
Jack Atherton
Cincinnati TV news anchor (FOX19 WXIX 1993–2008, WLWT 2009–2012, later WKEF-WRGT Dayton) and 55KRC commentator hosting "Big Picture with Jack Atherton."
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55KRC Wednesday Show - Ken Kober, Jack Atherton, AFP, Robert Sprague, Judge Napolitano
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Brian ThomasHOST
Love having you on the show, and I sure appreciate your willingness to join us every week.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Why are so many kids voting Democrat? And I mean kids of all ages, from arrested adolescents to senile flower children of the 60s.

Jack AthertonGUEST
In Kidspeak, Mohammed El-Sayed is lit for socialists who love torching cities from Minneapolis and Portland to now Paris and Milan.

Jack AthertonGUEST
James Tallarico with his two-week mystery flu is sick for kids who love skipping work.
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Brian ThomasHOST
And I really believe it's largely to blame in the education, i.e. indoctrination camps that we all send our children to.
Are Democrats Cool? - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Brian ThomasHOST
Love having you on the show, and I sure appreciate your willingness to join us every week.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Why are so many kids voting Democrat? And I mean kids of all ages, from arrested adolescents to senile flower children of the 60s.

Jack AthertonGUEST
In Kidspeak, Mohammed El-Sayed is lit for socialists who love torching cities from Minneapolis and Portland to now Paris and Milan.

Jack AthertonGUEST
James Tallarico with his two-week mystery flu is sick for kids who love skipping work.
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Brian ThomasHOST
And I really believe it's largely to blame in the education, i.e. indoctrination camps that we all send our children to.
Are Democrats Cool? - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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0:16BrianHOST
Love having you on the show, and I sure appreciate your willingness to join us every week.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Why are so many kids voting Democrat? And I mean kids of all ages, from arrested adolescents to senile flower children of the 60s.

Jack AthertonGUEST
In Kidspeak, Mohammed El-Sayed is lit for socialists who love torching cities from Minneapolis and Portland to now Paris and Milan.

Jack AthertonGUEST
James Tallarico with his two-week mystery flu is sick for kids who love skipping work.
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And I really believe it's largely to blame in the education, i.e. indoctrination camps that we all send our children to.
55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Sherry Poland, Jonathan Pearson, Judge Napolitano, Josh Gerth
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Jack AthertonGUEST
... across the board to stimulate not the redistribution of wealth, but growth, setting an example for Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

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The big change in Democrat politics came when Lyndon Johnson launched his war on poverty that condemned generation after generation of America's poor to dependence on big government welfare.

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Thanks to Donald Trump's growth policy, poverty is now at the lowest recorded level ever.

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Establishment Republicans, breaking with Eisenhower and Reagan, began calling for open borders in a bid for cheap menial labor.
Trump's Tragic Flaw - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Jack AthertonGUEST
In the run-up to these midterms, we've talked about how the Democrat Party, including once moderate leaders more or less like Chuck Schumer, have sold out to socialists and radical Islamists in their thirst for power.

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Socialism is the current term for top-down authoritarian government, what used to be called monarchy or dictatorship.

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Contrast that with the unique genius of America, bottom-up government, God-given individual rights secured by limited government.

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That's what the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution are all about.

Jack AthertonGUEST
But today, let's focus on the elephant in the room, the elephant who will dominate every room until he stomps off the scene, Donald John Trump.
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Trump's Tragic Flaw - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Jack AthertonGUEST
In the run-up to these midterms, we've talked about how the Democrat Party, including once moderate leaders more or less like Chuck Schumer, have sold out to socialists and radical Islamists in their thirst for power.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Socialism is the current term for top-down authoritarian government, what used to be called monarchy or dictatorship.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Contrast that with the unique genius of America, bottom-up government, God-given individual rights secured by limited government.

Jack AthertonGUEST
That's what the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution are all about.

Jack AthertonGUEST
But today, let's focus on the elephant in the room, the elephant who will dominate every room until he stomps off the scene, Donald John Trump.
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The Big Picture with Jack Atherton 10/7/2026
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Jack AthertonGUEST
It does, buddy, and, uh, and I'm gonna try to persuade people of exactly that.

Jack AthertonGUEST
We assume that what's ha- happened before was bound to happen, that history was inevitable.
55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Josh Gerth, Judge Napolitano, Ken Kober
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I don't know if they had hair gel back then, but two Roman plutocrats, rich guys, backed a young guy as glamorous as Gavin Newsom, Julius Caesar.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Caesar used their money to buy the support of poor Romans by offering free food and entertainment, bread and circuses.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Then, years later, after screwing around with Cleopatra, the man who would be king got knifed 23 times by his rivals.
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Brian ThomasHOST
These are all kinds of things that you and I were both taught every day regularly in school, but it's not there anymore.
Rome - From Republic to Dictatorship - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Jack AthertonGUEST
But two Roman plutocrats, rich guys, backed a young guy as glamorous as Gavin Newsom, Julius Caesar.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Caesar used their money to buy the support of poor Romans by offering free food and entertainment, bread and circuses.
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Brian ThomasHOST
These are all kinds of things that you and I were both taught every day, regularly in school, but it's not there anymore.
Rome - From Republic to Dictatorship - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Maybe this does

Jack AthertonGUEST
But two Roman plutocrats, rich guys, backed a young guy as glamorous as Gavin Newsom, Julius Caesar.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Caesar used their money to buy the support of poor Romans by offering free food and entertainment, bread and circuses.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Years later, after screwing around with Cleopatra, the man who would be king got knifed 23 times by his rivals.
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These are all kinds of things that you and I were both taught every day, regularly in school, but it's not there anymore.
55KRC Wednesday Show - Ken Kober, Jack Atherton, AFP, Judge Napolitano
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In about six weeks, Ramaswamy is going to be elected governor of the great state of Ohio.

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He wants to slash our confiscatory property taxes and phase out the state income tax.

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And if a vacant are too often useless, GOP lawmakers actually follow through.
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Brian ThomasHOST
Maybe that's why we've been such a great magnet for humanity in this country, the freedoms the freedom to enjoy and choose our own self-destiny, Jack.
Vivek's Ancestry - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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In about six weeks, Ramaswamy is going to be elected governor of the great state of Ohio.

Jack AthertonGUEST
He wants to slash our confiscatory property taxes and phase out the state income tax.
Vivek's Ancestry - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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get older, we

Jack AthertonGUEST
In about six weeks, Ramaswamy is going to be elected governor of the great state of Ohio.

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He wants to slash our confiscatory property taxes and phase out the state income tax.
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yeah
55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Judge Napolitano
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Jack AthertonGUEST
So Reagan said to himself, "Disarmament would mean suicide." He told Gorbachev instead, "Thanks, but no thanks," and ramped up medium-range missiles in Europe and what critics derisively called Star Wars in outer space.

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And after 69 years of terrorizing the world, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, largely because it could not keep up with the free world economically, militarily, and technologically.

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Some of you must be asking, "To, quote, win against Red China, we're gonna let Hal the robot kill us all?" Well, to quote Joe Biden, "I'm not saying that." I am saying we should not invite the federal government, either Democrats or Republicans, to control AI development, to pick winners and losers, very likely choosing the politicians' donors, and then try to compete with authoritarian regimes that refuse to be controlled, regimes like Red China that already are fomenting fear in America of AI to keep us from competing.

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We know China has a rich history of co-opting Democrats like Dianne Feinstein, Eric Swalwell, Tim Walz, and others too numerous to mention.
The REAL AI Threat - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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But someone I respected more than most anyone as a kid, my family doctor, said something very similar back then about another president, Ronald Reagan.

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The good doctor, and he really was good, thought America should unilaterally disarm, surrender our nuclear arsenal, and then hope that the Soviet Union would follow suit.

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President Reagan himself, during a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, came this close to disarming.

Jack AthertonGUEST
But then the Gipper apparently thought, well, Wait, am I nuts? Mikhail may be a nice guy, but there's also the Communist Party, the Politburo, the KGB, including that crazy young Lieutenant Colonel, what's his name? Oh yes, Vlad Putin.
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The REAL AI Threat - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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back jack other than i appreciate you letting me get that out of my uh system and welcome back to the morning show

Jack AthertonGUEST
well thanks for the heads up uh and thanks for having me back pal always enjoy it i have been leery of robots ever since 1968 when Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001 showed us Hal the robot cutting off an astronaut's oxygen.

Jack AthertonGUEST
I later suspected Kamala Harris must be a robot because without a teleprompter, she could only talk gibberish.

Jack AthertonGUEST
However, despite those concerns, I want to warn listeners not about robots, but about politicians and industry executives who want the federal government to regulate AI excessively while Red China and Russia push full speed ahead.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Sam Altman is Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI, the folks who gave us ChatGPT.
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Jack.
55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Congressman Massie
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Uh, one person I know who's made even worse predictions than I do, Karl Marx.

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Marx, a German immigrant to England, spent all of his time in the library of the British Museum.
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Karl Marx Football Picks - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Jack AthertonGUEST
Marx, a German immigrant to England, spent all of his time in the library of the British Museum.
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Karl Marx Football Picks - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Yeah, they're good on delivering disappointment.

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Marx, a German immigrant to England, spent all of his time in the library of the British Museum.
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It's never worked out, Jack.
55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, CCVS, Susan Luken
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On this 250th anniversary of our independence, Democrats want to destroy America by scrapping the Constitution.

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To do that, they're using a kind of jujitsu, turning a basic principle of America against ourselves.

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I'm talking about federalism, the system that combines national and state governments.
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Protecting Federal Elections - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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Jack AthertonGUEST
On this 250th anniversary of our independence, Democrats want to destroy America by scrapping the Constitution.

Jack AthertonGUEST
To do that, they're using a kind of jujitsu, turning a basic principle of America against ourselves.

Jack AthertonGUEST
I'm talking about federalism, the system that combines national and state governments.
55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Wine, Judge Napolitano, Warbirds
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I know you don't drink much anyway, but now that the primaries are behind us, one of the biggest issues in November is going to be taxes.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Yet I'm going to defend the rich, at least the ones who earn their money honestly, because Democrats are now threatening to, quote, tax the hell out of the rich or to, quote, tax billionaires out of existence.
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Brian ThomasHOST
Um, I think that's the, the, the existential crisis that the Democrats and probably Republicans will use to justify a much higher income tax for, Oh, I don't know, maybe Jack, the, literally trillions and trillions of dollars out there in senior 401k accounts you never know what the tax rate's going to be until you pull the money out and they could it could be going back to the 1970s brother 70 to 90 if they decide it that's certainly possible oh my god we are going we've spent ourselves into a an oblivion that might wipe out the fiat currency we're coming for your 401ks
Real Tax Reform - Big Picture with Jack Atherton
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His brother Chico somehow represents a singer who should be making a lot of money.

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But Groucho offers to pay him peanuts and then adds insult to injury by noting that the singer will also have to pay taxes, federal tax, state tax, city tax, and don't forget the sewer tax.

Jack AthertonGUEST
So Chico asks, how much money can this guy actually take home? Well, Groucho says, I think if he doesn't sing too often, he can break even.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Depression audiences understandably howled with glee because they were suffering and they loved seeing the rich get soaked.

Jack AthertonGUEST
But even when it was talent and discipline that made them rich, they still wanted to take their money, even if the rich were great inventors who set to employ thousands of out-of-work Americans by improving everyone's lives.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Socialists then and now want to soak the rich, even if by seizing their assets.
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Geez.
55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Todd Starnes, Judge Napolitano
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Even if it means this week you finally lose your FCC license, because we're going to talk about it.

Jack AthertonGUEST
All to show that the things we most despise about Marxist politics bubble up from Marxist pop culture.

Jack AthertonGUEST
Now, I know these may be the least popular segments we do, Brian, because it's not just Marxists.
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