever, tear down the gold post for a big upset. But and and they've they've more or less stopped that. But how do you stop it in the college basketball but both men's and women's Hey, because you know, the fan is so close to the court, you can only have so many security people, I mean without how much would that cost to have them lock arms all the way around the court and that you can still get knocked down

and the security people to get hurt. And that's opening a can of worms. But they could be suing a university or whatnot. The best way to handle this, Gary Jeb is to make the announcement and say, if you storm the court, the game's a forfeit and that'll end it right there and then and there. You could make two or three forefits you want to have this happen. Ever again, can you do you think you can get college

administrators in the NCAA to go along with that wild man. Well, they're going to have to because this is you know, this is like an accident waiting to happen, a major accident waiting to happen. What if a really tough college prospect goes down in a heap and enters this knee. You don't think his lawyer is going to come suing. Oh my god, you know, Oh yeah, to see the n c DOUBLEA. They're gonna see the school. They're gonna sue everybody. It's it's it's just an accident waiting to

happen. It's protecting the players, it's protecting the coaches, it's protecting cheerleaders. You refereesere yeah, Well, you know, we were talking about spring training and uh, for the first time over the weekend, I guess at a game in Florida in the Grapefruit League there was a female umpire for the first time in Major League baseball. And you say it's time that the women are just like in the NFL, just like in uh in NBA. Right, well, well, yeah, her name is Jen Paywall and she I

think she was umpiring a third base. She's worked their way up, uh, you know, to this level to be able to be a major league umpires. She's got great credentials. And I think it's time. I mean, the NBA they have women referees, the NFL has women officials usually you

know, back judges or slide judges. It's it's time. I mean when you when you see some of the umpiring that's going on today in Major League Baseball, with guys like CEB Butner and laz Das and of course Angel her Nandez, who has the worst strike zone in the history of the game. That these guys have a job, Oh no, it's time for a woman umpire to give her her to do and see what she can do well.

And uh, you make that point if you know the umpire or referees, if you know an umpire's name, that's probably not a good thing because it's it's kind of you know, it's kind of like an offensive lineman. If they get their name mentioned on TV or their number called, it means that they more than likely just screwed up. And if you know the umpire's name, if he's notorious enough for not having any kind of consistent strike zone or

being a bad ump then that says more about that umpire. I mean the good ones you don't notice, right, You're not supposed to notice the empire. I'm supposed to notice the umpires exactly. And Angel Hernandez is constantly being you know, exploited because he's so bad. He's he's battled the bases and he's bad behind the plate. I mean last year, what was this of the Philadelphia Harper? Yeah, Harper went off at him getting caught out on

strikes. He got caught on on strikes with her hands down at third base. Oh and Harper went off, man, I mean he went off. And that's just the tip of the iceberg with Angel and her and as who's you know been He's been ragged on for a year. And Ceb Butner is just as bad. Just this band. He's got a hot temper and it's you know, these guys. I don't know where that where Jen Paywall can go. I mean she she might be able to fill in because the umpires

believe it or not getting vacations these days, go on vacation. Yeah, so she might get elevated to get her chance this year some way, and that can last. But it's time for them. It's time. It's time, it really is. If they develop AI to the point, uh, there'll be a lot of umpires taking vacation. If they've got some robot calling balls and strikes behind the plate, Uh, well, that'll be the end of baseball for me, Gary Jeffer. They ever do that, that'll be

the end. That human factor. You can't take out. You got to keep the human factor in there, right, even if they sucked. Uh so they suck. The Bengals, as you and me and almost everybody talks about last week, did the thing they had to do. They franchised Tag T. Higgins. He will be around for next season for Joe Burrow and any other additions that the Bengals need to make, you think for them to

make another serious run in another Super Bowl. Well, you know, with the NFL adding that extra cap money, that helped a lot into helping franchise

Tag T. Higgins. Like you said, we'll be here, you know, for another season and we'll worry about that down the road going into the draft, the two major needs on this football team are a tight end who can catch the ball consistently down the down the field, can stretch the field a little bit like Travis Kelce, because the Begals haven't had a really good tight end going back to Rodney Holman. I mean, Eiford was very good, but he couldn't stay healthy, okay, and then er Smith couldn't catch

beach a beach ball. But they also need an offensive line. And know whether they get that in free agency or they get that in the in the draft, but they got to protect Joe Burrow because you know, and I know, it starts up front. It always has. With all that money investing in Joe Burrow, they got to protect them. I mean, we see what to happen with Patrick Mahomes. They protect him with Tom Brady, they protect them. They win when they protect them. And when Joe does

get the protection, he finds recent no brainer that they've got. They've got to secure that offensive line. Wild Man, Thank you, brother, as always a lively conversation. That's why I like to have you on. It's fun talking with you, buddy. I'll talk to you soon, all right. Seven hundred WLW News Traffic and weather. News Radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati

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free content. And this guy is Dave Hatter, our it guy Internet of Things champion and the guy with the aluminum foil hat, ready to tell you how your technology is aiming to kill you or turn you into a bot. So as we get into tonight's conversation, you know the elephant in the room still is what happened last week with the AT and T outage, of there were tens of thousands, there's you know, in fact, Marco Rubio just this week saying that a Chinese cyber attack will be one hundred times worse than

the AT and T outage, including your power, your water. This is something you and I have talked about before, Dave, and apparently they're finally starting to pay attention to us, because we've been talking about this for a few years about yeah, the danger of hacks and outages, and now it's a real life and death situation, which you know, the way people are addicted to their phones, their little mobile devices, they acted like the AT and T outage if they were affected, was a life and death No,

you have no idea, children, So what do we know about the AT and T outage. Do you believe it was a software a hiccup like they claimed, or do you think we'll ever know? Well, Derek, yes,

first off, thanks for having me on its all ways. Yeah, my guess is we'll never really know o than whatever gets you know reported in the mainstream press from the my take on it was at the time was well since it kind of peaked around seventy thousand is users, and then you know, they seem to be able to restore it pretty quickly, although it did take almost the whole day. When you look at the full scope of their network the last I checked, I think they have over two hundred million users.

Seventy three thousand, Well that's a lot, you know, it's a relatively small percentage of the overall network. And then of course you know they're transferring calls from one network to another. So again I don't want to downplay it. I think seventy three thousand ish people out for a long period of

time is not good. But you know, I kind of figured at the time since it didn't get any worse, and probably with some sort of software outage, configuration issue, you know, something along the lines of what they said it was. You know, it could it have been the network was overloaded, maybe, but you usually don't see that nowadays unless there's like some natural disaster or something where everyone is trying to make calls. You know,

solar flare EMP cyber attack. Again, if it were anything other than a cyber attack, solar flaring and p type thing, you think you'd see a lot more widespread outages on other networks. You know, so it's probably what they claim it was, but I do think it's just one more example of why it's so critical to start taking cybersecurity seriously from a general perspective and then focusing on hardening these critical networks and critical systems that supply things like electricity,

water, communications, food, et cetera. Because I agree with everything Marco Rubio said, and again he's just one more person who is raising the alarm out there. You've seen the FBI director, You've seen visit the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Administrator administration director warn about the possible consequences of devastating cyber attacks from our enemies who are trying to get you know, footholds in our networks and

so forth. You know, again, as Rubio said, that's a small taste of what it could be like and if you really want to look into how devastating these things could be. Russia has been doing this sort of stuff in Ukraine since the mid twenty tens. You know, there are numerous examples where Russia knocked out their ATMs, just don't knock out their power done all kinds of stuff and it's because Gary, Jeff, We've said so many times, most of the stuff that makes all of this work was designed in the

sixties and seventies. No one envisioned that it would be used in the way that it's used today. And consequently, you know, all of this stuff is sort of inherently insecure, and it's hard to secure without a lot of effort and money and friction. You know, stuff breaks when you try to

secure it. So it's a major problem. And yeah, I wouldn't say I'm happy that it happened, but I'm happy when these things happen on a small scale and don't do any real damage because I think it helps people wake up and realize, gosh, how terrible could this be if like a whole cellar network went down or all of this networks went down, for example, Think of the chaos that would cause and all of the stuff that relies on

cellular signals now to work. It would be bad. Oh, and this is I think this is worse than an EMP I think this is worse than a nuclear attack, just because we're all so interconnected with these systems. Just to get people don't understand. They think that the loaves of bread just show up at the grocery store on a weekly basis, and it's you know, just the old school tech. Now we o the truck brings the bread from the factory or from the distribution center, and they bring it to Kroger.

They don't take into account all of the little cyber chains that are involved in getting that loaf of bread or that jug of milk to a Kroger. And understand that if one of these systems gets attacked, say in a supply line, a supply chain, then there's no loaf of bread, there's no milk, there's nothing on the shelves with without that interconnected cyber network. And if it is interrupted, if it is hacked, if it is brought down by

an attack, then people starve. There's the real possibility of that. And you know this isn't some tenfoil hacked conspiracy. Go see again with people are like FBI Director Array are saying about the possibility of attacks on critical infrastructure, whether it's the electrical grid, which of course would knock out most all of this other stuff, especially if it we're down to the link of time,

telecommunications, grid, water plants, chemical plants. You know, if you knocked out all of the rail systems in the United States, you know how many. My understanding and I could be wrong about this, but I've read this several times and I haven't researched it recently, but there's like three days

worth of supplies in the supply chain out there to your point. So you know, even if it's a week, if after a week, if you could do significant damage and the power's not back on or you know, trucks and trains can't run, we got a real, real, major problem on our hands. So yeah, I'm glad that the FBI and others continue to try to raise awareness about this and that you know, it feels like people at all levels of government are starting to take this a lot more seriously,

especially as we see tensions ramp up. I don't know if you have to catch it or not. Gary, Jeff, I just saw a story today on Twitter US Admiral warrens China can lunch surprise attack for military drill, which is in Newsweek. I just saw that. I just saw that come across Dave. So again, you know, and if you look at what Director Ray is saying, so our nation state adversaries advanced persistent threats usually what they're called in the business, you know, China, Russia, others trying to

get back doors and footholds into our system. Do you think in the event of an attack on Taiwan or some type of large scale attack anywhere, they may not shut systems down and try to cause chaos as a diversion, Well, of course they would. You know again, I'm this is Dave Hatter's opinion exclusively. You can go out and see what many many experts and military

leaders and government leaders have said. In fact, now he just recently became the former NSAY Director General, Paul KNAKASONI you know, cybersecurity as national security. I couldn't agree with that more because you nailed it earlier. Are everything is increasingly digital, everything is increasingly interconnected. We rely on this stuff to do everything, to to shop, to work, to entertain ourselves. Hello Dave, And this is one of the reasons why I'm dead set against central

bank digital currency gearings. When you had no way to do any sort of transaction, sort of this truly old school bartering. You know, I'll trade it the hammer for that chicken. If you knock these systems out, you'd have no money you'd have no access to anything. So yeah, it's it's a real concern of mine. Well, and it should be a concern of

everyone, Dave. The fact is there are still people just walking around aimlessly, except that taking it for granted that the technology is responsible for almost everything that they do, every experience they have, what they have to eat, what they have to drink, whether the lights come on or not. Can you imagine attack on a norrad or our air traffic control and we've got planes

falling out of the sky nine to eleven and looked like a picnic. If they could take out air traffic control in this country and they and I'm sure that's part of the cyber attack plan, would I would think that it would be. I mean, you know, I am not an expert on GPS, and I know the military has a different encrypted system from what we use. I don't know how airlines work with that, But yeah, what if you could just confuse these systems and send long coordinates to ships at sea and

planes and the air trucks on the ground. And as crazy as this sounds, too, as our cars become rolling computers, it's not far fetched. And there's a story I know you and I have talked about it in the past. A well known story that Wired magazine did where the reporter worked with some hackers and they were able to take over almost all of the systems in a Jeep Grand Cherokee remotely. Now that caused a recall and that's been fixed.

But again, all of these things are being built. I would encourage folks to go look if you just want to see how crazy this is.

Mozit left. The people that make the Firefox browser, which I recommend, by the way, versus Google's Chrome, did a recent study of modern cars and they looked at the crazy amount of data your average new car is collecting stuff that makes absolutely no sense and has no bearing on your ability to use the car to get you from point A to point B. And my point is less about the privacy, although it's quite eye opening and hair raising in

my opinion, especially because I don't think the average person understands what they's doing it up for. But to be able to collect all that data tells you everything is a sensor, everything is computerized, and if a hacker could break into these systems, if you think these cars, there's plenty of evidence that the bottom about to say is true, are really being secured in a way

that they're unhackable? Well, of course they're not, because they're like almost all of this Internet of things stuff, it's always focused on ease of use, market share, speed of market, not privacy and security for the users.

And it's there are plenty of experts out there who've been warning for some time that, you know, a particular make or model of car, or maybe all the cars from a given manufacturer could somehow be hacked and turned into weapons at least at minimum, Like you know, just disable your brakes for any car that's rolling disabled to break. I don't want to accelerate, you know, it's crazy. I don't want a car that can be autonomously controlled

or autonomously driven. I don't want to. I don't even want the car that'll help me parallel that used to be a part of the driving test and still should be. Dave Hatter is our guest, and we're gonna take a quick break Dave and come back with a few more stories tonight on the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW, He's a battle of the Big Cast Throve Down Powerful. It'll be a night of Cause and Jaws as you see bear cats take

on Houston's Cougars Way. It's Big twelve action at its best, powerful right hand Get the call live from Houston, Come oh Now tomorrow night at six point thirty on seven hundred WLW and the seven hundred WLW live stream on the iHeartRadio app. The Cincinnati Home and Garden Show presented by This and Mister Hatter. Here's a story that does not surprise me at all. It's something that also has been forecast and could easily be forecast. It's hijacking my brain.

Young people addicted to social media, desperate for help. And it's not just young people. I was getting on the elevator today here at work. This is just a small example, and I see it everywhere. I see it with people driving their cars, which are not supposed to be doing in Ohio. I see it in every facet where you find other people out there.

They're not seeing you because they are, you know, ruining their posture and are looking down at their phone as they're trying to navigate through a grocery store or a parking lot, or getting on an elevator. The elevator was going up to the studios here and the door's open, and the guy just walked in. He heard the bell and saw the doors open, but he was looking at his phone and it was obviously he was on an upper floor. I said, this is going up. He said, oh, no,

worries and stepped out. He wasn't paying attention at all because he was locked, brain locked into whatever he was looking at on his device. And I see it happen all the time. And it's again and something that many of the Facebook and these people knew. They they've they've admitted in testimony that they knew that this was addictive, especially to a younger brain, and it's happening. Yeah. Uh, it's sad. I see the same thing you're describing

all the time. And there's a new study out there. People can see it for themselves at study finds dot org. I don't think it's too shocking what they're saying, but it is kind of eye opening. You know, they have some quotes from people, the teens that they talk to is part of this study. You know, one of the quotes is TikTok has me in a choke hold, and another is I'd say I'm one thousand percent addicted. And you know, I again not shocked by this. I think it's

important for people to understand. You can go back and you know, a you touched on the fact that, in many cases through leak documents or testimony, you know, many of these companies understand the negative impact of having on people, but they're making enormous amounts of money as a result of it. And then b there was a guy from Twitter in the early days of Twitter.

He left because he started to have you know, remorse and regret about helping build this whole attention system that they've tried to create where you know, they want to get your attention, they want you to stay on their platform as long as possible because you know, it means more impressions for the ads they're selling, and it means more data they can collect about you to build more profiles and sell to other people, and all that kind of stuff that

comes along with it. And when you look at what this guy had to say, he said, you know, when they came up with this idea of wipe down the refreshed screen, it was sort of loosely based on the idea of playing a slom machine. You get that for people who enjoy that. I'm not wanted them, by the way, But for people who enjoy that, you know, you get that dopamine hit every time you pull the handle. There's that anticipation you know that something good is going to happen.

And you know, sadly with social media guarage, Yeah, I think we both know most of the time it's more of a due scrolling and you're waiting to see what the next bad thing is going to be. Right, but that it's literally kind of based on the same idea as gambling, and that's one of the things that makes it so addictive for people. And Yeah, when you look at this study from study finds it, it's pretty interesting what

they found. I guess the good news coming out of it is they found as part of this study that you know, you can do like a four week intervention. And I thought they had a really interesting take on this, which is, you know, to think of it like a diet, like when you you know, if you mix all kinds of bad stuff into your

diet, you're going to have bad results. They're not saying that you should just give it up entirely, but they talk about this idea of a four week intervention and trying to change your habits and you know, figuring out how because you know, there are legitimate uses for some social media, but it's it's pretty interesting what they can I'm up with, and they you know, said in the Study of Practice that you can take right now to reduce your

dependence on social media, and then they you know, list some of those out there, like turn off notification, limit the apps you don't need or that you find harmful, you know, unfollow certain accounts, and just a variety of other things you can do to sort of slowly start to wean yourself off of these things, which I think would be good for society, especially

to get off TikTok. Well, I know you don't want to get into deeply on it, but there's been a lot of news about Google here in the last week, including their AI generated Gemini program, where it just was very very strange when people were asking for images of say, our founding fathers or any number of the pope or any number of things, and there were

mysteriously no white people generated by this. Because I guess that they their excuse was they they're looking for diversity, they're looking for cultural diversity, and they're they're champions of that. And all of that other what I consider nonsense. But the fact of the matter is still is that even AI at this point, we don't think it's sentient yet where it's making this up, this decision

on its own. It all comes back to whoever is originally programming the AI or working with the gosh, what do you call them, the large language model, Yeah, the large language model and the other things that go into these programs. It all goes algorithm, thank you very much. You know, usually usually multi syllable words don't escape me, but that one did.

Algorithm. But they're they're programmed in by someone who's a human being to their preferences, and and that's an that's an issue too, isn't it with all this stuff with AI? Yeah, you know, Gary Jeff. Ever since AI has sort of come to the forefront of it, because this is not a new concept. It's been around for a long time, and it's kind of caught on and then died off, of caught on and died off and

in the past primarily due to technological limitations. Honestly, a lot of it have been resolved now and we've seen some amazing progress with these things from a variety of different organizations. But yeah, at the end of the day, you know, one of the concerns has always been biased in the data that you're using to train the large language model, bias in the algorithms, you

know. And the algorithms are the programs that the people who have built the thing, you know, have written to make it do what it does. And yeah, the whole Google thing recently has been getting a lot of flack. There's an interesting guy, Mark Andresen, who was one of the founders of Mozilla, the mosaic I'm sorry, rather Mosaic, the original web browser.

Uh. You know. He's a venture capitalist and interesting dude. He's been talking about this stuff a lot on Twitter slash x. People can go check out what he's what he's got out there, and it's gotten a lot of grief. But here's an interesting related headline. And why you know, I find some of these things very concerning. AI models choose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated war games, and I don't know how much time

we get left, so I'll keep this really brief. But they basically said the study by Cornell University in the us U five ll ins as autonomous agents simulated war games and diplomatic scenarios. Three different versions of open ais GPT Claude developed by Anthropic, and Lama too developed by Meta. So rewinder, folks. Meta is Facebook now basically right, Meta is the parent company. And you know, if you read through this, it's it's pretty disturbing that they,

you know, seem to want to go toward a violent outcome. So yeah, I don't I don't think we're at the sky that point yet, but when you when you see all the stuff coming out about this, and there's also been a lot of talk about how it seems like some of these models have sort of peaked and are starting to uh kind of I don't want to go off the rails, but lose their their capability and produce less good output, if you will. So, yeah, this all bears watching.

It'll be really interesting to see where this goes. But yeah, Google has taken a major hit and received an enormous amount of bad press. Yeah, and one of the one of the one of the things I saw, David, and what you're talking about is that this AI model preferred nuclear war over misgendering someone. Yeah, that's that's been some of the things that have shown

up. Well there's you know there people asking it. Who's done more damage to society Hitler or Elon Musk And yeah again, you can get on Twitter and see many, many examples of people pointing out how some of these answers are kind of crazy. Like again, you know, I can't imagine how you could compare anyone to Hitler really, you know, or killed tens of millions of people. People who do that are always at peril of being laughed at or just being totally you know, taken down, and they should be.

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It means that we are rounding third and heading for home in baseball parlance. And we're doing so with our friend who is fond of spouting off. And that's one of the reasons that I always rely on her for some fantastic conversations. And it's yet another one about to begin on this Monday night. Karen Katalene KK, how is you? I is good and you are just way too kind and generous for little little me. It's always a pleasure to you. It's a good thing, I said, spouting and not spewing,

so anyway, because something different, it would be something different. First and foremost, we see now that the presidential potted plans you like to see, they're going to ship him to the border this week finally like a weekend at Bernie's moment and I mean, you can barely tell. You can barely tell

that he has a pulse most of the time. So this photo op, which means absolutely nothing, was meant to look like Joe Biden is doing something when we all know he has done everything in his power, as he likes to say, to make sure that the invasion continues full throttle on our border of people who are criminals from Venezuela, like the one that just stabbed to death the college student in Georgia, like the gangs have been let in full

tilt, willy nilly, and all kinds of Chinese, Chinese military age men by the thousands, who have been let in because of Joe Biden's policies when he insisted that he could he'd done all he could do, and yes, he had done all he could could do as president to make sure that the invasion was going along and increasing exponentially by the week, which is what's happened

over the last three years. So now he's finally and there's talk about him undoing what he did on day one when he when he first was inaugurated president, which undid all of President Trump's policies that kept the border crisis at bay. You know, so he's he's gone from saying there was nothing he could do, it was up to Congress. He needed more money, more resources,

which Democrats always need more money. Uh. And and now now that there's rumors afloat that before the State of the Union address next month, he will undo by executive order everything he did and reinstate some of Donald Trump's policies like stay in Mexico. Are you surprised that they're finally turning around because they see the poll numbers and they understand that voters care about illegal immigration? What do you think about all of this care? You know what, it's all

a show. I don't think that they care what the voters think. If they had, they would have changed it before. Now, they would have changed course before. Now. Everything that I've watched them do shows that they really have very little regard for either polls or what people think. You know, I could be wrong, but I'm noticing that. Hmm. This is

an election year. Yeah, right, and some voters, even though I don't think they care what the voters think, but some people have phenomenally short memories, or they're going to suspend every ounce of intellectual honesty or memory that they have. I really don't know, but it bugs me. I guess that more Republicans wouldn't say, now that the shoe is supposedly on the other foot, well wait a minute, but I thought it was racist to control

your own border. I thought it was racist for you to want to have a say in who comes into your country. And may they not want to allow a completely porous border to allow terrorists and other criminals who you have invented. You don't know who's coming into this country. If you think that you have a right to do that, I mean, isn't that racist and xenophoree? But unfortunately Republicans don't play that way. They always seem to be more

comfortable, many of them playing defense. And by the way, Gary, Jeff, we know, we know, don't we as I think the Babylon b reminded us to one of those other great cartoon memes that it's all Donald Trump's fault. The only reason Joe Biden can't secure the border is because it's

Donald Trump's fault. We're supposed to forget everything we ever heard, know, or live through about the resistance the Democrats put up about the wall, right, they would not fund that wall, no matter what, and pretty much even the person drunk behind a stupor behind a rock knows that Donald Trump has been talking about securing our border and controlling illegal immigration and having on the campaign tree. Yes, and look at the flack he took for doing it.

He always of course the racist and it I mean, the whole thing that we're even talking about. Of course we have to talk about it because it's what we do. Almost means that we're playing pretend like they are. You have to pierce the armor of their unreality because what they're claiming is not even based in any kind of reality at all. No, it's based in lies and gaslighting, and they continue to do it. Karen, I I just what you just said about what Donald Trump, what Donald said, what Donald

Trump, what Donald Trump said about the border. Have you noticed how many things that Donald Trump was absolutely dead on right about when he came from China to the border, to law enforcement, to It's like anybody with any kind of you talk about short memories, but anybody can look on a video and go back to twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen when he was campaign for president, and all the things he said turned out to be true. That were like

you said they were. They were waylaid as racist, or he's an idiot, or he doesn't know, he doesn't understand statesmanship. All of the things about that were said about him, about him being a puppet of Putin, when he kept us out of any kind of foreign engagements for the entire time he was in office, Donald Trump has been right about everything except maybe the COVID reaction. Other than that, that was the only thing that Donald Trump

was wrong about, and it's been proven over time. It's just me. That's one of the reasons you can see the motive for having played the game of obfiscation and distraction, in making it all about personalities, in trying to whip people up into a frenzy about how terrible and awful and horrible and no amount of hyperbole and insanity is to the man who has Jewish grandchildren, his beloved daughter, one of them married a Jewish guy, and he did more

for Israel than any presidents in recent memory. They can call him a nettler because nothing is too extreme for them, because they have a media that helps them. So while people are being whipped up into a frenzy and trying to wane up each other about how much say they're not paying attention to any of

the facts. And it's that's what can be so frustrating, because you have to be smarter than the operatives who are whipping up hate not just for Trump, but for each other, for differences of opigion, for one hundred and one things that it suits them and feeds them when we're at each other's throats

and when it is just so obvious to me. But sadly, what amazes me is that very smart people, people I've known for a long time, or they are professed constitutionalists or conservatives or Republicans, I think the great majority of them see through it. But there's still those who want to belong to the right cliques in the right parties, so they're going to parent the same information. So what we're watching is just a grand propaganda scheme. I never

thought i'd see it in America to the extent that we're watching it. But that's what we're watching it. That's what we're watching here. You're right, I tell you what, Karen, Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and I'll ask you about endless shrimp. Karen Katleen on the nightcap back after a break on seven hundred WLW is around the corner, which means the

rainy season will be here before you know it. Have aqua proof out now, so your yard and basement round to find out how they could get some. Well, pretty soon you won't be able to go to you won't be

able to go to Red Lobster and get endless shrimp. I don't know what they were thinking when they made it a permanent part of their menu, Karen, the Red Lobster Corporation, because in the last quarter they lost thirteen million dollars and they blamed it all on the endless shrimp promotion that they made permanent. See the thing about this, and I say, the reason that this came to a head and the reason that Red Lobster wound up losing their losing

their carcass over the endless shrimp. I tie it losing their tails over the endless shrimp. That's better. So but I blame it on social media and TikTok and the people are trying to outdo each other, and it, you know, it went viral, and so now everybody wants to be a star. Everybody wants to be famous, and thanks to these social media platforms they think they are, you know, but when somebody when it's a competition online of who can have the most endless shrimp at Red Lobster, then you you

got to lose your tail over that. If you're in a business, you don't need me for this interview. Now. I have been an endless shrip my whole life, so I did not have to prove it to anybody, nor am I any longer. I used to be in the theater and made my living as a performer, musical comedy performer. Yeah, and then I started watching I am fascinated, especially today with people who want to be famous or who think that external fame is going to somehow make them happier, feed

their ego. It's just another I don't know, it's did you see this story? Did you see the story? Though? I mean Red Lobster used to do as a promotion for like a limited time only they do English shrimp, but they decided last summer to make it a permanent part of their menu, and people just you know, they gluttoned out and then they did it online and then it was a competition of who you know, I did seventy four shrimp. I did seventy six shrimp, and red Lobster's sitting there going,

we can't pay our employees because you ate all the damn shrimp. If I hadn't taught to you every week, I would never have known that about rip lobster number one, number two, look at it. You know. I guess they should put a big sign in front of their restaurant that says, even if it's free, it may not be worth it. I mean, and God bless them. Nothing against the olive garden, but the endless

breadsticks and the endless salad never was really a big draw for me. You know that all you can eat buffets, which kind of went out with the COVID thing and now have come back. But the all you can eat buffet concept to me was always kind of like, yeah, well, I can only eat so much at a time, even when I was younger and maybe a more robust eater, but I mean, I can only eat so much. So I don't know if it's worth it to pay for all you can eat it step instead, just pay for what you want to eat. It

depends on the quality of the food. By here and there are some buffets, There are some buffets where the quality is not most many buffets are not. Yeah, but I hate to overanalyze, which of course is my middle name. You know, Y're an overanalyze catiline. But it isn't a statement on anything is free, no matter whether people want it or not. I mean, it's it's so interesting to me that we're living in a culture where

people will abuse themselves in order to get on Facebook. I don't think it's a good idea to give this step away for too long, especially when people are so given to wanting something for free. It's changing the whole culture, the value, I would agree, and people and see and see the gen Z people think that living in a free country means you get stuff for free that you didn't earn it, and that has nothing to do with freedom or

liberty. All right, Finally we talked. We talked about the Republican primary charade, as you called it earlier, and the charade is continuing thanks to Nikki Hayley after getting trounced by twenty points in her home state the people that know her best by Donald Trump once again. And then news came out that the Koch brothers have decided that she's not worth their money after all, when they were one of the ones propping her up. And that's no big surprise

either. You want to talk about the establishment trying to support Nicky Haley's run against Donald Trump too. I don't know what the actual even what the reason was for her to stay in as long as she has, and she's still she's still hanging on like a hair and a grilled cheese sandwich. What's up

with that? The only reason she's staying up in is because she's being propped up by two main sources of money, money, money, money, the Trump haters, never trumpers, and a good many of the leftist Democrats who want to make people believe that Trump has serious opposition in his own party.

None of that is true. They're always I guess that's been the theme, is that appearances are more important in reality than reality to a lot of people, and they believe that if they can give the impression of something, then it will become true. One of the politics I hated most political slogans is in politics, perception is reality. No. In politics, people create perceptions and hope it will become reality. So it's a sham. It's a scam,

and the whole primary was a sham. And yet the Democrats will use gullible Republicans to tell everybody see the Republican even the Republicans can't stand Donald Trump. What nonsense. It's utter nonsense. So if the Koch brothers backed out, and if any of the significant money like the Koch brothers drives up,

you will see Nicky Haley dropping out. That's the only reason she stayed in was for the money that she's been the most The most telling thing about this, Karen and watching the last week and a half two weeks was the interview with Kevin Newsom where he called Nicky Haley one of our one of our surrogates. It was like wow, right out there for everybody to hear, Gavin Gruesome is saying Nicki Haley is a Democrat surrogate. He admitted it, and

yet people aren't paying attention to it. No, they're not. Either he's too dumb to lie or lying doesn't matter anymore because they feel confident that they can trounce all over the people and get away with it. And I'm sorry to say that that the second one has been the case more than it has not been. So we're having an extraordinary times. My friend boy, oh boy. Yeah. See, people say, may you live in interesting times? Well, I hope you yours are more interesting than mine. Okay,

Karen Catialen, can you slap that person? I just want to know. Yeah, really, you you get arrested for slapping whoever spent that first. Yeah, I tell you what you want to live in interesting times? You go first, Okay, and I'll sit back and watch. Karen Catialen, thank you, dear, my pleasure. All right, spouting off once again on the nightcap, And now we bring you to the end of the program. In our national anthem, Downer America, here is the star spangled banner.