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can also ask questions you can comment on Facebook or elsewhere we get people that uh like to troll us I think here and there and really push Norm's buttons um which is what he lives for to have his buttons pushed and respond to people I dare you to to pick a fight with Norman I'm cool Under Pressure it does not matter to me uh so well even if it's a comment that hey good show guys are like that show really was let us know it doesn't have to be controversial just give us some feedback on yeah those all those topics you talked about no but can you cover this or like yeah do more of this yeah more of this more yeah a had a comment uh this morning about the teaya young case uh in our commentary on that so uh yeah bring it you know I'm I'm used to dealing with things uh at 100 Mil an hour uh being flung at me without any preparation so as a race car driver you mean yeah so I could give a flip I mean just go ahead and try to terrify me it doesn't work so what's the comment on the on the case that we do yeah so we talked about this incident uh uh in Blendon Township up at the Kroger yeah up at the Kroger where uh one of the officers has been died for murder it's unbelievable to me it's murder and Reckless homicide and three other things they threw in uh probably didn't have his shoelaces tied correctly or whatever it was but you know pregnant lady part of a flash mob goes in steals a bunch of booze gets in her car the police stand in front of her car say get out she dialogues with them and says oh hell no I'm not getting out and then she moves the car in it to run over the cop and he shoots her and he's indicted for being a murderer what does our commenter have to say about our discuss said uh God God bless and and may may she rest in peace along with the baby who also died of course of course right I mean it's such a horrible it's like I think that was our position and she said it she and this comment was uh it was her fault it was her own doing but clearly the grand jury didn't see it that way with a special prosecutor brought in from I guess Dayton or someplace uh who which indicted the the police officer which I I think is it makes it tragedy now it doubled that guy's life is over now I mean yes he can't be a cop anywhere anymore no it's too bad and I know the attorney representing him Mark Collin's great he's a good lawyer uh I might even get him on the show here but um at any rate you mentioned grand jury so now I've got to we've got to do a Shameless self-serving plug go for it um you know for those who remember we started as our this was an offshoot of my loyer Talk podcast we used to we used to take questions on uh on the blitz and legal questions phone in stuff and then we would have all these commentary and I thought well this is really two different shows so we started Common Sense Ohio I still do the other show lawyer talk off the record on the air and I just answered a question about grand juries and how they work what the sort of the idea of grand juries is and uh if anybody's got any uh if you're curious about it we take bite-sized chunks little Q&A siiz chunks check it out lawyer talkpod docomomo Steve I had a funny incident um pinging off your grand jury um comments so uh I I'm not bragging because I didn't plan on this but I happen to have the fastest time of the day at the Bell Fountain Hill Climb out of 70 cars nice congratulations yeah so I smoked the field I think the the guy closest to me was in a Z6 Corvette and he was a half second behind me but I didn't plan on that I just drove my ass off anyway the the county sheriff's up there uh shut down this public road so that we can race up this road so they're they're controlling traffic and I was part of the crew handing out sandwiches and uh literally gave a a deputy sheriff a ham sandwich and I said you know you can indict these which is the old say I think I even talked about that in my podcast did did he get it oh yeah he was rolling he said not only that you can indict a a Cod Sandwich a turkey sandwich like he had a whole RI yeah oh but he did like that good wasn't lost on him that's great that's great yeah so cops are great in general I I know I know like we just had some terrible scandals involving uh police officers here in Columbus I mean just some I mean a guy stealing cocaine out of the evidence room and then in his 20s a Columbus Police Officer and then pedaling it on the street just unbel but but 99% are good you know so it is uh there are bad apples in Bunch or every barrel whatever the every basket whatever some terrible podcasters too there are I don't know that that's I don't know if we qualifi we have none in this room okay none none uh you were speaking about Ohio State there very briefly and I you know we we we cover so many you know like this looks like a complaint show half the time right where we're rolling out you know the horrors of the week and uh and you know talking about bad stuff so one thing that was just this is unbelievable and it's gaining it's garnering a lot of national attention is the Ohio State football players uh I think 20 of them got together this past Sunday along with some Churches in the area and they put on a faith event on campus just a good oldfashioned Revival I mean they had a pool out they had a I think a atis yeah they did 50 baptism they baptized 50 students I mean it really really remarkable I said it was remarkable I sent that to a couple my yeah fellow Christians and we uh I was like unreal you know in the day and age where we have this um name image likeness taking over college football which I think is horrible I think ultimately this is the downfall of college football as we know it and maybe completely it legalizes bribery essentially well and and we'll get to this because um Nick Savin had some comments about it in an interview a bit ago but anyway in the day and age of name image likeness which is like anti you know if if you study Biblical scripture one of the things the worst the the greatest sin of all and and if you read anything about CS Lewis he would agree with this is like Pride yeah right it's the worst I mean it's it's it's a gateway to Hell yeah um Pride look at me look how great I am focus on me worship the human worship not only the human but the self human you know it's like you put yourself above God and and even if you don't believe in God you can understand how that leads to really bad stuff um and so in the name of name likeness where I would fear that that would take over where Pride would take over you know give me give me give me give me give me look how great I am great great great great great great great great exactly and not appreciate and and not be humble uh you have these football players out there leading a good oldfashioned Revival right come to Jesus Revival I heard 2,000 people roughly in attendance which is I mean we're talking about a secular campus this this wasn't at Xavier University or something or over at uh I don't know you know uh Yellow Springs or this is a public university not permitted to that that just reminds me somebody will probably protest because of this but anyway it's these students on their own yeah you know it's not sponsored by the coaches it's not sponsored by the school they're doing it on their own Like There's Hope in the world yeah uh the the I guess the main organizer was a former receiver but there were uh many members on the current Squad that uh were there as speakers and I'm just going to say this I so I watched the I watch as much as what was on YouTube of this event because I was fascinated with it and I I'm just going to say something I noticed they were all black football players okay and and we talk a lot about you know black men and you know uh abandoning families and you know there's the whole Bill Cosby thing about black fathers not being in the house and you know and problems with black males governor dwine just financed a new commission to look into trouble with black males black males this black males that right this that they're the big problem this entire event of upholding uh faith in Jesus and and talking about God and and uh baptisms and all this it was organized it was completely staffed by young black men and I and I just say I'm I'm Blown Away impressed and I'm and I'm humbled well it shows you that some their leadership stereotypes are not always accurate right I mean it's exactly right we often seem to notice the extremes either way and not the not the mainstreams either way and but we should comment when we see when we see positive things well look and and this is this has been going on I've noticed this for a couple years I know um Justin Fields a few years back he was the transfer that came in from uh Georgia and he was very very Faith oriented and then uh who was our other qub back that came in after him um I can't remember his name but very similar uh that cardale no no no no it's going way back but anyway you know they they they are even they and he's continued with his faith into the NFL and elsewhere but you know this started a few years back so people are not ashamed now to show their faith in Christ and Christianity despite the war on Christianity despite the war Christianity and then if you get like a Colin Kaepernick out there it's like the total opposite of that right it's the total opposite be respectful understand there's a greater power than us as humans out there and you know like I said even if you don't believe it um I'm not going to this isn't a conversion podcast but even if you don't believe it understand that if you're putting something bigger uh and more important in front of you then you're gonna you're going to avoid that that nasty sin of Pride um because Pride just it almost always leads to bad things in your life you know I would be and it's difficult culture because most Pro Sports is very ego driven M see me watch me see me watch me play you know I'm money money and that's just what drives it it is so he's going he's it's kind of counterculture it is counterculture to a certain degree or bring it bring the pendulum back maybe a little bit and having played on a number of football teams even through college the message from like within the team is always team yeah there's no ey in team is what they always always say um and you know it's like it it is the message is to avoid that at all costs because we are a group we are a team we're a unit and that may be the higher thing that you that that guides you because when people do that when people aren't uh saying look at me uh and instead they're focusing on the team then good things tend to happen yes and you know that's like a little microcosm of the message that we're talking about it's like if if you're if you're giving the team credit for what you were able to accomplish then it raises everybody and it it makes you better if you're focusing on something other than yourself you tend to uh succeed there is no downside to that there is no downside I I don't I don't know of any and and and the the the downside the other way is that it's it's bottomless yeah because yeah Accolade like uh I think there's I don't know if Patton actually said it but in the Patton movie uh there's a little speech where he says Glory all glory is fleeting um you know all this Pride all these little these little bites of Pride and Glory it's always fleeting it it only lasts a very short period of time in today's day and age even shorter yes uh and so it it and it's difficult to repeat without uh making it an obsession where you start to please the the world instead of what's important and that's what we're seeing with our youth black white whatever I mean that's what I'm seeing and uh this is a counter uh this is completely countert to that sure yeah the these guys are not going to get like popular in the mainstream culture for doing an event like this and in fact it may cost them endorsement you know this is something that is is frowned on and looked down on by mainstream culture these days well and it wasn't I didn't see it on I don't watch ESPN anymore but I'm not I didn't see any ads on ESPN on some of the stuff I look I mean is this did this hit the mainstream at all it did it did uh so the Cameron Bab the main organizer Cameron was interviewed on Fox live um uh about this event and uh and that frankly uh you know that kind of exposure and then I read about it on MSNBC and interes on on their website so um yeah I think I I just you know wanted to start off with that since you mentioned uh that the opening day is uh tomorrow yeah big kickoff so you know we'll see and and you know I think we've entered a new era where have basically purchased players I hate to say that uh and you know for sure Nick Sav had an interesting take on this and then we can get to the the big the stuff we need to get to he you know he said I'm out of coaching because I sort of looked at my role as taking young men and and teaching them football but also how to be men you know like it it was a it was like I could start with them stay with them and they would come to they would come to my team because I recruited with a certain philosophy and the philosophy was here's what I'm going to teach you I'm going to teach you values I'm going to teach you team I'm going to teach you how to succeed in the sport and then I'm going to be with you for three to four years or five however long it's going to be and now it's not about that anymore it's about you're going to come to this school because they have 20 million behind us in uh name image likeness money yeah and it uh he just said it it's totally flipped it on its ear oh sure and when I said bribery earlier I mean just I mean I think we all know so like if there's a local car dealer that uh wants to offer uh half a million dollars to a player to be his spokesperson uh you do all the ads locally for that for that car dealership I mean yeah I'll go to that school because that car dealer is willing to do and that has nothing to do with my scholarship but now it's all legal and and I mean just flat out you can bribe somebody to go to a certain in school all you have to do is is get the boosters to offer that guy uh an advertising job and you know it's fine yeah I mean I just yeah no it's it's it's crazy and that's stuff that would have gotten a player disqualified and a team thrown out of the postseason like that was a huge crime in the past and did right and did and did you know yeah and you know and this kind of we we talked about this a little bit last week about the Brown Stadium potentially moving and such and now it's gone all the way up to you know corporate welfare state again now it's gone to dwi's desk and he's and the Bengals now he's meeting with and the Bengals are now saying well what about us right so whatever the state of Ohio spends in Cleveland the people down in Cincinnati are saying hey us too ordinarily I would agree except the Browns are better well because so what I heard I heard him talk Governor uh looking at this at a from a bond standpoint from the state he States the governor shouldn't be involved at this stage of the game at all but he's but he wants to talk to anybody wants talk yeah okay yeah right so anyway but but yeah he said looking at other pro sports stadiums he also well I did some digging into this too I like okay great we're seeing all this kind of money I mean the Browns are asking for 2.4 billion with a B yeah for a domed stadium yeah for a completely new stadium in a suburb not downtown not downtown because they say they say it can't be done there they say it can't because the FAA says if you put a dome on this uh the the nearby airport there Burke Lakefront Airport it somehow interferes with the fight exactly which is a huge eye roll to me yeah whatever yeah so I guess the the the mayor's offering a counter offer of you know the city will offer 1 to 1.3 billion in renovations to keep the stadium where it is but else are heard the city's not all that in love keeping the stadium there no that's primar they may want to take that back and kind of go go away because they they've always had a Riverfront view problem and they're looking maybe recapturing that space so I don't think the Browns are going to leave they they won't make that a park no but but it's that but it'll be a convention it be something maybe who knows exactly but it's that I got to tell there is there is there's a little bit of temperature there that they they say okay you guys can go to where you want to maybe I I don't know it's interesting I don't like I this whole billionaires asking for the state to help my stomach when there's no economic U um we don't get anything for it we don't get anything for it ex trying to get football game on eight times a year if anything let the city help I don't care about if Cleveland wants to use its money fine team yeah or the county Koga County maybe yeah you know I will say this I've been to that Stadium a handful of times and it's really cool down there you know there's a lot of stuff going on around there there's a lot the bar districts and the and the Jacob and Jake is there and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn't just a hop skip and a jump away I mean it's a cool little Entertainment District somebody's got their eye on some development to do something else that's the only thing I can think of because I guess the Buffalo Bills are in the same situation that um they're they're paying down some debt but as fans you can buy bonds that this from a story I heard $55,000 a pot and you and you'll get paid back but it's from it's from County money that you're already paying into so you're paying yourself back it's like again there's no Economic Development Sports nothing the thing behind all this is the NFL franchises have never been more valuable yeah I mean I'm hearing like I mean it's crazy money what what they're worth now oh yeah and they do Revenue sharing license the more the more popular teams their uh their merch sales a lot of it goes to the less popular teams like they they they share this Revenue yeah and um you know to kind of make their their uh salary package sort of you know uh Equitable you know so so like the Green Bay Packers out in the rural sticks can afford to pay people they're not in a major area like uh Los Angeles right or New Jersey a market that can handle three five seven teams of any brener you know used to load up the Yankees with all these expensive baseball players well the NFL has addressed that with Revenue sharing so these teams are super wealthy and the idea that they go to the taxpayers and ask for anything is quite Beyond it's a license to steal it's a it truly is and what they're threatening obviously is we're going to leave Cleveland again you give us this or we're the hell out of here and those people in Cleveland suffered with you know the Ravens you know their franchise leaving they get it back again and this is absolute come on man they say there's a model to this that look at the lease about year so if it's like a 30-year lease at about year 20 the owner start to Grumble yeah they know it's a 10-year process we're going to leave okay you throw ours we'll throw yours that's sort of thing we want new because we want better we want better boxes sweets to sell we want all this kind of crud around you know the little play areas for the kids crawl walls or whatever case might be I mean the classic is Al Davis how many times did he move the Raiders right true what five six times in the last 40 years I mean they've been all over yeah and now they're they're in uh Las Vegas right is where the franch lasas now yeah exactly which was you would think that'd be almost the last market for a football team right it just you know because it's Vegas but Vegas yeah yeah exactly just whoever pays yeah yeah yeah so you know obviously this is just the beginning of it but you're right it will fect other cities what will Cincinnati do what you know how will that affect they're already yeah they're already saying we we whatever you do there we want it and you can't blame him for that no you can't but it's that but dang this stuff's got to stop some point in time you know and and that's got to come from the top the state can maybe say a little bit about this like you know you guys take care of it locally we're not helping you Statewide we're not helping you right this is a local problem because a a Cleveland stadium does not help a Cincinnati Market it does not help p a single penny in taxes that goes to the Cleveland Browns no yeah or or or the Bengals it's not like we get to go for free well exactly and tickets they're saying tickets could be up to $400 in another 10 to 15 years in the state of Ohio right it consists of more than two cities that have NFL franchises so imagine you're the mayor of Toledo or or the mayor of Springfield Ohio or whatever right you're looking at this and you're why do these cities get this huge influx of of taxpayer funds when we're out here we don't have an NFL franchise you know like where's the uh where's the development money for Toledo yeah right yeah yeah nothing you know been to a few times lately it needs a little bit oh yeah Orit Jon yes use a little bit of updating right although they do have a pretty cool uh minor league ball yeah yeah well and it it's interesting you bring it's interesting you bring up Dayton because Dayton is such it's so positioned well that that it's just a short drive to Columbus and short drive to Cincinnati and it's on 70 it's on you have all this entertainment around you they just never really got it there it's almost like a suburb of both Columbus and Cincinnati to a certain degree but yeah yeah exactly anyway it's it's yeah it's certainly not e an equitable way to spend taxpayer money no it's not it's not you know to go to the two big cities yeah oh okay Columbus too but yeah um we should talk a little bit about the uh softball interview last night if I don't know if you guys watched it did not it was uh pretty terrible I felt so good last night I got a lot of work done yesterday I had been on the road all week long uh I was in maretta I was all the way then I went from Marietta to Delaware and then I had to drive out to Noble County to visit a client in prison so it's like back to almost Marietta and you know yesterday I finally was able to get home what I like to do is I like to get everything done at the office then go home and finish my day the last two hours or three hours on emails at home and I got all that done I was not going to ruin my movie why I ruin my by watching K chameleon double talk on CNN I think what Steve's saying is uh what can be for him was unburdened by what has been right earlier in the I wasn't going to unburden my future with the passage of time well well well she had some doozies and uh she had her minder there Tim Tim Waltz I mean I and what was Ed Asner doing there yeah so it was and so she didn't I think for her her her devoted followers she didn't hurt herself but I don't think she gained anything either uh it it it was it was a just a series of softballs questions like uh you know would you consider having a republican on your C in your cabinet like okay that's hard like oh no I want diversity you I mean come on I mean Obama had or bush had nor manetta you know there was Ray Le hood you know back well this doesn't even reflect on her then just reflects on the interview itself terrible this is this this shows you the dis disingenuity disingenuousness the ratings opportunity if I had KLA Harris here well like we could and look I wouldn't be mean about it but it's like look you said you were going to get rid of fracking and now you're not what changed is it just to get votes are you going to go back what's going on so I don't want to strenuously disagree with my colleague here but the fact is she hasn't done an interview for 6 weeks the interview she finally sets up includes like she she's got to go in there with a committee and she chooses the most friendly network not live by the way either and no it was taped and they only gave they only gave us a half an hour of the one hour of tape and I'd like to know what's on The Cutting Room floor uh you know what was left out it should have been live and should have been you know obviously like Trump goes to networks that hate him he he's been on MSNBC and in CNN and you know he'll he'll go talk to anybody because he just doesn't give a rip you know it like he he'll give his answers and they whether they're popular or not that's the way it is yep but she she she is clearly afraid to be really grilled on her flip flops and when she says for example last night she said oh I made it very clear during the 2020 campaign that I was not against fracking and uh the uh the [ __ ] detectors out there in the media cannot find a single second in any of the debates where she said that she was not against fracking in fact in speaking to groups uh she she directly answered are you against fracking she said absolutely absolutely there's tape of her arm so it's just complete [ __ ] I mean she is trying to reinvent she has turned into a republican in the last 6 weeks is basically you go down the list other than her her wacky economic thing about I'm going to give you $25,000 if it's your first house and uh and we're going to tax you on unrealized so you haven't sold your your item yet but we're going to tax you on it as if you did sell it I mean so unrealized capital gains idea oh we we you and I talked about this I want to clear the record on this because you and I talked about this she does have this idea of of taxing unrealized capital gains but it's only for those who hold 100 million in assets so it's not like you and it's not well I don't know about you Norm but I don't have 100 million in assets um yeah so it's not it's not like every everyday Joe well the question is how do they find out if you have 100 million well I'm not defending I'm not defending it I'm just correcting it because we didn't we didn't say that last time and it doesn't make it any better it it in in it's in a lot of ways it it it will be just as impactful because those who have 100 million assets are are like running businesses and and and or business themselves or their corporation right or their corporate or whatever it is so yeah it's and and they're just gonna they're going to dodge it they're they're never going to pay that you know it's like they're going to either sell the asset or they're going to offset with depreciation somewhere else I mean something will happen it's it's just nonsense it's just just it's also the camel's nose so you start there well that's right then it's incremental right I mean come on SO 100 million well if it worked for them why now million yeah everybody who's tried this it it doesn't work right I think the Scandinavian countries had some version of this years ago and it was an abject failure that's why we have something like uh what is it 800,000 Venezuelans now in the United States because they tried this kind of stuff in Venezuela they crashed the economy and Venezuela's emptied out its prisons and now they're up here this is why see taking taking over apartment buildings in Aurora Colorado and I understand KLA now my be open to a border wall but this is why those kind of countries is yeah is that rich Venezuela the Soviet Union the Berlin Wall it's like these countries have to build walls to keep people in she called she called Trump's idea of a border wall a vanity project from the Medieval Times Yes you know like like this is a medieval solution you know uh and and he's doing it for vanity reasons and then she becomes a republican this past month and now she's for the wall and now she's for it so it's kamala's vanity wall now and it's Camala is in favor of and she's not really for it I mean let's let's be let's be honest about this stop it right yeah yeah where where where then why did you what why did you in your Administration then um immediately cancel the completion of the wall as soon as you came in office well and this is like look you don't have to be a genius and most most of the conservative commentators are are making the same points so I don't claim it to be mine but it's like the response to everything that she says is why didn't you do it right and so on immigration last night they they roll out this Trope again her and Waltz that Trump somehow killed this bipartisan Senate yeah blame Trump for everything as what they do so let's talk again because at the time we talked about what was in that bill it was nothing the president would be doing until you reached 5,000 El legals per day so what it did is it established a a red line of 5,000 illegals per day over the course of I think it was three months and then it would trigger these powers of the president to do something about it powers that he already has and didn't need under this legislation so 5 thou we figured out 5,000 people a day it was basically sanctioning something like a million or a million and a half uh illegals per year before the president could do anything about it 365 time 5,000 well look she's at the same time she they're they're promoting offering these people zero interest loans to get houses right so they and out in California they want to give illegals between $125 and $150,000 to buy a house right I mean and California is like 30 I think $30 billion in debt they bud well and then what was the tax bill years ago I think Trump killed it where basically you were going to get a deduction if you lived in California off your federal income tax because of your high California so basically they're sort of off shooting all their tax burden on the rest of us right and I think Trump killed that'll be back under these people oh yeah so but you know here's what they didn't ask her you know are you in favor of packing the court the US Supreme Court right are you in favor of adding like Washington DC as a state and uh maybe but what's the other one there I always talk about adding I'm drawing Puerto Rico Puerto Rico or or they didn't ask her about scotus which the Supreme Court just once again told Biden you can't do the student debt forgiveness well there no no they're that was yesterday why didn't she ask about that they're going to pack the court why should why should plumbers roofers drywallers uh Walmart greeters why should their taxes go to pay for some somebody going to law school or medical school or getting a Humanities degree what why do those people deserve to have their debt removed right are more important and the guy in the rusty pickup truck right who's putting in your fence is classism at its at its worst right but danab bash didn't ask about that well no she didn't ask about whether or not they were going to restructure the Supreme Court meaning pack the court yes right add Justice because they don't like the outcome of some of these decisions or at least uh limit or create term limits or uh add to state so they get two more Senators each right and since she's not against fracking now uh why did her Administration just this week uh reverse the Trump uh Alaska policy on Drilling and for gas and oil up up on public on public land in in Alaska lies lies lies it's all lies are you going to renew the pipeline that was canel of course not's not going to do any of this right they're going to get rid of the filibus it's like if they had their way and I'm not saying it's going to happen right but I think if you're interviewing KLA Harris and Ed Asner yeah you're going to have to ask these questions what is your agenda what's the long-term agenda how do you feel about um getting rid of the filibuster in the Senate would you support that how do you feel about adding Supreme Court Justices and creating term limits so you can put uh your liberal justices or the justices that you like on the court how do you feel about adding States so the left gets two more or really four more senators and takes over the Senate it's like what is your position on these things because these are huge ideas folks I mean this changes the fundamental structure of our country probably forever right and and they haven't they have an unspoken it's not unspoken but if you go look for it this is what they're advocating right this is what they want and what is KLA Harris's viewpoint on it and I look I fear that like I've said it before I mean I think she's getting elected I think she's going to get elected I hope she doesn't um but I think she is and I I now I'm starting to worry about the rest of the the house and the Senate you know it's like this could this could change the landscape of our country let's go to um the DC and the Puerto Rico idea how heavy of a lift is that to create the to bring them in States though is is that a reality they both yeah if they have both sides of Congress it's it's like it well I just I'm asking I don't know I've never my lifetime my lifetime we never added a state DC's been on DC been on chopping block now for a number of years DC requires a constitutional amendment because Constitution sets aside a national capital that cannot be a state there was a vote a couple years we've got two other we've got two other territories what Guam as well right so you could if if the D thing doesn't work American Samoa yes that's the other is it realistic I don't know I don't know I don't know but and it's worth a discussion but yeah yeah the fact that they want to do it yeah to me is very telling if they're not capable of getting it done I think that's awesome they're not capable of getting it done but if they want to do it you you have to ask why the Puerto Rican people themselves have voted down statehood several times this they don't want I was just trying to think what did I hear reason now recently but in the last couple years in regards to them uh discussing joining us they don't want to they don't want to so it's it's that and maybe it backfires maybe if maybe it goes the other way maybe the Republicans get another couple Senators but you never know the fact is that they they're advocating for these positions and nobody's asking them why right like why why do you think it's it's self it's to grab the power I know but make him say it make him say it so if I had a if I were cross-examining a witness and it's self-evident I'm going to make the witness say it what did you say right there in fact why not KLA why don't I show you this clip of you saying you're going to get rid of fracking why don't we play your debate question when you said oh Joe yes we can when we can get rid of guns we can just do it right and especially being a taped interview they could have interspersed the statements with her prior statements and what would they have done with Trump exact well that's they would have hammered him skewed him exactly right so her Dodge frequently in this uh interview uh was that her values haven't changed and that is that is the cutest dumbest reply to anything so for example you could sit down uh Ralph nater across from me and we could talk about the environment and we would both say our shared value is I want clean air and clean water it's how you get to that that is the difference and we can both say oh I'm for peace in the Middle East but how do you get to peace in the Middle East can be very different policies so to say that your values haven't changed is is like a non-answer it's it's just it may not even be questioning values it is questioning the path to getting where what's your intent what's your plan it's a fair question right a fair for both sides for both everybody she is she is playing around in the MC she she wants it to be fuzzy her values haven't changed her values haven't changed she believes in whatever is going to give her the most power and get her elected that is her primary fundamental value that is it she says that we need to reject the last 10 years of leadership in Washington DC and Dana needed to say um but you're the last four of those 10 part ofum DB you don't even have to be remotely intelligent to to see that question right like well when you talk like a valley girl so her her mannerisms just irritate the crap out of me that who Valley about uh D or the interviewer or the interviewee Camala I I can't stand to listen to her talk because people complain about man splaining right she does valley girl splaining well a timeline is a series of deadlines that you have to meet on time and you're like yeah okay a coconut tree you she just she she rolls out these these plet and then she laughs like Ed Amin Dada at the airport she's she you know of course of course everything will be fine yeah I have to listen to her differently now in regards to this the splaining that you just because I I didn't catch that but that I've not heard her speak over long period of time to for that deterioration listen here's here's the thing when she is off the teleprompter she is abysmally bad I mean abysmally bad she has like these long word salad explanations that mean nothing like no like unburdened future we have two candidates that are terrible off off that though that's the thing sad once again I'm voting for the least terrible the Trump's problem is Trump's problem is he unlike kamla like she will actually stay on the teleprompter and read what it said and when Trump gets up there and it's on the teleprompter he's like oh I'm gonna heck with that I'm GNA he has even more is I will know I have more that uh I will note that Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia and Trump have like like now they're they're buddies Trump Trump trump is sort of zeroed in again I mean Trump trump is like he's learned yeah so he's he's making amends with Kemp he is uh had a fundraiser for him yeah and he's got RFK Jr in his Camp he's got uh Tulsi is now in his Camp right you know and and look I think it's telling that those kind of powerhouses are throwing in their lot with Trump and what they're really saying like if you listen to what uh R is saying Elon Musk if you listen to what these people saying it's not that they like Trump so much it's just that what's going on on the left is is significantly more dangerous it's so out of control I mean Michigan's a perfect example they had r so RFK leaves the race and he actually has this long speech that says I'm going to take my name off the ballot wherever it could change the outcome of the election right so he doesn't want to be the spoiler right now you know I get it then he goes and throws his lot in with Trump so to some extent he's saying what but he's taking his name off the ballot Michigan for instance is fighting that Michigan won't let him take his name off the ballot meanwhile what's the other Democratic candidate the Cornwell Cornell West Cornell I said cor Cornell West they are not letting him on the ballot yeah so they have one candidate they won't let on the ballot who's running they fought RFK getting on the ballot and and they fought Donald Trump getting on the ballot if you guys remember right they said oh he's disqualified because j6 right so the the the the party of democracy right that basically crowned their candidate without an election right not a single vote for Cala Harris excluded all other primary candidates essentially when Biden was still on the ticket right uh did not have any votes at the I mean there was really no question about the convention it was nothing it was done over telephone before the convention they will not let any candidates on or off the ballot if it's either way whichever way helps them right it's like this is like all you have to do is start looking at this stuff it's happening and and I I I'm not advocating to take the Democrats off the ballot but just put everybody on the ballot like who would say that you can't be on the ballot well if you want to with from a race and who would say you have to be on the ball if you're not a candidate exactly right so then like if I had I always look at this if I so they're in court just to your point they're in court Robert RFK Jr has lawyers in court suing to get off the bout to get off the bout so you would have to ask the Democrats why do you want him on a ballot exactly like why on Earth would you want that in order to tamper with the election isn't this confusing yeah isn't it like you even if there's a law that says he has to stay on the boutot because of some time deadline or something it's like wait a minute do we have time to get him off the can we make this happen in the days of computers I mean and Tik Tok well they've got to print it for the international vote that's got to go the overseas vote is got they going to get that done here soon I I think there's what is it a 60 75 I don't know what the window is but they have to start printing that to mail them internationally like if it were tomorrow that'd be one thing but all this like they're they're clearly stalling in order to keep him on the ballot because what they're really saying is we think that people are going to screw up and vote for RFK when they would have voted for C or Trump yeah that's what it's like they're trying to rig it well uh speaking of uh some of these other issues uh it it and and now we I think it's this week isn't it that Trump has to appear in court for his sentencing isn't that coming this week or next week this week or next week he could be in jail you talk about another another election interference uh game that's being played so they took a recordkeeping arguably a recordkeeping mistake or misallocation or something and they turned it into 34 felonies well what do you guys think about this I mean what what do look irrespective irrespective of the nature of the case which we've talked about and it's you know clearly politically motivated but if trumpet goes to jail or prison here right what do you think that does for the election do you think it helps him or do you think it hurts him I'm not sure it changes anything I I don't know I think it's baked in those who don't give a [ __ ] that he's a convicted felon on phony charg have already they've already factored that yeah the conviction is already I I think the I was thinking about the other day I like I mean they've tried to kill him right they've they've convicted him and died him in intent in four different plac and some lady some lady in a department store can't remember what dress she had on or or what year it was who who writes for Playboy magazine and claims that the incident destroyed her interest in sex even though she writes for a Playboy you know he owes her $1.5 billion or some crazy amount of money because he he said no I didn't sexually assault this lady so I mean it's just more it's just more [ __ ] that they've thrown at this guy to try to smear him and I think people who think that people who have have have chewed on the on the idea that there's a that he's a convict and that he was accused of sexual assault and he's this and he's that and he's the other thing um I think they've I think that's already been factored in I don't think it changes the vote at all at this stage of the game I I I kind of tend to agree if it were a year ago or a year and a half ago maybe a little different I don't know maybe I don't but again I it might make you more I think you've already made up your mind whether he's in jail or not I I right I have maybe I have but what what if you're in the middle and it's like you know that what if you're the Suburban vote in the middle that they say is going to change this election one way or another right so on the one hand you could say well I'm not going to vote for for this guy he's in prison because he's in prison on the other hand you would say man it doesn't really seem fair that they would send him to prison now right before the election doesn't that seem like a little bit of an overreach well it's Banana Republic I mean I mean this is this is what dictators do right so if I I were let's let's let's just say even if I had the agenda of the Democrats yeah I would say postpone this sentencing until after the election so we at least avoid the appearance of impropriety right you know how much okay go in the opposite direction how much mileage the Democratic party would get from turn that into a plus you could say we want to be the part Branch out wow I've often said that could be big the biggest play Biden could have done would have been the pardon pardon Trump right instead they went after him would have been huge and I bet you almost if they had have pardoned him he may not have even run you know it's like right you know it's it's such a it outraged him so much I was calling for that I was like if I'm Biden I pardon him right away now I I think he well I thought Trump's ego he was going to no matter what you're probably right but you take away not of good what ifs I love this you take away that talking point every interview opens up are you grateful to President Biden for for having pardon you right I mean and then he's got to say something nice so has he has to right without being a yeah a jerk saying oh my gosh yeah wow instead they went after him they went after and 10 times over and so like like I said if I'm the Democratic party and I have any control over this prosecution which you sort of do yeah um or if I'm the trial judge I would say guys I am not I'm not going to sentence you I'm postponing this sentencing until January Biden is in this perfect situation to do this right now he's not for up for re-election he's done well do it he could pardon Trump and Hunter and get away with it he could yeah but he won't do that until after the election but so just this week also Jack Smith on the case that was thrown out in its entirety in the federal case on records uh down in Florida the the federal judge threw out that entire case and Jack Smith has rejiggered his indictment to exclude the communications within the White House that the Supreme Court said we're not you know that that's covered under presidential immunity so he can't let this go so so Jack Smith has re-indicted Trump gone to a grand jury got fresh indictments and in his still pursuing this records casee and it's just like a pylon and I think I think even Democrats have to conc this is just giving Trump more ammunition it's it's making him more of a sympathetic figure that he's being martyred and persecuted yeah it will incre it will increase donations as well too that's right there will be an influx of money for for for the re-election Camp so Steve you touched on the Zuckerberg you you at least dropped his name big news with congressman huge news and if you guys remember a couple of years ago I said the biggest story was going to be freedom of speech and Zuckerberg did confirm the Matt taibi Twitter and Facebook releases that the files that they put out once Elon bought uh Twitter and and Facebook had to disgorge a bunch of information that in fact the FBI and the CIA under White House orders and Direction were sent to Silicon Valley to do what the government could not do itself to actually like the Louisiana case which which the Supreme Court threw out but the Louisiana case with the state of the Attorney General of of Missouri and Louisiana brought against Facebook and Twitter those allegations were admitted to by Zuckerberg in writing to Jim Jordan a congressman from Ohio that they did visit they did pressure they did twist arms and they did uh finally succeed in getting Silicon Valley to squash the hunter Biden Joe Biden bribery uh allegations that were on that laptop and number two to squash any covid descent any anything about alternative treatments anything antiva anything about the origin of Co oh it couldn't be from the Wuhan lab even though it came from Wuhan right the came from L Wuhan you know so all the common sense conclusions all the things that you would normally say are Clues were were were squashed by the FBI and and and Zuckerberg admitted it and the FBI lied about it in testimony to Congress right now look the the the the story is is huge in and of itself I mean basically it's come out now what what we've all been sort of um railing about now for two years or three years or even more the question is why is Zuckerberg coming out with this now was he about to get exposed was the timing it is because a telegram guy got arrested in Paris for yeah for for allowing uh supposedly illegal conduct to happen on his messaging uh app and so Zuckerberg and musk have to be looking at this going oh I better not fly to France you know because and they're vowing to prosecute these guys well because there's there's haters like uh Steve and Norman and Brett that have this little show where we talk about illegal things that the French don't want us to talk about so yeah right we we but if if we were really big fish you know like uh like like old Rush limbo used to be or uh Glenn Beck or whatever those guys got to be wondering you know uh will I get arrested in Europe yeah yeah because this is hate speech when you talk about things openly right this is considered hate we're engaging in hate speech right now well in some depending on who's wearing the glasses and in the headphones you're right ex it can be you can't talk about reality cuz that's hate yeah and and I think this is a bigger picture even if you love everybody right right exactly I think you could take the a look at this as a bigger picture like just be careful what you read and see on social media yeah it's a great big picture of this it's that you don't don't allow that those platforms to be your news source well Zuckerberg you got to do your homework in particular Zuckerberg made made a decision to have fact Checkers right so he became an editor of the content on Facebook and that's not what section 230 had in mind well this is the this is the section 230 problem so they've got immunity right now those those big platforms have immunity because they're basically corkboards for the uh for the Public Public Square the idea so it's like you're posting on the Public Square so if I go post a a message um and I the owner of the message board doesn't moderate it in any way well he enjoys immunity yes he can't be sued for what other people say but once you start tinkering with it once you start meddling and who can say what you're opening yourself up to lawsuits for defamation of character or they've always meddled with it though if you think about it and maybe it's not changing the content but it's allowing how often and when you get to see the content for example if you if you follow our show on Facebook that doesn't mean you're going to see every post right it gets throttled back it throttle the telegram guy is in trouble with France because he didn't moderate because he didn't moderate because he let it it Hells a popping you can post whatever you want if you want to post the instructions on how to make an atomic weapon you know like the trucker who wrote a whole book about it and it was published in the US if you want to post that the telegram's guy like I'm not reading your post I'm not reading your messages I'm just giving you the I'm giving you the corkboard you AT&T doesn't monitor your telephone calls when I call up Grandma and I say hey Grandma do you have that trap shotgun set up behind the front door when you go on vacation well that's illegal you can't do that but AT&T doesn't tell me they don't interrupt the phone call and say you can't tell your grandma that but if you're on Facebook and say that supposedly Zuckerberg has a duty to censor that speech and that's what France is upset with the telegram guy didn't censor people yeah and look and he didn't censor people in a way that the government would have wanted him to so we're not talking about censoring everybody it's talking about censoring people who are dissenting from their ideas exactly right yeah like on immigration you know like you have unfettered immigration and they would say oh that's because you hate brown and black people no I don't care I don't care if they're coming from Sweden and I don't care I don't care what country they're coming from I don't want illegal immigration like it's against the law it's a felony you know but it's it's considered hate speech and racist somehow and I I don't know how that got started say Zuckerberg some days he has to be sitting going what the hell did I create he should have just should let it go if the neo-nazis want to have a Facebook page let them have a Facebook page I mean it's America we know that there's dirty rotten sick people and if they want to have their stupid page let them have their stupid page this is this is the argument right and anybody who has studied the real value of free speech understands this yes the only medicine for awful stupid ideas is to expose them let them have their is the truth let them have their parade they can have their speeches gets write their book I was just going to say let the KKK go on the State House lawn do not protest it look how stup don't show up for that look how stupid they look out there with their stupid hats ridiculous saying that they hate they hate Jews they hate Catholics they hate blacks here's a perfect example of this I was arguing with they look like idiots this is back in the BLM take over the city or the when they were riding around Columbus and I was pissed I mean I was like look I can't get to work and now they're tell me I have a curfew so I'm not even allowed to come to work it's like this is absurd shut this stuff down and you know the person I was arguing with was telling me well look they have a right to go I was like no they don't you don't have a right to shut down the city you have a right to go get a permit and you have a right to go create and schedule your protest do it that's right I encourage it I will represent you to help you do it exactly I will be there at your side even though I disagree with your message I will assist you in doing it of course and I said this is the difference and she was like well the KKK got to do it I said said yeah but they were smarter they went and got their permits and she goes you're calling them smarter and I'm like listen and but you saw what happened there they shift the debate like somehow I'm favoring white supremacists because I called them smart enough to go get a permit and I'm not I think they're idiots I think they're morons but they but if they know how to get a permit they would go get a permit legally yes yeah know then you can take over the State House lawn lawfully yeah but don't screw up my Life by shutting down my city breaking windows and creating a danger to everybody to ruining private businesses you can't tolerate that I don't care what the message is sure I mean when you shut down a street that's an act of violence ambulances can't go down that street fire departments can't go down that street police can't respond because you you shut down the street so you're affecting other people's lives yes you know actual life life and death well property damages and violence well I I saw the cat singers gu sweeping up the window of his store this huge storefront window over on Third Street yeah you know just with his head down he just looks so dejected and it's like you know that guy probably believes in your cause oh he that cing hosted Hillary like like for coffee even if he doesn't he didn't deserve to have his window Bren course not no we pay taxes to protect our property right and he probably had a BLM uh decal or a George Floyd right on his on the same window that they brought or maybe he was just neutral right so who knows well I drove around the German Village right after George Floyd and there were all the little protective decals on everybody's house right thinking don't tou it's like putting your fop sticker on your bumper right oh hey I'm a liberal if you're going to break a window you know pass by this house it was like the Passover but but when you have the insurrectionists that are paid to come in and make hell they're not looking at stick so we they're going to go after anything so we t a little bit about the election so we talked about how Ohio's Secretary of State removed somewhere between 5 and 600 illegals or non-qualified voters from the election roles Texas I don't know if you guys saw this this week Texas removed 1 million illegal voters and of the 1 million2 200,000 of them had voted in previous elections tell me that did not have a material outcome on local elections well they' got 200,000 they've got problems uh with enrollment down there then if they're allowing that many to register to vote what the hell is going on in that federal judges that's nuts federal judges knocking down voter ID uh legislation that's what happens and they and they've tried that and recently uh I don't know if you guys got your Ohio uh um mail-in ballot request forms yeah it requires a a a photo ID which is readily available so you write down your your driver's they can look up youro and there are ways of getting IDs if you don't have a photo ID you can get that right you can of course pretty inexpensively well there's people who don't drive and they can get a a state of Ohio photo ID for free by the way a million wow w a million in they've got some problems man they got problems wow wow wow that's a that's a bunch uh another little environmental thing and and this is you know I'm just going to point out the hypocrisy here so the houti rebels I think yesterday or the day before knocked out an oil tanker in the Red Sea three times larger than the Exxon Valdes and you if you guys remember during the EXL Exxon Valdes cleanup the media was all over that for like you know the oil industry is Super Evil and you know and and Exxon cleaned it all up but it was like a year of talking about the drunk captain of the Exon Valdes and what an evil company Exxon was so the hotties blow up this oil tanker three times the size of the Exxon vald not a word from the Sierra Club Greenpeace or any of the normal environmental groups condemning the hotties for polluting oil in the red SE of course you know because so a mistake is unforgivable right or maybe W I can't call it getting drunk and wrecking your tank or a mistake I guess but a reckless mistake is unforgivable but an intentional Act of Destruction yeah they never said anything about Saddam Hussein setting Kuwait on fire either although this is what happens when when when when you because he's one of our guys right he hates America and we hate America so like we're on the same team here right when when when you're when you shape shift based on identity yeah instead of actual legitimate causes and issues right and things you believe in then this is what happens you can divide it up to the point where it's nonsense where's all the Sierra Club outrage when uh uh and this happens on the other side too environmentalists Spike trees and Lumberjacks get killed when there's when they're uh when they're chainsaws blow up right in their face takes off their head or their arm you know you never hear anything about caring about them but the snail Darter we got to protect that but we but the hell with lumberjacks it's it's okay to kill Lumberjacks well look I I should point out when I see it on both sides I I I see uh quote conservative or Republicans make these mistakes too where they are saying we need to be tough tough on crime these these people accused of crimes have way too many rights blah blah blah blah blah well and then Trump gets accused they're like well this is unfair but at least he has rights you know it's like if you get rid of the rights for one you get rid of them for all and if they're intact for one they're intact for all so we want to protect everybody right and we would much rather see guilty people go free than innocent people be convicted so there's my soap box for common sense well another little Middle Eastern War thing that came up uh it has been disclosed now by the Department of Defense that that floating dock that Joe Biden insisted against all the generals and Admirals advice this is this is a debacle a $250 million floating dock in the Mediterranean that was going to be used to evacuate Palestinians in the wake of Israel's response to October the 7th us tax dollars $250 million dock it was in operation for 23 days and then a big storm blew it apart mm and it hasn't been used since yeah just a quarter of a billion dollars just because Biden said well I want a dock and they're want to know who built it what's their connection to Biden unbelievable I'd like to know that what a piece of crap they built 23 are they respons crap I wonder if it was under warranty and this is that amount of days so I'll do I'll do your I'll do your World War two story this is a lesson we learned after D-Day yeah when they brought in the uh brought in the floating concrete docks that were going to give us you know uh docking space right off the beaches of Normandy and and uh the the the the the Straits the the uh The Narrows there they completely blew it up like like the storms just sank it all and there's chunks of concrete out there to this day from from this failed idea we and here we go you know like 70 years later we're we we're doing the same stupid all right the the malberry docks the malberry that's what youing I was trying to come up with it too okay so look we got to probably wrap it up you got one or two more nuggets and we can finish up there are people trying under Foya to get to the hundred so you we talked about this on the show there were somewhere around 100 to 150 people on the terror watch list that uh Customs and Border Patrol processed and then were ordered to release into the country so we have over a hundred of these people so people people have been trying to foyer to get to the name they want to know who these people are right so local law enforcement could put out apbs keep an eye on whatever you know some guy who diddled himself watching porn we we've got a database of them and you can find out oh he's the guy around the corner that's a pervert you can know who that guy is and and the sheriff here in Franklin County and all the other counties in Ohio have these sexual predator databases you can look up where they live but actual terrorists are being protected according to the border patrol for privacy reasons they will not release the names of these 100 to 150 people I mean government nonsense wow I mean these are people that want a machine gun a bar or blow up an airplane or whatever we cannot know their names but I can know the name of some guy who played with himself on the internet right or peed or peed in public or peed in public I can know those guys names but I can't know the terrorist names who may live in the same neighborhood right around the corner from me I mean wow y all right well with that we have I I I've got my of common sense it's just too much nonsense too much nonsense in the world and we need a lot more common sense Ohio see what I did there from nonsense to Common Sense we are common sense Ohio where you can check us out at Common Sense Ohio show.com if you want to be a sponsor like for Norm's little final nuggets we've got an open slot for that if you want or my race car or his race car if you want to put your name on his race car man we can you can do that or you can put your face on it maybe so you're nil on it you're NL in it huh okay you can do anything you want with the flanks of my Mustang you any statement you could say of his Mustang is that code I don't know you can 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