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At 700 WLW909, Tuesday morning. Dan Carroll for Scott Sloan. Scott Sloan taking the week off and Mike Allen and I get to split the duties. He had Mike Allen yesterday. And he's got Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I got Tuesday, Thursday. So that is how that week unfolds for you. Glad to be here as always. Glad you are here as well. I have not been on the air. since the revelations came to light with the release of the diary written by Anthony Fauci, Dr. Anthony Fauci. And here's a guy back in the day, you couldn't get him off TV. Every time you turn, I remember one time I'm watching the Sunday shows and I'm flipping around. I always flip around with the Sunday shows. And I turn on the Sunday shows and he's on the meet the press. And then I turn on CBS and he's on Face the Nation. And then I turn on ABC and he's there with George Stephanopoul, like all at the same time. So obviously he recorded the interviews ahead of time and they ran them at the same time. But for a guy that could not get himself off the TV, he went before the committee headed up by Rand Paul. And of course he pleaded the fifth. And I think that is going to be. a shameful legacy that he leaves behind. Here to discuss this and other matters happening in the news right now. My old friend Eric Methaney, who is, he is an attorney, social commentator, lives in Florida, one of the most sought after defense attorneys in all of Southern Florida. And Eric Mathaney, it is great to have you back on 700 WLW. Great to be here. Thank you so much. Good to be back. Yeah, you put some great post up about Anthony Fauci. You were not taking it easy on him. And what does it really, what does it say, Eric Methaney, about the country we live in now, that at least in this life, Anthony Fauci is not going to face a reckoning for... And look, he's never been found guilty in a court of law. But there is an abundance of evidence that he literally screwed over the American people, sought to deceive the president of the United States, and is likely responsible for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people dying around the world. You know, it's... I'm very conflicted on it. It's a flood of emotions because, you know, look at what, you know, we talk about posts. So, yeah, hard on him last week, but I was hard on him six years ago. I was really just regurgitating what so many of us were saying back then. And it's above all things. It's not just anger and furious anger at that for what happened to what he did to society and our children and our businesses and a world that will never. ever be the same I mean you don't you can come back from that

to some degree, but we know that there are things that are, there's a permanent scar on humanity because of COVID. What's frustrating beyond words is that we knew this. And we knew it when it was happening in real time. We watched it happen. And we knew it. And not only that we were condemned, we were penalized. People lost their platforms, their jobs, their livelihoods over. shouting the emperor is wearing no clothes and the mainstream media in fouches like no what are you talking about he's got beautiful silk ribbons everywhere and he's got gorgeous robes you're crazy and we know now beyond a shadow of a doubt that the wet market theory was a bunch of nonsense the social distancing cloth masks follow the tape lines on the floor that was all pulled out of thin air this was a megalomaniac who fell in love with his own reflection. And he could not find a show that he didn't want to be on. He couldn't buy a sitting there by the pool on a magazine cover, just absolutely bathing in his own glory. And the biggest question I have for you, and maybe some of your astute listeners could chime in, what 80-year-old man keeps a diary? That is an excellent question. And I saw, I think you posted that a week or so ago, and I was asking myself the exact same question about, and who keeps a diary on a government server to boot? So, you know, these protestations about his privacy being invaded or that we really don't have any right to see these revelables. And look, again. Eric Methaney, you and I, I think the very first subject that you and I talked about was the horrible lack and the horrible way the American people are served by our media. The ABCs, the CBS is the NBC's, they spent... next to zero time covering the hearing, covering him taking the fifth, covering the revelations that came out in this diary. So again, the media shows how it is complicit in going along with this fake and phony narrative. And they want everything to go down the memory hole. I'm so, from time to time, I'm critical of people because we as Americans have such a short memory. But when I started seeing some of the clips and reading some of the articles and reliving the kind of stuff that we went through back in the Wuhan days. where we had the heavy hand of government every single day. You got to wear a mask. You can't go to work. You got to have your travel papers. You got to stand six feet apart. All these government mandates reaching into our lives. You got to stay home. You can't have Thanksgiving dinner. If your mom or one of your loved ones is sick in a nursing home, you can't go visit them. And if they die on their own, well, that's what we have to do.

right now. And so even I forgot just how bad of a state and how much of a taste of communism that we really got at that time. Well, you forgot one thing. The one exemption was you were allowed to riot. That was, that was. The exception. They paused a pandemic to allow you to write. Your grandmother's dying. You can wave from the hospital window. Your two-year-old has to wear a mask and is probably going to develop autism as a result of it. And if you go to the beach, you go windsurfing by yourself. You're going to go to jail. You've got to shut down your gym. And you can't listen to this. And I want this to hit your listeners. Just absorb this for a minute. They shut down churches. Shut down houses of God. but they permitted you to go out in the street and hurl fire bombs at auto zones. What does that say about the state? of our government and the world in which we live, where we take something as valuable and as spiritually and culturally significant as God and remove the significance and place a false idol, a gold-cadded false idol in its place. If that is not satanic, if that is not the hallmark of socialism, because look at your history, any communist government, what's the first thing they do? They get rid of the church because nobody is higher. than the government government is your god not church not christianity not allah not whoever that your god is government and that's what what infuriated me probably most of all is seeing that but second to that and i want to touch on something You know, shame on Anthony Fauci, yes, but shame on everybody who bought what he said and bought the COVID nonsense and turned on their neighbors and became just an unpleasant, unbearable, mask-wearing Karen. And I think to this about our history, as we celebrate 250 years in this great nation, we overthrew the greatest military superpower on earth over a 3% tax on sugar. And 245 years later, we're taking your business, we're putting masks on your face, you can't leave your house. Okay. If that wasn't the moment that we should have had the second American revolution, and I don't mince my words on that, I don't know what is. And so the sheer weakness of the spirit of America, of the American people, like, come on guys, like, where's our rallying cry? That hurt. Because I thought we were different people, and maybe that just goes to show the division. I think you had a significant number of this country. Like, no, we are going to openly defy it. And look how effective the BLM riots were. Don't tell me that civil disobedience doesn't work. They brought corporate America to their knees. They brought Congress with the fake own claws to the African claws sitting there kneeling on the floor. They...

They brought about social change. They brought about reforms and police departments. And we sat back and just let COVID run our lives. There's so many angles to this. It is so infuriating. And yeah, it opens a lot of old wounds. Yeah, I was thinking about that last week when I wasn't on the air. And I was thinking about all the tangents to this that. that tend to get overlooked these days. And we really, just like September 11th, we really should remember those times in full. And Eric Matheny, let me ask you this. Do you see, is there a direct or indirect connection? Are you able to connect the dots from that time when we have the Wuhan to where we are right now and the surge of the Democrats, socialists of America, which, to my way of thinking, are really Marxist and Communists. Is there a direct connection from that time to the surge that we're seeing of these communists and the rise of the Communist Party in America right now? You know, I would... I think a connection could be made. I really, I guess I hadn't made the connection between what happened in COVID and what we're seeing now. I think what we're seeing now is just that's been a trend that's been coming since like the second Obama term. But certainly. You saw who in leadership and certainly whatever her name was Arden or whatever, Jacinda Arden from New Zealand and people like that. I mean, she famously came out and said, this is the first day of New World Order. I mean, remember Australia had COVID camps, they'd camps that they would take you to. Like some leaders in this world like really. I mean, it was almost like erotic to them. They just jumped headlong into this and said, yes, this is exactly what we've been waiting for. But certainly total government control is what they're after. I mean, we're seeing little microcosms of it now like in New York and Zohran Mamdani and stuff like that. So if you own a second home, you know, we're going to tax you this much. And yeah, and we're seeing that. And there needs to be a pushback, the problem that we're running into. is you have a deeply unpopular and really ineffective Republican majority that a lot of Republicans present company included are sitting back going like, what do we fight for to get you guys elected? I mean, we have the House, we have the Senate, we have the presidency with last Trump term we're ever going to have in history and we can't get his signature piece of legislation the SAVE Act passed. Like we're we get in our own way way too often. So if Republicans don't. rally and show that they're worthy of a majority, the pendulum may swing the other way in this country, and it's not going to be pretty when that happens. Yeah, there is one other subject I want to touch on before we have to let you go. And look, I know you're a supporter of Trump. I'm a supporter of Trump, but every once in a while, the Trumpster does something that I'm in disagreement with. And when he had some comments yesterday about Janine Piro and her prosecution of the guy who was charged with.

damaging the reflecting pool. Here's what he said about Judge Piro, and I'll let people decide for themselves. Let's hear cut number four. I was disappointed with Janine Piro, really disappointed with Jeanine Piro. She folded like an umbrella, and people get away with things, and it's a disgrace. It looked beautiful, and then they cut it. And they vandalized. And we weren't necessarily thrilled with the contractor, but they did a job and they were fixing any problems. But then it got carried away because the judge was extremely unfriendly to Janine. And frankly, I think she choked because the judge was really vicious. Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her. and went after her department. And I guess she choked. So Eric Matheny, there you go. Trump being pretty harsh on Janine Piro. I just wish that he wouldn't do stuff like that. The way I see it, I think Janine Piro has been very aggressive, and I think she's done a pretty good job in her role as the U.S. attorney there in D.C. First and foremost, yeah, I am by no means a Trump bootlicker. I think those people are as pathetic as your COVID idiots. No, he's a president. He's a politician. Yeah, he makes some good decisions and he makes some bad decisions and I'll always be the one to call him out for that. This is a bad call and for a number of reasons. One, she's doing a phenomenal job. Two, and I'm speaking from the perspective, not only a criminal defense attorney, but just a. civic-minded American, we need independent prosecutors. We need independent prosecutors because, look, she didn't make that decision out of thin air. There was evidence, evidence that would be admissible in a trial that goes to reasonable doubt that the vandalism was actually caused by faulty construction. So whatever happened in the reflecting pool, was not attributable to vandalism it could have been attributable to something else now you may not like those facts you may want a certain narrative oh it's this guy it's this crazy liberal who wanted to do something to hurt Trump. But the prosecutor, and I am a former prosecutor, you have to go with the evidences. You have a legal obligation. And if you look at something and say, hey, there's a non-criminal explanation for why this happened. Does it mean it happened that way? No, but I'm a defense attorney. You better believe that's my defense. And now you have a reasonable doubt and you don't have good faith that you can initiate this prosecution. You have to dismiss it. You have to, and you can be angry about it. You can say, oh, she's weak. And I'm sure all the Trump bootlickers out there going to go like, hey, Hey, he says get rid of her, get rid of her. Now they're all going to turn on her like some of the really way too hardcore, you know, far extreme magazine. I hope that doesn't happen.

I hope it doesn't happen. And we've sacrificed a lot of good conservatives because God forbid they didn't tow the Trump line a thousand percent. But he is wrong to do this? Not only is he wrong, it's dangerous because put the shoe on the other foot for a minute. And what if you have an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez president who wants prosecutors to go out and prosecute it. Hey, that guy posted about Trump. That's treason. Let's go prosecute him for that. Presidents need to stay out of criminal prosecutions. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's not a lawyer. He has no business in that. Janine Piro is doing a great job, and I think Trump was wrong for this. Yeah, I hope this is not the end of Judge Janine, and it doesn't happen all that often, but Trump definitely misread the room on this one. I hope he walks it back a little bit, and I hope it's not the end of her time in D.C. With that, Eric Methaney, we've got to run. It's been a little while since I had John, and I love starting the show off at 100 miles an hour, my friend. Keep up the great work, and let's talk again before too long. all right? Yes, sir. Have a great day. All right, there you go. My buddy Eric Nathaney from Florida, and always great to have him on. Up next is my buddy Daniel Turner, and he's from Power of the Future, and we'll have lots to discuss with him as we roll on until noon today. Dan Carroll for Scott Sloan, 700 WLW.

All right, back on the big one, 700 WLW. Dan Carroll for Scott Sloan. City Council is having a meeting today with people who were affected by the flooding from a few weeks ago. And we're going to have that covered. My buddy Adam Kaler from the Cincinnati Exchange will be here at the top of the hour to talk about that and some other issues, the school board and all the rest of it. But now we turn our attention to my buddy Daniel Turner from Power the Future. And we've been able to pry him away as he is feverously making sure his DVR is set up to record future episodes of the view now that Rosie O'Donnell. is making her return to that fine program. And Daniel Turner, I think that's just what the doctor ordered for the ladies at the view to have Rosie O'Donnell waddle her way back onto that set. It's remarkable. I actually put on social media just yesterday that, you know, I was thinking that was the one thing the view was missing. They were missing a loud, obnoxious, liberal woman. And, like, I should be a casting director. Like, if you imagine being the executive producers of that show and thinking, you know, what are we lacking in these ladies? What are we lacking? I know someone awful, off-putting, mean-spirited, who is dumb and very, very liberal. And boom, Rosie O'Donnell. So it's just remarkable. I will give that show tremendous props. Their ratings are through the roof. It's not a very good indictment of America, that's for sure. Or the American Housewife who watches it. So their show is very popular. I don't know if it's popular, though, just because folks like you and I use it to have a good laugh or if people actually think that it teaches them something. Is she actually coming back to New York City? Or is she just going to review? I thought she was living in Ireland. Or something like that. Yeah, she fled America because Trump was president. But no one flees America. You know, I was just on vacation. I take one vacation a year where I really do try to take a vacation. And we were in rural England, not London. You know, because I grew up in New York City. Going to New York City is wonderful. My whole family's there. But that's not America. It's New York. And I feel like London is very similar. It's not England. It's London. So we were in very rural England. And was magnificent. Beautiful country, wonderful people, thoroughly British. But then you realize America is on a different level. And that's the point I'm getting at is no one really leaves America. You know, the trains in Japan are awesome. Whatever in England, but no one has the same level of accommodation, of efficiency, of first world. There's America.

And then there is the first world. And I am fairly well internationally traveled. And I will say that to anybody. No country on the planet is at the same level of the United States. And no one really leaves America. Because you do. And then you say, what the hell am I doing here? I got to get back home. It's not even close. It really isn't. Daniel Turner, let me run a few headlines by you and see if I can make a cogent thought out of this. Here's a headline. OPEC approves oil production quota increase. OPEC. And obviously I'm thinking Trump had something to do with that. Office construction. is up year to year, 7.3% American manufacturing expands at its fastest pace since 2022. So we've got all this robust economic news that is happening, and there are more numbers that are coming out later this week. But then we have this. A survey finds that a majority, 64% of Americans, do not think the war in Iran. is worth fighting. So we've got these two competing narratives on one hand. The economic news can end it with the stock market and all the rest of it. That continues to pile up. But yet the war in Iran, what is happening there? It seems now that this thing may be getting away from Trump. We've got these two competing narratives. And we are now heading into the midterm elections. As you see it, which one of these narratives winds up winning the day? Well, despite the effort in Iran, our economy really hasn't suffered. Oil prices are higher than they should have been, and that does drag, right? It drags on the economy, a little bit. It drags on prices. But it hasn't dragged on job numbers. You mentioned those manufacturing numbers. It hasn't really dragged on the GDP. It's a remarkable testament of how strong and resilient our economy is. But yeah, I think the American people... are too many of us have been in the middle east for too many years of our life and i don't think they want to return now there's a big delta and of course the media doesn't do its part in explaining that delta the delta is we saw those images from desert storm in iraq and afghanistan that's not what's happening right yes we've had some terrible casualties but no one has died in iran they've died because iran has bombed other countries where we have American stations. Those last three who died, tragically one from my neighborhood in Queens, New York, young woman, 19 years old, private. She was in Jim Jordan, right? And so when people say, well, this is because of Trump's effort in Iran, well, if Iran's going to bomb Jim Jordan, then where are we safe anywhere in the world? So it's a little different than the wars of the past that there aren't these battalions of ground groups in door-to-door skirmishes, right? But still, Americans are tired of the Middle East. We're tired of Middle East skirmishes, we're title of Middle East. I'm tired of Islam writ large. I am. And I can understand that bragging on the American psyche. Like here we go again. It was supposed to be a couple weeks. It's been five months. This is how it started last time. And I can understand that.

How about Zohran Mamdani in New York City? It comes out the other day and says, if you want to shop in our grocery stores, you're going to have to have ID. He wants to make sure that only New Yorkers are the ones who can shop in. And of course, this is government control over at least the grocery stores as far as Zohran Mamdani is concerned. But it really, it plays, it shows it's a microcosm of what communism really is. Total control. And those from, I guess, outside New York, can't participate in this. Whereas if it were a commercial store, they would simply welcome everyone. So I say to myself, where's the inclusivity here? Well, it's also a tragedy. Exactly. And it's a real tragedy because we know from from regular Democrat wisdom, we know that married women and black Americans can't get IDs. So Zohran Mamdani is establishing a grocery store that married women and African Americans won't ever be able to go in because that's why they can't have IDs to vote because they're not capable of getting identification. So if they can't get identification to vote, clearly they can't get identification to get the government funded grocery store. This is going to be a disaster on so many levels because it will cost, it already went from 30 million to 70 million and no one explained the price jump. And it will also have a huge impact on the economy because if you have a private sector grocery store around the corner, no one's going to shop in your grocery store. And so you will eventually go out of business. And then the only thing we have is the government run store. This is what the Soviet Union did. And that sounds great for all of 15 minutes until it doesn't work. Now, if you're of a certain age and a media consumer. And I would put us in both in that category very comfortably. Okay. We remember in the early 2000s, the Hugo Chavez fandom in media. There were episodes of park and recreation. There were episodes of sitcoms. Saturday Night Live had skits about how great Hugo Chavez was and Venezuela was, rich and prosperous, and everyone was happy. And that's how it started off, right? This is amazing. He is delivering everything he promised. People in the Washington establishment, the New York Times, wrote glowing articles about his economic model until it didn't work. And then they just moved on to the next disaster. And they watched as tens of thousands of people. plunged into poverty and died. But no one talked about that. They just remember, oh, this was a really good idea. That's what's going to happen in Zohran Mamdani's New York. The idea is going to be great. And for five whole minutes, it will work. And that's the talking point they're going to get. They're going to have the cameras and he's going to smile that creepy, creepy smile he has and say, see, isn't this amazing until it fails? And when it fails,

Like every communist before him, he will just simply move on to something else. Right? Look at what they did with Obamacare. Total freaking failure. What do they do? They move on to something else. Let's just talk about the next thing. Israel. How about you fix that? No, no, no, no. I don't talk about that anymore. That was yesterday's news. We need to look to the future day and Carol. That's what all of us, it's primary day in so many states. I don't want to dwell on the past. I want to look to the future and everyone. Clap some cheers. It's ridiculous. Yeah, of course everyone wants to look to the future because we can't spend any time examining the policies that have put us in the position that we're in right now. And I think that's why we have this rise of Marxism and communism well within the Democrat Party. And on the fringe, you've got Pete Buttigieg who was out there trying to remind people that he still has some political viability. I don't think he has much political viability. But he's going to talk. to anyone who will listen, and he is running hard to the left now. Here's a clip from him on a podcast from a day or so ago. I want you to hear this, Daniel Turner, and get your reaction. Dave, let's hear cut number three, please. Okay, well, I guess maybe we don't know. Okay, you got it. Here we go. Cut number three. And mouse, right? Whenever we figure out a way to make sure you can't hide all of your wealth or all of your income from being fairly taxed, very wealthy people will figure out some other place to hide it. And then we'll have to develop a new policy to deal with that. I guess my point is that's okay. Too often we have just hesitated to do anything, refused to do anything because it might be hard or because it might not last. But if the idea that somebody will figure out a way around this law meant that you shouldn't have the law, that would be an argument against having any law. So it's messy, it's hard. But I am sure that if we had a more reasonable rate of taxation on capital gains and on corporate income, and if we made it harder to pass along wealth, especially inherited wealth, without paying any taxes on it, or some of these other maneuvers, like this borrowing thing you're talking about, We would have a fairer country because we'd still have capitalism. There'd still be lots of motivation and lots of reason to innovate and build a business and create jobs and do all the things that very wealthy people have done. And also, we would be out of this doom loop where they're saying, well, we can't possibly have as good health care as other countries. We couldn't possibly do something like, I don't know, fast trains here in the United States. We couldn't possibly have rural hospitals be properly funded or public education. Of course we can. This is the wealthiest economy in the world. It just doesn't add up that we can't have nice things. But if we aren't collecting a fair level of taxes, then, of course, we're going to come up short when we're trying to fund those things. And the biggest thing of all, the numerically that we're facing around is massive debt. So Daniel Turner, here's Pete Buttigieg. And this is why I consider him to be very, very, very dangerous. Because first of all, he's old school, hardcore leftist Democrat playbook talking about increasing taxes on the wealthy. And I've also think he's making a play for those who are enamored with all the goodies that are being promised to them by the socialists and the Marxists.

It's my pleasure to be on. I hope I won't let you down. I can't think of a time when anyone from the Heritage Foundation has ever let me down. So it is great to have a year. We had locally over the weekend a rally, a protest in Blue Ash, Ohio, which is just a stone's throw from where I'm sitting right now. Hundreds of people came out and they were calling for the getting rid of ice. because of the temporary protective status that was lifted for all the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. And there's an office there in Blue Ash, where... A lot of these people go for their immigration hearings and the process and these different things. And I look at these people who are out demonstrating talking about abolishing ice, getting rid of ice. And it's fine. If you want to be angry about this, these people are going to be forced out. And they've been here for, look, a temporary protective status. They've been here for more than a decade already. To my way of thinking, they had a chance to pursue legal avenues that would have allowed them to stay indefinitely or for a longer period of time or maybe even become American citizens. Many of them chose not to do that. I really think that their anger is misdirected when they come out and they talk about getting rid of ICE and the officers who are simply out there doing their job. Well, I agree, obviously, because that's what I've been saying for four years now. But I don't understand the sort of the deeper philosophy behind this, which you're seeing a lot now with not just the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA guys, but also some mainstream Democrats. So it was a guy from Massachusetts, Seth Moulton, who had his three-point plan for immigration. And it was, number one, was prosecute ICE officers for doing... the job that Congress told them to do that's in the law. And the DSA wants to abolish law enforcement. They want to abolish the criminal justice system. They don't like people being incarcerated, so they want to get rid of the carcule state. I just don't understand in their minds what happens then. I mean, if you live in New York City, there's whatever, 11 million people, or even just a smaller city like Springfield, they're going to be criminals. Not a large number, but a small percentage of people. We all know, even in small towns, there's people who do bad things. What do you do? You don't lock them up. You just let them keep running around and, you know, raping and killing and robbing. It's insane. And it's the same with immigration enforcement. If we're going to have laws that say you have to do this and this to be allowed to stay and we're very sorry. We do have a limited room in the hotel America. Then you have to do some enforcement or else your laws don't mean anything. Your colleague, Todd Benzman, wrote a piece about a lot of the immigration, the Haitians who will be removed from the country and how they're going to wind up being just fine because many of them have the ability to go back to previous countries they were living in before they came to the United States. And he talks about the people that he talked to personally that had been living in Chile or Brazil.

or some other countries. And when Joe Biden opened up the door for Haitians to come here, they simply took advantage of that. So many of them are eligible to go back to these countries that they were in previously. And he also notes how many of them destroyed and discarded the identifications, whether it's a Brazilian passport or other means of identification, before they came into America. And so... That is evidence, Simon, that I think that a lot of these people have been gaming the system and ripping off them. I mean, we can talk for, we can talk for days about the fraud and the ripping off of Americans and the rest of it. But I think that's what a lot of these people have been engaged in. Well, yeah, I've had that exact same experience. I went to Springfield, I want to say last year, there might have been the year before, to look for myself. So I've wandered around town. And then I went to the public benefits office. I don't remember the exact address, but it's the place where you go and apply for your workers' comp and snap and all that stuff. run by the state of Ohio, I believe. And they had brochures in Creole, Haitian Creole. That was the largest stack. And there were a few in English. And everybody waiting in line was Haitian. And I knew that because I went up and talked to them. I speak French. Educated Haitian, speak French. And Haitian Creole is basically a kind of version of French. And I asked them, hey, you know, what brings you guys here? And I didn't talk to everybody, but I talked to a couple people. And they said, well, we were in Chile living there, but then we heard we could come here and it's a lot closer to Haiti. So here we are. And exactly like you said, they hadn't come directly from Haiti because they were, you know, running for their lives. They had come through a safe third country where they had lived perfectly okay, but just felt they could do better in the United States, which is probably true. get a lot more benefits, and, you know, maybe they could even get a better job if that's what they wanted to do. But that's not the way the system works. If you get asylum or if you get protection in the closest country to your home, that's where you're supposed to stay. And we call anything else asylum shopping and taking advantage of, you know, the suckers, like unfortunately the United States, and that's what many people, not all, but many people have done. Yeah. Where did the notion come from? The temporary protective status was supposed to last. a decade, 15, 20 years or more. Where do we get that idea? Temporary. Isn't temporary, mean temporary? Well, it does, and the Supreme Court just decided that. But it's like a lot of other fudges. I wrote an article about the five favorite fudges from the Biden administration. But it's been that way, including through Republican administrations, you had, I think, El Salvador, a couple other countries where people have been on TPS for upwards of 20, 25 years. Obviously, that's not what is meant to do, but it's been used as a kind of backdoor to get around caps on immigration because the American people, they want a certain amount of immigration, but they don't want open borders like we saw on the southern border for the Biden administration, like we just saw in Spain, when just thousands of people come in and all of a sudden they become your problem to house them, to feed them to take care of them. And parole was another one where it says one thing in the law, but...

the Biden administration and some previous administrations, but most egregiously, the Biden administration said, okay, we're going to use this to bring in two million people and then just spread them around the country and what are you going to do about it? Simon Hankinson from day one of this current Trump administration, they have not only shut down the border, but they have also been encouraging people to self-deport. And if you come out of the shadows, come clean with the government, you will be treated fairly. You'll get money put in your pocket, and you'll be self-deported in a very humane and a very peaceful way. And do we have any reporting or any idea of, and I know the numbers are in the millions, but have you seen any legitimate reporting on this from any of the networks about people who have self-deported and how good that process has been for them? I haven't seen anything I wouldn't expect to. I mean, every time, I wrote a whole chapter in my book about this. The media, unfortunately, has overtime drifted further and further to the left, and now you just can't get an honest headline, let alone any honest reporting. If there's a phenomenon that feeds the narrative of oppressors and oppressed and the whole sort of woke ideology, they're going to cover it in great detail. But if it doesn't feed the narrative, if the killer is the wrong color and the victim is the wrong color, Or if you're talking about mass migration, something that they like, they're not going to cover it accurately. And that is an interesting story. I actually don't know what the numbers are. We're not getting really good numbers at the administration either, to be honest. Because I think they would like to please their voters, you know, to have done much more. I think they're doing their best. Honestly, it's an incredibly difficult thing to deport people who don't want to be deported. But yeah, the self-deportation, it's the best deal you can get. You get a ticket home, a couple of grand in your pocket. And if you know you have no case to stay here, you've got no reasonable case to make, well, you know, why not take it? Yeah. And when you go back to someplace, if you go back to someplace like Haiti or you go back to someplace like Venezuela or somewhere in Mexico or any other country around the world, you know, $2,000 or $3,000 can go a long way and you can get back on your feet rather quickly, could you not? You can. I mean, $2,000 in West Africa, where I lived for six years, would be more than a year's income for most people. You know, there's a lot of countries where people live on a dollar a day, if that. And look, I mean, we've got to be, we've got to be honest about this. If the goal of TPS for, for Democrats and Democratic Socialists is you don't go back until your country is as safe and as prosperous as the United States of America, then they're never going to go back. Haiti was the first independent country in the Caribbean since, what, 1780s, I think.

They have not been all that much of a success. Economically, politically, it's gone from dictator to what it is basically chaos. But people have lived there in one way or another. And I think it's unrealistic to expect it to turn into a flourishing democracy anytime soon. There are probably the majority of Haiti is safe to live in. the capital city port of prance every now and then you've got outbreaks of violence and so on so i guess what i'm saying is you know if our aspiration is to have the rest of the world be as safe as the u.s or else no one gets to go back home to india to pakistan to yemen to wherever then no one's ever going to go home yeah i you know the the demonstration that we had here in blue ash over the weekend was very peaceful very sane i think five or six hundred people showed up out there but we've seen plenty of other demonstrations where people want to get violent, try to run over ICE officers with their cars. You know, there's physical confrontations. You've got fireworks and smoke and all this other kind of stuff going on. Do you think it would be helpful if a lot of these people were armed and made aware of the information that you and I have been talking about here for the last 15 minutes or so? You know, we're a big country, right? And we've got a lot of clowns and an extremist on both sides, admittedly. But right now the clowns on the left are outnumbering the clowns on the right by a pretty major margin. I don't think there's any fact. You know, I talked about the gender ideology debate. We're on some show last night talking about it. People are just irrational. You know, you get people saying, you know, that we should have men competing or should be allowed to compete in women's sports because that's fair. and you shouldn't exclude anybody. I've been excluded from sports ever since second grade kickball because that wasn't as good as some of the other kids, right? As soon as you get competitive in anything, you have to start excluding. You know, immigration, we can't all have everything. We can't have open borders in a welfare state. And so we've got to be grownups and make tough choices. But I think if you went and tried to persuade one of these masked protesters of the logic of the case that they wouldn't listen. Yeah, good luck with that. Over the weekend, I also turned on my TV and I saw almost nonstop video loops of what appeared to be hundreds of thousands of military-aged men storming the beaches and running around in Spain. What the heck is going on there? Well, that's, in a nutshell, these, there are two Spanish leftovers from the colonial period established in the 15th century, so they've been Spanish for 500 years, Seuta and Malia. And they're both actually on the land of Morocco, but they're Spanish. So they have big fences around them, and they're autonomous ruled by Spain. Moroccans don't like it. I believe that Moroccan government probably encouraged a lot of people and maybe even assisted them with transportation to bumrush the border. About 60,000 is one number I've heard, crossed, swam, jumped, climbed into Sayuda.

a week ago, Friday, and most of them have gone home, have been sent home, but probably about 5,000 remain. Some of them are minors, claiming to be minors. Some of them are from sub-Saharan Africa, so they're not Moroccans, that the Spanish are now going to have to deal with. They only have 500 beds in their detention center and their migrant reception center, whatever they call it. So it's a huge mess for Spain. The Spanish government just, it's a far-left government run by a socialist workers party. They just amnestyed or about to amnesty about a half a million to a million illegal immigrants. So in a way, they kind of created the magnet, but the Moroccan government helped for complicated political reasons, and it's a total mess. Yeah, I mean, if we, God forbid, get another administration that doesn't care about borders and opens the borders again, is there a likelihood we could see similar video on the shores of the United States? Well, we did. I mean, I went down to the border five times. Yeah. And you could go down. Really, any time of the day, I saw people trickling over in the middle of the day. One time, Arizona, three o'clock in the morning, I saw at least 300 people cross just one time, one night. That was every single night. So Del Rio, Texas, you know, you can just look up videos of people. It looks exactly like the way it looked in Morocco. And also, by the way, it's not mostly women and children and babies and old people. It's mostly young men from all over the world. I absolutely think if we have certainly a DSA president, which is less likely, but you know, imagine a president, Zohran Mamdani. Oh, please. Oh, my God. But even a mainstream Democrat at this point, unless they change and go back to the Bill Clinton era where they wanted to enforce immigration law. Yeah, we could very well see that scene on the border. If we stop deporting people and we allow them to come in and claim asylum, which is what we did in the Biden administration, you know, they use terms like safe, lawful, humane, exactly the same words that the Spanish prime minister is using. We will see that again. All right. Simon Hankinson, we're going to have to leave it right there. We can go on and on and on, but it's a great picking your brain this morning. I really appreciate the time. Nice work today. And with your permission, I may be calling on you again. So thank you. And that would be a pleasure. Thank you so much for being here. Great conversation. I appreciate it. And keep up the great work there at the Heritage Foundation. And hopefully we'll get a chance to talk again soon. Look forward to it. All right, there you go. Simon Hankinson of the Heritage Foundation. I appreciate him being here. After the news at the bottom of the hour, then we'll speak with my buddy Adam Kaler about what's happening at City Hall today and other local issues like that. 1026, Dan Carroll for Scott Sloan, 700 WLW.

1039, 700, WLW, Dan Carroll, for almost said Bill Cunningham. But, no, Scott Sloan. I am Scott Sloan today. I'll be back on Thursday. Mike Allen's got it on Wednesday and Friday. So that is a big deal as we get to take a little time sitting for Scott Sloan. Also a big deal is when I get to have my buddy Adam Kaler come on from the Cincinnati Exchange. And if you've not heard of the Cincinnati Exchange, I recommend that you check it out. It is a great place to go for news and commentary and perspective that you really won't find anywhere else when it comes to. talking about what's happening in and around Cincinnati and Ohio. And Adam Keller, great to have you back on the big one. How are you doing? Doing great, Dan. As we speak, and I want to talk about the school board, but as we speak, city council members, and I guess the head of the metropolitan sewer district is meeting with people who were affected by the flooding in Oakley and Hyde Park the last couple of weeks. How much of a liability? Do you think the city is looking at here? Because a lot of these, and Brian Combs was talking about that on the news this morning here on 700W, that a lot of these people are pointing to the engineering report that came out six years ago, talking about how this was a problem. You've done your own reporting on this, talking about how the arms that stopped traffic before the floodgate closes were chained in the up position. not allowing that gate to work. I would imagine there are a number of attorneys who are collecting all kinds of evidence on this. It seems to me that this could wind up being a huge liability for the city. Well, of course, and I think that's, you know, one of the reasons they, you know, throughout this this multi-million dollar package that they wanted to give homeowners to kind of cool things down a little bit. But, I mean, this is the same problem we keep dealing with on a regular basis. I mean, you have these ideological programs and, you know, parades and all this other stuff that they prioritize over public safety, over infrastructure. You know, after we sell this railroad and we were promised, everybody remembers, and, you know, folks, voters have short memories sometimes, but you remember the commercials. You know, Aftabs bouncing around in his car, talking about how bad the roads are in Cincinnati and how, you know, this railroad sale was going to solve all of our problems and infrastructure was going to be great. Well, here we are.

And here are the people of Hyde Park and Mount Lookout and all these other affected neighborhoods. Here they are. Once again, you know, you've got one of the nicest parts of Cincinnati where, you know, the affluent folks are supposed to move to and enjoy their lives and, you know, pay high taxes to live in a place like that and pay high, you know, property values. And they're the ones dealing with the repercussions of a lot of the stuff they voted for. I had, after you and I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, a lot closer to the event, but I had people after that, a couple of people try and tell me that this particular issue with this particular floodgate across the Duck Creek and Madison Road there, that this would not have been covered or addressing this could not have been covered by the money that came from the sale of the railroad. Have you looked into that at all? Would work on this or upgrading it or making the changes recommended in that engineering report? Would this have been covered by the money that can be spent on infrastructure needs from the railroad deal? Well, Dan, I mean, they were trying to build housing for people with the railroad money. I mean, if there's a will, there's a way. So, you know, they're always trying to find ways to get around, you know. this issue with the railroad money where it's only supposed to be used for infrastructure. Well, if you ask me, you know, this situation with this flood wall is more of an infrastructure. I don't know what's more infrastructure than a floodgate. And you've got a bridge and a road that's involved here. So to my way of thinking, I don't know. I don't know what's more infrastructure than that. It seems like it's right in the wheelhouse. I mean, if you can drop through all these fire hoops and tell us that housing is infrastructure, right, then how come you can't do the same thing with roads and a floodgate and this situation? I mean, it's clearly this arm that comes down. And maybe people didn't hear our last, you know, last time I called into the radio, but you have those arms that come down to block the road before the wall shuts. You can't shut the wall if you haven't blocked the road yet. So there's an automatic process in place. The arms come down. They block the road so traffic can't go through the wall as it's closing. I mean, because, you know, that'd be a bigger problem if you crushed a car with a flood wall. So there's a process in place, and they had those arms. You can clearly see them in video, and I don't think enough people are talking about this. They were chained, tethered. The arms were tethered to the ground, deep into the ground, to where they couldn't go down. And from what our source told us, Those arms need to come down before that flood wall closes. Right. But if they didn't chain those arms down, those arms would have just fell down into the street.

And that's why they chain them down because intermittently they would just drop. Well, they chained them in the up position. So the arms cannot come down. They cannot close. They can't block traffic. It's a two-step process. The arms come down. They block traffic. The gate closes. And so that mechanism cannot, you can't complete step number two without completing step number one. And the video. that you showed me that day. You can clearly see the rescue is taking place and you can see the lights flashing to indicate that the arm is coming down, but the arms can't move because they're chained. So they're going to have some serious issues with that. And it'll be interesting to see. I'm guessing you have someone from the exchange covering this meeting, yes? Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, we want to say this is one of the biggest issues we've had to deal with in the city for a long time. I mean, it just seems like one thing after another, though. You know, a year ago you had that fight downtown and the guy gets beat up, you know, and then they start going after him for getting jumped. And that poor Holly woman gets beat up. I mean, that was a big deal. That went national. And we constantly, and I don't know if you know this, Dan, you know, lives of TikTok. It's one of the biggest conservative. I guess accounts on Twitter. We've been mentioned more than almost any other city on that account for the things that happen in Cincinnati. How about that? It's insane. I love Libs of Tech Talk. They put some great stuff. It is one of the more interesting feeds that I have on my ex account. Let's talk about the school board. I guess last night they voted to rescind this notion of an income tax for... uh for to i guess to fund cincinnati public schools and it seems to me that uh this and what they they initially approved this what five to five to two so it was overwhelming approval but then when there was some blowback and including blowback from the the democrat party well they change their they change their tune on this a little bit Well, that's right. I mean, that's, you know, that's going to affect them, too. It's going to affect all these workers downtown. So, you know, now they changed it. Now they want to, they want to propose a property tax that's going to increase the millage rate. It's going to make, you know, life even more expensive in the city of Cincinnati for homeowners. And it always seems like it falls back on the homeowners, right? And at the same time, they tell us. that homeownership is unaffordable and that housing is unaffordable. And what's this going to do, Dan? I mean, it's not just going to affect homeowners. It's going to affect renters as well because if I'm a landlord, you know, my tax go up $400 a year on a $100,000, you know, per $100,000, what am I going to do? I'm going to turn around and raise the rent. And, you know, then they're going to complain about the rent going up. So in first school district, let's...

You know, let's talk about, you know, the performance. I mean, we're spending almost $21,000 or over $21,000 per student at CPS. Yeah, well, let's talk about that for a second because you posted some research that you did on this a week or so ago. And you were talking about the $21,000 is $21,000 in change that the Cincinnati Public School spends on each and every student, I guess, whether K through 12. It's K through 12, right? Okay. That is more than in-state tuition for the University of Cincinnati. If you go to the University of Cincinnati, your tuition is less than what CPS spends on per student basis. And whenever I make this argument, what I hear back from either school board or administrators or teachers is that, well, look, we've got mandates from the state. We have to provide X, Y, and Z for all these different needs. that these different students have and all that. And I understand all that. But still, if you can't, and I know they just made some big cuts there at the public schools, but if you can't do better than $21,000 per student and then have a performance rate where fully one third, in excess of a third of your students are not prepared to go on to college or the military. then you've got serious issues that you've got to address. And I think it's fair to look at the performance and the results of Cincinnati public schools whenever the board comes up and starts putting their hand out for more money. Well, and they act entitled to it. That's the biggest problem. And it's like, what are you doing for us? Because you can tie a lot of things that are negative, you know, crime. Tie that right back into the public schools, the failure of the public schools to educate these students and prepare them for life. And when you're paying over $21,000 per student, I would expect better results as a taxpayer. How does that number get so high? Are you able to explain that? It's a really good question. I mean, they do too much. They do way too much. I mean, there's 52 counselors in CPS. 52 counselors. You've got free school lunch. You've got, you know, the busing. There's so many things that they want to do. And, you know, it goes back to you've got a lot of people who are graduating, you know, college and they need jobs. And the city absorbs these people into things like the public school system. So they create new programs. I mean, you've got a homeless parking lot outside of Taff school. that they put together. For parents that are homeless, they can park their car and the kids can sleep in the car in the parking lot. I thought we had organizations in the city of Cincinnati that helped find people actual housing. But we have a parking lot where you can pull your car in and sleep at the Cincinnati public schools. So, you know, they're doing too much. Why should that be on the school system to provide that service?

That's a great question. That's what I want to. So when you talk about this $21,000, you know, you've got to start looking at all the stuff. I mean, have you seen where they meet? Have you seen this auditorium that the CPS board meets in? I mean, it's beautiful. I mean, it looks like you're in the Aeronoff Center. No, the physical buildings. Look, I've got a buddy that has a graphics business. And we do a lot of graphics at various. I go into a lot of Cincinnati public schools, whether they're grade schools or high schools. And I mean, a lot of these schools are beautiful. You walk in there. I mean, the hallways are nice. They're big. They're bright. The schools look like a lot of the Cincinnati public schools. Look like any urban school district, or suburban school district, school that you might go into. So, and we were told years ago. when they pass this giant levy to improve the physical condition of these buildings. And what were we told then? Hey, when we improve the condition of these buildings, man, the learning is going to go through the roof. You know, the kids can't learn if they're in a dingy, poorly lit place that there's no air conditioning. It's cold in the wintertime. All this sort of thing. So all that was done. And so we've got that done. And again, we look at the results. And we see what the two and a half stars out of a total of a five star rating system that the state has when it comes to grading their schools. Now they say that's an increase. That's a step up from, I guess, the one star that they had the last time they did this evaluation. But when it, Adam, I don't know about you, but when I was in school, you know, a 50% rate is a failing grade. And we're supposed to say, yeah, we can hang our hat on the fact that we got a two and a half star rating out of five. It's absolutely insane. I mean, if you're, if you had a two and a half star rating daycare, you probably wouldn't send your kid there, right? I mean, if it was out of five. Good point. Good point. But these are daycares is what we've got, right? And, and you've got, what is it, 40-something percent of the students at CPS miss at least 10 percent of class. Oh. It's chronic. Yeah. It's chronic, chronic truancy. And the reason, this is the reason you have these, these terrible numbers at CPS. I mean, you know, reading proficiency, 40% in high school, 37% in middle school, 38% in elementary school. The math numbers are even worse than that. So why does it cost two, you know, two thirds to send your kid to UC than to CPS? Like, it's crazy to me. And they say, oh, well, the school's got to do this and they got to do that. Well, it's, you're doing too much.

Educate the kids. The main thing you're supposed to be doing is educating the kids, and you can't do that. Educate the kids, and there's probably a lot of stuff that could be done away with. Adam, we're going to have to leave it right there. We've got to run. The Cincinnati Exchange is the website. Keep up the great work, my friend, and we'll see what happens with the meeting today regarding the flooding, and maybe we'll have you on later to break that down when that information comes up. All right, Adam, thank you very much. All right, and we'll talk to you again before too long. Adam Kaler from the Cincinnati Exchange. 1055, Dan Carroll for Scott Sloan, 700 W. This is the race fans wait for all year. EMSA returns to Virginia International Raceway, August 21 through 23rd, as the world's top GT teams and drivers battle for championship points on VIR's iconic road course. See Porsche, BMW, Corvette, Mercedes-AmG, Ford, and more competing wheel-to-wheel. Three days of racing, paddock access, and nonstop action. Secure your tickets now at racevIR.com. That's r-A-C-E-V-I-R.com. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage. I don't want to be an American idiot. 700 W. L. W. 1109. Scott Sloan is out. Dan Carroll is in. Mike Allen tomorrow. I got Thursday covered Mike Allen back on Friday. Fun lines are open right now. 513. 749, 7,000. 1-800, the big one. We've covered a lot of ground this morning. Talking about Anthony Fauci, talking about Zohran Mamdani, talking about. Cincinnati School Board, talking about the flooding, the protests that happened in blue ash the other day. And really, I think a lot of the people that, I would love to hear from you if you're one of those who was out protesting ice the other day. Why on earth would you call for ice to be gotten rid of? Why would you call for? The men and women who put that uniform on every day and go out and do their job. Why do you want to see them done away with? And the information that we were talking about, and again, it's not every single one, but it's a large number of the Haitians that are there in Springfield that can go back to other countries where they were living before they came here. So. I really think that you go out there and you demonstrate and you've got your signs and all that. They're perfectly fine if that's what you want to do. Peaceful demonstrations here. I didn't read about any altercations, anything that got out of hand during those demonstrations. And here in America, if that's what you want to do, I say more power to you. Probably the best soundbite that I heard yesterday.

was Aaron Rogers. And Aaron Rogers was on the Pat McAfee show. And I don't know. I'm not exactly sure what the, what the question was. And I'm not sure. And I can't even remember if it's in the soundbite. But Aaron Rogers turned his attention to Anthony Fauci. And just. Probably one of the best takedowns of Anthony Fauci that I've heard in the last several weeks since all this stuff about Anthony Fauci, you know, he got himself back in the news. But you might enjoy this if you haven't heard it already. So Dave, let's all kick back and listen to about a minute and 56 seconds of Aaron Rogers going off on Dr. Anthony Fauci. Cut number one. Over the years of the past. I'm going to plead the fifth. Okay. Okay. God, I love that guy. Like that absolute coward, Tony Fletcher. Absolute chowler. Are you kidding me? Yeah, 111 times. You got to pardon and you're in front and you pleaded over 100 times at the White House. What are you scared of, Tony? I thought you were the science. Yeah, yeah. I thought you were, I am science, and you get up there and he can't answer a question? Yeah. What are we doing? And how much time does the network spend to that? How much time did they spend on my responses every week, on my vaccination status, on Taylor and Travis's wedding?

Did they do even a minute? Did they do even a minute on Anthony Fauci? No, I don't think I've heard anything. I bet they didn't. But on that note, then there was another scandalous off season, too, involving a voter for MVP, for coach of the year. How much time did your network spend? What's your camp? Did your network spend on that? Our network? I wish I went back to Anthony Fauci. Go back to Anthony Fauci. This is awesome. Go back to the Coward Anthony Fauci. Who's spending the entire time writing in his diary about how fun it is to be famous. You got to be kidding me. Okay, so on that note, what are you going to say about me now? What are you going to say about me now? No, I got no debate here. You got a 500. Seriously, what are they going to say about me now? Now, now that you can't talk about the COVID stuff, because obviously it was made, you know, in a lab in China. That's like not even questionable anymore. Anthony Fauci is an absolute criminal. I'm on good terms of my family. I'm on good terms of my family. What are you going to say now? What are you going to say now? What are you going to let you know? It's been a fun ride for you. It's been a great life and a great career. And it's nice to be sitting on this side now, especially I have that coward played a fifth over a hundred times. Okay. I thought you had a pardon there, Tony. I thought you had a pardon there, Tony. Why couldn't you answer one question one time? And Aaron Rodgers, I had forgotten about this, that Rogers was classified as an unvaccinated player. And he tested positive for the Wuhan in November of 2021, leading to a mandatory 10-day quarantine that forced him to miss a game against Kansas City Chiefs. So, I mean, you talk about a guy that's got an extra ground. That's Aaron Rogers. And that was the best, that was a sound bite that, that just blew me away more than anything else that, that I heard during that. And, well, I've got the Zohran Mamdani one coming up where he talks about how you need the ID to get into the grocery store. Let's go to Renee is on the line from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Heights. And Renee, good morning. You're on 700 WLW. Good morning. How are you? Okay, Renee, what you got for me this morning? So we'll say 2009. I've got twin boys and their birthdays are in September. Okay. So I decide, my husband and I decide, we're going to send the boys to CPS for kindergarten for one year. And then we'll go to kindergarten at the Catholic school by our house. Okay. Because we want them to be six. So kindergarten round up, that's what I'm going to call it, is in, say, February, I've got to get up there and get them signed up. I've never done this before. These are my first two kids. All right. So I'm up there early. I'm all ready to sign them up thinking there's going to be a line. I'm going to be ahead of the game. I walk into that office. I'm here. I'm here to sign up kindergarten. They looked at me like I was the unicorn because I was the first parent to ever come early to make sure their kid.

Got into kindergarten. How about that? All right. Kindergarten starts. It's about week three. Oh, wait, let me back. My kids come home from day one. Mom, Mom, guess what we had today? What, guys? What did you have? We had breakfast. I was like, I know. I've had your breakfast this morning. No, Mom. They've got breakfast at school. So every kid's free breakfast. A little second breakfast, yeah. All right. Well, we're spending a month. All right, a couple weeks go by. It's the, you know, sort of an open house type thing and the kindergartners are all going to sing. All right. My husband and I are ready to get home. We have dinner. We get up there. The teacher sees us in the hall. And they're like, oh, thank God. The twins are here. So we've got two more singers. I have them each in a different class. We're going to say maybe 50 kids. Maybe 12 showed up. Okay, fine. You know, people have things to do. But, you know, I just, trust me, the next year when we were at the Catholic school, every kid showed up to sing. So the little program's over and we're starting to walk out and people are like, aren't you Shane for dinner? Dinner? I didn't know about dinner. Oh, yeah, would they have dinner after these things to try to encourage families to come? Okay. Well, maybe next time we'll stay for dinner. We didn't know. Okay, well, let me slow you down a second there, Renee. So you went to the recital, the singing recital. Yeah. And you say a total of 12 kids showed up? Twelve out of the 50 kindergartners who are supposed to come and do the same. How many of the parents of those 12 showed up? I would say. You know, everybody came with a parent. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. That really is shameful. Isn't, I mean, I have, I remember years ago, back in my Fox 19 days, and I did a lot of different stories with different public schools. And whether it was Cincinnati public schools or schools in Lebanon or in West Claremont or wherever the case may be, Lakota. Whenever I talk to teachers, educators, administrators, I always ask them about parent participation and how important that was. And without exception. I was constantly told that there is nothing more important in education than parents being involved. And when you look at Cincinnati public schools, by and large, the lack of parent education, or not education, but parental involvement, the lack of parental involvement and people caring about the education that their kids receive. is the, I think, the single largest issue. Look, the truancy issue is when you have almost 50% of the kids not showing up on a regular basis, that is a huge issue. But again, why are they able to do that? Because the parents don't care if their kids show up for school. There was a little boy that was getting home back in one of my kids class. And the mom was mad. But he had missed 50 days of school. He didn't have a disease. He just.

didn't have anyone get him up and take him to school or made sure he got on the bus. I don't know how you look. The school teachers that I know in Cincinnati public schools, I hear these stories all the time. And I just look at them and I say, I don't know how you do it. I really don't know. What I really want to say is their teachers were phenomenal. The administrators were phenomenal. Everybody in that building was phenomenal. the parents who weren't. And you can't keep throwing money at this problem and build beautiful, awesome, amazing schools with all the technology and all the goodies. If nobody at home says schools important. If nobody at home, make sure you get your behind out of bed and on the bus. Yeah. I totally agree with you. 100,000 a year. I have met a lot of people in Cincinnati public schools that are great people, people who care, people who bend over backwards to do a good job and do right by these kids every single day. But when they're not showing up, when the parents don't care, I mean, the deck is stacked against them every single day. And then you've got the specter of, you know, when parents do come up to pick up their kids. I can't tell you how many times I've been told, you know, it's time for school to get out. There's parents out there waiting in their cars and the windows rolled down and you see the marijuana smoke come billowing out. It's like that scene in fast times at Ridgemont High, right? You remember that when they all come out of the van and then the smoke is the bong smoke is coming out of the car? I mean, it's crazy and that's what these people are dealing with every single day. And God bless them. I don't know how they do it. Yeah. Okay, so that was your one year at CPS, and then when you went to the Catholic school, what happened? I mean, it was phenomenal. You know, it was. It was great. Everybody shows up. For goodness sakes, if there's a program, you better get there two hours early because mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, the whole kitten caboodle is going to be there to watch their baby sing. So your boys experience both that they wind up having a preference, so which one they like better? It was kindergarten. They absolutely loved it at both places because they were five. You know, they loved it. And they had aftercare and it was free. And one time my husband goes to pick up the kids and this little boy comes up to him and says, what's your name? And he says, oh, I'm, I'm Mr. Smith. I'm here to pick up. I'm just going to call him Marty and Joe. I'm here to pick up Marty and Joe. And that little boy looked at him and said, you have the same last name as Marty and Joe.

How about that? It was shocking. It was shocking that someone has the parent has the same last name as a kid. Well, Renee, I appreciate you sharing that story with us today. And I mean, I think what you are saying rings true with a lot of people who have had the similar experience. Yeah, the teachers are phenomenal. The administrators are phenomenal. And the buildings themselves are very nice too. They spend a lot of money on the buildings. The buildings look fantastic. Renee, thank you so much for the call. I appreciate you. You're welcome. Have a great day. All right, Renee. Thank you. Let's get one more in here before we go. And this is Jay on a cell phone. J-700 WLW. Hey, good morning. Good morning. Um, so I'm a teacher and, um, she's 100% right. Education's, getting your kid to school is where it starts. If the parents not involved, um, and they're absent, these, these teachers, they have degrees. They know what they're doing. It's like, you know, there's good cops, bad cops, there's good teachers, bad teachers. But if you don't send your kid to school, how are they going to get educated? Right. And then there's, A lot of these kids might be on special services, and that's where the high cost, I believe, come into play because the state says you have to have these specialists if your kid is having trouble reading or if they need speech therapy and things like that. But they still have to pay the employees because you have to have them for the students. And if the kid doesn't show up, well, then that drives the cost of education up. Sure. No, I think that all the state mandates, all the rules and regulations. I think a lot of that needs to be revisited. I think there's a lot on the school system that they really, I don't think when you think about a school and what a school should be about, I think that they shouldn't be equipped to handle some of these situations that they have to handle. I think we need to figure out a more effective system and a more cost-effective system. for dealing with these particular individuals. Yeah, I mean, the cost of students on an IEP, which they are, they need to be on that IEP, but you have a school psychologist does an evaluation. The state says if you request an evaluation, you have to do in a certain period of time. I don't know all the ends and all, ends and outs of the laws. But once they do that, and then they say, yes, this student needs to have speech therapy or reading, reading interventions. Well, you have to have those people on staff to do that, but then if you don't send your kid to school, if. education is not important to you. Well, yeah, then it looks bad on the school and the teachers also, but the teachers know how to teach and how to educate, but if they don't show up, they're not going to get the education they need. Well, my experience has been that I've met dozens and dozens of extremely motivated individuals who are walking those halls every day, trying to get to, I think it's going to be a big help.

when they, that they've taken the cell phones away from the kids when they're in the schools now. A friend of mine is an assistant principal at one of these schools, and I said, how's that working out? And she said, there's a lot of parents who hate it, but it's been one of the best things that can happen. And now that they're not staring at their cell phones all day when they're in the school. It is. My school is the same way. We took them away. A few years ago, we have no problems. The parents and the kids are like, well, you know, if they say something crazy, like, wonder if my grandma will pass away. Well, your mom's not going to text you or call you. She'll call the school. We'll pull you out appropriately and we'll move on. But no, we've had zero problems with the, when they take the phones away, they don't even, they don't get them out of their locker. It's been beautiful. Thank God. Jay, appreciate the phone call today. Appreciate you listening. Thank you. Have a good day. All right, there you go. That was Jay, and we appreciate him, and we've got to get to a break. Coming up on the other side of news, we're checking with Jim Serger, who has just ridden a bicycle from one end of the country to the other. And he did it in like less than a month. How do you do that? How do you do that? Well, we'll find out from Jim on the other side of this. 1125, Dan Carroll for Scott Sloan, 700 WLW.

All right, back on the big one. 700 WLW 1139. Dan Carroll in for Scott Sloan. And I'm looking at my calendar right now. And today is August the 4th. July 14th wasn't that long ago. About one, two, three. It's been four weeks now, but it's in California to New York. In less than a month. Jim Serger, how do you do that in less? In less than a month. From California? Well, here's the biggest thing is I had two other great people behind us. My wife gave me approval in October. And then my buddy, Corey Hardy from Montana, said, yes, I am with you. And so we were on a mission from God. We had exactly 20 days, what equated to about 170 miles a day that we had to ride. And not to blow smoke literally, but we had to get off the bikes in Denver. There was smoke coming from a fire. We had monsoons in Arizona. We had to get off the bikes there. And there were some shoulders in Kansas that went from six foot wide to three feet wide to no shoulder. Semis were going 70 miles an hour. And I said, Corey, I love you, but we are loading the bikes up. But it was a mission for tunnel to towers for the 25th anniversary of 9-11. And I had to do it with Corey and meet everybody at Ground Zero. The Pentagon had a police escort for us. How about that? Shanksville had a state trooper there with the Somerset Fire Department and then rolling in Sunday to the 9-11 Memorial. We had the NYPD, FD, and Port Authority honor guard playing right for us with bagpipes as we rolled across into the 9-11 Memorial. Yeah, you sent me. I'm going to flick your glory on right now. All right. All right, well, go ahead. Hello, is this Corey? Yeah, Corey, how are you doing, man? It's good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm super excited to be here on the island. Yeah, I was reading a little bit about you. And you have ridden bicycles all over the world. So, I mean, you, this is like right in your wheelhouse doing giant rides like this. I mean, you've ridden across Japan. You've ridden across Austria, Germany, Slovenia, for God's sake, Vietnam, Laos. So you've been all over the world on a bicycle. But when Jim said, hey, let's ride from California to New York, you probably didn't hesitate. You're like, yeah, I got this, man. You know, that's like an easy weekend for me.

Heck yeah, I was all about it, you know. I mean, I live in the greatest country and the entire planet, and I've never thought I would be riding across America. And when he mentioned it, I was all on board. So, yeah, super excited to be a part of it. And for a fantastic cause, tunnel to towers. Tunnel to towers. I want to talk about that in a second. But Jim sent me a clip. of the moment when you crossed the, well, you had an honor guard that was waiting there for you in New York City. And you got the bagpipes out there and there's applause and they're playing America the Beautiful. And I'll be honest with you. I watched that clip and I actually teared up a little bit. I would imagine that when you do something like this, that you go through the entire range of emotions, maybe if not on a daily basis, but maybe every couple of days. When you talk about the changing weather conditions and how difficult it is and you think about what you're doing, describe the range of emotions that you have on a journey like this. Well, ultimately we got, you know, everything from, like you were saying, weather, and we have these epic visits to, you know, Pentagon riding into ground zero with that type of welcome. Unbelievable. So surreal. I just keep telling myself, I keep cracking the joke that I'm like, I'm famous now. Wow. I'm a big deal. I'm from a community of 940 people and they're all receiving the clips of us doing all this stuff. And it's just, it's really cool. Really just, it's incredible that I'm able to take time out to do this. It's for a great cause. Yeah, it's one of the coolest things I've done in my life. And you're not done yet, right? I mean, you're from New York. You've got a few more stops to make. Is that right? No, no, we are. That's it. Okay. All right. I thought you had one more leg of the journey, but I guess I was mistaken about that. All right, let's talk about Tunnel to Towers. I'll turn you over to Kim. Okay, well, let's talk to Kim then from Tunnel to Towers. Hi, how you doing? Hi, Kim. This is Dan Carroll at 700 WLW. What's your last name? Uh, my Kim Perone. I'm a third party coordinator for Tunnela Towers Foundation. Um, I, I am so excited to be invited on the show with you. Uh, when, when Jim came to me with this idea originally, I just thought it was just wild, you know, and it's just so wonderful. Uh, these two people right here, Jim and Corey, some of the most amazing people that I've met in my entire life. Uh, and we're lucky to have so many beautiful people with Tunnela Towers Foundation come to us with so many amazing ideas.

And I just want to mention, because I had the moment, we have our 5K coming up in September. It's the last Sunday of the month. So if you guys, if anybody wants to go to T2T.org and sign up for that, it's an incredible experience to walk through the tunnel. If you haven't done it, you have to do it. It's extremely, it's a wonderful experience. I just have to throw that in there. Well, that's fun. I love everything that the tunnel to towers is all about. And Frank Siller, I see them all the time on Fox News. And I just saw Jim just sent me a copy. of the photograph he just had with him and Corey. And it's such a great thing. It must be unbelievably fulfilling to see the way people like Jim and so many others have looked at this cause and said, yes, I want to, I want to help out. I want to help, you know, our first responder community. I want to help. And now you've taken on the additional task of helping homeless veterans. and things like that. I mean, it must be unbelievably fulfilling just to see that it would, to my way of thinking, what is really a genuine and a grassroots response to what you're doing there at Tunnel to Towers. It absolutely is. And so we're spreading all throughout the country. And it's like we're just spreading the healing. You know, it was a devastating moment, you know, when that happened. But what we're doing was we're taking something that was devastating. And we're actually just planting hope everywhere. And we're just going to make sure that we can plant that healing throughout the United States, which is an amazing country. We know, we still have our freedoms. And we're honoring our heroes, past, present and future, I feel, through the, through the amazing work that Tunnel of Powers does. Yeah, I don't know if you've met Jim before, but it looks like he lost a little bit of weight on the bike. Just a bit. No, this is my first time meeting him, and I've got to say, and I've been working with him for about three years. He does other things for us. You obviously know the books that he's written. He's amazing, the things that he's done. So this is an amazing adventure that he was on. And I'm so glad that, you know, to be a part of it, just to be here and to greet him, you know, him and his friend. for their amazing service to this country and now service to even continuing on with the healing that that tunnel of towers does. Yeah, a couple of Navy veterans there and the welcome that you arranged for them there in New York City. I was just telling Corey, I saw the video that and it was moving. I mean, there was a little tear that welled up in my eye when I saw that. Very, very special. That was very nice. Yeah, it's an absolute pleasure. Absolute pleasure for us. All right. Well, thank you so much for joining us on the show today. Put me on with Jim again, and I'm going to close out the interview with him. And again, thank you for everything you do there at Tunnel to Towers. You're very welcome. Here you go. Okay. Dan, how are you from Tunnel to Tower's headquarters in Staten Island? So how much longer are you going to be bumping around in New York City and when do you come back? Are you going to drive? You're going to ride? You're going to fly? How are you going to get back to Cincinnati?

Well, Corey's going to fly back tomorrow afternoon, and then I still have the support vehicle that have rented from the Cincinnati airport. So I got to drive back tomorrow about 11 hours and return that back to the Cincinnati airport. So July 14th, I picked it up and went all the way out to San Diego. picked him up, drove all the way to New York, and then now drive back to Cincinnati the day after. But it's been terrific. I mean, we got to meet Frank Siller today. We got to meet Sal Casano, who was a FDNY fire commissioner, right after 9-11 happened. We were on Fox. We were on Fox. We've done interviews with you. It's just to spread the word about 9-11. So we never forget heroes. You know, it's just we can never forget. And that's the mission of Corey and I. Yeah. I'm looking at 3,500 miles. Yeah, I googled it and I'm looking at some of the media coverage you got in. It looks like you got a fair amount of media coverage along the way. So I'm very happy about that. And, I mean, Jim, it looks to me. like this thing went off probably as close to as you had it planned out as it could have gone. I mean, it looks like it just really went off without a hitch. Yes, sir, 100% correct in your explanation. I mean, five and a half hours we had a private tour inside the Pentagon. Five hours we were at Shankton. How about that? And then today, meeting all the way over here to Tunnel to Towers, meeting Mr. Siller, meeting everyone with Tunnel to Towers, and then the welcoming committee with the FDMI, the Port Authority, and PD at Ground Zero. It's just so moving, just so moving. Every pedal was worth it. It was for those that have... gone before us for true heroes, veterans, military. So it was my honor to ride with Corey, another Navy veteran, as well as you, Air Force veteran. I mean, we're still here. You know, we represent everybody, veterans. Yeah. And it's important. It's a beautiful thing. Was there ever a point when you're out there and look, there's some long, lonely stretches of road out there, especially in the great Western states of this country? Was there ever a point when you thought to yourself? You know, maybe I've bitten off a little more than I can chew here. Did a thought like that ever creep in your head? It did. It did. When I was in Northern Arizona, I was bicycling fine in California and Southern Arizona. When I got into Northern Arizona, I could not breathe at all. I told Corey, I said, I really think I'm having a heart attack. Oh my God. And he looked at me and said, hey, you're not having a heart attack. It's the altitude. You're not used to this. You're coming in from Cincinnati. If this would have been two Jimmy Sergers or Dan Carolyn Jim Serger.

We would have had to drop out because the altitude took us straight into 5,000, 7,000, 8,000, 10,000. And Corey said, you just go downhill and you take care of the flat through Colorado and Arizona. And we did it. And we stuck to that game plan. And that's how we were able to ride through. But if two Jimmy Sergers would have been out there, we never would have made it. I just. physically breathing like that in the altitude. But he's from Montana, Dan. He's used to that, right? He's out there. He's living in every day. Jimmy, we got about 30 seconds left here. If people want to donate to the calls, even after the fact, I would imagine the donations are still over. Where do they do that if they want to chip in a few bucks for tunnel to towers? Right. Correct. Go to jimserger.com. There's a direct link right there for our fundraising site for tunnel to the towers. Or if anybody wants to donate $11 a month, every month, go to t2t.org and sign up. It's a terrific cause. Money well spent, 93 cents on the dollar goes back. to help their causes at Tunnel to Towers, Dan. So thank you for everything that you've done interviewing me, going back almost 120 days ago when I first pulled the trigger with you live on the air. You've helped us out, 700 has helped us out tremendously in spreading the word. And I cannot thank you enough. for having me on numerous times covering this event. So, Jim, Mr. Carroll, my hats off and hands salute you. Absolutely. Congratulations to you and a job well done. And I'm sure there is going to be another book on the way before too long. So I can't find out about that. Jim, all the best to you, man. We'll talk when you get back, all right. Yes, sir, Mr. Carroll. Have a great day. Thanks for having us on. Jim Serger from California to New York in less than a month. Absolutely unbelievable. That's it for me. I've got to get out of here. Mike's, Mike Allen is in for Sloan tomorrow, and I'm back here on Thursday. Cunningham is up next on the Home of the Reds 700 WLW. This is the race fans wait for all year. EMSA returns to Virginia International Raceway, August 21 through 23rd, as the world's top GT teams and drivers battle for championship points on VIR's iconic road course. See Porsche, BMW, Corvette, Mercedes-AmG, Ford and more competing wheel-to-wheel. Three days of racing, paddock access, and non-stop action. Secure your tickets now at racevIR.com. That's r-A-C-E-V-I-R.com. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.