Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 428 - Conn Davis, Dr. Elida Dakoli

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[1:12] Hi. Now you're on with Dream Media.

[1:13] Christopher D. Simone. Big Wednesday.

[1:16] Back in studio B.

[1:19] [laughter]

[1:22] The brass is here. You're on. You're on

[1:24] [laughter] Live the Dream Media. And uh

[1:26] we got a big Wednesday show. Bruce has a

[1:28] big show. He has uh attorney general

[1:31] candidate Warren Peterson followed by an

[1:33] author about doomcrolling. You've seen

[1:36] it. You've done it. You know, you're

[1:38] sitting at the BMV going

[1:41] doing your thing. So, it's happening.

[1:43] So, the uh

[1:46] and I appreciate all of you texting me

[1:48] about uh our uh whether we're on or not.

[1:52] We are on and um we we when you when

[1:55] when when you see there's no stream, we

[1:57] know there's no stream. So, but we're

[1:58] good. Everything's on. We got a very

[2:00] very busy show today. 6:30 at the bottom

[2:03] of the hour. We have Khan Davis. He's

[2:06] the CEO of Barner Technologies. He's a

[2:09] uh guy who actually is in the

[2:11] manufacturing business. We're going to

[2:13] talk tariffs, economy.

[2:16] um you know, you have these tax cuts

[2:18] that are supposed to be helping people

[2:20] buy more equipment and things like this.

[2:22] So, we're gonna have like a kind of

[2:23] economic snapshot of a guy.

[2:26] Yeah. See, I'm always trying to like

[2:29] There we always trying to point it

[2:30] towards my hole. And um so, uh he's on

[2:34] at bottom of the hour. 7 o'clock I'm

[2:36] going to do a voting guide run. Also,

[2:39] Bruce is filling out his his ballot on

[2:41] the air, a tradition unlike any other.

[2:44] And then we're going to have um actually

[2:47] making her debut. I want to make sure I

[2:49] get this all correct. Dr. Alita Doli.

[2:53] She is a um

[2:57] she is a concert pianist. We'll have to

[3:00] have her come to Tucson one day. And

[3:02] then a author of a book called Beneath

[3:04] the Silence. Uh growing up under

[3:06] communism in Albania to her life now.

[3:09] It's pretty inspirational stuff. And uh

[3:11] as some of our Democrat socialist

[3:13] brothers and sisters want to uh keep

[3:15] having us um slouch that way, I I always

[3:18] like having guests like this on. So Dr.

[3:21] Elita Doli coming on at 7:30 leading

[3:25] into Inside Track with Bruce and Eb. Um

[3:30] Shay, I'm going to have you. We're gonna

[3:32] We gota We got to move fast here. Um

[3:34] we're gonna I want you to I just sent

[3:36] you there's there's a Rumble video that

[3:38] says Justin Murphy. We're going to play

[3:39] that before we get to bottom of the

[3:42] hour. Okay. Um,

[3:44] so first of all, I want to start off

[3:46] with a p positive Thursday for excuse

[3:48] me, Wednesday. It's big Wednesday. A

[3:50] positive Wednesday for Tucson, which is

[3:53] Terminex. The the the pest people. They

[3:55] named their top 50 ratinfested cities in

[3:59] America. And I want to give

[4:00] congratulations to the city of Tucson.

[4:03] You did not make the top 50 ratinfested

[4:06] cities. So, let me if you know I I bang

[4:08] on you on a bunch of other stuff. Now, I

[4:11] don't know about Sam Hughes. Remember,

[4:12] they had a roof rat problem.

[4:15] Who knew I was going to say that?

[4:17] [laughter]

[4:18] Who knew I was going to say roof rat

[4:19] program? Uh, turn up sound. We can't

[4:21] hear you. Oh, that was me in the

[4:23] microphone. Uh, so, thank you. Oh, copy.

[4:25] I appreciate it. So, uh, not you did not

[4:28] I I'll give you a little taste of the

[4:29] rat cities real quick. Uh, it it won't

[4:32] surprise anyone. New York City is the

[4:33] number one ratinfested city, followed by

[4:36] LA, Philly, Frisco, Houston, Chicago,

[4:40] Washington DC, Boston, Mass, Dallas,

[4:45] Detroit, Rock City, Hartford,

[4:47] Connecticut.

[4:49] So, but uh now Phoenix again did make

[4:54] they were 31st most ratinfested city in

[4:57] America, the city of Phoenix. So, um,

[5:01] Honolulu was on the list, but Tucson,

[5:04] you didn't make it. So, and no, it

[5:07] wasn't because people are eating the

[5:09] rats. I don't want to hear that from any

[5:10] of you. Um, so anyway, congratulations

[5:14] that you're hopefully uh the Queen mayor

[5:16] will have a Kevin Dah Chamber of

[5:18] Southern Arizona press conference about

[5:20] this. That would be hot. Um this is a so

[5:23] we always talk about people's problems

[5:25] with geog geography like you know it's a

[5:27] lost it's a lost skill knowing what

[5:30] things are right if if we went to a uh

[5:33] if we went to the University of Arizona

[5:34] college campus with a map that didn't

[5:36] have names of states and we pointed at

[5:39] certain ones how many how many out of 10

[5:41] do you think the college kids would get?

[5:43] I would say,

[5:46] God, [sighs]

[5:51] 30% would get it. Five out of five. No.

[5:54] How many I guess I that'd be a question.

[5:55] If we went to the UVA with a blank a map

[5:57] of the United States with names of

[5:59] states not on those states and pointed

[6:02] at five of them, how many would they

[6:03] get? Two, maybe two. All right, let's

[6:09] see. What do we got going here today?

[6:11] Good morning to Pat Barney Mother

[6:13] Mucker. Good morning. 55 at the ranch.

[6:16] Jamie Blue cord. Uh let's see. Barney

[6:21] Big Dave. Good morning, buddy. 53 at the

[6:24] barn. It was 58 in the OV when I woke up

[6:26] at 4 something this morning. So just

[6:28] beautiful. Umpire John and Flag. It's

[6:31] dark and freezing up here. What's all

[6:33] that about? Yeah, I guess there's

[6:35] another little cold front next week. I

[6:36] saw that Flag is going to hit like 47 as

[6:38] a high. So, Cowboy Tilly, love the new

[6:41] studio, Podfather. I think it's only for

[6:44] emergency purposes. I'll be I'll be back

[6:46] in the old comfy shoe of studio uh a uh

[6:50] I assume uh in the next couple days.

[6:52] Remember, tomorrow I have guest hosts.

[6:54] I'm going up to Phoenix for a trip this

[6:56] week. Uh this today, I got some things I

[6:58] got to do. And so, uh Shelly and Ted are

[7:01] filling in for me tomorrow. And they

[7:03] have Hassam Raheemian live from DC,

[7:05] Schweikert, and Win John Winchester. And

[7:08] remember, Saturday live at the patch, 9

[7:10] to 11:00 at the Morirana pumpkin patch.

[7:12] It'll include Juan Syskamani, of course,

[7:15] Mayor Post, and then Clint's going to

[7:16] come on with me at 10:00 because him and

[7:18] him and his bride are doing the food at

[7:21] the patch this year. So, we're going to

[7:23] have like a food Saturday with Clint at

[7:26] 10:00 of all the cool things that

[7:28] they're making. So, you might even see

[7:30] me uh shove a pumpkin tartlet in my pie

[7:32] hole on the air. So, how's that for

[7:34] classy? So, so I want to get to this

[7:38] especially because Assam will be on

[7:40] tomorrow. I wanted to play it with and

[7:42] we will get to a story of um

[7:46] of the Chuck Huckleberry loop. This is

[7:49] this is this is one of those horrible

[7:51] Oh, geography. That's what I was going

[7:53] to say. So, a GOP pack uh was spending

[7:56] money on the Susan Colin race, Susan

[7:59] Susan Collins race in Maine.

[8:02] And so they wanted us to do a $25,000

[8:05] digital marketing buy for Portland,

[8:07] Maine. I've been to Portland. It's

[8:10] beautiful. We two Christmases ago, we

[8:12] went to Luke's Lobster Shack on a cold,

[8:15] it was probably December

[8:18] 28th, 29th. It was just beautiful. Fresh

[8:22] pine Christmas trees on a dock over into

[8:25] the ocean eating clam chowder and

[8:29] lobster rolls. It's good living, my

[8:31] friends. So, anyway, they blew $25,000

[8:33] on Portland, Oregon instead. How's that

[8:36] for a geography pha? $25,000

[8:41] uh promoting Susan Collins in the wrong

[8:44] state. So, we'll get him one day, kids.

[8:47] But, I'm sure you've had some good

[8:48] emotional social learning. So, that's

[8:50] really good. We will get to this this

[8:52] loop discussion before it's over. And

[8:55] then, um an update on Fourth Avenue that

[8:58] is

[9:00] just the it's it's the best. So, Cy

[9:04] Booker Cy Booker who believes that he's

[9:07] he's a future presidential candidate and

[9:10] he's he's he always hits me as like a um

[9:15] you you ever have a a person in your

[9:17] life who plays a full contact sport?

[9:19] Could be hockey, could be football,

[9:22] you know, and maybe boxing, right? And

[9:25] you could tell that they've been hit in

[9:27] the head one too many times. They're

[9:29] just a little They're a little They're a

[9:31] little spaced. That's what Cy Booker

[9:33] hits me as, but at least I mean Federman

[9:36] looks sharp as attack compared to Cy

[9:38] Booker.

[9:40] So, but Corey's in a very big D state.

[9:42] He'll probably win by a landslide, but

[9:44] he had a debate with this dude named

[9:48] Justin Murphy. I never heard of Justin

[9:50] Murphy at all. And Justin was I'm going

[9:53] to get my headphones on to listen to

[9:54] this. Justin Murphy

[9:57] was asked about

[9:59] I think we have time to do this. Let's

[10:00] do it quick. Justin Murphy was asked

[10:02] what President Trump should do right now

[10:05] about the Iran situation and uh he did a

[10:08] patent speech for the ages. Justin

[10:11] Murphy that just you got to watch Cory

[10:12] Becker Booker's reaction to it. It's

[10:14] it's pretty wild. So he gets like a

[10:16] standing ovation from the the people of

[10:18] New Jersey. So Shay, hey girl. you self-

[10:24] service has gotten a lot better in

[10:25] tabernacle over the last few years.

[10:27] That's right. President President Trump

[10:28] calls you and says,

[10:30] >> "I'll do whatever you want. What do I do

[10:32] in Iran?" What's your answer?

[10:33] >> Finish it.

[10:35] Finish that war in a positive manner. We

[10:37] can't wait halfway through and decide we

[10:39] don't want to do this anymore. The

[10:40] Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard

[10:43] Corps is a radical terrorist

[10:44] organization that has deprived the

[10:46] Iranian people and the Persian people of

[10:49] their history and of a decent life. They

[10:51] have murdered, raped, tortured,

[10:53] assassinated, promoted, and promoted uh

[10:55] terrorism all throughout the world,

[10:56] especially in the region, the Middle

[10:58] East. They are a cancer on human

[11:00] existence. I remember as a young boy

[11:01] watching those walls of our uh November

[11:04] of 1979, watching uh the radical Islamic

[11:07] terrorists storm over the walls of our

[11:08] embassy and 52 Americans held for 444

[11:11] days. And ever since November of 79, the

[11:14] IRGC in Iran has done nothing but export

[11:17] terror, murder, rape, oppression, and

[11:20] assassination to the region and to the

[11:21] world. And it's time it stops. Four

[11:24] decades is enough. The Iranian people

[11:26] have suffered enough. And I would say,

[11:27] Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on

[11:29] and get out there and kick some ass and

[11:31] get this done and done right. [cheering]

[11:36] >> There he is. Thank you, sir. Hey,

[11:38] brother.

[11:39] >> [cheering]

[11:40] >> even better with that New York accent or

[11:42] New Jersey accent. So anyway, just I

[11:45] think Justin Murphy kind of nailed it

[11:47] with uh what's going on with the uh

[11:49] going on with Iran right now. So I did

[11:51] send it to Hassam. He got a big kick out

[11:53] of it. So let's do this. We're going to

[11:54] go to break. I'm going to get a little

[11:56] more coffee and we're going to get

[11:57] ready. And we have Khan Davis, CEO of uh

[12:00] Beerna Technologies, former exec prance

[12:03] of uh Master uh former exec vice

[12:05] president of Master Brand talking about

[12:08] what's going on in trying to keep

[12:10] products affordable in America right

[12:12] now. So, he's coming on. I think it's

[12:14] his I feel like it's his debut. I feel

[12:16] like it. 7:00 we're going to do I'm

[12:18] going to read you through the voting

[12:19] guide because a couple of people have

[12:20] asked me to do that. And then we're

[12:22] going to play the story uh about a teen

[12:25] being attacked by a crackhead on the

[12:27] Chuck Huckleberry Loop. So Tucson, the

[12:30] hits that keep it coming. And of course

[12:32] a Fourth Avenue update on parking

[12:34] meters. No. Um no, Maria, it's just not

[12:38] about the housing. You're on Live the

[12:40] Dream Media. Khan Davis coming up next.

[12:42] See you in a bit.

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[18:10] It's more of Wake Up with Christ. Simone

[18:13] on the Live the Dream Media Network. Now

[18:16] back to the show.

[18:20] >> Now we're on Live the Dream Media.

[18:21] Christopher D. Simone and the wonderful

[18:25] Shay. Hey Shay, when we have our Do me a

[18:26] favor, too. When our when our video

[18:28] guest comes on, can you and that TV is

[18:30] working. Can you move it a little closer

[18:32] to behind my camera, please? Sorry. I

[18:34] noticed this yesterday when I had my

[18:36] video guest on. I was looking over to

[18:37] the right just kind of instinctively.

[18:39] Anyway, welcome back everyone. Uh, let's

[18:42] see. Corey Booger. Okay, we got it. Uh,

[18:45] let's see. Big Wednesday con space

[18:47] shanty 72. Patrick, what a maniac. Uh,

[18:51] umpire John talking about how cold it is

[18:52] in Flagstaff. It's cold, baby. It is

[18:55] cold. Rats in the old PBLO. Is that

[18:57] two-legged or four-legged? Damn. Damn.

[19:02] Um,

[19:04] let's see. Amen. Um,

[19:07] from Big Dave Penel Penelope uh wrote

[19:11] that wrong. Was she right in the first

[19:13] place?

[19:15] uh had lions stumping through my

[19:17] primarily Hispanic Catalina neighborhood

[19:19] on behalf of herself and the other two

[19:21] still hoping to see Cisammani in this

[19:23] threat. So you haven't seen anyone in

[19:24] the Catalina area?

[19:27] Um

[19:29] I will uh I will let I will let humans

[19:31] know, Penelopey. I will let humans know.

[19:34] We got Khan Davis coming up uh very

[19:36] soon. Uh he should be well he's got a

[19:39] couple more minutes so that's okay. Um,

[19:43] we did the Corey Booker thing. Boom. We

[19:45] got that. We did that. We'll get to

[19:48] that. Um, oh, so this is an interesting

[19:52] uh little So, let's do the uh Fourth

[19:54] Avenue thing real quick. So,

[19:57] we were leading on this one, right? The

[19:59] Fourth Avenue. I I was there just it was

[20:01] conveniently for a haircut with Mikey.

[20:04] And um so remember I said I'm glad I did

[20:08] the math. 48.4% 4% of all the parking

[20:11] meters in uh Tucson were broken. Then we

[20:15] found out that they didn't have

[20:16] batteries for them and they were still

[20:18] on order. Okay, so they have like 185

[20:23] broken meters. So, this is this is how

[20:26] pathetic the remember this is a city

[20:29] council that handed their weak uh city

[20:32] manager a 40 $60,000 bump in pay like

[20:38] that without hitting any metrics that

[20:40] anyone could tell. Okay. So, this city

[20:44] manager

[20:46] got that raise where h more uh almost

[20:49] half of the metered parking in a dying

[20:51] area that used to collect a lot of

[20:53] taxes,

[20:55] right? They um

[20:58] they don't work. So, Brandon George from

[21:01] Park Tucson I you know he was on camera

[21:05] I guess with Kun9 who did this story. I

[21:07] want to give a little credit here. Oh,

[21:09] Eddie Sallaya former pot and marijuana

[21:11] reporter for the Arizona Daily Star. Uh,

[21:14] they got 50 in

[21:17] and they're going to get installed this

[21:18] week. Oh, they were installed this week,

[21:21] but the improvements did not reach every

[21:23] visitor. Fourth Avenue shopper Gina

[21:25] White encountered a meter with a screen

[21:27] she could barely read. That's another

[21:29] thing, right? Either the screen's weak

[21:31] or it's all scraped up or you can't read

[21:33] crap. So then they say, "Well, you can

[21:36] use our app."

[21:38] This is the problem. You're making it

[21:40] not hassle. You you you try to make h

[21:43] things like this hassle-free, but at

[21:44] least low hassle when you're going to

[21:46] some some you have two ladies that want

[21:49] to come down for some god-awful reason

[21:51] to go to Fourth Avenue and their parking

[21:54] meter doesn't work and you're going to

[21:56] say, you know, why don't you do this?

[21:57] Why don't you install the app? You know

[22:00] what they're going to do? They're going

[22:01] to get in their car and leave.

[22:03] And the idea that Fourth Avenue has

[22:05] never had a real parking garage over

[22:07] time is pretty much a joke with all the

[22:11] But I guess I guess Rio Noeo is not

[22:13] there buying everyone's stuff with

[22:15] taxpayer dollars, buying their dirt or

[22:17] their building to blow it up to turn

[22:18] into a parking garage, right? So,

[22:22] um then, um then they got Maria out

[22:26] there. I think we're reprimanding our

[22:28] community for going out. Yeah. I wonder

[22:31] if Romero is even returning her phone

[22:32] calls right now. Uh George acknowledges

[22:35] the business's frustrations. Thank you.

[22:38] For example,

[22:40] again, remember this town MA city

[22:42] manager got a $60,000 boost. He's at 70%

[22:45] of a snell right now, right? This dude,

[22:48] we ordered 500 batteries, but we only

[22:51] got 50. So, of course, it's supply chain

[22:54] problems

[22:57] while everyone on Fourth Avenue is just

[22:59] dying. And the other thing is, so you

[23:01] say, "Well, there's the El Centro garage

[23:02] by the block A where Grant is." You're

[23:04] you got to walk underneath the uh

[23:08] underneath the troll bridge, the Fourth

[23:10] Avenue underpass. Who knew when we first

[23:13] did our first Wakey Party eons ago,

[23:15] first year of the show was the opening

[23:17] of that underpass, that this would still

[23:19] be a story that all the lights are

[23:21] broken. Grant's trying Grant's willing

[23:23] to pay for the lights to be fixed and

[23:25] they still won't fix it. That's how

[23:27] pathetic the city is. Um

[23:31] let's see. Uh the city expects the July

[23:34] also July rate increase to

[23:38] uh generate more revenue although the

[23:40] amount will amount depend on how many

[23:42] meters are operational. Thanks genius.

[23:47] Um,

[23:50] then they have Maria complaining a

[23:52] little bit more. Oh, good woman

[23:55] as

[23:57] [laughter]

[23:59] making Shay just jump through every hoop

[24:01] humanly possible. Uh, as best as you

[24:04] can.

[24:06] Be that's awesome. Thank you, girl. Um,

[24:09] let's see. Rate increase took July.

[24:12] They said Maun says a combination of

[24:14] parking costs and unreliable meters can

[24:17] make the trip less appealing. Oh, she

[24:20] still won't talk about the crackheads,

[24:23] which is this is one of the reasons why

[24:26] there there there is on that that Fourth

[24:29] Avenue underpass. This is a barrier

[24:32] between downtown and Fourth Avenue.

[24:36] Again, if you're uh you know, if you're

[24:39] a lady with two of your friends, do you

[24:42] want to walk through a dark, broken

[24:46] lighted crack tunnel?

[24:50] The answer is no. Have you smelled down

[24:52] there sometimes? It's not pleasant. And

[24:55] I guess they're hitting people with $42

[24:57] fines for parking on an expired meter.

[25:01] So again, we we've heard this before,

[25:03] right? The Fourth Avenue Merchants

[25:05] Association has kind of fallen apart.

[25:07] They're not what they used to be. At the

[25:09] same time, people like, "Well, why don't

[25:10] we do a bid district, which is that

[25:12] extra tax that Rio Noeo has or make the

[25:15] Rio Noeo district expand, right?"

[25:19] And it's amaz because Rio Noeo, I never

[25:22] hear anything from them that goes,

[25:24] "Yeah, we'd like to do that. [laughter]

[25:26] We would love to talk to the state

[25:27] legislature about expanding the uh the

[25:30] the tiff district." Right.

[25:32] It's in the end. So when when downtown

[25:35] was dying, Fourth Avenue was rocking,

[25:39] right? And that's the other part. Rio

[25:41] Noeo is to blame for the death of Fourth

[25:44] Avenue,

[25:45] right? Because so when when Fletcher

[25:47] says, "Well, we've leveraged $300

[25:50] million, whatever the number is, for a

[25:51] billion dollars of investment." Well,

[25:53] none of that's going over to Fourth.

[25:56] Why would you want to redevelop part of

[25:58] Fourth Avenue when Rio Noeo is throwing

[26:01] around all this free money and there's

[26:03] no clawbacks on the money,

[26:06] right? Look at the restaurants, right?

[26:09] Benefiting out of town restaurant tours

[26:11] that come in to open a restaurant that

[26:13] may or may not stay in business, right?

[26:16] Well, they're doing that, but Fourth

[26:17] Avenue can, you know, kiss our grits, as

[26:20] the great Flo once said. Hold on. What

[26:23] is going on here? I see my guy poo

[26:25] booked. Is there anything I can do? Uh

[26:29] Khan, I've been attempting to log into

[26:30] their system not have he uh attempted to

[26:34] It says my he says Khan says my screen

[26:37] just says ringing.

[26:44] Should I tell him anything to suggest

[26:46] anything? I guess I can just

[26:51] Oh, there we go. Now we're there. I love

[26:55] it.

[26:57] You know, we we do fascinating things

[26:59] with the uh with technology. So, um let

[27:02] me get my headphones on. Look at that.

[27:05] We said try again. And there

[27:08] >> magically. I love it. Con Davis, can you

[27:10] hear me, bud?

[27:12] >> I can hear you. Can you hear me?

[27:13] >> You sound great. Clear and strong. So,

[27:17] hello, my friend. How are you doing?

[27:20] >> I'm well. How are you?

[27:21] >> Good. give everyone a quick background

[27:23] on Khan Davis. Give us give us the uh

[27:25] elevator uh background uh speech. What

[27:29] do you got for me?

[27:30] >> Well, I uh started off life as a

[27:32] corporate litigation attorney, but

[27:34] quickly figured out that wasn't for me.

[27:36] So, uh pivoted and uh joined Bay &

[27:39] Company, the consulting firm. Um but

[27:41] most recently have taken over as CEO of

[27:43] BurnA Technologies, a personal safety

[27:45] company.

[27:46] >> And what kind of personal safety

[27:48] products are you producing?

[27:50] Yeah. So, we produce the option in

[27:52] between doing nothing and having to take

[27:54] a life. So, we make less lethal

[27:56] protection devices. Hero product looks a

[27:59] lot like a pistol, but it uses uh

[28:02] chemical irritant rounds to incapacitate

[28:03] someone.

[28:04] >> All right. So, literally um what's the

[28:07] word I'm looking for here? Uh kind of

[28:09] like what the uh sometimes the federal

[28:11] for law enforcement uses with the uh

[28:13] this is with like the chili uh the chili

[28:15] the chili pepper gas.

[28:17] >> Yeah. Our our best rounds have a uh

[28:19] pepper irritant and a tear gas component

[28:21] to them.

[28:22] >> Gotcha. And and where where are you guys

[28:24] located?

[28:25] >> So headquartered in Andover,

[28:27] Massachusetts with manufacturing in Fort

[28:30] Wayne, Indiana.

[28:32] >> Well, that's America, baby. Love it.

[28:34] >> That's right. [laughter]

[28:36] >> So, let's talk about I know we're here

[28:37] to talk about uh businesses and all the

[28:41] different moving parts of this economy.

[28:43] So, but I do want to start off with the

[28:45] first where where where was Khan Davis

[28:48] on um President Trump's not just tariff

[28:52] strategies, but one of the things that

[28:55] drove my friends with companies that buy

[28:58] things that were tariffable, especially

[29:00] in the metals world, uh was him shooting

[29:03] his mouth off in an inconsistent manner,

[29:06] thus making markets a little more up and

[29:10] down and very unpredictable. So where

[29:13] where were you on the world of tariffs,

[29:16] Khan Davis?

[29:18] >> Yeah. Well, I would say if you you go

[29:20] back to the beginning in the idea, I

[29:22] think with what China has done from an

[29:24] industrial policy point of view, you

[29:26] know, it's clear the United States had

[29:28] to do something different to respond,

[29:30] right?

[29:30] >> And so is that a tariff regime? Is that

[29:32] an industrial policy regime of our own?

[29:34] We had to do something. I would say from

[29:36] a business point of view, what we really

[29:38] need is clarity on what that plan is so

[29:41] that we can then invest and drive behind

[29:43] it. So I'd say that was the bigger

[29:44] challenge was the clarity piece with the

[29:46] courts and all of those kinds of things.

[29:48] >> But in the end, when you charge a

[29:50] tariff,

[29:52] who pays for the tariff?

[29:54] >> Well, in the end, that ends up coming

[29:56] out of the consumer's pocket,

[29:58] >> right? So my my take on the tariffs con

[30:00] was until we really did a good job of

[30:04] driving inflation down and the cost of

[30:06] living it wasn't the right time to do a

[30:10] scattershot tariff

[30:12] um strategy. Would you agree with that?

[30:15] >> Um I would tell you that the you know

[30:18] focused tariffs certainly can be bene

[30:20] beneficial. Broad-based tariffs

[30:22] obviously I think were a lot more

[30:24] challenging. Uh the positive thing I

[30:26] would say with that is it did get

[30:27] coupled with some industrial policy

[30:29] elements that supported investment in

[30:31] American manufacturing. So that was a

[30:33] good element of it as well.

[30:35] >> Yeah. Um because you know when I saw

[30:38] tariff refunds that went to the

[30:40] retailers, I'm sitting there going,

[30:43] "Well, didn't we pay that?" [laughter]

[30:45] >> You did. Yeah.

[30:48] >> Um let's see. Penelopey Berna has a

[30:50] great ad setup at the sporting store by

[30:52] Costco. They had a small shooting

[30:55] gallery where you could try against a

[30:57] target. Wow. We're we're in we're we're

[30:59] in Morirana, Arizona where we're at

[31:01] today. So,

[31:02] >> so we are in every sportsman's warehouse

[31:04] in the area there and we do have

[31:06] shooting experiences in those stores.

[31:07] You can go in and try the product for

[31:09] yourself.

[31:10] >> I got to do that. Do you I mean the city

[31:12] of Tucson just south of us is a perfect

[31:14] place to protect yourself when you go

[31:16] down there. It's a little liberal petri

[31:18] dish of drugs and other things. So if

[31:21] you got to go down there, try burner.

[31:24] I'm going to do ads for burner now. So

[31:25] we'll talk about advertising later. Con.

[31:27] Uh now, um what I was going to say to

[31:30] you is so then we have the tariff

[31:33] situation and then let's talk about the

[31:35] tax cuts, right? Because there were as

[31:37] part of the tax cut plans there of

[31:39] course was of course we went back to

[31:41] that uh depreciation being accelerated.

[31:44] Let's talk about the positives that came

[31:46] out of that for manufacturers in

[31:48] America.

[31:49] >> Yeah. So if you think about what you

[31:51] know also went with the tariffs, it was

[31:54] a lot of the things in the big beautiful

[31:55] bill act as they like to call it. You

[31:58] know, one of the things was accelerated

[31:59] depreciation which means you can invest

[32:02] today and get the benefit of that from a

[32:04] tax point of view today instead of

[32:06] spreading it out over the next 5 to 10

[32:08] years. When you think about where we

[32:10] were from a manufacturing capability in

[32:13] this country, there were a lot of things

[32:14] we didn't have the ability to do at

[32:16] least at scale anymore. So the ability

[32:19] to put those investments in and see an

[32:21] immediate kind of benefit from a tax

[32:23] point of view is really meaningful for

[32:25] businesses.

[32:27] >> Now, how about trickling down to

[32:29] employment for Americans? That's another

[32:31] part of this, right? Because we see the

[32:32] market, the stock market still raging

[32:35] through. There's been a lot of capital

[32:37] investment, not just, you know, data

[32:39] centers and things like that. Um, has it

[32:42] been a little delayed in and then we

[32:44] just had uh who uh oh JD just did the

[32:48] whole discussion about H1B1's

[32:50] being abused. So where's the American

[32:52] worker in the midst of all of this? Con?

[32:56] >> Yeah. Well, I would say the the labor

[32:58] side of the house has really held up

[33:00] better than a lot of people thought it

[33:02] would, which means, you know, we're

[33:03] still creating jobs. Uh we're doing a a

[33:06] good job of that. I would say you look

[33:07] at a company like BurnA, we moved all of

[33:10] our manufacturing from South Africa to

[33:12] the United States in Fort Wayne,

[33:14] Indiana. So that's a great benefit.

[33:16] What's even more powerful that is the

[33:18] knock-on effect. So we decided to source

[33:20] domestically as much as we can too,

[33:22] right?

[33:22] >> So we gave some companies some

[33:24] guaranteed contracts so that they could

[33:26] go and invest in equipment and people

[33:27] and facilities to supply us as well.

[33:30] >> Okay. So where are we at now? We're

[33:33] moving into midterms. Diesel's off the

[33:36] charts right now because of what's going

[33:38] on. Let's start before we get let's

[33:40] start with the fuel side. Let's let's

[33:42] talk about diesel right now and its

[33:43] effect on companies like yours.

[33:46] >> Well, I mean we are a consumer goods

[33:48] company, right? We ship product all over

[33:51] the country and that goes in trucks and

[33:53] so that means shipping costs are going

[33:54] up and there's nothing that can be done

[33:56] about that. Today we've taken the view

[33:58] that we think it's temporary. So we're

[34:00] eating that cost today, but that means

[34:02] that's an extra cost to my business,

[34:04] which means I'm not investing in

[34:05] something. Right. Right. If it persists

[34:08] at some point, you've got to pass that

[34:09] cost on.

[34:11] >> The um

[34:13] when we talk about the um the price of I

[34:17] guess my thing is what do you think

[34:18] about the Americans

[34:21] uh voter right now? Cuz yes, we know

[34:23] that inflation got ratcheted up under

[34:26] Democrats. Uh we know that gas was

[34:29] remember we had he did that, I did that

[34:31] stickers on pumps for Joe Biden all over

[34:33] the place.

[34:34] >> So where where do you think this is? Do

[34:36] you think the average American voter

[34:38] that's not really intensely into this?

[34:40] Do they even understand any of that

[34:42] moving into the midterms?

[34:44] >> All I think the American person is

[34:46] really, you know, focused on is what's

[34:48] happening in their pocketbook right now

[34:50] today. Right. That's how people vote. We

[34:52] all know that. Um, and gas prices are

[34:55] up, diesel's up. I mean, the the

[34:57] heartland is just being crushed from a

[34:59] farm capabilities point of view, and

[35:01] it's going to trickle into food prices.

[35:02] It already is. So, I I think, you know,

[35:05] the the administration has a tough road

[35:07] ahead in the midterms because of that.

[35:09] >> So, what what what what do you want to

[35:11] see from to me, I call the United States

[35:14] Congress one of the worst organ? They're

[35:16] they're probably one of the most uh

[35:18] damaging organizations on the history of

[35:20] the planet is the United States

[35:22] Congress.

[35:24] In the end, if you look at their work

[35:26] and the the the the graph that these

[35:28] guys do to and and all the crazy things

[35:30] to control the largest honeypot of money

[35:32] on the planet, right? What what can what

[35:35] what do you want to see from this

[35:36] Congress in the next two years to truly

[35:40] make life better for companies like

[35:41] BurnA?

[35:43] >> Yeah. Yeah. So, I think one, we do have

[35:45] to get inflation under control because

[35:47] that's going to give the consumer

[35:48] confidence again. I think everyone is

[35:50] feeling that that pinch and that doesn't

[35:52] happen overnight. So, we need

[35:53] consistency and policy and transparency

[35:56] about where we're going. I think if we

[35:58] can get those things, businesses can get

[36:00] behind that direction and invest.

[36:03] >> What's the um what does B what does

[36:05] burner sales look like in revenue over

[36:07] the last so many years in relation to

[36:09] doing personal protection devices? Yeah.

[36:12] So, we actually started off in this

[36:14] market in about 2019 and and grew pretty

[36:16] rapidly through last year. Um, and

[36:19] that's when we started adding all of

[36:20] the, you know, retail experiences that

[36:22] you talked about there at Sportsman's

[36:24] Warehouse where you have that that

[36:25] shooting experience. Um, over the past 9

[36:28] 12 months, it's been a little bit more

[36:30] challenging. I think the consumer has

[36:31] been under pressure. Um, and you know,

[36:33] unfortunately, our price our products

[36:35] are not inexpensive. You know, they're

[36:37] they're a couple hundred bucks. So, it's

[36:39] it's a real challenge, I think, for the

[36:41] consumer out there right now, and we've

[36:42] felt that.

[36:43] >> Uh, just got messaged on a on a viewer

[36:46] on Facebook. She wants to know uh I

[36:48] mentioned a little bit about H1B1 visas

[36:51] and what JD was talking about on certain

[36:54] countries like India and companies

[36:56] bringing in too many H1B1s and costing

[37:00] Americans and maybe young employees that

[37:02] are coming out of college or maybe the

[37:04] technical world uh can't can't get a job

[37:07] because we're underpaying H-1B1s. What's

[37:09] what's the Khan Davis take on the H1B1

[37:12] situation in America? Well, I'd say at

[37:15] the end of the day, the one thing we

[37:16] need more of is Americans. So, if these

[37:18] are people that want to come over work

[37:20] and become Americans and be here for a

[37:22] long time, I can see a lot of reason to

[37:24] import talent.

[37:25] >> That being said, if there's a qualified,

[37:28] capable American to do that job at a

[37:30] reasonable wage. I I think the system

[37:32] set up that we should give that American

[37:34] the shot first,

[37:35] >> right? I I I guess the question is how

[37:37] do you how do you how do you how do you

[37:39] instill that into a culture of a company

[37:43] uh companies that have been importing

[37:44] H-1B1 uh low paid workers for decades.

[37:50] >> Again, that comes back to being a good

[37:52] regulator, right? I think you mentioned,

[37:54] you know, the the government sometimes

[37:56] not being a great regulator and not

[37:58] always looking at things the right way.

[38:00] I think we have to be consistency and

[38:01] have rules that make sense for everyone.

[38:05] the um I I I think with the um you can

[38:09] see that um the younger folks coming out

[38:13] of high school, technical school,

[38:15] college and you and you see the stories

[38:17] of them saying there's no there's the

[38:20] the opportunity is not what it used to

[38:21] be. Do you do you agree with that, Con?

[38:24] >> I do think the labor market is harder

[38:27] than it used to be, especially for a

[38:29] college graduate coming out with just an

[38:31] undergraduate degree. And I say just

[38:33] that's a great education, right? But

[38:35] there's such a demand for lowskilled

[38:38] labor in the economy and you're starting

[38:40] to see some of that just you know

[38:42] college level labor really being

[38:44] filtered out and either seeing

[38:46] offshoring of those jobs or going into

[38:48] people who have graduate degrees which

[38:50] is again more debt and more time away

[38:52] from the labor force for that

[38:53] individual.

[38:54] >> What's Khan David? What's give me put

[38:56] your Carnack uh hat on. What what what

[38:58] do you think about the midterms? What's

[38:59] your what's your feeling about how

[39:00] midterms are going to tumble? Not saying

[39:02] what you want. I want to know what you

[39:04] think is you think is going to happen.

[39:06] >> Well, we talked about, you know,

[39:07] Americans voting with their pocketbook

[39:09] and I think a lot of Americans are

[39:10] feeling the squeeze right now and I

[39:12] think the Republicans are going to have

[39:13] a really tough run in the midterms. I

[39:15] think the House is almost a foregone

[39:18] conclusion at this point and I think the

[39:19] Senate's going to be closer than anyone

[39:21] wants it to be.

[39:22] >> Gotcha. Um before I let you go and get

[39:24] going on your busy day, what what what

[39:26] do you want the uh the viewers and

[39:28] listeners of wake up to know about the

[39:30] situ? Give me give me a give me a

[39:32] summary statement of what they should

[39:34] understand about what's facing

[39:35] manufacturers con.

[39:37] >> Yeah. So manufacturers I think just like

[39:39] most people in the economy are facing

[39:41] rising costs and a difficulty managing a

[39:45] changing regulatory environment. So

[39:47] we're doing the best we can. We are

[39:49] pushing forward. So, please uh please

[39:52] continue to to support made in America

[39:54] manufacturers.

[39:55] >> All right, Khan, I'm gonna go after the

[39:56] show. I'm gonna go over to sports. The

[39:58] sportsman warehouse is literally three

[39:59] minutes from the studio. I'm going to go

[40:01] over and shoot some pepper some pepper

[40:03] spray bullets over there. And

[40:05] >> you're going to be surprised by how

[40:06] powerful it is. So, have fun.

[40:08] >> What's What's the range on that sucker?

[40:10] It's

[40:10] >> about 60 feet. The length of a

[40:11] semi-truck.

[40:12] >> Well, that's pretty good. That'll

[40:14] That'll keep them off you.

[40:15] >> Yep. It'll keep them off you for 30 40

[40:17] minutes. So, nice long time.

[40:19] >> All right. All right, you're the man,

[40:20] Khan. Good talking to you.

[40:21] >> Thanks, guys. Have a good one.

[40:22] >> Have a good day. That's Khan Davis. He

[40:24] is the CEO of Burner Technologies.

[40:27] We got to we got to we got to get some

[40:29] advert. I'm going to talk to that guy

[40:30] about some advertising on the network.

[40:31] We we have plenty of people who need

[40:33] some burner burner

[40:35] bea uh technology stuff. Um well, I

[40:40] missed uh I missed Dr. Neil's question

[40:43] about is manufacturing based in Indiana

[40:45] because it's a right to work state. Now,

[40:48] it's interesting you say that. So uh I

[40:50] assume that helps. The other thing there

[40:51] is a centrality to it. So my buddy David

[40:54] who owns Masterpieces which is the

[40:56] puzzle company where they do their admin

[40:58] and uh design in Oral Valley. It's on

[41:01] Rancho. He's at a building that you

[41:03] would pass that has no signs on it. But

[41:05] he's a multi-million dollar puzzle

[41:07] company that sells to uh Walmarts and

[41:11] Hobby Lobbies and all this stuff. He he

[41:14] has to do his production in China

[41:15] because he he's tried to find people in

[41:17] America to do it, but they just they

[41:19] just can't do it. Uh so what happens is

[41:22] his stuff comes his distrib his distri

[41:25] distribution center that he owns is in

[41:27] Indiana because of I assume right to

[41:29] work and centrality to being a little

[41:32] closer to the east coast but still being

[41:33] central. So I think that's why uh Bob

[41:36] Watson, how many rat cities are run by

[41:38] Democrats? That's

[41:43] You know, I bet there's a bunch. Now, I

[41:45] want to So, remember I brought up these

[41:47] disgusting signs that you're seeing

[41:49] about um uh they're throwing the word

[41:52] around pedophiles a lot, right? Who's

[41:54] And it has a picture of Epstein and uh

[41:58] Andy and Juan in it. It's so And they

[42:01] have them in front of churches. So, I

[42:03] saw the first one in front of St.

[42:04] Odilia's and then I saw the second one

[42:07] in front of um St. Elizabeth an seaton

[42:11] on Shannon. So I did a Facebook post and

[42:14] all I did was ask the question, are they

[42:16] putting in front of Catholic churches

[42:18] because they think they're more uh or

[42:20] they're going after the Catholic Church

[42:22] for its history, recent history of of

[42:25] course um

[42:28] uh pedophilia stuff with a a minority of

[42:31] their priest, right? So, I was I I just

[42:34] put that question out there and I got

[42:37] Man, they're beating each other up.

[42:40] I'm get I'm I'm just getting beat up for

[42:42] asking the question, right? And you know

[42:45] what I've noticed is a lot of these God,

[42:49] it's for some reason senior women over

[42:51] the age of 70 are just pissed off.

[42:56] They're so angry. So my question was all

[43:00] I said I see these two disgusting signs.

[43:03] I and I just asked the question, right?

[43:06] And then of course I put all the people

[43:08] complaining who love this who are

[43:09] Democrats who hate Trump. You forgot

[43:11] about the 85,000 missing people that

[43:13] Hannah Drier won a Pulitzer at the New

[43:15] York Times reporting on. Right. This is

[43:17] Bera and Borcus talking about this.

[43:20] Right. Patricia Mish.

[43:25] Let's see. Patricia,

[43:28] um, happy Indigenous People's Day.

[43:33] And just to give you a little taste of

[43:34] of Patricia, Indigenous People's Day,

[43:37] never again a celebration of a genocidal

[43:39] maniac. That's referring to Christopher

[43:43] Columbus. Um,

[43:47] uh, let's see.

[43:51] Isn't it rich? The religion that helped

[43:53] the current administration get into

[43:54] power is against the firing wing squad.

[43:57] The right to birthers are upset. She is

[43:59] something else.

[44:01] Um

[44:04] she also put for everyone saying that

[44:05] ICE agents are just doing their job so

[44:08] are the German soldiers loading people

[44:10] in the trunks. This is this is the

[44:12] quality of what's coming out of Pat. But

[44:14] this is this is what Patricia said for

[44:15] me putting up those questions. Uh, you

[44:18] and your Republican shills have

[44:19] conveniently forgotten the true

[44:21] Christian teachings of Christianity

[44:23] taught by Jesus. Pope Francis even told

[44:25] you that the last election was more than

[44:27] a one-issue consideration. If the the

[44:30] church had any balls, they would

[44:31] excommunicate all Catholic Republican

[44:33] legislators as they're not at all

[44:35] Christlike. Shame on all of you. And by

[44:38] the way, you sanctim you sanctimonious

[44:41] schmuts. Jesus wouldn't know you. This

[44:44] is This is this 70 yearear-old woman on

[44:48] They're so angry. They're so angry.

[44:51] Let's do Holidays and then when we come

[44:53] back, we're going to play this story

[44:54] about a teen getting attacked by a

[44:57] crackhead on the loop. Uh which after

[44:59] Tim Tamir said, "This city is safe."

[45:01] That was only a couple of three weeks

[45:02] ago. And of course, this the the mayor

[45:05] and all these foolish people. Uh, and

[45:07] then we're gonna I'm gonna run through

[45:09] the voter guide because I've added a few

[45:11] uh schoolboard stuff and then your

[45:13] questions of anything I missed. So, it's

[45:15] emergency nurses day. It's top spinning

[45:19] day. Like, you know, top spinning day.

[45:21] National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work

[45:22] Day. I blew that. I should have done

[45:24] that. Uh, National Dessert Day. Isn't

[45:27] every day?

[45:29] I like this one. National pet obesity

[45:31] awareness day. There's some chubs out

[45:34] there in the in the in the cat and dog

[45:35] world.

[45:38] There was a beagle in my neighborhood

[45:39] that I just I felt so bad for. Um for

[45:42] Patricia Mace bullying me. It's never

[45:45] National Stop Bullying Day. Uh World

[45:47] Standards Day. Take your parents to work

[45:50] day lunch day. Oh, nice.

[45:54] And uh National Frump Day. National

[45:58] Frugal Responsible Responsible

[46:00] Unpretentious Mature Persons Day. Who

[46:03] knew? All right. Thanks to Khan Davis

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[51:23] Media. Christopher D. Simone. We're in

[51:25] studio B today. Lori, isn't Patricia

[51:28] Mace the one that was involved in the

[51:29] Gford shooting? I looked that up. That

[51:31] is a possibility. That is a great

[51:33] possibility. It it seems like her. Uh

[51:36] Rob, so the people with the public

[51:38] service, not politics on their sign have

[51:40] these nasty signs versus their

[51:42] opponents. Uh also there are these are

[51:45] the Rancho Viso angry women that try to

[51:48] tell me that Mark Napier was a crook.

[51:50] There's a there's anger out there,

[51:52] right? And so when so when Edgar Sodto

[51:54] says that um Chris King is bad for

[51:58] public uh safety, that is the that is

[52:01] the most horse crap thing I've ever

[52:04] heard out of

[52:06] uh Edgar Sodto's pie hole. Everyone

[52:08] who's supporting him uh is not a fan.

[52:12] Not everyone, that's wrong. Most of the

[52:14] people, especially in relation to city

[52:16] council, Puma County folk that endorse

[52:18] him,

[52:21] they all they're all cop haters. So

[52:23] Edgar's got some balls saying, "Oh, uh,

[52:26] he's going to be a danger. He's going to

[52:28] cut public safety." You know, Edgar, I

[52:30] like it, but that one you look like, you

[52:32] sound like a fool. You sound like a fool

[52:34] being controlled by other people. So

[52:36] that doesn't sound like public service.

[52:38] It sounds like you're being pushed by

[52:40] the uh the political machine of Pima

[52:43] County. So, you knew you were going to

[52:45] sell your soul a little bit in this in

[52:47] this game, but on that one,

[52:50] weak sauce, Edgar.

[52:53] Um and you know, Holly Lion's a leftist

[52:56] who's been trying to get that seed for

[52:58] years. So, um, anyway, you got to go out

[53:01] there and vote and you got to go out

[53:02] there and tell people to, uh, to do

[53:06] their thing and, uh, tell their

[53:08] neighbors to vote. And I know there's a

[53:09] lot of action in LD17 right now

[53:11] supporting Chris King and John

[53:13] Winchester and, um, Rachel Kel,

[53:17] don't take anything for granted. You

[53:19] just can't. You just can't. All right.

[53:22] So, we're gonna play this story from Kol

[53:25] and it has to do with another attack on

[53:27] the loop.

[53:29] Now, again, Matt Neely and I have have

[53:32] taught you, we've talked about it,

[53:33] right? Usually, if it's a bad thing, the

[53:36] local news will never say the Chuck

[53:37] Huckleberry loop. It would be a local

[53:41] exercise path, an incidental loop that

[53:44] just might have been there,

[53:47] those kind of things, right?

[53:50] So, and again, it's so amazing with

[53:52] Huckleberry, right? What a what a weird

[53:54] ending to a story, right? A guy who

[53:56] spent more money on cycling paths than

[53:59] roads

[54:00] gets hit on his bicycle and he's not

[54:02] allow he cannot because of his mental

[54:05] incapacity of whatever level it's at. He

[54:08] can't enjoy his super he cannot enjoy

[54:10] his super pension max that he did on the

[54:12] county and his illegal double

[54:14] retirement. Right.

[54:16] >> Accused of attacking. So then the thing

[54:19] that's his legacy because him and his

[54:22] buddies really couldn't care about

[54:24] policing or any of these other stuff or

[54:26] at least the people that paid the bills

[54:29] even to this day have let the because of

[54:31] the way the p the path is just like the

[54:34] bus, right? It's it's a uh it's a hot

[54:37] bed of crime and moving horrible drugged

[54:40] out people around and thieves and if you

[54:42] have a business to do the loop you're

[54:43] getting picked apart. They killed

[54:45] remember Kicks the uh Hispanic cycling

[54:48] rider who was stabbed to death in front

[54:50] of all of his cycling buddies. Have you

[54:52] you notice he was he was put under the

[54:54] Jacob couch the the Jacob couch rug? The

[54:57] guy who got of course decapitated at a

[55:00] downtown bus stop.

[55:03] Have you noticed that kicks is an

[55:05] inconvenient again for the first Latina

[55:08] mayor? He was the first Latino bicyclist

[55:12] uh sliced to death on on inner city like

[55:15] that on the loop. The loop is such a

[55:17] weird.

[55:19] Now, is the loop a nice thing? Yes. But

[55:21] you don't do that before you do roads.

[55:23] And I know you're going to say, "Fool,

[55:24] you don't understand. This is all the

[55:26] money to shore up washes." I don't care.

[55:29] It's just like it's just like the people

[55:31] with us and the tourism committee. I we

[55:33] didn't understand how um the the me the

[55:37] uh commission world and how it worked.

[55:40] No horse hockey, right? So, this little

[55:42] thumb here is what all everyone on the

[55:44] council and um

[55:47] and their staff know about tourism. My

[55:49] my laptop is what everything the five of

[55:51] us know about tourism. They weren't they

[55:54] they didn't want to hear it because we

[55:55] disagreed with their immature premature

[55:58] and immature pull out of visit Tucson,

[56:00] but that's a whole other story. All

[56:01] right. KD, let's go. Horrible story from

[56:04] Rahea's Tucson. Let's go.

[56:06] >> Accused of attacking a 13-year-old boy

[56:08] along a popular bike path, a Tucson man

[56:11] was arrested for the crime. Court

[56:13] documents say the man grabbed the teen

[56:15] by his throat and threatened to kill

[56:17] him.

[56:17] >> Tonight, we're hearing from one of the

[56:19] teenagers who witnessed the attack and

[56:21] his mother about some of the dangers

[56:22] that lurk with something as simple as

[56:24] riding bikes. 13 News reporter Amelia

[56:27] Reyes joins us from Northeast Tucson

[56:29] with the story.

[56:31] I spoke with the mother and son about

[56:33] the incident and they wish to have their

[56:35] identities hidden. They say they are

[56:37] still a little shaken up but are

[56:38] relieved that the man was caught. It was

[56:40] supposed to be a normal afternoon bike

[56:42] ride with friends. But for three Tucson

[56:45] teenagers, that ride took a frightening

[56:47] turn.

[56:47] >> He started screaming like, "I'm going to

[56:50] kill you."

[56:51] >> According to court documents, the three

[56:53] teens were riding their ebikes along the

[56:55] river path near Croft Road last

[56:57] Thursday. Police say they first passed

[56:59] 34year-old Lando Brown, who gave them a

[57:01] thumbs up. But when they turned around,

[57:04] investigators say Brown stepped into

[57:06] their path, grabbed one of the bikes,

[57:07] causing it to flip. One teenager fell to

[57:10] the ground before police say Brown

[57:12] grabbed him by the throat, holding him

[57:14] against a railing for about 20 seconds.

[57:16] >> I didn't know if he was going to kill

[57:17] him or what he was going to do. So, I

[57:20] was just really scared at that moment.

[57:22] >> The teenagers called 911. And for one of

[57:24] their mothers who was far away at work,

[57:26] the text was something she never

[57:28] expected.

[57:28] >> I'm on the phone with 911, but don't

[57:31] worry, I'm okay. And I mean, my heart

[57:34] sunk. You know, I'm 30 miles away at

[57:37] work. And to hear this from my son was

[57:40] absolutely

[57:42] startling.

[57:43] >> Brown was later arrested and is charged

[57:45] with aggravated assault on a child under

[57:47] 15, kidnapping, and criminal damage. But

[57:50] for this mother, the incident also

[57:52] raised questions about allowing

[57:54] something as simple as letting her son

[57:56] go out for a bike ride.

[57:57] >> It's really hard to actually be able to

[57:59] get your kids outside and get them

[58:00] involved when you actually have to worry

[58:01] about these kind of risks happening

[58:03] every day as well.

[58:04] >> And while the boys made it home, she

[58:05] says it's still been a lot for them to

[58:07] process.

[58:08] >> These are a lot of adult emotions. These

[58:09] are a lot of adult situations that I

[58:11] never hoped my kids would have to

[58:13] experience at this age. For the mother

[58:15] and son, the suspect's arrest is one

[58:18] step forward, but they say this is an

[58:20] experience they won't soon forget.

[58:22] Reporting in northeast Tucson, Amy Rees,

[58:24] 13 News.

[58:26] >> All right, so my first question is, so

[58:27] think about this. Uh, Crayoft and River

[58:31] >> last month.

[58:32] >> Crayoft and River. Let me get these

[58:33] headphones off. I don't need them

[58:34] anymore. Crayoft and River.

[58:38] So, a crackhead guy grabs a 13-year-old

[58:45] off his bike

[58:48] and starts choking him to death.

[58:52] Um, let's see. Grabbed him by the

[58:54] throat, held him against the railing for

[58:57] 20 seconds. He had trouble breathing and

[59:00] had a mark on his neck.

[59:04] I didn't know if he was going to do I

[59:05] was really scared. He just started

[59:07] screaming. I'm going to kill you.

[59:12] Craycraftoft and river. So for all of

[59:15] you who say, "Oh, this is only down on

[59:19] first and fort le horse hockey." So my

[59:23] first take and nice job by Ailio Ailio

[59:25] Reyes is doing this story. My first my

[59:28] first question to you is uh what is

[59:30] Laura Conover going to plea this guy

[59:32] down to? That's what I want to know. Or

[59:34] are they going to put him in the guy who

[59:36] cut off Jacob Couch's head? Uh, are they

[59:39] going to put this Excuse, that's what

[59:41] happened. Um, are they going to put this

[59:43] uh, remember that guy hasn't even seen a

[59:45] courtroom yet for reals?

[59:48] Cuz quote, "He's so crazy we don't know

[59:50] what to do with him." Is that what's

[59:52] going to happen to Landel Brown, 34

[59:54] years old?

[59:55] Don't get me wrong, when you get hooked

[59:57] on these drugs, it's a horrible thing.

[60:01] And I hate to tell you, mom, the idea

[60:04] that you would mom maybe didn't know,

[60:07] you don't let your kid ride on the loop

[60:10] unless you're in Oral Valley Morirana.

[60:12] But if you're letting your kid and it

[60:14] sounds like a great idea, right? Him and

[60:15] his buddies are

[60:17] they got an ebike. Get a real bike,

[60:19] guys. That was the other part. See, this

[60:23] this is this is going to talk about the

[60:24] youth of today. I'm going to sound like

[60:25] the old guy, right? Uh because his ebike

[60:28] was dying, he had to get back home.

[60:29] Well, just just pedal. Just pedal like

[60:31] normal kids. I thought those things had

[60:32] pedals.

[60:36] So, this one will get ignored by the the

[60:38] Queen mayor. Remember when Kicks got

[60:41] killed? They're like, "Well, you know,

[60:42] that's Puma County property, the loop,

[60:44] even though it's in our city."

[60:49] Raa, he's your crackhead, buddy. I'm

[60:51] just telling you.

[60:54] 13 This should be the biggest news story

[60:56] of the day. 13-year-old almost choked to

[61:00] death by crackhead.

[61:04] So, let's see.

[61:06] Let's do some math together. Maximum

[61:09] penalty

[61:11] in Puma County a for You guys are going

[61:16] to help help me with the math here for

[61:18] kidnapping.

[61:19] Hold on.

[61:22] Uh

[61:29] now, [laughter]

[61:32] now this is interesting. It says maximum

[61:34] penalty for kidnapping is life

[61:36] imprisonment if the victim's under it 15

[61:38] years old. Who knew? Deadly weapon 35

[61:43] years. Standard class two felony 24

[61:47] years.

[61:50] voluntary safe release

[61:53] 3.75.

[61:55] So let's go

[61:58] class two. Let's call it 24 years on

[62:01] that one. Right? So 24 years for

[62:03] kidnapping.

[62:05] Then we have

[62:07] um

[62:09] what are they calling the other one?

[62:10] It's uh aggravated assault on a minor

[62:14] under 15. So on the 24 I'm just I'm just

[62:19] a I'm just uh on the 24 years I'm just

[62:22] I'm averaging. Right. So this is our you

[62:25] know we have we have our scorecards for

[62:27] what would Dan Sheerer say? Okay. Hold

[62:29] on. Let's let's see what we got here.

[62:34] H maximum penalty for a let's see

[62:41] class six

[62:44] would be maximum prison term of two

[62:47] years

[62:50] depending on dangerous it could be 12

[62:52] years.

[62:54] So let's let's let's go five. So now

[62:57] we're at 29 years.

[62:59] Okay. Okay. And what was the other one

[63:01] that was criminal damage?

[63:10] Criminal

[63:11] damage.

[63:16] Let's call it criminal damage.

[63:23] Let's call it a class. Let's go two

[63:26] years. So now we're at 31 years. So the

[63:29] question is for the live chatters on

[63:31] YouTube and Facebook,

[63:34] right? Uh where where does this if it's

[63:38] 31 years possible maximum felonies for

[63:41] this guy attempting to choke to death a

[63:45] 13-year-old kid screaming, "I'm going to

[63:48] kill you."

[63:50] What will Laura bring it down to? 31 to

[63:54] what? Does Does he walk? Is that a

[63:58] little too much? Is it two years?

[64:02] You guys let me know. Where will Laura

[64:04] take a 30-year possible maximum penalty

[64:07] and whatever jackass judge they can

[64:10] find? Right. Where are they going to get

[64:12] it? So,

[64:14] um, Bev attempted murder, child abuse,

[64:18] 13 News called it the loop. That's true.

[64:20] We the first initial one didn't say it.

[64:22] Matt sent it to me. Uh, uh, River Path

[64:25] not calling it the loop. It batters,

[64:27] right? Uh, Bev, I own a burner and I

[64:29] bought one for my RN daughter. See, look

[64:32] at this. I got to get these guys

[64:33] advertising. Um, and then I saw Edgar

[64:37] Sodto was in there.

[64:40] Edgar, I'd love to come on your show.

[64:41] Love to have you on the show, bud. So,

[64:44] uh, let's, uh, let's text a, uh, let's

[64:47] let's figure out a time together.

[64:48] Sometime early next week might work. How

[64:51] long is until [laughter]

[64:54] Allan Nichols already beat me, too. How

[64:55] long until he's out on personal

[64:57] recgnissance and by which judge?

[65:01] I I I I laugh because if I don't laugh,

[65:03] I'm just going to I'm just going to

[65:04] sobb. And sobbing is bad broadcasting,

[65:06] right? So, uh, Big Dave, unfortunately,

[65:09] there are people who have more empathy

[65:12] for the attacker than this young man.

[65:15] Maybe there'll be someone who'll say he

[65:17] was asking for it. Uh, Murf 88, 31 days,

[65:21] 28th of February.

[65:26] Whatever happened to the guy who

[65:28] attacked Kicks?

[65:30] I have I've heard nothing about that.

[65:32] Let's see. Uh let's see. Murder of Kicks

[65:38] the cyclist

[65:42] Tucson AZ. Where are we at here?

[65:45] Enrique, age 44, sta fatally stabbed

[65:48] last two fe Septembers ago while riding

[65:51] on the Chuck Huckleberry Loop.

[65:54] Uh, Tuesday night ride. He was stabbed

[65:56] in the torso where he passed away.

[65:58] Michael Francisco

[66:01] charges seconddegree murder. Uh,

[66:04] additional charges for assaulting um a

[66:07] cop. Bond was set at a million and a

[66:10] murder for the murder charge 10,000 for

[66:12] the assault charge.

[66:16] So,

[66:18] uh, Michael

[66:21] Francisco

[66:25] convicted yet? I I don't I know that's a

[66:28] loaded question.

[66:29] Let's see what it says.

[66:32] He is awaiting trial.

[66:35] Let's see. He's still in the Puma County

[66:38] Jail while his legal case moves through

[66:40] the system.

[66:42] So, this happened

[66:46] uh a year ago and there's nothing has

[66:49] happened with this guy.

[66:52] So a friend of mine was telling me that

[66:54] Dave Burkeman, the guy who used to work

[66:55] for Babs Wall said in their last I think

[66:58] it was the last year of Babs, they

[67:00] brought 300 over 300 cases to trial

[67:02] where Laura brings about 80. Now part of

[67:05] that is she's soft on criminals, but at

[67:07] the same time no one wants to work for

[67:09] her. That's why she has such a high

[67:10] vacancy. So they don't even have enough

[67:12] lawyers if they wanted to. So, let's

[67:14] just plea him out.

[67:17] You know, we should we should have a um

[67:20] we should have a contest. I'll see if I

[67:21] can get a some uh maybe I can get a gift

[67:24] certificate from Almanza.

[67:26] What is What will Laura Conover's plea

[67:28] deal be on Miss Guy Landel?

[67:32] That's that's what I'm thinking.

[67:35] So, hey, first and foremost, I'm glad

[67:36] that these kids are okay, but you can't

[67:38] even drive down the the the Huckleberry

[67:40] path without getting choked by a

[67:42] crackhead who wants to kill you.

[67:45] Where's Tim? Someone get me that

[67:47] soundbite of Tim Tamure saying Tucson's

[67:49] a safe city. I want to hear that one

[67:50] again. Let's get to the voter guide real

[67:54] quick because we have a special guest

[67:57] coming up at 7:30, about 14 minutes from

[68:00] now. So, so go to dsimonehq.com,

[68:05] hit the blog page. I have put this on

[68:07] Facebook and other places. I'll keep

[68:09] putting it out there. Uh, I put this out

[68:12] late Sunday afternoon. And how where are

[68:15] we at? We are at how many people I'm

[68:18] always I'm always um we're almost at 400

[68:21] people have accessed the uh the guide.

[68:24] So, that's that's again I'm always I'm

[68:26] always touched by the trust. Okay.

[68:31] Sisammani in six. Of course, Dan

[68:34] Butier's very nice man. He's got an

[68:36] uphill vote, but you can't vote for

[68:38] Graalva. I mean, you're literally

[68:40] spiritually saying, "Let's slice our own

[68:42] throats."

[68:43] Um, of course, remember in King

[68:46] Winchester, Keshell, remember, vote uh

[68:48] Winchester and Keshel. You got to

[68:50] remember to vote for both. Sometimes you

[68:52] guys do that thing where you just think

[68:53] you can vote for one. This is part of

[68:55] the education process of the Republican

[68:57] party of LD17 voters. You must vote for

[69:00] both of them. Okay. Uh Doug Everett and

[69:04] Bob in 18 Griffin Diaz Gowen Board of

[69:08] Soups. Jeff remember if you live in

[69:09] district five where the pathetic Andre

[69:11] Kano says please vote for Jeff Rhodess.

[69:14] He was the guy who got in on the uh

[69:16] primary writein ballot and uh we'd like

[69:19] you to vote for him. Uh, TUSD school

[69:21] board, Val Romero, and Pilar Ruiz.

[69:26] Uh, Val we love. Uh, Val, you know, Par

[69:30] probably, I mean, she's a Democrat, but

[69:33] at the same time, she she she'll she'll

[69:35] fight against the machine. I I I I have

[69:38] faith in Par. So, and her and Val will

[69:41] work very good together. So, and you'll

[69:42] actually get maybe get a couple more

[69:44] seconds to get things done. AI school

[69:47] board's a mess. It was a mess to begin

[69:49] with. Uh Slater I I mean this is my best

[69:53] guess on Ampi schoolboard voting. Uh

[69:56] Slater and this is my here's an exact

[69:58] quote from the voter guide. Slater's the

[70:00] wor least worst.

[70:03] Fif and Godless are a big no. They are

[70:05] teachers union hacks. Uh there's there's

[70:08] I forgot there's a one-year race because

[70:10] of they were replacing somebody. So it's

[70:12] Michael Gemma versus uh Bo Outlaw.

[70:17] Bo Outlaw, wasn't he? He played for

[70:19] Loyola Marmont. I keep forgetting.

[70:21] Anyway, Outlaw. There's someone named

[70:22] Outlaw. Just try Outlaw. I don't know if

[70:25] she's good, bad, but Gemma's Gemma is I

[70:27] think part of the old mindset.

[70:31] Um, Tangvery. This comes from Carlos

[70:34] Ruiz and we trust because he used to be

[70:36] a school board member. Very involved out

[70:37] there and we love Carlos.

[70:40] That's just nuts. Uh, Thomas Tras and

[70:43] Beth Person in Tankervery. Judges, I

[70:46] just say no to all of them.

[70:49] I mean, they always get back in. Uh

[70:51] people are asking about the the general

[70:53] plan in Oral Valley. It doesn't really

[70:55] matter.

[70:56] These, you know, it's it's it these

[70:59] people won't listen to it if they don't

[71:00] want to listen to it. If they want to

[71:01] listen to it, they'll hide behind it.

[71:02] So, it sounds nice. Uh staff has told me

[71:06] that it still skews too much uh in

[71:09] relation to the input they got for

[71:11] people who just uh want to uh stagnate

[71:14] Oral Valley and tax at the deaf. So,

[71:17] again with Oral Valley. Uh Joe Winfield,

[71:20] you stayed four tier four years too long

[71:22] and you must get rid of Jeff Wilkins as

[71:24] the town manager. He's a train wreck. If

[71:26] you want to fix Oro Valley and you're

[71:28] you think you're going to do with Jeff

[71:29] Wilkins, you've lost your mind. Uh so we

[71:34] got that yes on the one. Uh the only one

[71:37] uh yes on the 100s on that props the

[71:40] 300s. I'm still a no on 320 which is the

[71:43] school budget allocation.

[71:46] Part of it is um and Ted and I were

[71:48] talking about this yesterday,

[71:52] spending money on reading

[71:54] interventionists and and is not included

[71:57] in the I think that the um

[72:01] the state auditor general's list of

[72:04] what's considered in in classroom is

[72:07] still outdated.

[72:10] I think that needs and in the end

[72:14] it sounds great. We're going to put 60%

[72:15] of operational budgets toward directly

[72:17] towards classroom instructional

[72:18] expenses. There's so many workarounds on

[72:21] this. And again, Republican brothers and

[72:23] sisters, you know, I used to give crap

[72:25] to the libertarians, right? Cuz you

[72:27] know, when Peter Peter and Tara and Drew

[72:29] come on the show, I'm always like, why

[72:30] don't one of you guys run for school

[72:32] board, right? You know something? I've

[72:34] made a mistake. Other than Jeff Uch and

[72:37] Mona Gibson and a few others, why don't

[72:39] Republicans run for school board?

[72:43] We have been end running around the

[72:46] education which is fine. I'm a there's

[72:49] no one bigger than academic uh freedom

[72:52] than D Simone. Okay. And again Katie

[72:55] Hobbs lying about ESAs the KV uh Kol.

[72:59] Oh, they're costing hundreds of millions

[73:01] of dollars.

[73:03] Bull crap, Katie.

[73:06] But Republicans, if if if I was going to

[73:09] rewrite, you know, hopefully things

[73:11] don't go so bad and I think things are

[73:12] going to be better than you think after

[73:14] this election and I hope that um Sergio

[73:17] uh keeps running the A GOP. I would have

[73:20] a big push starting early next year for

[73:23] schoolboard candidates,

[73:26] right? I know it's not sexy. I know it's

[73:27] a headache at times. I know uh it

[73:30] doesn't pay anything.

[73:32] Well, you know something? The Democrats

[73:35] are controlling what kids get paid uh

[73:37] get taught,

[73:39] right? Look at the train wreck of TUSD.

[73:43] God bless Val Romero for for punching in

[73:46] there a little bit,

[73:48] but if Republicans don't you you can do

[73:51] the end run around education, but the

[73:53] time is to start running real candidates

[73:55] for school boards, guys and girls. Do

[73:57] both.

[73:58] But 3 320 is a no for me. Now, if you

[74:01] voted yes, it's not like I'm going to go

[74:03] Patricia Misha on you and start yelling

[74:05] at you, okay? I'm just saying I'm a no

[74:10] on 320. Uh, let's see what my education

[74:12] folks are. Oh. Oh, no on Outlaw. Sorry,

[74:18] she's an Arizona listister. All right.

[74:21] Don't. So, this person remains unnamed.

[74:24] She's so cute. So, my person, the

[74:26] unnamed person

[74:28] is Michael Gemma better or is that a

[74:30] leave? Is that a protest? Leave it

[74:32] blank.

[74:34] Let me know. All right, forget what I

[74:36] said about Ola. I trust this person. If

[74:38] she says no on outlaw, is Gemma better?

[74:41] I Michael Gemma, I don't know.

[74:44] Uh Pima County Expenditure Limits a hell

[74:46] no.

[74:48] Read Read Rex Scott's uh blither blather

[74:51] in the um Tucson Sentinel about how

[74:54] great it is and you're going to say hell

[74:55] no. AI sells schools 426. Yes. Puma Jed,

[75:01] I'm still a weak yes on this one. Again,

[75:03] if you voted no, I'm not going to go

[75:04] crazy on you, but I'm a weak yes on

[75:06] this. Puma College Bond is also a hell

[75:08] no. A hell I love that they they the um

[75:14] the president using the president of the

[75:16] university doing a whole thing about

[75:19] talking about it is such it's one of

[75:21] those on the edge where I have the

[75:23] employee prom uh promoting. It's not

[75:26] like my uh Mr. Nasser or whatever the

[75:28] hell his name is. He um

[75:32] um

[75:34] it's not like he uh cares. He gave you

[75:36] the negative side of it, right? It's not

[75:38] like one of these these officials come

[75:39] out for the money they want. They're

[75:41] going to pull another 333 million

[75:44] dollars out of the economy for this one,

[75:46] right? It's not like he got up there,

[75:48] Mr. Nasser, and said, "Oh, yeah. Here's,

[75:51] you know, um let's say, you know, it

[75:53] doesn't go or he doesn't give you both

[75:56] sides.

[75:59] He wants to come on the show. He could

[76:00] tell me he didn't do that either. That'd

[76:01] be great. I gonna have him and Edgar. I

[76:04] have a Puma Puma College hour. Uh 421

[76:08] city and TE. Uh it's a no. $2 million a

[76:12] year for trees. Kiss my grits. 422 zoo

[76:16] zoo tax for 20 to 30 years. That's also

[76:18] a no. You're just you're just giving Raa

[76:21] more money because she doesn't know how

[76:24] to budget. And again, a zoo in the

[76:27] middle of a craphead area of town full

[76:30] of crackheads in a region that mom and

[76:33] dad can't find jobs and are leaving.

[76:37] Right?

[76:38] There's less young families out there

[76:41] that want to go to a zoo that can even

[76:42] afford to go to a zoo. And if they can,

[76:45] they live in the edges of town, the

[76:47] suburbs. Do they really want to go to

[76:48] Broadway in Alberton where the

[76:51] crackheads are around the, you know, god

[76:53] forbid you go to a night event at the at

[76:55] the zoo. So that's an If I'm missing

[76:59] something, let me know. We got to go to

[77:01] break because we have our next guest

[77:04] coming up. Her name is Dr. Elita Doli.

[77:09] She's a concert pianist, but she wrote a

[77:12] book about the vict being a victim of

[77:13] communism. That's coming up next. And

[77:16] then big Wednesday continues with Bruce

[77:18] and Eb inside track. Warren Peterson

[77:21] running for AG and an author about the

[77:24] dangers of doom scrolling on your phone.

[77:26] So big Wednesday rolls on. See you in a

[77:29] bit.

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[81:54] Simone on the Live the Dream Media

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[82:05] Hold on everyone. Shutting off my yes

[82:07] before we get in trouble. Hi, you're on

[82:09] Live the Dream Media. I was just posting

[82:11] this horrible story from KLD uh on my

[82:15] Facebook page. Uh again, uh 13-year-old

[82:19] uh choked while a crackhead is on top of

[82:21] him screaming, "I'm going to kill you."

[82:24] So, it happens. But again, it's Romero

[82:27] losing It's another example of Romero

[82:29] losing control of her city. She's going

[82:31] to wish he was a ceremonial mayor after

[82:33] something like this. U but kudos to Kol

[82:37] for doing it. And um the other ones

[82:40] covered I got in the initial one Matt

[82:42] when he sent to me said they did not put

[82:44] Huckleberry Loop but it's it's it's

[82:46] getting there. I almost said that I

[82:48] almost said that like like Kramer they

[82:49] they test they taste uh so get that out

[82:53] there. And again we have um my concert

[82:56] pianist and uh and and bookw writer

[82:58] coming in. Uh and then Bruce is coming

[83:01] up tomorrow. I'm going to be I got to go

[83:02] up to Phoenix uh for some stuff today.

[83:05] So, I will not be here in the morning,

[83:06] but Ted Maxwell and Shelley Kais will be

[83:08] filling in for me. And then, um, here's

[83:11] Cam. Yes, you're going to be at 9:30

[83:13] Eastern time tomorrow.

[83:17] Beautiful. And then, uh, Schwikert and

[83:20] John Winchester.

[83:22] And then, uh, [laughter] what's Eastside

[83:24] Matt sending me? I love when Eastside

[83:26] Matt sends me stuff in the morning. I

[83:28] think it has to do with he finally says

[83:29] Huckleberry. He does. He says, "Look

[83:31] like Kol had a moment of clarity. All

[83:34] >> [laughter]

[83:35] [gasps]

[83:36] >> right, we got to get Let me get my

[83:37] headphones on. We got a special guest

[83:39] here. Probably the best hair uh had on

[83:43] anyone on this show in the history of

[83:45] that is that is a hell of a head of hair

[83:48] you got there, doctor. How are you

[83:49] doing, my friend? Welcome to the show.

[83:52] >> Thank you. Thank you so much for the

[83:54] compliment. I'm doing great. How are

[83:55] you?

[83:56] >> I'm good. Dr. Elita Doli, did I say that

[83:59] right?

[84:01] >> Very well. Yes.

[84:02] >> All right. with a with a last name like

[84:05] mine of D. Simone that everyone usually

[84:07] destroys, I'm very sensitive about

[84:09] saying other people's names. So, welcome

[84:11] aboard, my friend.

[84:13] >> Thank you. Glad to be here.

[84:14] >> Where uh where where are you connecting

[84:16] in from today? Where are you at

[84:18] currently? Uh doctor,

[84:20] >> I am in Dallas, Texas. And please do

[84:22] call me Alita.

[84:23] >> Alita. Okay, I will call you that. Uh,

[84:26] Alita, you have a book, but it's

[84:28] fascinating when I when I get when I get

[84:30] something from one of my Booker friends

[84:32] that says concert pianist, but also

[84:35] bored of the victims of communism.

[84:39] >> And you have this new book called uh

[84:40] behind be behind the silence, right?

[84:44] >> The silence is trying to erase. Yes,

[84:47] >> I I can see I can see the half of the

[84:49] book behind you. So, um, so let let's

[84:53] talk a little bit about, uh, and what

[84:56] are you a doctor of? That's a question I

[84:57] had.

[84:58] >> Well, I'm a doctor in musical arts. So,

[85:01] I'm a classical pianist. Overall, that

[85:03] was, you know,

[85:05] >> um, that was my first what I've done

[85:08] most of my life, I'd say.

[85:09] >> All right. So, tell So, you grew up in

[85:11] Albania. Is that what I'm uh when you're

[85:14] >> Yes. I grew up in Albania and moved to

[85:17] United States in my very early 20s for

[85:20] my master's degree here and you know the

[85:23] rest is history.

[85:25] >> So why uh for someone who's a concert

[85:28] pianist and uh musical arts uh uh doctor

[85:32] why why this beneath the silence talking

[85:35] and also why why are you on the victims

[85:37] of communism board? Tell me tell me

[85:39] about that journey of music but you're

[85:42] doing this at the same time. Let's talk

[85:43] about that.

[85:45] >> It all connects actually very

[85:48] very beautifully or very sadly in both.

[85:50] I'd have to say I'm a pianist because uh

[85:54] you know that is what I've done my whole

[85:56] life and that's what I love doing. At

[85:57] some point I did realize that I have

[86:00] done so much in life and I do have a

[86:02] voice and what I'm a big believer in is

[86:04] in human rights right because of

[86:07] memorial foundation it's a it's an

[86:09] organization that very well I found

[86:12] myself uh you know that connected so

[86:14] well with me and have the same beliefs

[86:17] that I do and so for that reason I

[86:20] started engaging with them and one day I

[86:22] was invited to join their board which

[86:24] for I was absolutely honored to do. And

[86:28] so that's where I am today. But my

[86:30] beginnings, as beautiful as are my life

[86:33] is right now, and I'm very thankful.

[86:36] There's not a single day that I don't

[86:37] thank God for what I have. Um, my

[86:41] starting my beginnings were very

[86:42] different.

[86:44] >> Well, tell me about that. Albania has

[86:46] been a country with quite a turbulent

[86:49] history.

[86:50] >> Uh, there there there may be not a more

[86:53] turbulent history.

[86:55] >> What' you say, my friend? It still

[86:57] continues.

[86:58] >> Absolutely. So, so talk about growing up

[87:00] in Albania. Talk about, you know, what

[87:03] what did you learn uh about, you know,

[87:06] communism and growing up in Albania?

[87:09] >> Well, growing up in Albania, I have to

[87:12] say that I I didn't know any better. So,

[87:16] when uh no opportunities are given to

[87:18] you, you just you just believe that the

[87:21] whole world is this way. It's just like

[87:23] this. And um I grew up in a country that

[87:27] was isolated. It was just one party.

[87:30] Everything was taken away from us. Uh

[87:34] my story begins way before me,

[87:36] generations before me. My uh

[87:39] grandfather, my uh father's father was a

[87:42] very successful uh businessman and uh he

[87:46] died in communist prison ones that they

[87:48] once communist party.

[87:50] >> Why why was why was why was he put in

[87:53] prison in the first place?

[87:55] He decided he uh believed that he should

[87:59] not give his properties, his wealth, his

[88:02] hard work uh earning to the government.

[88:05] And for that reason, they chose to kick

[88:09] him out of his homes, take everything.

[88:12] Many of our homes were destroyed for

[88:14] archaeological reasons. But the reality

[88:16] is that those homes were destroyed

[88:18] because they were hoping that they'll

[88:20] find money under you know underground

[88:23] gold at that you know during those years

[88:28] and my grandmother and her children her

[88:31] four children my father included were uh

[88:34] were thrown in the street.

[88:36] >> So that is where the suffering started

[88:38] from my father's side of the family. on

[88:41] my mother's side, uh my

[88:43] greatgrandfather,

[88:44] he was a successful, very successful uh

[88:48] attorney, mayor of the city that I grew

[88:51] up in and and as well as uh the founder

[88:55] of the f one of the founders of first

[88:56] Albanian Congress. He was assassinated

[88:59] in the street while walking with my

[89:01] grandfather and uh that's when the

[89:04] suffering started from my mother's side

[89:06] of the family. So both families have

[89:08] suffered quite a bit under the uh

[89:10] communist regime and that what people

[89:14] don't understand is that once that you

[89:17] know a family it's um targeted it does

[89:21] not end with just assassinating and

[89:23] taking away that member of the family.

[89:26] Cousins, family members are um targeted

[89:30] for generations. I've seen and uh the

[89:34] government makes the government makes

[89:36] sure that no these people don't have any

[89:39] future very little is given to them.

[89:42] >> So what effect did this have on you as a

[89:44] young lady before you came to America?

[89:47] Oh, it affect so much. I just did again

[89:49] I didn't know much better but uh as a

[89:52] child not for example I was a very

[89:55] hardworking

[89:57] student and I had good grades however I

[90:00] didn't didn't have any opportunities to

[90:02] compete into some state competitions or

[90:04] be part of other things [snorts] that

[90:06] were being organized in the in my city

[90:10] always

[90:11] you know we'll get you next time you

[90:14] will be there next time but I never had

[90:16] a chance at that point during Those

[90:18] times I did ask my family why why is

[90:21] this happening to me? I am studying

[90:23] hard. I'm practicing very hard. And they

[90:25] would say well you need to work harder.

[90:28] Of course the reality was very

[90:31] different.

[90:32] >> How did you how did you start playing

[90:33] the piano?

[90:35] >> Um

[90:37] so during communism in Albania and I

[90:41] assume as most communist countries you

[90:45] were not allowed to have private

[90:46] properties right. So no cars, everything

[90:49] was owned by the government, no homes.

[90:51] So we at some point my grandmother's uh

[90:55] one of her brothers would always say

[90:57] that Alita is going to be a pianist just

[90:59] like my daughter. His daughter was a

[91:01] pianist. And so my parents said, "Okay,

[91:04] why don't we have her apply at the only

[91:06] music school that was in my city? You

[91:09] had to get uh to that music school

[91:11] through a competition." So or an

[91:13] audition. So I went through this

[91:15] audition even though I still did not

[91:17] have the opportunity to touch a keyboard

[91:20] a key in the piano and you know I just

[91:23] my mom would take me to the music

[91:25] school. I'd hear the sound of the piano

[91:27] and sometimes teachers would play chords

[91:29] for me or students will play chords for

[91:31] me because that was part of the audition

[91:33] singing the chords and recognizing them.

[91:36] And so yeah, that's what I did as my

[91:39] parents tried really hard for me to

[91:41] catch some sounds here and there of

[91:43] music and then uh I I auditioned to only

[91:47] become a violin student to be accepted

[91:50] as a violin student out of nowhere even

[91:52] though I never thought that you know I

[91:55] never wanted to study violin but that's

[91:58] what the government decided for me.

[92:00] >> How did you how did you how did you jump

[92:01] over to piano from violin? I did not

[92:04] like it at all and I did not go want to

[92:06] go to the lessons as a you know I guess

[92:08] I had my um I had a pretty sad mind at a

[92:14] very young age and so I uh one day I was

[92:18] sitting actually outside of the

[92:20] classroom on the floor and one of the

[92:22] piano teachers she said what are you

[92:24] doing here I said well I don't know I

[92:27] have violin lesson but I just don't know

[92:29] I don't get it I don't like it and so

[92:32] she said let's just take you to piano.

[92:33] Lets me see what you're going to do in

[92:35] piano. And then the rest is history. Um

[92:39] they somehow talked to one another and

[92:41] they decided that I will be a piano

[92:43] student. It takes them it's much harder

[92:45] to kick you out of the school once that

[92:48] you are in that school. Does it make

[92:50] sense? Because it uh uh it's all

[92:52] government. So they have to go through

[92:53] certain rules. And for me to end up in a

[92:56] public school out of nowhere in the

[92:57] middle of semester would be quite an

[92:59] adjustment. So, did you have a did you

[93:01] have a natural talent to play piano that

[93:03] you didn't know you had?

[93:05] >> I don't think so. I don't know. To this

[93:08] day, I still don't know. I do believe

[93:10] that you work to uh you have to work

[93:12] very hard. I do have to share also that

[93:15] once that I was uh started studying

[93:17] piano, a practice uh room was not given

[93:21] to me. Of course, we didn't have a piano

[93:22] at home. We were not allowed to have a

[93:24] piano at home. there were not enough

[93:26] pianos uh to to begin with for uh for

[93:30] people like me. But so I was given a

[93:34] paper keyboard. My parents drew actually

[93:36] the paper keyboard and that's why I had

[93:38] to practice the first year of the

[93:39] school.

[93:40] >> Wow. Uh so in 2003 you come to America

[93:45] and you land at Balor University in

[93:47] Texas.

[93:48] >> So explain how the hell did you end up

[93:51] from Albania to Balor in Texas? How did

[93:54] that happen?

[93:55] >> Um, [gasps]

[93:58] everyone asks me that question and then

[93:59] they ask if it was a culture shock and

[94:02] um, I can explain all that, but I was I

[94:05] graduated from the University of Music

[94:07] in Albania. Now, communism went down and

[94:10] I was able to, you know, to attend

[94:12] college there. And once that I

[94:15] graduated, the head of the piano

[94:16] department uh asked if I wanted to

[94:19] continue working at university at that

[94:21] time, which I was thrilled to do. But

[94:24] she also asked that I uh work for a few

[94:27] workshops, master classes at the

[94:28] University of Music in Vienna, which I

[94:31] actually won that summer. So once that I

[94:34] went to the University of Music in

[94:36] Vienna, which is another dream come true

[94:38] for was another dream come true for me.

[94:40] One of the professors there asked if I

[94:42] want to come to Baylor. So I said,

[94:45] "Sure, why not? I love America. I've

[94:47] heard so much about America and I'd love

[94:50] to be there." And yeah, I came very

[94:53] quickly to study and work at Baylor

[94:56] University. And uh it it was a culture

[94:59] shock overall, but a beautiful one. So

[95:02] the timing of your book is very

[95:04] interesting where you have in the United

[95:06] States of America and you came she just

[95:08] to let you know she came to Balor in

[95:10] 2003 so she's been here for 23 years.

[95:13] Um, tell me about So, we watch there's

[95:16] this we have this thing going on in the

[95:18] Democrat party called the Democrat

[95:20] Socialists of America, right? And

[95:24] they're and it's kind of like they're

[95:26] they're pining for the old days of

[95:28] communism in other countries. Like, this

[95:30] is the way to go. We have this clown

[95:33] mayor in New York, Mom Donnie, who's

[95:36] some sort of Marxist Islamist something.

[95:40] So, as a lady, as a young lady who uh

[95:44] came, you know, you struggled, your

[95:46] family had struggles in Albania under

[95:48] communism, you come to the great country

[95:50] of America. We just had the World Cup

[95:53] where all these people from Europe are

[95:54] like, man, the freedom in America is

[95:56] amazing. And now we have Americans who

[96:00] seem to have a weird tie with some

[96:01] Islamic kind of thing coming out saying

[96:04] Democrat socialism. What what does Alita

[96:07] say when she sees these people running

[96:09] around saying, "I'm a Democrat

[96:11] socialist."

[96:15] >> They just have no idea. Sorry, I'm sad

[96:17] to say that. But this this younger

[96:20] generation has not been uh sadly has not

[96:23] been educated enough and well about the

[96:25] beauty of freedom and the beauty of you

[96:27] know uh what what we have in this

[96:30] country. For me, for someone like me, I

[96:33] believe that it was very important that

[96:35] I share my experience in communist

[96:37] Albania and then moving on to a

[96:39] democratic and to the capitalist America

[96:43] that you can be yourself here. You can

[96:46] be whoever you want to. That is

[96:48] something that it's not given in other

[96:49] countries. And

[96:52] if we continue in that directions, they

[96:55] will see for themselves and another

[96:57] revolution will change. I just hope and

[96:59] pray that we don't get to that point.

[97:01] When it comes to uh Muslim religion

[97:05] extremist, I I believe that it's very

[97:08] dangerous. However, I do have to say

[97:10] that in my opinion, my humble opinion,

[97:13] it's just a cover up for something

[97:15] larger. You know why? Because during

[97:17] communism, they do not allow religion at

[97:19] all.

[97:21] >> We were not.

[97:22] >> So, so that's the real question. when

[97:24] when we see they call it the red green

[97:26] axis of mus Islamists and and these

[97:29] socialists in America, right? Who who

[97:32] controls who in the end, right? And my

[97:34] take is extreme Islam will always win

[97:37] out in a fight with socialism,

[97:41] >> right?

[97:42] >> I think they're supporting each other

[97:43] for a greater cause.

[97:45] >> Yep.

[97:45] >> That's what believe is. However, um

[97:50] the red socialists are trying to find a

[97:53] way to you know to to gain more I would

[97:56] say more audience but to gain more

[97:57] people in their to bring more people in

[97:59] their you know in their direction. It's

[98:01] a way to brainwash people and it's um

[98:06] socialist

[98:09] liberals believe that and I have nothing

[98:12] against it other than the fact that you

[98:15] need to educate this generation with the

[98:16] beauty of freedom. Don't try to

[98:18] brainwash them. Liberals believe in

[98:21] equity in in equality.

[98:24] I am a big believer in treating everyone

[98:27] equally. However, I'm also a big

[98:30] believer that you need to work very hard

[98:32] for what you for what you achieve and

[98:34] what you gain. I am more than happy to

[98:37] give, donate and you know help people

[98:40] however it's their duty to make it on

[98:43] their own and to succeed and uh

[98:47] the younger generation believes that

[98:48] they can make it w without any work and

[98:51] that is just a brainwash and that is

[98:53] just a way for uh for you know for the

[98:56] socialists for the communists to come to

[98:58] our door and you know brainwash this

[99:01] young young children young or this

[99:03] younger generation I would say because

[99:05] not only children, college students uh

[99:08] think the same way.

[99:10] >> When you uh choose a title for a book,

[99:14] it's sometimes a very challenging thing,

[99:16] right? Because you're supposed to come

[99:18] up with a title of a book that's going

[99:19] to grab people's attention, but then

[99:22] also kind of encapsulates the book in

[99:25] just a few words. So, you went with

[99:27] beneath the silence. Explain the

[99:30] choosing of that title for the book. a

[99:32] leader.

[99:34] >> There were two titles that I very hardly

[99:36] uh you know I considered. One was very

[99:39] uh I'd call it bombastic which I didn't

[99:43] want to from Phoenix to eagle because I

[99:46] was you know and the other one was

[99:48] beneath the silence and I believe that

[99:50] represented this book really well

[99:52] beneath the silence because we were not

[99:54] allowed to speak about so many things.

[99:56] We were not allowed to speak about my

[99:58] grandparents. We were not allowed to

[99:59] speak about my great-grandfather. I

[100:01] didn't know his name until communism

[100:03] went down. We were not allowed to speak

[100:06] for not having anything at home, you

[100:08] know, not having uh fruits in the in the

[100:10] stores. So everything was done in

[100:12] silence and with a smile and so much

[100:15] love. That's what I had. And to only

[100:18] realize how much life has to offer when

[100:20] once that I came to this country and uh

[100:24] that's what I I decided to write this

[100:26] name. It reminded me of and I placed the

[100:28] piano because it reminded me when I was

[100:31] playing in silence and imagine concert

[100:34] halls. Of course, I didn't go as far as

[100:36] imagining a concert Carnegie Hall or

[100:40] other concert halls in Europe, but I

[100:42] imagine concert halls in Albania to that

[100:45] I was performing while I was playing in

[100:47] that p in that paper keyboard. So,

[100:50] everything was done in silence. That's

[100:52] how much most of my life started in

[100:54] silence. and now I'm free to speak and

[100:58] raise my voice and share my opinion and

[101:00] uh help other people as well.

[101:04] >> What is your favorite classical piece of

[101:06] music to perform on the piano? Elita,

[101:09] what's your favorite?

[101:09] >> Oh, there's so many. There's so many.

[101:11] >> Give me give me your top two or three.

[101:14] >> Well, I would say composers. Beethoven

[101:16] is for sure I I love performing

[101:18] Beethoven and then WC. It's to me uh

[101:22] performing WC is just uh another another

[101:25] level. It feels like you are up in the

[101:28] sky dreaming and and making everything

[101:31] possible. And Beethoven when it's more

[101:33] grounded and heavy.

[101:35] >> Tell me about a piece of classical music

[101:38] that classical pianists are expected to

[101:41] play a lot, but you don't really dig it

[101:42] that much. What's cuz I know ballet

[101:45] people are sick of doing the Nutcracker,

[101:46] but what's what's a piece what's a piece

[101:49] for you that you know that you see that

[101:51] you're expected to play but you're like

[101:53] uh not this one again?

[101:56] >> Well, Romanov three concert third

[101:58] conerto it's it's a piece that they say

[102:00] oh have you played that piece? No. And I

[102:02] have no desire of learning it. It's for

[102:04] such big hand and I cannot [laughter]

[102:08] can achieve that. I I can I can play it,

[102:11] but it would not be as good as a male

[102:14] pianist that has big hands and so much

[102:16] strength. So, uh I would say no. I I I'm

[102:20] not going to.

[102:21] >> Who are pianist keyboardists that Alita

[102:25] likes to listen to and admires?

[102:29] >> Oh, there are so many I can, but I when

[102:31] I was in high school and college, I'd

[102:34] listen a lot to Rubenstein. listen to

[102:37] his music the way that he performed and

[102:40] I tried to mimic him or you know uh

[102:43] perform the same way that he would

[102:44] perform. He was to me one of the you

[102:48] know inspirations the biggest

[102:49] inspirations to where I am today.

[102:52] >> What's a non Who are some non-class

[102:54] musical artists that Alita likes?

[102:58] >> Uh I listen to uh I listen pretty much

[103:01] to everything. I don't have a favorite

[103:03] and yeah I really don't. There are some

[103:07] Italian artists and that I like to

[103:10] listen to their music. Cloud Belleone

[103:12] and so on but uh I mean I like Lady

[103:16] Gaga. I like several but nothing in

[103:19] particular honestly.

[103:20] >> Well, you're in Texas. Where are you at

[103:22] on country music?

[103:24] >> Oh, don't ask too much. [laughter] Keep

[103:27] I like music but that's how far I go.

[103:31] >> [laughter]

[103:32] >> And um what was my I I had one last

[103:35] question for Oh, are there is there any

[103:37] good Albanian food in Texas?

[103:40] >> There are a lot of Italian restaurants

[103:42] are actually owned by Albanians here in

[103:44] Texas. It's amazing.

[103:46] >> But uh I prefer the food that my mother

[103:49] cooks here and my family does as well,

[103:51] my husband and my kids. So yeah, I

[103:53] haven't found any Albanian typical

[103:55] Albania restaurant here in in Texas.

[103:58] >> So just educate me and then we'll we'll

[103:59] I'll let you go. Um, what is an example

[104:02] of a really awesome Alba? Like, if

[104:04] you're going to say, "Mom, what's a cool

[104:07] what's a really amazing Albanian dish

[104:09] that mom would make?" What would you ask

[104:11] her to make?

[104:12] >> Anything that involves um lamb.

[104:16] >> Okay. Very nice.

[104:18] >> So, long as we have lamb uh in the meal,

[104:21] it's it's perfect.

[104:23] >> A lot of lamb getting eaten in the

[104:24] Balkans.

[104:26] >> Yes. And my family loves it as well,

[104:28] believe it or not. Alita, where do we

[104:30] where do we get this book? Beneath the

[104:32] silence. Where do we buy this thing?

[104:34] >> Anywhere where books are sold. On

[104:35] Amazon, Barnes & Noble, anywhere. As

[104:39] long as you want to buy the book, you

[104:41] can just go on Amazon and pre-ordered

[104:43] it. Now, uh launch date of the book is

[104:46] uh November 3rd. And hopefully with the

[104:49] hope that the book becomes a bestseller,

[104:51] I appreciate everyone's support in

[104:53] purchasing the book.

[104:54] >> Well played. Uh Alita, great talking

[104:56] with you today. Best of luck with the

[104:57] book and uh keep on playing.

[105:00] >> Thank you, Chris. Thanks for having me.

[105:02] >> All right, my friend. You take care. Dr.

[105:04] Alita Doli, Beneath the Silence. Big

[105:07] Wednesdays rolling on. Uh Bruce and Eber

[105:10] and uh Bruce is going to explain how the

[105:13] Dodgers are going to get out of a 20

[105:15] hole to the Milwaukee Brewers. Uh we

[105:17] have Warren Peterson and then he's got a

[105:20] wonderful author about doom scrolling on

[105:23] your phone. You guys do it. You know you

[105:25] do it. Uh, Penelopey, the way she shares

[105:27] is compelling. I wish she could go and

[105:30] speak to children about what communism

[105:31] is. We need to hear more firsthand

[105:34] experiences. I will be getting her book

[105:36] and reading it to my kids. Well played,

[105:38] Penelopey. Big week. So, uh, big

[105:41] Wednesday rolls on. Then Thursday, I

[105:45] will not be here tomorrow morning. Ted

[105:46] Maxwell and Shelley Kaiser filling in

[105:48] for me. They have Assam Raheemian who's

[105:51] going to be live videoing in from

[105:53] Washington DC followed by Schwikert

[105:56] followed by John Winchester. Friday Mark

[105:59] will be here doing movies and then

[106:01] Saturday we will be doing a live remote

[106:04] from 9 to 11 at the Morirana pumpkin

[106:06] patch

[106:07] and uh surprise guest stars. Uh we're

[106:11] going to have a food we're going to have

[106:12] a food Saturday with Clint about all the

[106:15] good things that they're baking and

[106:16] cooking at the pumpkin patch. And um

[106:20] it's it's going to be a hoot and a

[106:21] holler and uh might be a little breezy

[106:23] on uh Saturday, but we will we will

[106:26] adjust and adapt as Gunny Highway said

[106:28] in uh Heartbreak Ridge. So big Wednesday

[106:32] rolling in next with Bruce. He's sitting

[106:34] there right now. He is doing uh he's

[106:37] doing squat thrusts on the floor right

[106:40] now. Getting into getting into getting

[106:43] into podcasting shape here. So thanks

[106:46] for everything. Thanks to Alita, thanks

[106:48] to Khan Davis, and again, um, pray for

[106:52] Tucson, man. But again, you didn't get

[106:54] on the top 50 rat cities, so you got

[106:56] that going for you. See you tomorrow.

[106:58] Live the dream media.