I was hoping it was going to be Les Nessman at WKRP but it turned out even better. Vena Jones-Cox is a Cincinnati based leader in real estate — well, a Real Estate Goddess. I’m thinking she might well have earned the title offering her own training courses, critiques of real estate education, and, yes, a radio show. She’s also very active in the Ohio Real Estate Investment Association (OREIA), an organization that, among other things, promotes the defense of property and business rights and the real estate community. Jones-Cox invited me to come on her show live to talk about the issues facing the rental property business that I most recently wrote about at Forbes (“Housing Is A Right!” Means An End To Private Rentals). I’ve never thought of myself as an advocate for private property rights. I don’t much like the word “rights” because of the tendency people have of associating the term with “God given rights” or what is typically call natural rights theory. I’m actually a Burkean. But what Jones-Cox and I share with many others is a growing awareness that there is an effort, however incoherent it may be today, to seize private rental properties via incremental changes to local and state laws. Take a listen. And no turkey jokes please.