To welcome to the Nightcap. You're on seven hundred WLW. I'm Gary, Jeff Walker, you or you, and that's perfectly fine with me. We
may tend to disagree, but that's okay. I'm still right. New news today from the Epic Times as we begin the show, and by the way, Marian Proctor from the Kentucky State Legislature, I think District sixty will be with us as our first guest tonight to talk about certificate of need in northern If you don't know what that is, I think you'll be kind of and you're a resident of the Commonwealth, I think you'll be kind of blind sided
that this kind of monopoly is allowed to continue in the state of Kentucky. But anyway, we'll get to that in a minute. Today from the Epic Times, a previously hidden transcript of an interview conducted by a US House of Representatives panel that investigated January sixth, twenty twenty one breach of the US capital
has today been revealed. It undermines a committee claim. Of course, the committee claimed that there was no evidence whatsoever that President Trump ever offered National guardsmen to the city of Washington, d C. For January sixth, when in fact that did happen. Anthony Ornado, who was the White House Deputy chief of Staff during the breach, told the committee that he overheard Mark Meadows, who was then chief of staff, on the phone with Washington Mayor Mary ol
Bowser. According to the transcript, mister Meadows wanted to ensure Miss Bowser had everything she needed. Mister Meadows wanted to know if she needed any more guardsmen, and I remember the number ten thousand coming up of the President wants to make sure that you have enough. He is willing to ask for ten thousand, the president at the time, of course being Donald Trump. I remember that number. Now you said it, it reminded me of it. Miss
Bowser said she was all set. Mister Arnado recalled. He was speaking at the House Select Committee to investigate the January sixth attack on the United States Capital. The committee said in its final report that had found no evidence supporting the idea that former Donald Trump. Former President Donald Trump ordered ten thousand troops to be ready for January sixth, but apparently it happened. They've been lying about
it the entire time, including the committee lying about it. The former j six Select Committee apparently withheld mister Arnado's critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative that this was an insurrection, that President Donald Trump was trying to overturn the government with his MAGA supporters. This according to Representative Barry LAUDERMC. Milk, a Republican from Georgia, he's the one to release
the transcript today. Mister Arnando's testimony proves that mister Meadows proves what mister Meadows Mark Meadows had said all along. President Trump did in fact offer ten thousand National Guard troops to secure the US capital, which was turned down. Mister Meadows previously said as many as ten thousand National Guard troops were told to be on the ready by the Secretary of Defense. That was a direct order from President Trump. Trump was all about security at the US Capitol on January sixth.
President Trump on Fox News later said that he definitely gave the number of ten thousand National guardsmen and said, I think you should have ten thousand of the National Guard ready. The former Acting Secretary of Defense, Christopher C. Miller told Vanity Fair in a meeting on January fifth, twenty twenty one, he told President Trump the Department of Defense was going to provide any number of guard personnel that Washington officials requested. President Trump, according to mister Miller,
responded, You're going to need ten thousand people. Mister Miller told the Select Committee that he never knew of any plans of that nature. So there's the lying link right there. Christopher Miller, who in an interview January fifth, said that the President had ordered ten thousand National Guardsmen to be ready in Washington, DC that day, and he tells Seluct Committee exactly the opposite. They knew of nothing. The committee highlighted mister Miller's testimony in its final report.
Again, this is a report from the Epoch Times today, which is great, by the way, if you want real news that's not tainted, but did not mention mister Ornado's testimony, nor did it include mister Miller's previous quote, mister meadows comment, or President Trump's remarks. The Pentagon has said that Miss Bowser asked for guard support for the January sixth rally on December thirty first,
twenty twenty, so a week ahead of time. Mister Miller and other Defense officials approved the activation of three hundred forty Guard members two days before January fourth. The next day, Miss Bowser confirmed to mister Miller and other officials that she did not want any additional Guard personnel to help Washington officers with crowd
control or other duties. About one point thirty on the afternoon of January sixth, Miss Bowser asked for more forces after demonstrators began moving to the Capitol. So you want to know who's responsible for the debacle of January sixth, It's not Donald Trump, maybe not even Nancy Pelosi or the jerk in the Senate Schumer. It's Mary ol Bowser, the mayor of was the same mayor who
greenlighted the giant blm painting of the street in our nation's capital. The US Capitol Police, meanwhile, in the days leading up to the breach, said that it did not want Pentagon support, but on the day of the breach asked for help and received one hundred and fifty personnel after things have already gone
south. This is so important to what's going on with President Trump's trial, with the detain the detention of thousands of American citizens who simply were at the Capitol, not even in the Capitol on that day and what was easily a preventable riot or altercation. It could have been a peaceful demonstration, just like Donald Trump insisted it be when he spoke to reporters or he spoke to supporters
rather at the ellipse that day before the Capitol breach. Totally preventable. And yet the people that get blame are the people who were trying to provide a distance and help to make sure it wasn't chaotic and a riot and something they could be charged with later. Go figure Mary Anne Proctor coming up next. Two run SUTs up and it is gone. You can just that baby cook
bar Wow. He's the rins and white sock Tomorrow night at eight thirty five or seven hundred WLW and seven hundred wl w's live stream on the iHeartRadio app. Imagine waking up this time next week and being one hundred percent agin tonight's proceedings by talking to the representative, the state representative from the sixtieth district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Mary Ann Proctor. She is running for re election
again, and we'll cover that later. But I wanted to talk about something that has been legislation that has has been near and dear to mary Anne Proctor's heart, and she has introduced multiple times, and it just seemingly does not get up for a vote for some reason. In and mary Anne's a Republican. It's a Republican supermajority in the Kentucky House and in the Kentucky Senate, and yet still no traction for certificate of need. Mary Anne Proctor, welcome
to the Nightcap. And I understand, and once again someone is blocking the House voting on certificate of need in Kentucky. First and foremost, for people who do not understand what certificate of need in Kentucky is, what it means, please let us let them know, because there are a lot of voters who don't understand that this is going on in Frankfort, and it's been it's been a hot button issue, especially for or the players who it would directly
affect. So tell us again what certificate of need is and why you've been such a proponent of the bill that would eliminate certificate of need in Kentucky state politics. Well, first of all, thank you for having me on.
It's always a pleasure to speak with you. In the simplest of terms, Certificate of need is a government issued permission flip for a new health entity that would like to enter into Kentucky. So they must go through a stringent process of showing the Cabinet that there is indeed a need for the services and then a nine step process that is very lengthy and very expensive to be able to
obtain this certificate need to be able to open in Kentucky. So it's just a series of hoops and obstacles placed in front of healthcare providers before they can even even if they've say, bought property, even if they have purchase the land and are going to provide jobs and provide a benefit for the public of the comonwealth, they still have to go through all these hoops and fires and whatever to even open up for business. Right, that is correct, And
it's interesting you say that. I've had several calls from developers outside of Kentucky who are looking to expand services in northern Kentucky, particularly grocery store chains and adjacent to that would be acres for health care facilities, but they are not willing to come in and make those investments because of certificate of need. So you'd ask why is this such an important issue when I ran for election. This was the top two issue I heard when I was speaking with my constituents.
They are crying out for choices and healthcare providers. For my people to go across the river into Ohio. It's not a fifteen or twenty minute drive. It can be a lengthy drive depending on the bench and if there's any construction or accidents or things like that. And many times healthcare costs they do not transfer across state lines, so if you go, if you're out of network, which makes it more expensive. Thence some Medicare and Medicaid do not
cross state lines. So that is wide and advocating so strongly to be able to have choices in our healthcare facilities. Because in Kentucky we have thirty two different services and technologies that require this government permission SLIP to be able to open in Kentucky. So that makes health care costs more expensive and makes it longer to get in because we don't have enough on the beds, and it certainly doesn't improve quality. Whenever you have a monopolistic system, you never had better
quality and lower costs. So, for example, Marianne Proctor, if you had a doctor and if you believe that christ Hospital example one or Jewish Hospital example two was the best place to get the treatment that you need to get the healthcare you need, you may not have easy access to those simply by
being so far away. And also, you know, as far as insurance goes, when basically primary I'm sorry, primary care physician service can be in Kentucky, it's that they have to many of them have to be underneath a hospital for miitting privileges, and so for that we don't have the variety of
independent doctors that we would like to see. I think the first time we spoke about this issue, Mary and I did tell you that, you know, my wife and I both have primary care physicians who have agreements and work for basically work for Saint Elizabeth. And that's true, and we've had reasonably good care from Saint Elizabeth. In fact, my wife had her breast cancer surgery through Saint Elizabeth and everything was wonderful. But that's not the point.
The point is Saint Elizabeth obviously has some people within your own body who are for some reason owing to them to keep other healthcare providers out of Northern Kentucky. And it just seems like quite a conflict of interest kind of things that has nothing to do with the general welfare of the public. And I self im puzzled why these bills don't go through. Part of it is certainly industry
pressure. There's not only the hospitals that are influential, but the Kentucky Hospital Association and the Kentucky Medical Association. They are are big players and they greatly influence legislators, making them scared to start to chip away at certificate needs by the bill that I propose. I've done several but the one that is sitting in the Committee of Health is HAS two four and it's really a s ful bill. All this one does it eliminates the competitor's veto if a new entity
wants to come into the states. So it just really allows it to be streamlined, and it accelerates the process so that the dominant provider can't sue. There's two opportunities for them to sue in this nine step process. And it's the very fact that we know they're going to keeps many entities from even trying to come into Kentucky because it's so expensive to go through that process. And if the dominant provider sues the Cabinet often gives them deference and denies those certificate
new applications. Right the way the law is right now, Marianne Proctor, is if christ or some other hospital entity wanted to come into northern Kentucky open up any kind of an office or whatever. We're not just talking about hospitals. We're talking about treatment centers or any kind of specialized center that they may offer if they if they want to come in. Saint e is the one that can torpedo that and veto it because they're the dominant healthcare provider in Kentucky.
It's what it is. To me. It's pretty clear what it is, certificate of need. It is a government sponsored monopoly of a commercial enterprise, and it is totally on American and it's not the way it's supposed to work. I agree with you one hundred percent, which is why I've been bringing these bills and pushing these bills this entire session and even last year when I brought the bills. It's the very same thing. It's monopolistic, and
I'm for removing monopolies and letting people have choices. Certainly, and something as important as our healthcare, well, I know that you've been, like I said, fighting tooth and nail with this. Maybe people in your own party, like Kim mozerould finally listen to the will of the people instead of whatever interest they may have in blocking bills like yours Certificate of need elimination in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I just you know, that's government picking winners and losers,
and that is the last thing government is supposed to do. Absolutely, And we've had this problem before during COVID, with government picking winners and losers, and I think people maybe got a little accustomed to it, but I'm hoping not. The people are pushing for it. It's the industry the pressures that are shutting this down and putting the pressure on other legislators not to let
us proceed. All Right, any other real quick blips here on the current legislative session before we go, Well, it is getting fast and furious. In these last couple of weeks that we have. We've have a lot of really important issues that are coming up that we are working on resigning, things like school choice, you know, certainly the budget, those things are still in work, and we see what happens in these last few days. All Right, Mary Ann Proctor, thank you very much, from the sixtieth District
in Kentucky's House of Representatives. Certificate of need. That certificate, in my opinion, needs to be torn up at the state level. Marianne, thank you very much. It's the nightcap and it continues with Sergeant Betsy brantn Or Smith of the National Police Association coming up right after the news, news, traffic, and weather. News radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati. An ever alert out of Butler County ends when those police were looking for or found in Acrin
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She started her career as a police dispatcher at the age of seventeen. She knew she wanted to help people right off the bed she sends. Has held positions in patrol investigations, narcotics, juvenile hostage negotiation, crime prevention, canine field training, been a law enforcement field trainer or trainer for over twenty years and it's it's a great pleasure to have her. It's been a while. We've had Betsy on once once or twice before in the past, but it's
great to have her back again on the night Cap. Betsy Branner Smith, how you doing. Hey, Thanks so much for having me, and it is really great to be back and talk about so many things that are happening around the country. First off, let's talk about the National Police Association, an organization that you represent. You're a spokesperson for this nonprofit that is supporting
our law enforcement officers everywhere in this country wherever they can. But that does require some dollars, and the last time I checked, Betsy, our law enforcement officers certainly need a lot more support than they're getting right now. How can people help with the National Police Association? Thank you so much, and
that is so true. You know, we have tools not just for law enforcement officers, but for book education, for We even have a pro police homeschooling program, and we also offer grants if a small department can't buy their canine body armor. And we support not just law enforcement officers but the people
who support them. So we ask you to go to National police dot org, sign up for our newsletter, hit that donate button and help us do what we're doing to keep cops safe and to keep them out there keeping the American people safe. And it's becoming increasingly difficult, difficult just to recruit people
to keep people safe as police officers. And if you look around in what's happened in this country the last three or four years especially, you'd kind of scratch your head and go, So, Betsy Branner Smith or Betsy Brandner was seventeen again, I mean, would you still have the want to be involved as a first responder, as a police officer with everything that is against any
young person considering that option. Now, you know, that's such a great question because when I became interested in law enforcement in the nineteen seventies, you know, cops were we were an important part of society. We were revered. When I showed up to test for my police department in nineteen eighty U there were four openings and there was about a thousand of us who showed up.
And now police recruitment is down nationwide forty seven percent. And in fact, in Saint Louis, Missouri, last year they gave a police testing informational session and no one showed up. It's so everybody you know, and it's just you know, And here's the thing, we you know, we need young people out there. This is not a this is not an old person's game law enforcement. We need young, ethical, edge cad fit people to come to the aid of their fellow citizens through the profession of law enforcement.
Well, and so your numbers are automatically cut short there because if you've seen the proficiency test in high schools around the country, you know how bad the educational system has become the public education system. So they're not preparing a lot of people that you're describing. So that just narrows your field down even more if they don't have the mental acuity because they can't simply read or write or do math on a consistent passing basis as they're graduating high school, So that
limits again your field of possible candidates, I would think. So there are a number of things working against police recruitment in twenty twenty four and things that
we I think need to seriously think about as a society. And I think some people are finally realizing the era of their ways and calling for the defunding of police and all these other measures that have gone in and around the country, and you've gotten the expected result, which was chaos, which was more crime, people not being safe in their own neighborhoods, in their own homes.
And you see this over and over again. So again, education and improving our education in this country is tantamount to anything moving the society forward, and it includes the police department. And you are so right. You know, police officers have to be, you know, well spoken. They have to be able to put the written word to paper and document. They have to be well versed in math, they have to have good communication skills.
So many things make a good police officer. And you know, that's what we heard back in twenty fourteen and then again in twenty twenty is we need police officers to be well rounded, we need to to be educated, we need to have them to have all this great training. And yet those same
people saying that started the defund the police movement. And so for example, in Austin, Texas, the first city to truly defund their police by one hundred and fifty million dollars by the way, in twenty twenty, what happened now it takes up to ten minutes for a nine to one to one dispatcher just to answer the phone, and you may or may not have a police officer show up to your call. They have a critical staffing shortage. Their
police union president says, we're on the brink of disaster. We are losing more police officers every year in Austin, Texas and in so many other police departments than we are able to recruit and hire. It's dangerous and it makes
it dangerous for the citizens. Talking to Betsy Brandner Smith of the National Police Association on the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW and Betsy here in Cincinnati back before the beginning of this year, as late as November, middle of November twenty twenty three, then FOP president Dan Hills, who has left since bemoan the fact that our employment levels are force levels in Cincinnati had dropped below nine hundred. The compliment that they like to carry, and that's the minimum compliment they
like. Excuse me, they like to carry as about one thy fifty three police officers. And currently at last check, we're slightly below that. We're slightly below the minimum required to actually do the job correctly. So even in cities where there's not been a big move to defund the police or reimagine the police, or whatever terminology the bureaucrats and politicians use to gratiate a certain certain
voter base that really hasn't even been a prominent discussion. But in Cincinnati yet we are still low what we need to effectively police the city of Cincinnati. So it's not just in places where they've made this major push, like Austin, Texas. But you know, I was joking with you before, and this is not Betsy saying this is me Gary Jeff Walker saying this. That's what gets you. That's what you get when you get a bunch of leftist
dope heads in charge of government. And in Oregon we've seen the same thing, the same kind of oh maybe we made a mistake with some of our measures. Tell me about what's happening in Oregon, Betsy, Well, I'll tell you what. In twenty twenty, the Oregon legislature overwhelmingly signed and approved Measure one ten, which decriminalized the possession of most illegal drugs, no, not just marijuana, but everything, heroin, fentanyl, you name it.
And the whole theory behind this, and I mean, of course, this made national news. It was that if we just are compassionate in the way that we handle people who possess and consume these terrible, terrible drugs, we will be able to get them treatment. They will want to get treatment. And that was the theory. You give them a ticket, here's your ticket for possessing heroin, and you give them a phone number, and they'll call
this phone number and get into treatment and it'll be great for everyone. So what happened. Thousands of people died of drug overdoses because there was absolutely unfettered drug use. They had an exponential increase in homelessness in things like retail theft and burglary. And then what happened, and this is what finally got people's
attention, this homeless drug encampments. They started moving out of the city and into the suburbs, and so finally people in the suburbs said, look, we can't deal with this, and they set up camp hotels in near schools
and things like that. So now the legislature is reversing itself and they're going to go back and criminalize many of these drugs because let's not forget the unfettered amount of fentanyl that is coming into this country from where I sit right now the southern border is killing tens of thousands of people, largely young Americans.
San Francisco is also reversing some of their ordinances and policies when it comes to hard drug use, because what we've got to do is, unfortunately, if you're addicted to heroin or fentanyl or whatever, and you're possessing it and using it, you need to be put in prisons so that we can a punish you for this bad behavior and b help you get off these terrible drugs. I gotta tell you a friend of mine named Rick Green, and this is
kind of on the topic of what you're talking about. He's a born again Christian and he was sentenced to six months in prison for this is years ago, for non payment of child support. And he was an alcoholic and he did all the things that you're really not supposed to do if you want to have a nice, full life. And it was because he was sent to prison that there God could reach him and spoke to him, and he asked God to take these addictions away from him, and you know, thankfully it
worked. Had he he always says, had that judge not sentenced him to prison. He doesn't know if he would have ever found the answers that he found while in jail. You know, I'm so glad you said that, because I just talked to a guy yesterday who works with inmates, high level felony inmates in an equine program, a horse program, and he said the
same thing that you know, we hear this abolish prison system. No, we can reform certain prison systems to give inmates more of a chance to right themselves, whether it's through religion, college, you know, horse and equine therapy, all of those different things there. But the point is you if we're going to have to put people in prison, because there has to be, you have to punish aberrant behavior. You have to punish it, but
then give people a way to rehabilitate. And some prisons do it great job. And you know here's the thing. You know which prisons do the best? Uh, Private prisons, for profit prisons. Absolutely. If you just think about this from a purely capitalistic standpoint, if a county is paying a private prison, for example, to deal with their inmates, if you don't deal with your inmates properly, in other words, they're not getting the services
you need. They keep, you know, repeat offending you're not going to keep paying them. Government doesn't do a lot of things. Well, and I am saying this as someone who's worked for the government since I was seventeen years old. If for profit prisons, in my opinion, are really the way to really truly help people. And yet this attack that we've had since twenty twenty on our criminal justice system, one of the things that they have
done is attack private prisons with a lot of misinformation. Well, you know, and then there are the George Sorows funded elected das in these large, mostly Democrat cities. You know. You mentioned San Francisco, Los Angeles, in New York, Alvin Bragg, and you can just go down to the Philadelphia in Saint Louis, Missouri. You look, in every situation, we
have prosecutors who are refusing to prosecute even violent crimes. You know. And you've seen what happened to the revolving door with those four or that group of illegals who were turned out they were gang members who attacked the police in New York City, the attacks on the subway, and you see that over and over and over. Talking to Betsy Brander Smith of the National Police Association. What's that website again, Betsy, If people are interested, it is Nationalpolice
dot Org. Just go right to it national police dot org and there's that donate button at the top, and there's also a button where you can sign up for our newsletters. Incredible, a lot of what we're talking about. There will be articles that go into depths. We have a great team of writers and a fantastic team of attorneys who are doing some amazing work. Well, Betsy, you just mentioned you're close to the border. Where exactly are
you geographically? I live in Tucson, Arizona, and so our border patrol sector here, the Tucson sector is where forty four percent of the illegal immigrants are coming into this country come through. So we see this every I'm also
a police trainer. Every week when I fly out somewhere, I see the line of the illegals who while I'm showing my state issued ID and allowing them to take my photo, there are the there's the illegal line where they have a brand new iPhone, an EBT card and cash in their pocket and don't let anybody tell you any different, and a Manila envelope and all they have to do is show their paperwork and that Manila envelope and there's an app on
their phone and they're on the plane before I am. Yeah, they're flying all over the country and people don't even understand that. Most people do not understand that our government is flying these illegal immigrants. And it drives me nuts. And somebody tries to confuse an immigrant with an illegal immigrant two totally d apples and oranges friends, but they want to group them all in together and
with refugees. But anyway, I digress. But it kills me to know that they are flying them all over the country without any kind of vetting other than the paper inside a Manila envelope, Betsy. And this is also what is handcuffing and making the job of police more and more difficult every day, every time, another thousand unvetted illegals, possible criminals from other countries are being allowed into our country with no checks whatsoever except maybe the state of Texas.
And they're getting fought tooth and nailed by the federal government for this as they try and protect their own state, which their constitution allowed to do. But anyway, this is a huge problem. It's not just the fentanyl, it's the people themselves, right, well, absolutely don't forget that. And this is something that Left doesn't like to talk about, the extraordinary sexual exploitation of especially women and young girls and young boys. And when we talk about illegals
who commit crime, very often they commit horrific crimes on other illegals. So by by encouraging people to come from at least one hundred and twenty different countries, it's not just from Mexico, we're we're setting up so many of these marginalized people, if you will, to be the victims of crime on their journey and then once they get into the United States. And don't forget So if you're an illegal, you know, no one comes across this border illegally
unless they do it through the Mexican cartels. So if you're going to come through with the cartels and present yourself to the border patrol, that costs about six thousand dollars. If you want to come across the southern border as one of the godaways, the people who do not present themselves to the border patrol, that's about twenty thousand dollars. So they're no longer the Mexican drug cartels. They are the Mexican cartels and they are operating in about forty different countries.
They are in every state of the Union, and they are the biggest organized crime situation in the world. And they have operational control of this southern border. If you want to know, we talk. Oh, go ahead, No, I was just gonna We're getting close to wrapping up here, but I wanted to get into your your website again, nationalpolice dot org. There's a donate button. This is it's a nonprofit charity that helps police officers all over the country and this is one of the people that's behind it.
Sergeant Betsy Brantnor Smith, thank you so much for being on the Nightcap great stuff, Thanks for having me. We find ourselves in trouble times, confusing times, and you may feel lost. When I hear his words, I can feel my heart go pitypat But remember, my friend Willie is here for you. Why can't more men be like Bill Cunningham, here to soothe your fears. I made him a friendship bracelet, like the great American that I
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game. I know that about him. And he loves Pete Rose and he likes being on with me, So you know what, there's nothing not to like about this guy. Dennis wild Man Walker, Good evening, and how are you, my friend? I'm doing all right. Can't complain, can't complain a busy, busy data talk about stuff, that's for sure. Yeah, first and foremost, let's talk Bengals, since today is the first day of free agency, and there may have been things transpired since we had this
chat. You know, it's on now. It's on now. But t Higgins apparently wants to be traded from Cincinnati since they did not reach a long term great deal and put him the franchise tag on him. What's wrong with him twenty one million dollars a year and he's not happy. That's what I mean. What ahot a chance to canntinue playing with Joe Burrow, A chance to be a part and it's already an integral part of I don't know that T Higgins goes anywhere else. And is that uh is that important to the
team he goes to? Then he is that he is to the Bengals, And you know that's the thing you got to think about. You got to think about, okay, not only taking care of me and my family and make sure I get the money that I'm owed, but also do I want to be a part of something really special? Do I? Is it about wins and losses? How much do you want to win? Tea? If you want to win, I think you'd want to stay here with your old
buddy Joe, don't you. I said, I said the same thing, Gary Jet when Jesse Bates Loup going to the Atlanta Falcons never got to win anything down there, They had their chance and the coach blew it. But going to the Atlanta Falcons and then I remember what was it c j Uzma or or whatever you say, he went, Yeah, money grab and ran to the Jets. Now now they've released him. I mean, I don't
know what these guys are thinking. That's a lot of us is just a money grab now, TJ h T T Higgins all right, T Higgins Right. I don't blame him for you know, wanting to see, you know,
if there's anything out there. But I think when the Bengals at the combine, you know, kind of like stepped around that duke Tobin saying, you know, we've got you know, we want him back, We want to never left the door open that there might be a trader, or he knew that down the road that come this day when players are allowed to start, you know, signing contracts, that Higgins was going to request the trade.
Now, Higgins might find me a suitable team out there, but again it comes down to wins and losses for me, and of course money, I mean, money's the main object for all these guys. But twenty one million, that's a lot of dough to turn down. But look at what the Look what the Bengals could get in return if they trade T Higgins. They're gonna get some you know, good compensation. The Bengals under doom Toobin and the rest of the team. They've always managed to find wide receivers.
Wide receivers are really a dime a dozen. And you know, damn well, at the Combine they were talking to wide receivers. They were you know, they were well, certainly, and there's another T. Higgins out there somewhere. He's not a once in an every twenty year kind of wide receiver. He's good and he's worth the money, but you know he's not the only one. Drew Samptel Drew Sample, by the way, did re sign with the Bengals on today, the first day of free agency, a three
year deal. And he is a good blocking tight end. He can catch the very reliable. Yes, he catch the ball. Yeah, So it's instead to have Drew back in the fold. But I know this and you know this too. If Joe Burrow can get the time, he's gonna find receivers open. So I don't think it's going to I'm not gonna lose any sleep if T. Higgins leaves, because they'll find another wide receiver to step in there. They'll be frotting at the bit to play with Joe Burrow.
And if the Bengals can deal him somewhere and get those two first round draft picks and what I'm a sore Thory pick. You know, go for it? Why what you know? T Higgins is not you know, I'm gonna take us to the super Bowl. It's going to be Joe Burrow that takes us to the super Bowl. And they got to protect him. And he'll fight if you you see, you've seen him play how many times? And
when he gets the time, he'll find a guy open. If they spend some of that twenty one million on the offensive line in the offseason, imagine what they could come up with, perhaps wild Man. They can't keep Joe Burrow off his back and to give him the time that he needs to find those wide receivers. So, uh, let's I guarantee you this. I guarantee you this, Gary, Jeff, you know, Duke Tobin, Katie Brown. They've all kept Joe. They've all kept Joe Burrow of what's going
on here. And then this is not a surprise to him. I'm sure this morning now they're letting him know what's going on down the road. I mean, if they're not, they're crazy. But I'm sure they've heard of that. Joe would know what's going on it and Joe understands it. You know, Joe understands that it's a business. It is, it's a business. I'm sure. I'm sure Joe Burrow has a hand in more general manager type duties than we will ever be allowed to know, wild Man, because
the franchise rests on his shoulders. Uh, let's talk about Joey Vado. The shopping carts are safe for the moment. He'll be playing in Buffalo for the Toronto Blue Jays minor League team. No contract. Uh, it's you know, just to invite to try and make the club. So, you know, maybe sad Joey will be off social media for a few days. Well, does it surprise you that he signs with this hometown team, No, it doesn't surprise doesn't surprise me at all, doesn't surprise me at all.
Now, Joey said, I saw an interview with him a couple of days ago. He said that his shoulder is much better than it's ever been. So maybe that's one of the problems when he was only hitting two hundred the last two years. We shall see, we shall see. Now he's going to a different league and different pitchers, and that that could be a big adjustment, and how much time will the blue Jays give him to get into major league shape and even you know, promote him to the big club.
I wouldn't be wild man, I would not be surprised if the Blue Jays sign him to like a ten day deal and then release him if he can't make the club, just so Joey can retire as a Toronto blue Jay. That was the team that he emulated, that he rooted for growing up in Canada, was a Toronto Blue Jays. He lives like right around the corner from the stadium where the Jays play. I mean right, that's that's
convenient. And if he makes the club again, the only sad thing for Cincinnati Reds fans is if he decides to retire as a Toronto blue Jay, just turning his back on the nineteen seasons he played here, you know what I mean? Oh, I get it, I get it. But you know, he's got to make the club. Yeah, you know, he's got to make the club and there might not be room for him because they've got a bunch of younger players there and what position is he going to play?
And Joe's forty years old? You know, I don't know he wants to accept that. But you know, the Father time catch us up to these baseball players, catch us up to all of us, wild man, even you or me. Yeah. So, I mean, a good luck to him up there if he can make the team. If he doesn't, well you know, and then then you know, they'll he'll know that it's time to hang it up. I mean, do you think that he'll finally decide to do that if he doesn't make the Blue Jays roster? Yeah?
I do, I really do. Yeah, so I do. So maybe maybe all of this moping around in the weird social media videos were just to kind of set this up. Joey knew that the road ended in Toronto, And I don't know. It's just it's very telling when no one else picks up a potential Baseball Hall of Famer who wants to play, and right that speaks volumes right there, that says a lot. Nobody wanted them. Nobody
wanted them. Why we know why? He can't? He can hardly run, he's not very good defensively anymore, and he's at two hundred the last two years. Yeah, and he's always it seems like he's always getting hurt. But if he gives me a stage a comeback, more power to him, more power and wild Man, if he comes back and he's still that guy who can't hit over two oh six, uh, then I think that
does diminish his career. And then that's the thing. You know, people always talk about the way Willie Mays went out and how how devastating that was to Willie's legacy. I mean, ultimately, he's still is in the Hall of Fame. He's still one of the great players, to say, hey, kids, one of the great players of all in Major League Baseball. But that last season, that did not help his legacy one iota. And it made people just kind of look at at Willia and go, come on,
man, you didn't need to do that. Why'd you do that? And that was like that was a you know, a deal to get some more money to keep playing, going back to New York and play for the Mets and get a nice little contract. But you can tell his skills were gone. What about my girl, Kaylyn Clark? Wild Man, come on, what about your girl Kaylyn Clark? What about four points, twelve rebounds, twelve assists IOWA for the third straight year Big ten tournament champions. My
god, I got to watch the uh uh, the overtime. I got the overtime where she came. You know, she stepped up big time, a couple of nice defensive plays. So it's uh, that's that. Storybooks. The storybook continues, YEP is still being written. And I got it flack last week from our conversation because I was just over the top in my
my celebration little everything. Caitlin. This guy who's uh and I don't know if this is his actual name, wild man, but the email says Patton mcgroin, and I'm sure it's not his real name, but Patton mcgroin insisted that I need to I'm too obsessed with Caitlin Clark and I need to get over it. So Patton mcgroin, if you're still listening, and if that is your real name, which I doubt highly, Patton mcgroin, stick it. I don't care what you say. I don't care what you say.
Brother. Yeah, now, okay, you see Xavier, not to you do you get into the Big East And they had Big twelve tournament. Yeah, they I keep I keep hearing these guys. I'm seven hundred ww. Some of the people that worked there. Oh they could, they could witness the Witness tournament. They get an automatic bid. They're not gonna win this tournament. Neither one of them are Are you kidding? Well? You see good bye, you see to get bye. Houston Donkeys will fly first.
They can't get by Marquette and Zaber and I go get buy no body. They're both gonna be Maybe they might win one game, but they're not winning this tournament and they're not getting a tournament did period. Yeah, I don't even think UK fans have any idea what. Yeah, they're gonna make the tournament, the NCAA tournament perhaps, But this Caliperi team once again has shown that they don't know how to play defense and they're not a real team.
They're very talented, but again, Calipari's genius at UK is all about recruiting and not about x'es and o's. Don't you know they had a quality they had a quality win Saturday at Tennessee. Man, I know, I know, number four team in the country. After Tennessee, after after at the right time, after Tennessee had just clinched the regular season SEC championship in a game that was basically meaningless to the vaar. Oh, come on, you're
gonna tell me that Tennessee laid down in Kentucky. No way. But I say they're just less motivated for a regular season one when they're for the SEC tournament. That's a huge rivalry. Man, Come on, give me a Wildcats some credit there. And like they they've won you know, three good they've had three straight quality wins. What are they gonna win the win the NC Noble Tournament. I doubt it. I doubt it, but you know, at least they're in the tournament or you see Xavier or not. And
I'm a huge ucy fan, huge huge. I go back to nineteen sixty three when I loved Iola. I haven't forgotten that I'm more of a UC fan than any of these these other other schools. But you know, you see and Xavier not going just face reality, folks. We're trying to make up stuff, throwing it against the wall and open it will stick because it's not. Oh, they got to they gotta gin up some excitement just so people listen to the last couple of games. Wild man, I guess,
I guess, And you didn't touch yet on NOBLEI Marte. Oh. I know we haven't talked about really about baseball outside of Joey Vodo yet I was getting there. And what I want to know, wild Man, and maybe you have an answer for me that no one else has unable to answer. What the hell is going on in the brain of somebody, after all this time, and after all the warnings and admonishments, and after all the penalties and suspensions, what the hell is wrong with the guy who thinks he can
get by with it? I said the exact thing. I said. They've been testing them in the minor leagues, so he's already been tested before, and now he goes out and thinks he's going to get by with it, and they're not gonna When when Major League Baseball shows up to do these testing, they don't call the Reds and say we're coming, you know, they just show up. Okay, we're gonna test you guys. That's the way it works. And he's a dumb ass. He's a real dumb ass.
I want to tell you, and I want to tell you this. You know, eighty games had hurts the Reds because they were but he was going to possibly play a lot of third base, so he hurts the Reds here before the season starts. When he comes to back the first time a Great American Ballpark, the fans should stand up and boo him so loud his first did bat. But you know what, they won't. There'll be jackasses standing up clapping clapping form and cheering form and the and that's not that's just so
wrong because he really hurt the Reds. But you know, go out and do any stupid, dumb whatever whatever he took to think he wasn't going to get tested or get caught, and he should be booed loudly the very first time he comes up to the plate at Great American Ballpark. Apparently it was a steroid to help him heal faster. Oh, my ass, I always hear that stuff on Wait, we've got you called him a dumb ass. You say, jackasses will stand up and cheer for him when he comes back
from his suspension if he does. And I just said, and you said, my ass, the only thing you missed was the brass Ass, which is right across the street from the bar where I work. On Thursday, I saw I saw morgana dance there years ago. Morgana The Kissing vandit. Yeah, I saw her dance there. Yeah. Now she wasn't really a looker, was she. I mean, you couldn't look away back in the days, back in the day, she was pretty cute, she was.
Yeah, oh yeah, you don't think you don't think Morgana had butterface disease? No, not back in to day, No, not at all at all. All right. I never saw an up close Morgana in her heyday. She had a tremendous body. I know that she did have. She did have some certain attributes she did. Yeah, so Novelle Marte. Not on the not on the run, not getting paid for for eighty games payay,
so not eligible for the postseason if the Reds make the playoffs. There you arrogain, see there there he hurts the Reds by being stupid, by being a dumb ass. And I'm telling you, Gary, Jeff, I hope, I hope I have tickets for that game, because I will be one. I will be booing him his first at bat, not just not a second at back, not a stirt at bat, but his very first
at bat. He should be booed loudly, all right. So any other news and notes from the Red spring training season, which, by the way, they're playing here on seven hundred W WELW tomorrow night, so I've got a very abbreviated night cap tomorrow. If I'm making out at all, it'll be about eleven thirty five. But probably think, you know, Frankie Mondaz is his opening day starter. I right, some people are getting all upset about that. Why isn't it Hunter Green? You know, Hunter Green has
already done it two years in a row. Give it to somebody else. And Frankie Montdaz, you know, they they're really high on him. They're paying him a lot of money. And I'll let them the opening days this one game. It's not the whole damn season. So you know, for Frankie Montdaz, that's a you know, that's a that's a nice honor to have and to move on whatever. Yeah, well, you know, Hunter Green actually hasn't He hasn't shown us all the promise that we thought he held
as he came up from the miners and made his appearance. I mean, he's pitched good and starts, but you know, been very very hurt h you know, prone to being injured, and has not yet blossomed into the kind of starting picture that the Reds and their fantasy. Yeah, the guy has all the talent they really does, and I kind of look at him and compare. I don't like to make comparisons, but I remember Tom glav
On the Hall of Fame picture for the Braves. Yeah, you know, he had a you know, he started out really slow too, and then I think it took him two or three maybe four years, and then he kicked it in gear. And that's why he's in the Halloway weed as Tope. He's not another Homer Bailey. Uh wild Man, thank you? Yeah? With that, will we'll we'll say I do and uh, I'll talk to you soon. Brother. Okay, all right, get your runs ready for no vida Marte. Okay, you're right right, I got it The
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talk to you. So today I just wanted to hit you with this because this screamed at me. In fact, I started the show talking about it and actually reading from the article from the Epic Times. UH hidden January sixth transgres revealed undermining the House Committee's claim on j six that Donald J. Trump there was no evidence that then President Trump tried to secure the capital ahead of
January sixth. And what's happened here is one of the representatives on the committee, Barry Laudermilk out of Georgia, released this transcript and apparently they withheld the statement and the testimony of one Anthony Ornado, who was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff during the breach. He told the committee that he overheard Mark Meadows, who'd been then chiefs' staff, on the phone with the Washington mayor, Maury ol bow wowweuser trying to make sure that they had everything they needed
for January. They knew this was going to be a big event, and Donald Trump ordered as many as ten thousand national security troops to be to protect the Capitol that day. He offered the help to Mayor Bowser, but they hid the transcript from the j six committee and it never was released to the public until now. And I said, mister Meadows wanted to know if she needed any more guardsmen, and I remember the number ten thousand coming up of
the President wants to make sure you have enough. He's willing to ask for ten thousand, which Donald Trump testified to earlier on And apparently this ornado speaking to the House Select Committee said, you know, he, after his original testimony that the President did ask for this security had told them no, I don't remember anything like that, when in fact it's documented and there's a transcript that shows that President Trump did not want all of the craziness of Januaryruary sixth
at the Capitol. He knew the importance of it and tried to stop it, and yet they've got him on trial for January sixth. So there is there's a pay per trayal that has been unleashed. Now. It's kind of like Hunter Biden and the laptop and emails and texts, which they keep ignoring. By the way, in the case of Hunter Biden, but the JASICS Select Committee was ignoring testimony and did not release this document, this transcript when
they released their report. Surprise, surprise, right, yeah, you know, I wish we could be surprised. You know, does any of us seem believable? Well? Yeah, and it sounds like the act. It doesn't exactly sound like the act of an insurrectionist, does it. No, if you're going to I mean, that's the point. They have manufactured these labels, these bigoted, hateful labels, so they could justify their law fare on a story that is patently untrue, and they have censored and quashed what
do they call it. I love this word exculpatory. I'm not a lawyer, but I love that word exculpatory evidence. Yes, and and this is not the act of an insurrectionist, but I seem to remember Nancy Pelosi denying extra police and National Guard, So does that make her an insurrectionists? Just as they called the they called the Senator's sergeant in arms the same question, Chuck Schumer's got and and he said, no, we don't, We don't
need the extra help. Maryel Bowser had ten thousand prospective National Guard troops. We add her beck and call. All she had to do was say the word, and President Trump asked her. Mark Meadows asked her, do you need some help? Now? We got it? And they sent three hundred and forty. They could have sent ten. You think if they'd had ten thousand National guardsmen there at the Capitol, that any of the nonsense that happened
that was criminal would have happened. Hell no. Well but if you've got all those undercover FBI and CIA whatever they were agents, oh, in the crowd, Yes, there in the crowd, egging people on doing things that were wrong in order to create the maximum event for later, which we saw it later was a show trial that went on all last summer, setting up exactly this is what they do. It's the wrap around smere or. Nancy
Pelosi told us, we create the problem. We blamed the problem on her enemies, and then we get to where we really want to go and use that problem as the justification for where we really want to go, whether it is new legislation against people's rights or whether it's to prosecute with law fare.
Their greatest political opponent is always the same, and yet there's way too many people still who fall for it. Let me just tell you one thing that does you know that does concern me, and that is to depend on the propaganda media that keeps quiet and avoids and ignores things that are not part of
the radical leftist agenda. You know, we cannot possibly depend on them to report a story of them keeping out Exculpatory means not when you have a propaganda media that is going to keep going on their narrative no matter what the facts. Yep, absolutely right. I'll read you one headline and I'll let you guess where this headline's from. Oscars observes a moment of silence for undocumented murderer tragically called illegal. It's probably the Babylon Saphire. It's not, no,
it's not now. How about that? How about that? The fact that they will not call this Venezuelan gang matter. This gang member from Venezuela who murdered Lake and Riley and Georgia, they won't call him illegal. I mean, even Joe Biden, in his potted plant missed the other night at the State of the Union addressed called him illegal and got flak from the other Democrats for doing it. Apologized, of course he did, because because that was
really the only outrage in that whole sentence. It wasn't murdering a sweet nursing student who they profess to care about women. They profess to care about social justice, but they don't know their social justice is. Don't call them illegals, call them undocumented. Now they're calling them newcomers, right, Just don't put them in my backyard. Put them in other people's backyard. My question also has been I don't know if I asked you this last time. Now
suddenly Biden is professing to care about illegals. I mean, oh, well, you know, see, I'm going to call it illegals because that is the legal term illegal alien. So now he cares about the border. Why
is he not racist or xenophobic for caring about the border. Why Because it's a campaign year, right, and so I guess we've all been given special dispensation to have the right to talk about the invasion of our country because it's an election yere and people need to I don't know the brazenness with which they support these policies that are so patently destructive of our country. And then the only difference in the election here is they cried crocodile tears about it and claim
that somebody stopped them from doing the right thing. That's one of the greatest tactics they use. They have so much power, but they're still the victims of the Republicans were in the minorities. It's right, it's a petty complaint about Biden's s O tu which I could come up with other things that that, you know, anagram stance were, but I won't. But I'd love to hear it off. Okay, maybe maybe, but no. What I'm
saying is that it's a petty complaint. But he has a speech in front of him, he's got a pen with her name on it, and still cannot get the name of the sweet murdered nursing student right in front it Riley. But you know, you know what, that's not petty at all, because it is a painful example of the fact that he doesn't know who she is. He has no idea, nor does he care, no nor does
he care. What I think is amazing is did I don't even have it in front of me, the number of gas that he went to Pennsylvania the day after the State of the Union and he was back to his old shuffling, mumbling, doesn't know where he is, talks under his breath. God, all of a sudden, for one evening it remember that one, Charlie, they gave him drugs and suddenly he was an angry politician, which it seems to be. All he's able to get to do is to play angry,
loud and dictatorial. But the rest of the time, you know, he's a doddering fool who can't remember where he is. Karen as someone who as someone who foolishly did plenty of cocaine back in the late eighties and early nineties. That had all the ear marks and I'm not saying that's what it was, but that had all the ear marks of somebody being juiced up on
coke. It really did. Do you remember when Tucker Carlson's showed one of the communist country leaders with this massive biter on the side of his neck that none of the people were allowed to comment or call attention to. It was like this massive grapefruit or something on his neck. But we're all playing along, supposedly because of new censorship in the United States of America. We're supposed to play along, not just say the emperor has closed. But we are
not supposed to see what we see. And I think that's one of the most beautiful things we can do is keep telling the truth, keep using the mouth God gave us to see what we say, see what we see, say what's on our minds, and recognize that words are different than actions. And this country was founded. Don't get me started. I'm on a soobush on the tolerance for descent and differences of opinion. My God, that's the way my people learn Torah by arguing every point. They don't take guns out
and shoot each other. They learn from descent and from an analys and debates, and that is what we must do. Yeah, oh absolutely, But like I said, somebody asked me if I watched any of the State of the Union. I said, well, like most State of the Unions, depending on you know, no matter who the president is, unless it's a lame duck who's not running for office, the State of the Union address given by the president, whomever that may be, during an election year, is
always a campaign speech. And I said, I've known I wasn't voting for him like forever, So no campaign speech or no amount of a juiced up, yelling, angry old man is going to sway me one way or the other. So no, I didn't watch because I seriously, in any presidency, if you're watching a State of the Union address and it's a presidential election year, it's going to be a campaign speech. It's not going to be. This was more of a campaign speech than anybody's ever had the adapts need
to make. I wouldn't submit that. It's because the people writing this speech, as we already know, he can't even read the teleprompter, let alone write what's on you sure, I don't think they understand what the role. They don't even know enough to pretend that this is a State of the Union speech. They don't know that the State of the Union speech, believe it or not, is supposed to inform the public about the state of the union, and the people he serves. See, they don't know that, so,
you know, they don't know that's what it is. Well, there are too many people in this country, Karen, Kathleen who think that we're there to serve them and not the other way around. That is the great disconnect is that no, they are actually our employees. We pay their salary. We put them in their positions to do a job for us, not to do a job on us or for us to do a job for them.
You know, it's not it's not that hard to really understand if you know how the government is supposed to work as opposed to the way it actually is or isn't working right now. Yeah, but that horse is out of the barn a long time ago with unelected bureaucrats such that even the president is not really making policy when you have so many unelected bureaucrats who don't really care who's president. No, and that's one of the reasons Washington, DC needs
to be decentralized. The entire federal government does, and we need to eliminate about I don't know ten or twelve of the agencies that are full of those bureaucrats and lifelong Beltway people who live and breathe to spend our money, and they're going to fight tooth and nail for that to happen again. I am redundant. The arsonists are in charge of the fire brigade. Who's going to
hold them accountable when they hold the reins of holding others accountable? Like law a budding citizens daring to say what's on their mind, daring to protest about pornography on grade school shelves for third graders. You know, I seem to remember we never had a disagreement about that until now. We used to say, you know, we can put grades on movies because we didn't think it was good for a six year old to watch Deep Throat. But apparently all
our values have changed. Nobody told us right. Everything that is right is now wrong, everything that is wrong is now right, and it's all meant to tear down our society. That's why we have to hold fast to our culture and our principles are most deeply held believes in principles. Heard some good news today, how long we have go ahead? That that there is a
huge populist movement. Oddly, Mike Pence, the great supposed Republican who really isn't is spent, is going to spend millions of dollars to fight populism. And the populist movement in Europe is growing because it's the populace who believe in individ jew wild freedom. Apparently Mike Pence doesn't believe in that, but there is a huge movement in that direction. Uh. They may have to educate Americans as to what America is still supposed to be about. Just just remember
Karen forgotten. If you see Mike Pence smiling, he probably just has a gas. Have a good evening, dear, thank you. This is the nightcap on seven hundred w LW. In today's Marketers Report, Kate Cron, chief brand officer of Moderna, weighs in on the speed of audio production in this age and seven hundred WLW. One of our favorite regular guests joins us in this half hour. He is the executive director of the Climate Science Coalition.
He is the author of several outstanding books about the environment, about energy, about climatism, and climate change, and that includes, of course his latest book, which was out in August of last year, called Green Breakdown The Coming Renewable Energy Failure. Please welcome back to the show. Steve Gorham
Hi, Steve Hi, Gary, Jeff. Great to join you, always good to have you on, Steve with like I like to say, the real information, not the the historyonic, not the trumped up bad word probably information you get on a regular bases from so called mainstream news outlets and from the UN and from all of these climate cultists who have grabbed the public's ear for the last twenty years telling us that unless we stop driving cars and using
fossil fuels, we were going to send a planet to an early grave because of global warming, rising sea depleting glaciers and ice packs, and at every turn over really the last one hundred, one hundred and fifty years, because these alarmists have been out there for a long time with different agendas, mind
you, but at every turn their predictions have gone south. Because it was obvious when we got to a certain date, a certain drop dead date, that if we didn't start doing this and stop doing that, we were all going to die. Well, we're well past those dates, and there have
been a few that have been eclipsed recently. As far as predictions made, you know, fifteen twenty years ago, maybe not even that long ago, have been proven to be false because the data was bad or flawed, or because people just had an agenda, which is usually the case that has nothing to do with science. So number one, do you think people are Steve? Do you think people are finally waking up to the truth about climate and
man's participation in climate change. Yeah, that's a tough question. I don't know if they are. And you're right, alarm is very very effective. People have been announcing alarm for a long long time now, and it's picked up by the press. It makes good headlines everything from population to y two K to all sorts of different things, and climate is certainly the biggest one
on the list. I think what we are seeing, though, is that we are seeing the first signs of breakdown because some of these things just are not are not going to be very effective, and they're way too expensive. So we're starting to see some of that. But it seems like the true believers in climatism, the fear of human cause global warming, are marching forward, and you know, think they're doing something good by forcing things on all
the rest of the people. Not so surprisingly cities like Chicago and New York. In fact, those two specifically just vile lawsuits against corporations for damages from climate change that they said that these these corporations had caused. You think these will be successful, Steve, Yeah. Two big new lawsuits, one with Chicago. They're suing five oil companies, accusing them first of climate change destruction and then fraud. And it's amazing the amount of suits. We have.
A report by the United Nations three years ago identified fifteen hundred new cases filed in thirty eight cities. By the way, twelve hundred of those, eighty percent were filed in the United States. That was up seventy five percent in just three years. So we have all these climate cases being filed, but they do have a pretty high bar. First off, they have to show
standing. In other words, they have to show that they were damaged the plaintiffs, so the city of Chicago has to show that it was damaged somehow by what the oil companies are doing. Second, they have to they have to show that the injury was caused by the oil companies. And the third is there has to be a remedy the court could put into place. And so far, I don't know of a single case where monetary damages have come
out of an oil company. Despite many many cases being filed, Oakland and San Francisco filed cases were defeated in court, although they've appealed and they're still in appeal. The City of New York also filed against oil companies and was defeated and then defeated in the appellate court, so they're not doing very well. The second case, though, is pretty interesting. New York just filed and they're actually suing a beef producer for the environmental damage they have, and
it's a little bit of their saying. The beef producer, JBSUSA, has said it is going to have zero greenhouse gas emissions by twenty forty and the Attorney General of New York claims that they're misrepresenting, that that's greenwashing and they won't be able to achieve it. So it's a little bit strange, a little bit different. But the United Nations blames says about twenty percent of the world's greenhouse gases are caused by agricultures, so that's what they're going after.
Well, it's it's funny that they said that they're misrepresenting when the other side misrepresents all the time, taking things out of context and blowing things up and exaggerating things and just putting out false material. Is meat consumption destroying the climate, that's the question, Steve Gorum, Yeah, it is pretty amazing. Well, we do have all those cows out there who are belting, and so from both ends they're getting, uh, we're getting greenhouse gases. But
the United Nations, you know, has a solution for this. They have been urging for quite a few years now that people eat insects to fight world hunger. Yes, and I'm quoting the un of Food and Agricultural Organization quote. Insects are reported to emit less greenhouse gases and less ammonia than cattle or cakes, and they require significantly significantly less land or water than cattle rearing. So they've got their solution. Well, what about what held on? What
about the report that I saw years ago. I don't know the validity of it, but there was that turmite flatulence was the number one producer of methane on the planet. I think that's probably true. Termites submit a lot of a methane. Nothing is a natural thing that nature emits puts in the atmosphere all the time, so it's doubtful that we can have a big effect.
But there are all these crazy headlines, you know, the U there was one study that said feeding concluded that feeding cattle seaweed would reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, so much for grass fed beef. And another one where they were actually potty training cows to try and get them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Whoa, Now, how do you potty train a cow? Well, I don't know. I guess you get it to go, and I and a container where you can take the take the pool away and it doesn't sit there
and emit methane. You know, that'd be a pretty good trick. But you know, probably both of these these, by the way, these are sidebars in my books. I have all these sidebars of real headlines of the crazy climate stuff going on. But both these these were probably paid for by government funding. You know, they get funding to do these kind of studies your tax dollars. So that's just another ugly part of this. Well,
you know. And the thing is if they do not provide the kind of data that the government wants to push, then the funding will be cut off. If you or if you solve this is the thing about government bureaucracies in general. And the funding that you're talking about for the climatism cult is that if you prove that there's no problem where you solve the problem, the money
goes away. So that there has to be a problem that's continually propped up that they have to be studying in order to keep getting the money coming. Yeah, and the funds are vasked for all of this stuff. That really is amazing what we spend nowadays from the government takes you know, once you send us text dollars off, the no longer years and so they can use the one all sorts of foolish things, and much of that is climate.
Another example is two decades ago, only four percent of world aid from wealthy nations to developing nations was tied to climate. Now it's like a quarter of all the aid is tied to a climate project. So it's just it's just become the the existence for so many different things going on in this crazy world. Steve Gorham, the author of Green Breakdown, The Coming Failure of Green Energy. I mean it's it's starting to fall on its face a little bit,
Steve. As you mentioned, there have been several famous offshore wind farms that have ceased production because of a myriad of different issues from wildlife to the fact that it's just expensive and not very efficient at all in serving the purpose that they'd hoped it had as a renewable energy source. A recent study found that human breathing contributes to climate change. Should we should we all stop breathing or just aoc That was a study in England. They studied that and said
that contributes to climate change. It is true that each person exhales about two pounds of carbon dioxide every single day. And I actually when I wrote an article a few years ago, they were fighting about the Keystone XL pipeline, and I pointed out that housecats in the United States submit more greenhouse gases than that pipeline would, or whatever connected to the pipeline. And it has just gotten so crazy. Second book, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of
Climatism, I talked about the law that they passed in Australia. They have all these camels, wild camels that are roaming Australia, about one point two million of them, and somebody computed that each one of those camels emits about a ton of carbon dioxide equivalent methane gas per year. And so in twenty eleven they actually passed the Australian Carbon Farming Initiative Act that called for quote the reduction of methane amissions through the management in a humane manner of faral goats,
faral deer, faro pigs or faral camels. And literally you could go out and shoot these beasts and earn carbon credits. Jeez. Hillary Clinton, who has never gotten one vote from me, called for us to track climate deaths, and you've done just that in Green Breakdown. So okay, this is hundreds of thousands of annual deaths or this. The numbers are in hundreds of
thousands, tracking from nineteen hundred through twenty twenty. In nineteen hundred, and these are deaths from natural disasters, which of course they always linked to man made climate change. It increases the tornadoes and the hurricanes, and the mad storms and the snow storms and whatever kind of major weather events they can point to and tie it to man made cause climate change. So in nineteen hundred,
for example, there were about one hundred and fifty thousand. From what I'm reading here on the charts, are these worldwide, worldwide deaths from disasters. These are worldwide average number of deaths per year, right, and now it's down to about, you know, maybe thirty thirty thousand a year. And we had some real big years, as you mentioned, nineteen twenty, we were only over five hundred thousand deaths annually from disasters. This data comes
from m DAT, which is the International Disaster Database. And so the deaths have gone down about ninety percent in the last one hundred years. And oh, by the way, global population has increased maybe four or five times since then. So it's going to be a real tough case for missus Clinton to say that climate deaths are increasing, But that's what she is trying to point out. Yeah, she loves difficulties. She's been married to Bill Clinton for
how many years. In your recent book, Green Breakdown, you predicted the world is heading for a renewable energy failure, and I kind of reference this with the offshore windmill projects that have shut down recently. Do you see other signs of the coming breakdown, Steve, Yeah, we do. There is just an announcement in the last month the big Wall Street firms are pulling out of their climate commitments. JP Morgan, State Street Pimco all pulled out of
a group called Climate Action one hundred. We also had Vanguard that has downgraded things. Now, a big part of this is ESG Environmental, Social and Governance. But that ESG it was what corporations are supposed to be doing, but ahead like a real big E and the environmental mian get rid of oil and gas and coal and any lending for that. But we had a bunch
of states that said we're not going to invest in your pension funds. Texas and Florida and West Virginia said that, and so the Wall Street firms said, you know, this is not such a good idea. And then the second thing is that these funds that have invested in renewables that they have are just doing terrible. The price of major renewable firms has been falling in the last three years on stock markets. So this is a sign of the green
breakdown. The financial community is saying, better pull back on this a little bit. Yeah. I mean black Rock, for example, which is not not the most favorable to America kind of corporations. No matter what they will tell you, they're they're also pulling back, as you just mentioned on climate change pledges. Yeah, kind of like, kind of like China and India
insisting the United States cut back on our carbon commissions. Well, they keep on building coal powered plants and oil wells all over their own countries to pump the coal out of the ground. So is there is there even a shot we could get to net zero emissions by twenty fifty We're talking about twenty six years from now. Is there any shot? At ten said, this is
beyond the reach our goal, This is impossibility. The world as the leaders of the world, the intellectuals, have said, we need to get to net zero by twenty fifty, get rid of all coal, oil, and natural gas capture emissions wherever we can. I hope your listeners know that nothing we do is zero emissions. If you build any kind of building and you put copper in it, you put glass in it, and you put ceramic in it, and steel and wood, all of those things emit carbon dioxide
emissions when they're created and when they're transported. You can't even build a grass hut that is zero missions. If you cut down grass and you cut down wood and build a hut, you emit carbon dioxide. I mean, that's just the way the world is, so we're not going to get to net zero. This is going to crash and that's part of the coming Green Breakdown. Where can people get your book, Steve, Yeah, they can go to my website Steve Gorham G O R E H A M dot com and
I'll send them a signed copy. It's also on Amazon. There are ebooks as well. And educate yourselves and push back on your political leaders. And I'm that solar field they're trying to put next to your house, and let's get back to low cost, reliable energy. Indeed, here here, Steve Gorham, Green Breakdown is the book. Pick it up while you can before they outlaw it because of the great carbon emissions that were used in producing the book. Steve Gorham, thank you very much, sir. Thanks Hey,
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what we've got here. Roco. And I've got to tell you to start with, because you always give me some really great suggestions of being well, of being healthy. That's the point of having you on here, because a lot of people don't understand how important some things are to your own personal health, and they never think about it. Of course, they're never told about it in the mainstream media because there are too many people looking to make money
off of their illness. So so that's not truth. I mean that's absolutely words were better spoken. So so welcome, And the question I have this week just because seemingly more than ever before, my television has been inundated with ads for laxatives, for different kinds of laxatives, And I just wondered if there's a good laxative on the market, or should you even have to take
laxatives at all? And I have a feeling I know what your answer is going to be, but I just wanted to put it out there because a lot of people apparently there's a market for people who need an easy pass, so to speak. Well, I did. You're also asking me this because you're saying that a lot of your if your listeners are getting older and they're having troubles asking you because I'm having a problem with constipation, Rackel, what
should I do? What should this is? This is now a personal reference, right, this is a personal audience with the Rocco Pope to find out about my own constipation jammed up in jelly type. Well, so there is really no good laxative out there. Just to put that out there, there's now Now can you use a laxative for h to temporarily get over whatever impass you might have? Right? Yes, I don't recommend any of the any of the storeboard laxatives out there, because even the ones that claim to be
natural, well, you know, everything's natural now. I mean, if it has if it's if it's carbon based, you can label it. You can label it. Yeah yeah. So so it's kind of like stuff that would never had gluten in it now has gluten free on the top. Oh yeah, it's just marketing like like like a popsicle is now gluten free. But anyway, soives and so alaxatives. I I don't like people are using
a laxives because, uh, the intestinal track is a muscular system. So so there's something called uh uh, well a peristalsis, okay, And peristalsis is the is the intestinal tracks a muscular a contraction and when it does that, it literally pushes the waste through your intestinal track from the small antestine to the well, from the colon too small to large and then and so that's why I don't like to atrophy that muscular contraction because the walls of your intestine
are are actually a muscle. So when you use laxatives, you'll and on a regular basis, not intimittently, you know, every every you know, like once every a couple of years. What you're saying is when you actually
are using you're properly your natural system. You're actually exercising your intestines. You're supposed to be yeah, oh no, no, absolutely yeah, And so if you that's why, like that whole adage about eat your roughage and and all that, that's really not a great thing to do because you actually atrophy. You're now it's it's good for your gut to to take in a ruffage for the prebiotics and the post biotics and the fiber, but taken in too
much fiber. And that's what a lot of the laxatives are. You're just overloading your system with fiber. Yes, you're just and and you're using that fiber to do what peristalsis is supposed to be doing. It's just pushing. It's just helping ease the push. Well, you're not supposed to. It's supposed to be a muscular a contraction and then so what but it's not supposed to it's not supposed to be like childbirth though it's not. It's not.
So that's the reason why you want to always make sure that are your hydrated and you have all your minerals in you so a phosphorus, sodium, a potassium, especially a potassium, and and then a magnesium. And there's there's a better ways now. A lot of times when people are like clogged up or the or they're stopped up, what I recommend is to do a vitamin C powder flush. And so you can get us some some ascorbic acid powder. You put it in some water and you take it, uh, you
take it every hour on the hour until you literally get a diarrhea. Now, of course diarrhea is not the most comfortable thing to do, but it the vitamin C flush actually breaks up whatever is clogging you. And most of the time, just for your listeners to know, is that when you get constipated, a lot of the time it's kind of like a clogged artery. Your waiste starts to stick to the side walls of your of your intestine. There's never a time where you just have this big hunk of like poop and
it's it's just right there and it's just blocking everything. It's usually a build
up over over time. And so that's why I like doing a vitamin C flush or just taking you know, just taking a little more a little more a magnesium and so so then a magnesium and then also h like the vitamin C flush and then if if it's not really that crazy and you're not really that stopped up, but you're feeling a little un you know, a little easy, Yeah, you can take some EMC TE oil and and take like a teaspoon and a half to like three teaspoons and and you'll be flowing perfectly.
Now where do I get MCT oil? You get empty oil. I'm here in in in Cinnati. You go to Fresh Time, Whole Foods, any place supplements, yeah, any any place that has a good line of supplements. All right. Rock O Costelano, our guest on the Nightcap on seven hundred WLWO RN tuts up deep and it is done. You can just that baby cookbae. Wow, it's the Wrens in White Sock Comorrow night at eight thirty five or seven hundred WLW and seven hundred wlw's live stream on the
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one seven eight one subject to lender approval, Equal housing lender reds. Fans Now is the time you get your twenty twenty four season tickets. And I think that it's it's a subject that while is, you know, maybe icky to explore for some, it's something we all have to deal with. Let's face it, as human beings, and well, if you're not pooping, you're not living you're not living. That's really that needs to be a bumper sticker. If you're not pooping, you're not living, baby, You're not.
And and here's just a few. I know this is going to get even more gross as we start. Well no, no, whenever, oh no no. But I'm just saying, like people are going to be listening and the why are they talking about poop? Well, healthy poop just to let you know, okay needs to be a light clay Coloray, okay, So when your guts working on all twelve cylinders, you're your poop needs to be a light brown a clay will color. And the darker it gets,
the worst your gut is. And and most likely whenever it's like it's like a black or a dark brown. A black. You're taking in a way too much sugar, So you know, stop eating the Oreo cookies and the pop dots. And when I was still drinking to excess, I still drink too much. But when I was drinking to real excess, the yeah, what was the result was not good? It was black? It was brown, you know, dark brown. It wasn't And I've noticed that since I'm
not doing that anymore, I have more regular bowel movements. And you know, we were having this discussion Roco about the NFL Combine and the draft that's just coming up, and well, are you are you equating the NFL to boop? Now, well, let me connect the dots boy to this conversation.
And I was just thinking that along with all the tests they do at the NFL combines, where these all thirty two NFL teams gather in a place like Indianapolis like they did last week or whenever it was, to try again ascertain what they're going to do when the draft, which come up next month in April. And you know, they do all these measurements of these players, good college football players from all around the country that are appearing at the
combine to show their wares so to speak. Yeah, bench pressing, they do, the weights, they do, the forty they do, the leaping, the jumping, Yeah, a vertical jump, a vertical jump. And do you think since NFL teams invest so much money in these young players, they'd want to find out what their gut health was like? Do you think that they should be required to provide a stool sample at the NFL Combine.
So so, the players, you know, are putting their entire body of work, so to speak, their entire health out there to be evaluated. I mean, they do the interview where they want to find out, you know, what the condition of the player's mind is. Wouldn't it be important for them to know the condition of the player's gut. Well, I'm a big testing guy. I really like for people to be tested for for really
everything, and and especially now. I mean I don't know if I would go as as far as to checking the poop, but it's not a bad idea now that you bring it up, because I don't think that they do enough at the combine. I've been to many many a combine oh yeah, oh yeah, and and they don't do they do ridiculous testing and nobody nothing equates from your bench press or your squats or your deadlifts or or or even
at the forty that doesn't. There's there's so many better, uh like testing, Like there's sensor testing and and you know what I would have like blood tests and also a poop test to see if they're if they're healthy health. You know, a gut health leads to brain health and and you know, if you have a guy who has been playing football for you know, since he was in Peewee's. I would want to know about his gut health. Actually, I would want to know about his brain up. I want to
see. I want to see scans. I want to see and then you could test. We have beautiful censors out there now, and you put like the censors on you and you and you run and you jump and you do all these different things, and they can actually tell you if you're going if if you have the potential to get injured. Now, these people they pay so much money, I mean millions and millions of dollars, and they're not
doing the right thing. I was talking tomorrow or the other day, you know, at the party about about how bad these people don't take care of the of their players. They just don't take care of them. They're they're basically a number that costs millions of dollars. And it drives me great. And I'm not surprised that Joe Burrows kept everything secret and went outside of Cincinnati to get his risk fixed, because it's I don't see anything good in the
in the NFL anymore. And these teams need to start taking care of these young men. And it's not just the NFL. You talk about Major League Baseball that, well, major League Baseball. The Cincinnati Reds drive me absolutely insane. Their pitchers are getting hurt and they're barely they're barely pitching and hit like they used to. I mean, guys out there and they're getting a Tommy john A surgery every other day now, and that's like, that's a
serious misalignment when you're throwing. I mean, I could go on and on. I mean, you you hit a really, really a big hotspot with with me, because I think that the Reds need to just flush their whole medical team down the toilet and start new and build new, because there's technologies and there's and there's modalities out there that should be in every single training room,
you know, like class four laises. Every single room should have a Class folaiser, a PMF, a cold plunges, and they should have a massage chairs. They should literally have you know, a human touch a massage chair or like three you know, for these guys. But you know, I've told my wife the same thing. We need to get that massage chair,
honey. Well well, and and you would be right, so well, yeah, because because I'd like to score some more touchdowns at home, if you know what I mean exactly, And I got to be relaxed and in shape to do that well. And when you're more relaxed, everything else flows. That's right. Just circling back, it makes it easier to spike the ball in the end zone. There you go, Rocco Costellano, my friend, my pads On. It's good to see you, brother, always,
always great to be here. This is the nightcap at seven hundred WLW. Well, that's it. That's all, folks for this nightcap. Tomorrow we may be with you briefly in this half hour after Red Spring Training baseball. Yes, tis the season, and we're now just what seventeen days away less than that from the start of the regular Red season here in the home of the Reds, and we'll bring you all those games throughout the spring and
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