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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Honor Flight · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 5.05 at 55KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Soon they hope we will Sugar use a vacation.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the dude, man.
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  Speaker 2: I am Brian Thomas, not the dude. And happy Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Try to make it so anyway. Last day of summer,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, right? Kind of fall tomorrow. Summer solstice. And
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  Speaker 2: appreciate everyone wishing me happy birthday on Facebook. People get
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  Speaker 2: up really early. I was shocked. Pulled up my Facebook
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  Speaker 2: and kind of like, oh, my God. And people up
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  Speaker 2: at 2 o'clock in the morning wishing me happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks to each and every one of you. I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I
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  Speaker 2: certainly did. And on that note, thank you to my family.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody showed up at the house yesterday. And what a wonderful,
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  Speaker 2: wonderful meal it was. Got the kids there. Mom was there.
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  Speaker 2: My wife made an amazing, amazing carrot spice cake with
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  Speaker 2: cream cheese dressing. Three layers. Oh, my God. Decadent. So
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  Speaker 2: it was wonderful. Thanks, Mom, for the slaw. Thanks to
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  Speaker 2: my daughter for the beautiful macaroni and cheese. Super mac
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  Speaker 2: and cheese that was. And, of course, to me for
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  Speaker 2: the ribs I made. Really good ribs, too, by the way. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 2: I figured out a new way to cook ribs, and
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  Speaker 2: it worked out really well. So anyway, that was my weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope you had an equally good one. And
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  Speaker 2: if you did, you are a happy person waking up
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  Speaker 2: on a Monday in spite of the fact that it
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  Speaker 2: is Monday. Feel free to call 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Now on
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  Speaker 2: 550 on AT & T phones, it being Monday, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Smederman is going to join the 55K to see
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  Speaker 2: Morning Show. And we will talk with him at 720.
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  Speaker 2: Not quite sure what he wants to talk about. I
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  Speaker 2: never really do know. Maybe it's the streetcar shutdown. Strecker,
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  Speaker 2: my executive producer, Joe Strecker, and good to see him
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  Speaker 2: in there. The article that was laying right here in
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  Speaker 2: front and center when I got in, headline, traffic and
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  Speaker 2: emergency runs blocked Cincinnati streetcar for 110 hours. All the
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  Speaker 2: stats about how many people blockages there were, what it
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  Speaker 2: amounts to. They have a blockage log and it is
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  Speaker 2: a very close tracker of any delays. Like every delay
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  Speaker 2: over two minutes is tracked. And we've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of delays so far.
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  Speaker 1: 25 per day.
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  Speaker 2: Believe that or not. 970 delays through September 16th, just
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  Speaker 2: of this calendar year, the connector, aka the streetcar, stood
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  Speaker 2: still for 6,631 minutes, about 25 a day on the
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  Speaker 2: 3.6 mile loop. So anyway, it's a real problem because
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  Speaker 2: it's emergency vehicles and you can't tow an ambulance out
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  Speaker 2: of the way, but it's also stalled out buses and
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  Speaker 2: delivery trucks and cars stalled on the streets, etc., etc.
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  Speaker 4: etc.
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  Speaker 2: So Pretty funny. I don't know if Christopher is going
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  Speaker 2: to address that one or not, but it's something we
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  Speaker 2: can talk about. Something maybe you want to chime in on.
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  Speaker 2: That would be fine with me. And I'm getting props
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  Speaker 2: to Kim Strauss over at the Wall Street Journal. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about this election. Man, it's so close. Man, it's
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  Speaker 2: coming at us like a freight train. And I am
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  Speaker 2: worried about the direction of this country. And given the
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  Speaker 2: options we've got, Republicans, and a lot of Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: distancing themselves from Trump of late. And, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: good reason. You can say what you want about Trump's
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  Speaker 2: banning of certain news outlets like CNN, MSN Now, and
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  Speaker 2: Politico taking away their press privileges because they don't report
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  Speaker 2: favorably about Donald Trump. I guess I have to say
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  Speaker 2: as a First Amendment advocate and believer, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to read Politico, MSNBC, or MS Now as it's called now.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to read what CNN writes, but I
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  Speaker 2: encourage you to do it and contrast the reporting there
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  Speaker 2: with reporting from the likes of Fox or Breitbart or
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  Speaker 2: any of the other conservative organizations that are out there.
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  Speaker 2: There are a whole bunch of them. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anyone is deserving of praise all the time. But Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump keeps saying it's fake news, it's fake news, it's
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  Speaker 2: fake news. And I wish if he was elaborating on this,
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  Speaker 2: he would provide specific examples when he did it. And
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  Speaker 2: we used to ask about this. I am banning CNN, MSNOW,
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  Speaker 2: and Politico from the White House as a result of
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  Speaker 2: their constant reporting fake news. All in caps, exclamation point.
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  Speaker 2: Asked about the statement, why he's doing this. Because they're
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  Speaker 2: fake news. You get so tired of reading and seeing
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  Speaker 2: fake news. When you look at CNN, it's just fake.
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  Speaker 2: That's why their ratings are no good. When you look
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  Speaker 2: at MS Now, it's fake. Well, that's why their ratings
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  Speaker 2: are no good. Yeah, don't read it. And when you
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  Speaker 2: look at Politico, the stories they wrote are fake. So
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  Speaker 2: there's just a lot of news that maybe we others
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  Speaker 2: to join them and maybe they can get better. But
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  Speaker 2: our country has to have honest news. Fine. But considering
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  Speaker 2: the echo chamber most of us live in, of course,
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  Speaker 2: this will provide additional fodder for the people who don't
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  Speaker 2: like Trump and Trump derangement syndrome, which leads me over
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  Speaker 2: to Kim Strauss's observation from just a few days ago
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  Speaker 2: about what the Republicans maybe need to do in reminding
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  Speaker 2: the general public about what the Democrats are all about,
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  Speaker 2: which is literally nothing but Trump derangement syndrome. None of
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  Speaker 2: the day, another missed opportunity, she writes, for Republicans to
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  Speaker 2: make their case. Past accomplishments aren't going to cut it.
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  Speaker 2: Vague fear-mongering about communists will only go so far. An
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  Speaker 2: obvious theme is going by the wayside, the choice between
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  Speaker 2: productive governance and burn-it-down obstructionism. Many House Democrats this week,
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  Speaker 2: he was referring to last week, voted against The late
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's Russia sanctions bill, it did
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  Speaker 2: pass 262 to 159. So there's quite a bit of
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  Speaker 2: bipartisanship in there. But she points out only 58 Democrats
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  Speaker 2: supported it, supposed to punish Putin by stripping him of
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  Speaker 2: the funds needed to continue his brutal war of aggression
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  Speaker 2: against Ukraine, where lots of people are dead. 152 Democrats
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  Speaker 2: voted to let Putin carry on with this. Only 58
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  Speaker 2: House Democrats voted in favor of the bill, whose co-author
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  Speaker 2: is Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, of course, a liberal Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: The bill passed in the Senate 86 to 11. It
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  Speaker 2: also included Republicans' concessions designed to attract bipartisan support, a
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  Speaker 2: bill that helps Ukraine. which Democrats insist is one of
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  Speaker 2: the party's top priorities, this is what's really kind of
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  Speaker 2: curious about it, because they are the party of the
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  Speaker 2: war over between Ukraine and Russia. When House Republicans stripped
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  Speaker 2: some of the Ukraine aid from a spending bill in 23,
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  Speaker 2: Chuckie Schumer railed against the move, calling it a gift
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  Speaker 2: to Putin. So what's changed since then among the Democrats?
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  Speaker 2: What now justifies Democrats' own gift to the Russian tyrant,
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  Speaker 2: she asks. What else? Donald Trump. Trump, any victory for
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  Speaker 2: Trump ultimately is the boil-down point here, is something that
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  Speaker 2: they cannot abide, regardless of how good it may be
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  Speaker 2: for us, regardless of how widespread bipartisan support might be
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  Speaker 2: for it. They can't give a win to Eva Orange, man.
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  Speaker 2: Eager to maintain a perfect opposition record, House Democrats conjured
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  Speaker 2: up the complaint that it would be too dangerous to
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  Speaker 2: allow the president the authority to impose tariffs on buyers
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  Speaker 2: of Russia's oil like China, an argument Senate Democrats said
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  Speaker 2: was silly. Democrats. Even House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries voted
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  Speaker 2: to kill the bill, and with seven Republicans voting no,
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  Speaker 2: it was the only courage Democrat rebels that allowed the
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  Speaker 2: House to pass it. Democrats' obstruction isn't new. We're in
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  Speaker 2: year 10 of Trump resistance, but the past 18 months.
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  Speaker 2: Really did mark the next level display of governance sabotage,
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  Speaker 2: all in the name of TDS. Democrats last year, remember
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  Speaker 2: all this? This is the thing, people don't pay attention
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  Speaker 2: while it's going on and now it comes time to vote.
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  Speaker 2: And you got to remember how bad things were under
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats and what caused them to do all the
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  Speaker 2: crazy stuff they did to us. The longest shutdown in
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  Speaker 2: government history, 43 days, Democrats did this. 675,000 federal employees
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  Speaker 2: were on furlough. Another 730,000 federal employees had to work
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  Speaker 2: without pay. The complaint? Republicans wouldn't continue paying a COVID-era
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  Speaker 2: subsidy that the Democrats themselves had designed to expire. Remember
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  Speaker 2: the tax credits? It was in the Democrats' own bill.
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  Speaker 2: It does expire right there in the language of it,
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  Speaker 2: and yet they shut the government down, accusing the evil
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  Speaker 2: Republicans of taking away health care. Only the near expiration
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  Speaker 2: of food assistance for 42 million Americans finally pushed them
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  Speaker 2: to release their federal hostage. Then they shut down the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security for a record-breaking 80 days, causing
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  Speaker 2: airport security delays, staffing strains, missed paychecks for people who
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  Speaker 2: protect our coast and our cyber networks and who manage
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  Speaker 2: disaster assistance. Shutdown only ended because the GOP creatively funded
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  Speaker 2: parts of DHS outside of regular appropriations. They had to
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  Speaker 2: get creative over the Democrats' obstructionism. Fortunately, they did. Over
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  Speaker 2: the past year, Democrats successfully tanked a vote to renew
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  Speaker 2: intelligence gathering. 702, the Foreign Intelligence Service Act. You know
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  Speaker 2: I'm no huge fan, but they're the ones who ultimately said, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to do this. They killed the annual
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  Speaker 2: defense authorizations bill the first time in 65 years Congress
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  Speaker 2: hasn't passed the bipartisan legislation. Note the word bipartisan in there.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: They blocked the bill to protect women and girls in sports.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that one? Thwarted legislation to prevent future shutdowns. Blocked
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  Speaker 2: the Save America Act, which would simply have required a
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  Speaker 2: voter ID, which 99% of people easily do and do
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  Speaker 2: not have a problem with. Again, bipartisan support among we.
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  Speaker 2: the people who elected these chowderheads. Nope, you can't have
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  Speaker 2: that even though you want it.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Trump derangement syndrome. Last week, Senate Democrats killed the
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  Speaker 2: Clarity Act, which would establish a regulatory framework for digital currencies.
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  Speaker 2: Voters and the media have fleeting political memories, but this
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  Speaker 2: recent history is worth recounting on the campaign trail. Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are right to call out the left's turn towards socialism,
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  Speaker 2: and better yet, spell out what those policies will mean
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  Speaker 2: for voters' lives, but the Democrats of the here and now,
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  Speaker 2: leaderless and rudderless, have already shown they have nothing to
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  Speaker 2: offer beyond gridlock. It's a message that can resonate with
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  Speaker 2: a huge number of voters who were disgusted by Washington's dysfunction,
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  Speaker 2: many of whom voted for Trump in the hope that
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  Speaker 2: an outsider could burst through the broken status quo. The
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  Speaker 2: GOP might make the obvious point that Democrats have no
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  Speaker 2: intention of fulfilling campaign promises to make things more affordable
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  Speaker 2: because they have no intention of working at all with
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  Speaker 2: the GOP White House. Again, it would require concession. It
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  Speaker 2: would require bending a little bit to reach some sort
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  Speaker 2: of solution that might benefit you and me. They don't
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  Speaker 2: care about that. The progressive left won't allow it. And
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  Speaker 2: it's clear from the House Democrats' abandonment of Ukraine, the
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  Speaker 2: prior vote, What activists want, they get, no matter how outrageous.
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  Speaker 2: A Democratic Congress would bring wild investigations and impeachment, not
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  Speaker 2: cheaper groceries. Yet, what are the Democrats going to do
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  Speaker 2: to make your groceries cheaper? I mean, go back to
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's campaign pledge to stop inflation on day one. Clearly,
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  Speaker 2: no human being can do that. So, collectively, Democrats, all
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  Speaker 2: of you together, rather than one person saying he's going
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  Speaker 2: to do it, what are you all going to do
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  Speaker 2: to lower the price? What are you all going to
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  Speaker 2: do to lower inflation? What's your game plan? Nothing. Evil
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  Speaker 2: orange man is what you get in response. This side-by-side
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  Speaker 2: would be far easier, of course, if Republicans had their
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  Speaker 2: own set of concrete promises, which they could point to
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  Speaker 2: as an at-risk from Democratic rule, but it would at
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  Speaker 2: least be a start to begin reminding voters of the
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  Speaker 2: past 18 months and pointing at that old truth. Past
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  Speaker 2: behavior is is the best indicator of future action. No
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  Speaker 2: recent Democratic past in any way resembles governance. I'll just interject.
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  Speaker 2: What it does resemble is the sole platform the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have to run on, the singular sole platform, which is
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  Speaker 2: that anything Donald Trump does is not worthy of supporting. Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: 518th.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Smoot on 720 Money Money with Brian James coming
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  Speaker 2: up at 8.05. Fed defying Trump and raising the interest rates.
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  Speaker 2: Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act. Warren Buffett is
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That's an amazing thing. Step down, retired, I guess. And
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  Speaker 2: what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, happy Monday. Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the show.
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  Speaker 4: Happy belated birthday, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: It's not belated. What do you mean belated? It's today.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know. It's today. You hit the nail
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  Speaker 2: on the head. If you wish me happy birthday, there's
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  Speaker 2: no need to stick the word belated in there. I
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  Speaker 2: am living it right now, Bobby. Two o'clock in the
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  Speaker 2: morning on the 21st of September was when I came
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  Speaker 2: into this earth.
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  Speaker 4: You have like a beautiful timing, my friend. How about
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  Speaker 4: diesel fuel? Do you want to know the truth about
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  Speaker 4: diesel fuel?
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  Speaker 2: We need more refineries. That's one conclusion I have reached.
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  Speaker 4: Diesel fuel is.
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  Speaker 4: Let me think of how to put it. Diesel fuel
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  Speaker 4: runs ships, trains, trucks. But the main thing, it fuels armies.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: That is the reason why it's so high. Petrodollars is
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  Speaker 4: the main reason. And number two, diesel fuel runs armies.
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  Speaker 4: They're stocking up. They're buying diesel fuel. That's why it's
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  Speaker 4: so high. I can tell you about petrodollars.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can say you know, and I might tend
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  Speaker 2: to believe you or not, as the case may be, Bobby. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people call me and tell me they get
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of inside information, never citing the source. And
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  Speaker 2: I tend to have a measured skepticism when I hear that, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: So it is not surprising to me that the American
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  Speaker 2: military would be buying up diesel fuel. So nothing new there.
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  Speaker 2: Are they stockpiling it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, they have been. China didn't buy any more
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  Speaker 4: because they didn't have any more space to put their
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  Speaker 4: tank farms. But the main thing is petrodollars. They do
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  Speaker 4: not want to operate under petrodollars anymore. That went ahead
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  Speaker 4: and expired two years ago. That 50-year agreement with Saudi
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  Speaker 4: Arabia ended two years ago. The crown prince was in
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  Speaker 4: the White House three weeks ago on the weekend without
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  Speaker 4: a fanfare. To discuss the issue, I can go into
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  Speaker 4: great detail about it, but the main reason is one thing, petrodollars.
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  Speaker 4: That ended, the 50-year agreement ended almost two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Meaning what for the price of diesel?
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  Speaker 4: Diesel fuel is high is because people are buying contracts
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  Speaker 4: on it now, big contracts.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Contracts and the price of which are all predicated on, well,
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  Speaker 2: impacts of things like wars and closures and disruptions and
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  Speaker 2: maybe refineries, a limited number of refineries and closures of refineries,
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  Speaker 2: which happen all the time, most notably when they're running
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  Speaker 2: at 100 percent production every single day. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: a multitude of factors that impact what the price of
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  Speaker 2: what a futures contract would yield.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: That's very true. We're not pulling in Canadian dirty crude
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  Speaker 4: right now. The dirty crude and everything on our refineries
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  Speaker 4: in the Gulf Coast all comes out of Venezuela. Most
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  Speaker 4: of our oil and everything in the U.S. is sweet crude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They can't process it.
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  Speaker 2: That is right.
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  Speaker 4: And that's one of the big problems.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can say petrodollars as a factor, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not the only factor impacting the price of diesel. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's true that's all i mean that's my only conclusion
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  Speaker 2: bobby you can throw it out there i don't know
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  Speaker 2: that it's the leading cause but then again i am
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  Speaker 2: not so tied in with the petrodollar and diesel fuel
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  Speaker 2: market realities on a day-to-day basis and the minutiae that
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  Speaker 2: goes into impacting them beyond just being able to acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: that there are a lot of risk factors involved in
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  Speaker 2: getting diesel around the world uh production supply chains wars
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  Speaker 2: famine pestilence we go on and on and on all
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  Speaker 2: of it will impact the price of diesel And there's
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  Speaker 2: another one that's factored in. I saw that the number
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  Speaker 2: of large crude-carrying ships is limited. The way that they're
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  Speaker 2: shipping oil out of the Strait and elsewhere in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East right now is causing a backup or rather
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  Speaker 2: a limited number of those ships to be available. Bottom
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  Speaker 2: line is the price of shipping the oil that makes
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  Speaker 2: it into a ship and goes out into the world
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  Speaker 2: has increased dramatically to the point where it's 25% increase
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  Speaker 2: on the barrel price. the shipping cost increases 25% over
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  Speaker 2: what the barrel is. And that is obviously impacting the
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  Speaker 2: price of all of it. Multitude of things. 526, thanks, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't call the over and under. What was it
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  Speaker 2: after the 2?
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  Speaker 3: 2.5?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, local stories coming up. Maybe Tom will call.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: 800-823-TALK. Member 55KRC. iheart. com. Ed, Vivek Ramaswamy on last week. Congressman
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  Speaker 2: Warren Davidson. We had, of course, Jack Windsor from the
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  Speaker 2: Hot Press Network. That was on a Friday. Plus everything else,
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  Speaker 2: including Tech Friday with Dave Hatter. Appointment, listening, heed his words.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones. Tom is back. Welcome back, Tom.
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  Speaker 2: Always good to hear from you, my friend.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, good morning. Happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's great. That's good for you. Now, that's the
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  Speaker 7: same Vivek that was born and raised.
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  Speaker 6: In Cincinnati, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Vivek, yes, and went to public schools K through
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  Speaker 2: 8 and ended up graduating. I think he was valedictorian
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  Speaker 2: at Xavier High School and a citizen of the United States,
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  Speaker 2: proud of being an Ohio native and was able to
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  Speaker 2: successfully navigate the difficult challenges it is to start a
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  Speaker 2: business in Ohio so he knows where the problems are
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  Speaker 2: and how to solve them. Wow, it sounds like a resume.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it is. It sounds like a pretty damn good
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  Speaker 7: resume for somebody to be in charge of a state
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  Speaker 7: as opposed to, what's her face? What does she do?
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  Speaker 2: I quit. I can't handle the challenge.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody likes to quit her. Leaving politics aside for just
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  Speaker 7: a few minutes, after some observations this weekend, I want
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  Speaker 7: to remind people who have children, your number one responsibility
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  Speaker 7: is obviously you've got to make sure your child is
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  Speaker 7: fed and can survive, but a very important responsibility is
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  Speaker 7: to make sure your child is acceptable when you take
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  Speaker 7: them out into the world. And what I mean by
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  Speaker 7: that is that They don't need to be acting like
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  Speaker 7: hellions and running around crazy and disturbing everybody around them.
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  Speaker 7: It's your responsibility to teach them how to interact with
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  Speaker 7: other people in the world and not be a nuisance.
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  Speaker 7: I think that parents lose sight of that, and they
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  Speaker 7: just figure, I'm going to take the kids with me,
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  Speaker 7: and it doesn't matter. how they behave and how they
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  Speaker 7: run around the restaurant and what kind of mess they
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  Speaker 7: leave for the server.
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  Speaker 2: Well, wait a second, Tom. Is it perhaps that less
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  Speaker 2: than they know that the child is being a nuisance
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  Speaker 2: and they don't care to do anything about it because
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  Speaker 2: it's such a pain in the ass to try, or
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  Speaker 2: that they themselves do not know what being a nuisance is?
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  Speaker 7: Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: That might be part of it.
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  Speaker 7: That's kind of where I'm going. So I had multiple
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: experiences with this over the weekend. One in particular, I
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: can't really give the lady too much crap because she
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: was outnumbered. This was a grandmother at Skyline Chili. She
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: had four grandkids, I think ranging from age from eight
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: or nine down to like two, and she was clearly outnumbered.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 7: Really, she did the best she could. But their parents
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  Speaker 7: clearly did not teach these kids how to behave. And
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: you dump them on grandma for the night. And, you know,
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  Speaker 7: it's difficult. So I just want to encourage people to,
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  Speaker 7: if you've got kids, teach them how to be respectful.
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  Speaker 7: Teach them how to, I mean, kids are going to fidget.
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  Speaker 7: They're going to be a little noisy. You know, whatever.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not expecting children to sit on their hands and
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  Speaker 7: not say a peep. But come on. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: it just, there's obviously a line that we cannot let
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  Speaker 7: our kids cross. That is your responsibility as a parent.
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  Speaker 7: It's also your responsibility as a parent to make sure
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  Speaker 7: you teach your children, don't vote Democrat. Have a great day, Brian.
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  Speaker 7: Happy birthday again.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks again, man. I appreciate that. I was wondering how
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get to your point. The point that
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you can just make regardless of context. It exists on
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  Speaker 2: its own. Real quick here. Covington, fight outside a Covington bar.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Now two men are hospitalized. Happened Friday night. Somebody was
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: stabbed out in the parking lot near Zazu's. Police said
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: a patron and an employee fought in the parking lot.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Both were seriously injured. About 11 p.m., apparently the patron
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: drove himself to Christ's Hospital, treated for life-threatening injuries. Doctor
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  Speaker 2: then transferred him to the UC Hospital, where he's still
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: waiting in the emergency room, laying around in the waiting room. Right,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Strecker? Both men now in stable condition. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: that isn't true. I just stuck that in there for
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  Speaker 2: Joe's benefit. Investigators still working to determine exactly what happened.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: No arrest or charges have been made. And we got
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: another one solved. A 44-year-old woman has been arrested and
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: charged in connection with a 2023 murder, which happened in Chivvy.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: According to the Chivvy Police Department, Tamika Steele, arrested in Joliet, Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: by Chivvy Police in conjunction with the Joliet Police Department.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: On Friday, Steele extradited him on Canada-faced charges related to
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the 2023 killing of another 44-year-old, Damian Canaday. Back in
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: November of 23, police showed up on Phoenix Avenue for
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: a shooting, got there, found Canaday shot multiple times in
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the driveway. Taken to Mercy West Hospital, he died from
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: his injuries. Police say witnesses reported that the suspect ambushed
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Canaday as he attempted to enter his home. If you
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: have any information about this guy's murder, though, they still
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: would love to hear from you. Chivvy Police can be
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  Speaker 2: reached at 513-661-2917. Stick around. Stack of Stupid coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Phone calls are always welcome. It is 536 55 KRC
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: It's dropped off every morning. Lee Mallon dropped it off.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: And it is raining out there now. He breaks it
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  Speaker 2: up into morning and then afternoon. I was just referring
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  Speaker 2: to the afternoon rain. But, yes, there's scattered showers and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: storms going on out there right now, which is why
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: we have a flood watch in effect until noon. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have no window here. I have no idea what's
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  Speaker 2: going on outside. And it wasn't raining on me when
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I came into the show. All right. From now on,
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  Speaker 2: I will read the morning rush followed by the afternoon
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: weather report. Anyhow, feel free to give me a call. Otherwise,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: probably one of the most challenging stories I have ever
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  Speaker 2: encountered in doing a stack of stupid and trying to
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  Speaker 2: comply with the FCC. Thank you, Joe Strecker. You did
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: this on purpose, didn't you? Let's try. From the smoking gun.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania woman who apparently has a son who is one
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  Speaker 2: of those predator catchers that goes out and looks for
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: perverts and pedophiles and all that. Well, that's her son. Headline,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: maybe this YouTube predator catcher should have been investigating his
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: own mom. Here we go. Shante Hochberg. She's 47. That's mom.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And yes, she does have a Pittsburgh Steelers shirt on,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Stracker.
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  Speaker 4: You are right.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Anyway, 47-year-old arrested on multiple charges in connection with an
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: incident that occurred at her home last month in Altoona.
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  Speaker 2: The victims, according to police, are 15, 16, and 17
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  Speaker 2: years old. Criminal complaint says that Hochberg invited the 15-year-old,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: he lives next door, as well as his friends into
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: her residence, whereupon she began twerking and dancing in a
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: sexual manner.
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  Speaker 3: What?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, it gets worse. At least those are direct words
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: from the police report. I'm going to have to dance
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: around that here in a second. After removing her top,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Hochberg put a choker around her neck. Police described that as, quote,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: a submissive bondage sex play item, close quote. Wearing only
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: red tights, Hochberg gave the juvenile lap dances, allegedly told
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  Speaker 2: the teens that she enjoyed being choked and directed them to, quote,
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  Speaker 2: grab and pull on, close quote, the device around her neck,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the aforementioned choker. The 15-year-old told the police that Hochberg
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: was grinding on us and putting her, and I'll substitute
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  Speaker 2: the word that's here, and just say breasts in our
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  Speaker 2: face and stuff. She also told the children to play
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  Speaker 2: with her. And here's a sub, hoo-ha. Boys also added
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: that she performed oral sex on them. The 17-year-old, police reported,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: advised he touched the defendant's hoo-ha, as well as some
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: other rather descriptive terms for what he did. And he
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: added that Hochberg just wanted to get, well, we'll just
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: sub in F word. According to the mom of the 15-year-old,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Hochberg had told the miners that this is going to
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: be the best day of your life, boys. You'll never
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: forget this. When confronted by the neighbor, Hochberg reportedly offered
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the defense of sorts. They was all in my house
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: trying to get there blank blanked. That's as best as
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I can do. Neighbors quoted Hochberg's 81-year-old mom saying, of
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: her daughter, when my daughter drinks alcohol, she does the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: most dumbest S-word in the world. Struggling with grammar over
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: there in that house, too, there, Joe, I note. Being
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: held in lieu of a $ 150, 000 bond on three felony
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and four misdemeanor counts scheduled for a September 23rd district
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: court preliminary hearing, so if you're in the area, feel
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: free to swing by. Hochberg's son... Shafiq Blake, 28, operates
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the Predators Catch PA, which has 50,000 subscribers on YouTube
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and posts videos of men who solicit minors for sexual activities. Gee,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I wonder where he got this idea. According to the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: criminal complaint, Blake reportedly told the 15-year-old victim's mom that
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Hochberg should go to jail. I think we can successfully
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  Speaker 2: and unequivocally and objectively label that family capital D dysfunctional.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: 545.
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  Speaker 2: Who can argue with that? Not to that degree, but
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: more stupid coming up or phone calls. I'll be right back. 55KRC,
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  Speaker 2: the talk station. The talk station. It is 549 and 55KRC,
• 28:36
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• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you can't listen live, get the podcast there. Get copies
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: of the books, like Bill O'Reilly's new book, Confronting America,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: which I found rather interesting and an easy read, that one.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Back over to The Stack is Stupid. We go to Florida,
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  Speaker 2: where there's a man behind bars on a felony domestic
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: battery charge for allegedly strangling his girlfriend. You know, there
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: are F-words and there are F-words, and you know one
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: of my least favorite F-words in the world, and one
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  Speaker 2: that I hate to even say out loud?
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  Speaker 4: Fart.
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  Speaker 2: Strangled his girlfriend after she, quote, asked him not to
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  Speaker 2: fart in bed.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: What?
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Close quote. Police say Anthony Gordon, Mr. Flatulence, 32, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the 45-year-old victim were in bed one morning earlier in
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the month when the Flatulence matter raised. Gordon allegedly called
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: the woman a B-word, prompting her to spit on him.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: There's a wonderful relationship going on here.
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  Speaker 4: Just walk away.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Gordon described as irate, grabbed the woman by the throat
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  Speaker 2: with two hands, pulled her off the bed and onto
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  Speaker 2: the floor. Victim told officers the choking lasted several seconds
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: and closed when she bit Gordon's finger. She didn't pull it, though, Joe.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: She bit it. There's the same result, maybe. I guess
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  Speaker 2: we'll find out. Women reported the incident to Largo Police,
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  Speaker 2: provided investigators with a recording during which the couple discussed
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the alleged battery. Quote, when the victim asked the defendant
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: why he choked her, according to the affidavit, Gordon, quote,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: made a comment about her spitting on him and said,
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  Speaker 2: that's what made me choke your dumb ass. Close quote.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Charged domestic battery by strangulation. Gordon being held in the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: county jail in lieu of a $ 10, 000 bond. Third degree
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: felony carries a maximum of five year sentence. Judges ordered him,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: of course, to have no contact with his girlfriend, who
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to presume now is ex-girlfriend.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Who knows?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, get him to hook up with a chick
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  Speaker 2: from Pittsburgh, Joe? Yeah, she was into choking, wasn't she?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Aren't you the matchmaker, Joe? Likes and dislikes. I like
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  Speaker 2: skinny skiing, going to bullfights on acid, and being choked violently.
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  Speaker 1: Kinky.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: And sex with 15-year-olds. Let's see here. I'll just start
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: off the way the smoking gun starts off, which is
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: where Joe found this one. The investigation started after a
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: 22-year-old man told police he, quote, was tired of having
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: sexual intercourse with his mother, close quote.
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  Speaker 5: There's no flag for us.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Amen, Joe. Domestic dispute last month resulted in the discovery
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: of a four-year incestuous relationship between Christina Clements, who's 46,
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  Speaker 2: and her son Shane. They're from Lakeland, Florida, a mobile
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: home in Lakeland, Florida. Where apparently Christina Clements has a
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: husband there named Terry. According to the arrest report, Shane
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: told the sheriff's deputies that the altercation started due to
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: his desire to stop these illegal illicit activities. I think
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: it's illegal anyway. Said the relationship began after he turned 18.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Gotta wait for that age of emancipation to sleep with
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: your son, you creep. Very explicit report notes that the
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: duo engaged in all sorts of sexual acts. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to elaborate on them again because the FCC is
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: listening to me. In a police interview, Shane said that
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: he did not grow up with Christina, but rekindled his
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: relationship with her once he turned 18 years old. Shane
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: said he was unaware that she was his biological mother
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: and asked her to have sex. While Christina, quote, said
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: no due to her being his mom, close quote, they
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: nonetheless began a sexual relationship. Christina reportedly told investigators that
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: the pair had sex on at least 100 separate occasions.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: In a recorded jail phone call, yes, they do record
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: your jail phone calls, inmates. You might want to keep
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: that in mind. Christina asked Shane if she wanted to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: stop doing what we do. adding that she intended to
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: delete all the evidence from her son's phone, also directing
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: him to recant a confession he made to her husband
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: of 10 years. Quote, but you need to tell Terry
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  Speaker 2: that you're a liar and you only said that because
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you were mad. Close quote. Both of them are locked
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: up in lieu of a $ 5, 000 bond on felony incest
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  Speaker 2: charges scheduled to be arraigned in the next couple of weeks. See,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: now step back from that and say, you know what?
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: My life may be a little dysfunctional, but that's a
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: pretty damn low bar. And you're not there, and you're
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: not in the stack of stupid. Just look for the
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: little things in life to try to put a smile
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: on your face on a Monday. Okay. Los Angeles, we
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: have a man arrested after allegedly pepper spraying another moviegoer
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: who was using a cell phone during a film at
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: the Burbank Theater. Burbank police officers showed up to the
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: AMC 16 theater five 30 in the afternoon, September 15th
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: report after a report that one of the paper patrons
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: had pepper sprayed another one inside the theater suspect 34
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: year old Matthew where became upset with another person who
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: was using the cell phone during the movie and sprayed
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: him with the pepper spray. Two other moviegoers reported experiencing irritation.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Of course, from the spray witness who was there said
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: the mayhem happened around 40 minutes into the movie. It's mayhem. Court,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: According to Joe Rodriguez, everything was normal and all of
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a sudden behind me I hear the sound of an
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: aerosol cannon. The guy just yells out, I just got
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: pepper sprayed. This guy just pepper sprayed me. He was
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: sitting in a row directly in front of the altercation.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: He saw Ware immediately run out of the theater. Three
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: other moviegoers appeared to chase him after locating him elsewhere.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: This Rodriguez guy said, watch Ware speak with the police
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and came away with the impression that the confrontation was
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: not an act of self-defense. No additional details about the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: condition of the patrons or what happened. Ware arrested, booked
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: into the Burbank County Jail in suspicion of misdemeanor battery,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: according to police. I don't know what movie they were walking, Joe.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Just the Burbank Theater AMC 16. What do you think?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: $ 30 a ticket? Didn't realize it was that expensive to
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: see a movie. Well, it is California, right? I'm sure
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: there's a green energy tax on there because, you know,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: it is 15 to watch one here. That's cheaper, though,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: to get in a beer at the PayCore Stadium. 556,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: 55 care city talk station. Plenty to talk about in
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: the 6 o'clock hour, including fraud, waste, and abuse. Yes,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: a topic dominating the news of late, and as well
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: it should. Those are your taxpayer dollars getting ripped off,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: and it's everywhere, folks. Every single day it just gets
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: worse and worse. That plus more. Don't go away. At KRC,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: the talk station, it's Monday, and a happy one to you,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: last day of summer. It's also the day we hear
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: from Christopher Smitherman, coming up at 7.20, the former vice
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: mayor of the city of Cincinnati with what we call
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the Smithervent, and not sure what he's going to talk about.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Then again, we don't talk ahead of time to know
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: what he's going to talk about. Maybe he will mention
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: the statistics from the streetcar closures. reminding me of one
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: of the things that all of us observed before the
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: streetcar was built when they were still arguing over it. Look,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: why don't you just have buses that look like streetcars?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: If it's got to look like a streetcar, a bus
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: can do the same damn thing. Just put it on
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: a permanent loop in a designated area. And, oh, look,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: if an ambulance conks out on the streetcar tracks or
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: otherwise is responding to a cardiac arrest at some business
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: down there, the train won't have to stop. The streetcar
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to sit there and wait like it does
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: because it's on tracks. It could go around it. Yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: but it won't provide the permanence that business developers need
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: to put money into. Yeah, okay, whatever. Money, money, Brian James.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Fast forward to 805. We'll talk about the Fed defying
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Trump and raising interest rates. Senate not advancing the Clarity Act.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Warren Buffett is no longer the head of Berkshire Hathaway.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I guess he's retiring in plus. Are you dating? If
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: you are, you would better make a lot of cash.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Brian James on those topics. You on any topic, if
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: you care to call me up. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: on AT & T phones. Yeah, it's not just the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Somali community in Minnesota. Not all of the Somalis, just
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the criminal ones. The Learing Center controversy, which is a
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: similar controversy that's literally everywhere in this country. We've got
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: the Romanians controversy. Yep, draining welfare accounts here in the
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: United States. Apparently the Romanians have a cartel on using
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the antiquated magnetic strips on the SNAP benefits cards and
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: using skimmer technology, stealing it.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Because the states are too cheap to put chips in
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: these SNAP cards, which would prevent fraud. And there's another
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: one going up in Minnesota. They had an anti-ICE reimbursement
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: fund that was so overwhelmed with fraud and claims that
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: were fraudulent that they had to just stop the program temporarily. Completely.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Details on that later, but all of this is sort
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: of the individual illustrations of fraud in the country. It's
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: sort of captured with the overall broader observations from the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Washington Post the other day. Not exactly a conservative thought newspaper,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: the Washington Post, but every once in a while, they're
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: at least honest with the American people. So it was
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: about a week ago they had this, and it's really
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: a great summary of how bad things are here in
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: the United States. The United States spends an enormous amount
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: of money on interest. Yes, interest on the debt. The
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: world's largest military as well as programs for seniors. Does
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: that mean there hasn't been enough money in the federal
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: budget for safety net programs to help the poor? The poor,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: of course, the target of the socialists and communists. The
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: root of class envy. Of course you're going to tap
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: into the poor. Look at that evil rich person over there.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: How stupid is he? Can you imagine he has so
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: much money that he spent X, Y, or Z amount
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: on that particular thing when you don't have enough to eat?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: You know, that's how the message gets out there. Anyway,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: back to the WAPL. So, does that mean there hasn't
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: been enough money from the federal budget for safety and
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: programs to help the poor? Not at all. In fact,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: spending on means-tested welfare programs has surged. The refusal of
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: too many politicians in both parties to make difficult trade-offs. Instead,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: choose to say yes to almost everything, which has put
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: the country on its current path toward looming fiscal crises
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: in the 2030s. My Social Security friends, the 22% reduction
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: in your monthly payment that's coming your way. Anyway, there's
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: still no definitive inventory of all federal programs. Now, think
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: about that. There's no definitive list of all the federal programs.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: There is a law on the books, and it's been
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: there since 2021 that requires that. And yet, no, there
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: isn't one. So you turn to the Government Accountability Office report,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: which back in 2015 estimated, because nobody knows for sure,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: that there were more than 80 federal programs intended to
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: help people with low incomes. Maybe we've got 100. We
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: don't know. We're from the government. Isn't that colossally, and
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I'll use the word screwed up, and I'd rather use
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: an FCC noncompliant word, the largest of these, Medicaid and
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provide coverage to more
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: than 73 million Americans. with enrollees picking up little of
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: the cost. Federal Medicaid spending more than doubled between 2014
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: and 2025. Doubled. Including state spending, the program now costs
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: around $ 1 trillion annually. One program. Enrollment in SNAP, formerly
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: known as food stamps, used to fluctuate with the economy.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Higher enrollment in bad times and lower in good. In 2025,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: with the unemployment rate Near historic lows in the economy
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: actually growing, more than 12% of Americans collected food stamps,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: higher than it was in any year from the program's
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: creation in 1969 through 2009. Through direct cash benefits to
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: the poor, or rather, though, direct cash benefits to the
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: poor were significantly reformed in the 1990s. Temporary Assistance for
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Needy Families program, TAMF, remains in place. Social Security and
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: the tax code offer additional aid. Pell grants support lower-income
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: students going to college. Premium subsidies help lower-income people who
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: aren't on Medicaid buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: A variety of other programs support housing for lower-income people.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: And because they have no idea how many programs are
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: out there, we could probably go on for hours listing them.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Once we had a full list, in fiscal 2025, the
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: federal government spent $ 1. 256 trillion on the largest general programs
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: to help low-income people. more than $ 300 billion more than
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: was spent on defense. This is also a significant underestimate
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: of the total government spending for low-income Americans. It does
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: not include Medicare, Social Security benefits for low-income seniors, programs
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: solely for low-income members of specific groups, such as veterans
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: and Native Americans, or any state and local spending. Using
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: the Census Bureau's official poverty count, the anti-poverty spending comes
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: out to, are you ready? $ 35, 000 in annual expenses for
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: every person in poverty. On a per-family basis, it's $ 181, 000
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: every single year. It's funny, the Post Interjects that Milton Friedman,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: after doing a similar calculation back in 1978, argued that
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: if that money the $ 35, 000 per person and the $ 181, 000
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: were actually making it to the people in poverty, they'd
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: be among the rich. They would no longer qualify as impoverished.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: So where's the money going? Question mark?
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Part of its bureaucratic churn. A 2024 report from the
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Manhattan Institute estimated that about 20% of social welfare spending is,
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: in their words, robbing Peter to pay Paul. i.e. returning
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: to people money that the government took from them in
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: taxes in the same year. Web of overlapping anti-poverty programs
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: is difficult for people to navigate and contributes to losses
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: from inefficiency. So just general inefficiency. Number two, scope creep.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Programs once reserved for the truly poor and disabled have
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: steadily broadened their qualifications criteria. Obamacare expanded Medicaid, for example,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to cover able-bodied working adults. Because the federal government more
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: generously subsidizes enrollees under the ACA expansion, traditional Medicaid population
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: can be crowded out of access to timely, high-quality care.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Beyond Medicaid, three-quarters roughly of school lunches are now fully
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: or partially subsidized. Three-quarters of them. Many Americans also receive
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: benefits for which they do not qualify. Enter the fraud component.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Improper enrollment can take the form of planned fraud. criminal deception,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: but it also happens when the government looks the other
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: way or designs programs so poorly that fraud is difficult
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: to catch. The GAO estimates that the federal government loses
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: between $ 233 billion and $ 521 billion of fraud every single year.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: And Medicare, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit, as
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: well as SNAP, the four government programs with the highest
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: amount of improper payments in 2025. GAO warns about improper
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: payments in a report every single year, makes recommendations on
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: how to better safeguard programs, but they're generally ignored. Estimated 87%
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: of able-bodied adults without dependence on SNAP in 2023 were
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: not meeting the program's work requirement. 87%! During the Biden administration,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: lax enforcement standards for ACA premium subsidies turned them into
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: magnets for fraudsters with potentially 6 million people improperly signed up.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act projected to
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: reduce SNAP enrollment. The law's Medicaid reforms, falsely branded as cuts,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: actually just gradually nudged spending back toward pre-2021 levels. Medicaid
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: spending will still grow each year under the bill and
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: remain higher than the 2021 baseline forecast through at least 2036.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: If the U.S. is not achieving desired results on health care,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: it isn't for lack of spending. Isolating government health spending
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: as a percentage of gross domestic product, the United States
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: outspends most developed countries. Sweden, whatever. In 2019, government health
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: spending in the United States was roughly the same level
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: as Britain, France, significantly higher than, oh, look, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Spain,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: or Italy. I guess massive spending doesn't bring about good results,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: does it? National debt hasn't surpassed $ 40 trillion without significant
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: spending on welfare programs and health care. The U.S. has
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: a highly progressive tax and transfer system that redistributes massive
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: sums of of money and has largely lost focus on
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: what should be its primary purpose, keeping people out of poverty.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: There's plenty of money to help the poor and disabled
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: without expanding health and welfare spending indefinitely. How about going
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: after the nonsense, the overlap? How about finding exactly how
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: many programs are out there? Wouldn't you love to know
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: the number of non-governmental organizations that receive this money and
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: then pass it along to their friends and others out
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: in the world, which is exactly what happens each and
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: every day. You can't keep track of the money. And
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: no one, no one is tracking results. We've come across
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: that problem here in the city of Cincinnati with Todd Zinser,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: citizen watchdog, taking a look at the money the nongovernmental
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: organizations are getting. And wait a second. Hey, Todd, does
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: the city have any idea what's been accomplished with the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: money they threw out at these NGO programs designed to
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: help the poor? Uh, no.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 47:10
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• 47:54
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• 47:56
  Speaker 2: to have to cancel your planned trip, man. United States
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: virtual embassy announced yesterday, do not travel to Iran for
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: any reason.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: U.S.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Citizens should leave Iran now. That sounds a little bit late.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: And don't you think that any American who might be
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: interested in going to Iran right now, maybe you should
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: get on the psychiatrist's couch and let him figure out
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: which DSM-5 diagnosis that you are plagued with. Anyway, speaking
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: of fraud, this one actually made me chuckle. Somebody wrote
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: LOL on it. Minnesota, yeah, home of the leering centers
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: and rampant multi-multi-hundreds of millions of dollars of your taxpayer
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: money fraud. Well, they thought it would be a good idea.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: There's some county in Minnesota, specifically Hennepin County, home of Minneapolis.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: I guess the county seat Minneapolis. Anyway, they thought it
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: would be a great idea, speaking of charity, to help
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: businesses that have been impacted by ICE agents. So your business,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: these evil ICE agents kick in the door and take
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: your illegal immigrant subject to a detainment order, probably child
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: molesting criminals, out of your business. And you're harmed by that. Here,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: we've got a fund to help you out. Just apply.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: qualified individuals will receive some funds from this money two
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: million dollars specifically to help these businesses that supposedly lost
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: money due to the ice operations what they called metro
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: surge metro surge which ended with more than 4 000
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: illegal immigrants arrested across minnesota Well, the county received 300
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: applications for reimbursement for these funds. What did they determine?
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Only 82 of the 300 claims filed to the fund
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: were legitimate. The rest of them blatantly fraudulent. If you
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: build it, they will come. Government programs. Oh, my God.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Has anybody gotten the memo beyond us out here in
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the world to pay the taxes? that no one is
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: minding the store. They don't care a whit about what's
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: been done with the money they pulled out of your pocket.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lund, quote, the fact that people,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: after all this fun, felt that they could apply and
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: get away with it, I think it's a problem. Because early,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: there's no fear out, or clearly rather, there's no fear
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: out there. something that the judges in Hamilton County and
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: other elected officials in Cincinnati might want to get a
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: handle on. Here's his follow-up comment from the Hennepin County Commissioner.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Until we get it to where people fear things, then
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: they're going to keep doing it.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Somebody else has discovered a key element to the criminal
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: justice system. You've got to get on it. You've got
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: to find it. You've got to prosecute it and hold
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: people accountable for ripping people off.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: But if there's nothing in place now, To do that,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: if no state official is interested in pursuing the money because, well,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: it's federal dollars, we don't care, which is the situation
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: in a number of programs. If they build the legislation
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: and the programs based on it on, well, flexible language
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: that allows for easy fraud commission, which some may say
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: is intentional. Others may just say, well, our elected officials
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: don't know how to write a law that, well, makes
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: it hard to commit fraud. Lund said, at a certain point,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: we're like, okay, we're getting declining results on this fund.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: And so we said, well, it's just time to stop
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: the program. So we stopped processing the claims at that point.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Isn't that hilarious? A fraction of all the claims that
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: came in were legitimate. If it's easy to do, they
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: will come. Gate of Heaven Cemetery, it's easy to go
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: to Gate of Heaven Cemetery. It is 6.30, coming up
• 52:02
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• 52:08
  Speaker 2: 21st of September, it is my birthday. I just bring
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: that up only because, one, thank you to my lovely bride, Paulette,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: for just wishing me happy birthday. And to all the
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: people who have been chiming in on Facebook, because a
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: lot of friends on Facebook get up really, really early,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: earlier than I do. So to those first in line
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: around 2 o'clock this morning, God bless each and every
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: one of you. This is so wonderful and kind. for
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: the birthday wishes. Let us see here. And good morning, Rebecca.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: And Rebecca was at the Steady Strides Parkinson's event on Saturday.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Their goal was to pull together $ 120, 000, and it was
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: really cool because before the event even started, they had
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: already met their goal, which is a record for them,
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: and that's going to fund all kinds of events throughout
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: the year for the Parkinson's Support and Wellness Organization. And
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: if you are struggling with Parkinson's, have a loved one
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: that is dealing with it, Parkinson's support and wellness right
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: here in Cincinnati. You're going to love the organization. What
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: a terrific, what terrific people were at that event. And
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: there's little youngsters that were running to five K's and
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: doing this mini race. Just a great time. Time to
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Bob wetter, Mr. Humanitarian himself for inviting me to participate
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: and do a little announcing along with seg Denison from LW.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: He was there as well. Good time. And good morning, Rebecca.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: And thank you for the kind wishes. Uh, see a
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: 44 year old woman's now arrested charged with in connection
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: with the 2023 murder that happened in Chivvy at Chivvy
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: police department, working with the Joliet, Illinois police department arrested
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Tamika steel. She was arrested on the 10th of September
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: this past Friday. She was extradited to Hamilton County to
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: face charges related to the 2023 killing of 44 year
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: old Damien Kennedy. Um, Apparently, police say witnesses reported that
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: the suspect ambushed Kennedy as he attempted to enter his home,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: died due to injuries, was shot multiple times in the driveway.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: If you have any information about that, even though it
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: was several years ago, they would love to hear from you.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: So call the Chevy at the police department at 513-661-2917.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Felicity woman recovering after deputies say a man broke into
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: her home and assaulted her. He's now facing multiple charges.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Claremont County Sheriff's Office said the assault happened around 8.30
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: in the morning on Saturday. Guy entered the home in
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Felicity and assaulted the woman inside. She was treated for
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Sheriff's Office. The man, Keith Evans,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: now facing multiple charges, accused of targeting a woman inside
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: her home in the 600 block of Main Street. Sheriff's
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: office says Evans choked the victim and prevented her from
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: leaving the home or calling for assistance. Evans arrested in
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Wayne Township, taken to the Claremont County Sheriff's Office, where
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: he denied any wrongdoing related to the incident, facing charges
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: including kidnapping, felonious assault, strangulation, domestic violence. Do in court
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: this morning for arraignment if you're not doing anything. Hey, Joe,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: it could be worse. You could be stabbed. Yeah, there's
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: that one. Or you could be in Covington outside a
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: bar where you would be stabbed. Two men hospitalized. Happened
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Friday night near Zazu's, in the Zazu's parking lot. That
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: is described as a, well, I guess a bar. Police
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: said a patron and employee fought in the parking lot.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Both men seriously injured. About 11 p.m. on Friday night.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Patron drove himself to Christ Hospital, treated for life-threatening injuries.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Doctors later transferred him to UC Hospital. Both men now
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: in stable condition. The other employee also, or the employee also,
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: went to UC Hospital. Investigators still trying to figure out
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: exactly what happened. No arrests or charges have been made.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: And I suspect that the Covington Police Department would love
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: to hear from you if you were outside Zazu's and
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: witnessed anything that might, well, lead to charges being filed.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Feel free to give me a call. Love to hear
• 55:55
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• 55:56
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• 56:06
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• 56:09
  Speaker 2: preceded by Christopher Smith. Good morning, Christopher. I know he's
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: out there. He chimed in on that stack of stupid
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: story I was barely able to read this morning. And
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: at least Tom's heeded the call. He has the phone
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: number 503-749-5500 or 800-823-TALK or pound 550 on AT &
• 56:25
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• 56:27
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• 56:29
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, good morning, Brian. I have a PSA announcement for the...
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: Claremont County Union Township residents. The Claremont County Union Township,
• 56:40
  Speaker 8: they have a flock camera hearing this afternoon, or this evening,
• 56:44
  Speaker 8: about 7 o'clock over on Eichholz Road at.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: The center there.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the government building. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Real close to where the amphitheater is.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Correct.
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: They have that at 7 o'clock at night. I'm going
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: to make a pitch that it should be up to–
• 57:03
  Speaker 8: something important is that it should be left up to
• 57:05
  Speaker 8: the voters, not just some elected officials making the decisions
• 57:08
  Speaker 8: for us on every single thing we do.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just too.
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: Important to let up to individual trustees.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: That should be a voter's call.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I hear your point, but you're getting into the
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: realm of subjective. What is so important in your mind?
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: It may be this, that it deserves a vote by
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: each and every individual. That will be a direct democracy vote.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: We live in a representative democracy because having every human
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: being vote on every single issue would result in gridlock
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: and crazy outcomes.
• 57:38
  Speaker 8: Every person driving down the highway in Claremont County should
• 57:43
  Speaker 8: have a right to expect some kind of privacy. Instead
• 57:47
  Speaker 8: of having their data, information, travel, whereabouts, where they're going,
• 57:51
  Speaker 8: how they're getting there, when they get there, that should be.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: up to the voters.
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: That's just too important for a representative to make that decision.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Well, and I acknowledge your subjective opinion, Tom. It's just that,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe I feel like maybe you and I
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: should be able to vote on whether we go to war,
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: or you and I should be able to vote on
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: which road gets fixed. I mean, we could go on
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: for hours. I'm not discounting your point about concern, but Again,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: you choose either direct democracy or representative democracy. If you
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: want a direct democracy vote, then you get a ballot
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: initiative going and see that it gets enough signatures, which
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: will put it on the ballot. It's obviously an extra step,
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: which takes you out of the realm of representative democracy
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: and into the realm of direct democracy. So maybe that's
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: what should happen.
• 58:35
  Speaker 8: I understand your point, but just... I think if the
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: voters vote for it, all the more power to them.
• 58:41
  Speaker 8: But if the people don't vote and you've got more
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: people who don't want it than what does want it.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's the case or not.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: I guess we'd have to have a poll and then
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: nobody would listen to the poll or believe what the
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: poll said. The only answer to the question would be voting, right,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: on a direct issue, Tom. But then how many people
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: would show up to cast a vote? Yeah, we do
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: have a low voter turnout kind of problem that we
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: face every single year. So would that result actually reflect
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: the will of the people? It would certainly reflect. the
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: will of the people who actually came out and vote
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: which is an excellent opportunity for me to remind everyone
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: if you sit on your hands and you don't go
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: vote in november you're gonna let somebody else make the
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: decision for you why wouldn't god's name would you allow
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: that to happen why Over in Germany, the AFD is
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: making real inroads. You know what the voter turnout was
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: in the most recent state election within Germany that did
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: go overwhelmingly toward AFD? 85%. I guess they care more
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: there than we do. 85%. I was talking about fraud
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: earlier this morning and all of these countless, even unknown
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: numbers of programs that federal government has, along with state governments,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: to help the poor, and we don't know what is
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: being done with the money. And, of course, considering the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: bureaucratic nightmare that goes along with any given one of
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: these programs, the vast majority of the money was the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: point that Milton Friedman made that they reminded folks about.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: If all the money that goes out into the world,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: $ 35, 000 for every person.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Based on the U.S. Census Bureau's poverty count, $ 35, 000. For
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: every person in poverty, families, $ 181, 000. And if it all
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: landed in their pockets, they wouldn't be poor anymore. Where'd
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: the money go? Fraud, waste, abuse, the expansion of the programs,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: people who aren't poor, scope creep. There's a multitude of reasons.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: It's a bureaucratic nightmare. Sometimes it's really easy to fix
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: the problem, and you have to wonder why they don't.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: One illustration, this snap fraud that apparently the Romanians have
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: a market or have cornered the market on here in
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: the United States, Romanian crime rings. There's a Wall Street
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: Journal article. You can read it for yourself, how Romanian
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: crime rings are draining U.S. welfare accounts. You know what
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: the problem is? They're using antiquated technology. The snap benefit card,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: all it has is the magnetic strip. There's no chip
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: on it. We've been using magnetic strips since the 1960s.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: They haven't bothered to invest in putting chips in cards. Well,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: there are some states that have. They put a scanner
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: cover over the machine. It reads the SNAP benefit card,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: and it's immediately stolen and the money confiscated by Romanians
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: to go out and build big mansions, buy expensive cars,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: and ship the money back home. You know what it
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: would take to fix it? States requiring the chip card.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: Only Alabama, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, and Oklahoma
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: have even issued chip cards. It's an easy fix. And
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: there's a whole lot of money going out in the
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: world on SNAP benefits. A lot of it's being ripped off.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: If they cared about where your tax dollars were spent,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: if they cared about getting rid of fraud, waste, and abuse,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: the solution is right there, and it's been around since
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: chip cards were invented. Put them in place. Let's stop
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: talking about it, right? I can make the same argument.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: The Department of Justice just told the world we're cracking
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: down on voter fraud. Wait, voter fraud? Oh, that hardly
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: ever happens. We don't need to worry about it. Charges
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: released against 16 people in multiple states for election crimes,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: including non-citizens casting ballots. Charges which include illegal voting, illegal
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: voter registration, wire fraud, passport, identity fraud, and even firearm
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: offenses were detailed in the release this past Friday. According
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: to the DOJ, if you are not allowed to vote
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: in our elections, you shouldn't. And if you do, that's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: a crime. This isn't a partisan issue. No, it's not.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: But is there a partisan solution? You know, the SAVE Act,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: which the Democrats are the ones responsible for that not
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: being here, a simple photo ID requirement so that people
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: comply with the law. Is there fraud out there? Well,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: maybe not in massive amounts, say the left, so much
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: so that, oh, yeah, a few people vote illegally, but
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: it really doesn't mean a whole lot. It doesn't change
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: the elections. Well, if it happens at all and it
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: is a federal crime. which will subject you to jail time.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: I guess it was bad enough that they put a
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: federal law in the books to throw people in jail
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: for breaking the law. So is there a solution that's
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: really easy?
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: An ID requirement, which all of us have already, which
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: is not racist. Talk to the black people who are
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: overwhelmingly in favor of it too, or any other person of, well,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: ethnic people, any white person out there can also be
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: in favor of it or not as a case me,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: but Collectively, across the board, regardless of race, religion, creed,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: or color of skin, any of that, most people want it.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: It's common sense, it's easy to do, and it will
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: stop the vast majority of any voter fraud. Why can't
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: we have that? Ask the Democrats. Yeah, go ahead. 648-55KRC,
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge my mom sent me a happy birthday. She said,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: for some reason, I remember this day vividly, 61 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And then she typed out the words, the happy birthday,
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  Speaker 2: with the suggestion that I just pretend that she is singing.
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  Speaker 2: for helping out with the wonderful birthday dinner yesterday. A
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  Speaker 2: little early birthday dinner. It was fabulous. Dennis, thanks for
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: calling this morning. Welcome to the morning show.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, moms are solid gold.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: out loud.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: We've got a levy renewal coming up, plus a new levy.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 6: And this is related to children's services here in Cincinnati
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 6: and Hamilton County. The Health and Human Services investigated Hamilton
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: County Children's Services some years ago and found that they
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: had commingled funds, literally, stealing money from milk and formula
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: for children. can of money and uh... put it into
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: the general fund that was illegal and the investigation put uh...
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: hamilton county on the hook for three point two billion
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 6: dollars and uh... it finally got reduced and reduced and
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: reduced and the uh... county commissioners when it was republican uh...
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: had uh.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: uh.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: put aside a fund they sequestered a good portion of
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 6: the levy funds And it was going to be used
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: to pay back the federal government. I think it accumulated
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: something like $ 260 million that was going to be returned.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: After 2016, it was whittled down to next to nothing,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: and all of the sequestered funds were released to the agency.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: And they had the existing levy renewed. It was doubled.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: A new levy was added to it. And on this
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: next ballot, there was a fourth levy added. that's going
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 6: to be imposed and the warning i gave years and
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 6: years ago about this whole thing is that we've got
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 6: these agencies to go to vote uh... voters directly with
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 6: their levies rather than working it through the county commissioners
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: so there was a uh... tax lady review committee that
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 6: was put together and uh... the entire board was uh...
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 6: fired and uh... a bunch of yes men women got
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: appointed to it so there is no regulation on the
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 6: agencies going directly to the voters and put these enormous
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 6: tax burdens on us. This new situation with children's services
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 6: is going to cost the average household something more than
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 6: $ 1, 000 a year just by itself. It rivals what goes
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 6: for the Sheriff's Department, if not exceeds it by some multiple,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 6: but try to interpret it from the annual statement that
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 6: comes out and About a decade and a half ago,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 6: they stopped publishing the actual total amount and the division
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: of the funds. Basically, we've got the first and foremost
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 6: purpose of any of these levies, and it's called swag.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 6: The money goes to the executives in the agency, and
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 6: they retire well to Florida. So if you expect $ 650– well,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: it used to be $ 650 a day. for what they
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: called therapeutic foster care, I ran across kids that had
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: no clothes. They were looking for donations, and some of
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 6: the young girls were sent to the clubs up and
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: down Dixie Highway and told, treat the men nicely and
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 6: they'll buy clothes for you.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, your point here locally serves a broader point
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: of making this morning about fraud, waste, abuse, and these
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: government programs. If it was a household and you were
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: dealt with a smaller paycheck, You would figure out ways
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: to cut and tighten the belt and do without things
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: that you don't need. Maybe we need to do that
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: to government. They don't have to earn any money. They
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: don't have to demonstrate a profit, but they owe the taxpayers.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: Damn it. An obligation to follow where the money is
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: and make sure it's not spent or, well, absconded with
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: in poor ways or illegal ways or otherwise just wasteful. $ 6. 50.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, man. $ 6. 57. Don't go away. More
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: to talk about before we get to Christopher Smith at 7.20.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Here we are.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: It's not just another.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: It's 7-0-6. Here at 55KRCD Talk Station, Brian Thomas, wishing
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: everybody a very happy Monday. Hope you're having a wonderful day.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Hope you had a great weekend. I've been focusing on
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: the fraud, waste, and abuse and looking at all these
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: different illustrations, and one thing that has become crystal clear
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: to me over the morning and in prior days is
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: summing it all up. It's easy to fix the problems
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: of fraud, waste, and abuse. They just don't want to
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: do it, whoever they is. Maybe some Republicans, certainly Democrats,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: I refer to the SAVE Act. It could solve the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: problem with more prosecutions for illegal immigrants voting as well
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: as other fraudsters voting. Hey, if they can do it
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: because there's holes in the system, what's the easiest solution
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: to solve that problem?
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: A photo ID, which no one objects to. Who stands
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: in the way of that? The Dems. Ask yourself why.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: I think you know the nefarious reason why. Started with
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: a WAPO article. Americans spend big to help people with little.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: We spend all kinds of money to help the poor.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: The problem with it. is all, well, not only is fraud, waste,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: and abuse, but the fact that the programs expand. Oh,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: my God, we need to have more people on it.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: There's one. The bureaucratic overhead, going back to Milton Friedman's point,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: if the poor actually got the money that's been allocated
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: to them or the value of the money that's been
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: allocated to them, ignoring all the fraud, waste, abuse, overhead,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: et cetera, all of them would be rich by now.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: $ 35, 000 per person, $ 181, 000 per home is what the total
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: available adds up to. Clearly, if they're still poor and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: they get this money over and over and over again,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: obviously there's a huge problem. The money isn't getting to them,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: and it's being used up. Americans using money that they
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: don't qualify for. Here's where the solutions can lie. Fixes
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: to the system, which ferreted out before it can even happen.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Making controls tighter. Drafting the legislation a little bit tighter.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: GAO estimates the federal government loses between $ 233 and $ 521
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: billion in fraud every single year, mostly Medicare, Medicaid, and
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: the Earned Income Tax Credit and SNAP. I mentioned the
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: story about the SNAP program. The Romanians have cornered the market, maybe,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: but you can join in the fun, too. It's so
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: easy to rip off SNAP benefits.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Because all you need is a card skimmer. Because our
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: elected officials are too damn cheap to require a chip
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: in the card. So we've got billions flowing out the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: door to Romanian scammers. Easy solution? Yep. Pivot over to
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: yet another observation. This one from Alyssa Finley in the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal. She says, why break your back trying
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: to launch a legitimate business here in California when it's
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: so much easier and more remunerative to create phony businesses
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: to bulk the government? Now think about Minnesota. Leering centers, right?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: I am a Somalian, and I'm here, and I have
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: started a leering center, and I want money. Well, that
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: leering center reaches out to the nongovernmental organization responsible for
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: allocating the money that the idiots in Minnesota and the
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: American taxpayer are paying for for this so important program.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: People with poor education, they need leering centers so they
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: can learn how to read and spell. And that it
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: all falls apart because no one's minding the story of
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: where the money went. No one's bothering to check the
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: financial records of the people who got these leering centers
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: in the first place. Lacks?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Known to the elected officials in Minneapolis for years and years,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: did they do anything?
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Ask yourself why. Last week, the Justice Department charged 12
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: people with setting up ghost home daycare centers in San Diego,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: swindling $ 10 million or more than. In government, child care
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: subsidies that were intended to help low-income families. Oh, yet
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: another program for low-income families right here. And look, it's
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: being ripped off. While the 12 federal complaints are unrelated,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: the DOJ press release said, the scheme was essentially the same.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: It's a pattern. Word got out. Here's how you rip
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: off the SNAP program. Here's how you rip off the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: Learning Center program. In this particular case, of course, one
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: more program. Child care subsidies. California, I see, according to
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: the complaint, in this one illustration, this is the pattern.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: Defendants obtained a California license to operate a home daycare facility.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: And apparently it's easy to just claim, yeah, I want
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: to open a daycare facility and they just rubber stamp it. Okay.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: They registered with local nonprofits to create federally subsidized daycare,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: allegedly submitted false attendance records to obtain government subsidies.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: They say some were even claimed to have provided child
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: care in their own homes when border crossing records show
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: that they were not even here in the country at
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: the same time. Fake records. Anybody looking into it?
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: Gee, Nick Shirley, why don't you just go over to
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: the damn building that's claiming to be offering these services
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: and stick your head in the door and see if
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: anything's going on? Did that ever cross anybody's mind? Apparently
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: it's pretty damn easy to do that. The complete lid
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: was blown off that fraud operation. Justice suggested each defendant
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: raked in between $ 538, 000 and $ 1. 2 million, each one. Cookie-cutter scams,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: which Alyssa points out, weren't as lucrative as schemes in
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles to embezzle government homeless money. Ah, we have
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: a homeless problem on our hands. What do we need?
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: We need money. We need non-governmental organizations that are going
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: to help with the homeless.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 6: Ready?
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: Last Wednesday, Justice announced charges against four people in Los
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Angeles for misappropriating funds for, of course, personal expenses, homes,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: fast cars, real estate, you know. They ran what she
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: describes as dubious nonprofits, contracting with the Los Angeles Homeless
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Service Authority and non-government organizations responsible for administering the billions
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: of dollars in homeless funds. Money goes from the state
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: to the NGOs to the fraudsters, and no one is
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: minding the store. One of these guys received $ 118 million
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: in government funds. Personal expenses is what he paid for.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: California has added 205 plus thousand social assistance establishments between
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: the first quarter of 2020 and 2026. I read that
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: as California has added 205 plus thousand NGOs or establishments
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: that will be a leering center or a daycare center.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: including 23,046 in the first quarter of this year alone.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: Most of these only have one or two employees, and
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: I'm willing to bet that most of these individuals or
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: a couple of people obtained a California license to operate
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: one of these facilities and then started working with nongovernmental
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: organizations to steal people's money. Here you are. This is
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: the proof in the pudding right here. The numbers alone
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: don't lie. California has more than 16 times as many
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: social assistance outlets as Florida and five times as many
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: unsheltered homeless people. And that's adjusted for population.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: I guess the money hasn't reached the homeless or the
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: services provided by these nutcases, the idiots and fraudsters and NGOs,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: even if they're altruistic. isn't doing anything. The problem just
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: keeps getting worse and worse. More money every year and
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: more homeless every year. She says, and Californians wonder why
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: homeless keeps increasing even as the government keeps spending more
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: to combat it. Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento have asked voters
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: in November to approve another $ 11. 25 billion in state borrowing.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: to finance more quote-unquote affordable housing, even though they acknowledged
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: during hearings this spring that the state wasn't doing enough
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: to track down how many of the homeless money was
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: even spent. They don't care. April of 24, California's auditor
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: reported the state had spent $ 24 billion on some 30
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: programs to combat homelessness over the preceding five years, yet lacked,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: in their words, information on the ongoing costs and outcomes
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: of its homeless programs. $ 24 billion out the door, and
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: they don't know what it did. And she observes, the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: point of all this government spending may not to be
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: reduced homelessness. If that were the goal, Democrats would push
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: stricter enforcement of drug crimes and require treatment as a
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: condition for subsidized housing. That's right, the nefarious reality of
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: the change in the law that was backed by so
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: many people. It was Proposition 47. That was the one
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: that said, oh, well, you are not going to be
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: held criminally liable if you steal less than $ 950 worth
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: of stuff. You know what that law is used for
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: when they used to arrest people and bring them into
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: the criminal justice system? Right, an opportunity to get them
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: into drug treatment programs. Experts have observed widely that the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: homeless problem is primarily driven by drug abuse and, of course,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: mental health issues. Drug abuse is one of the largest drivers.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: But Proposition 47 reduced the incentive to enter rehab and
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: avoid incarceration, so boom. Admissions of drug treatment fell 20%
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: because of Prop 47. It created their own problem. But
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: obviously the money isn't solving it either, and they can't
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: account for what the money was used for or where
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: it went. And with the homeless problem increasing, sure, go
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: ahead and bring Prop 47 as one of the reasons.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing to the extent these NGOs... were dealing with
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: people who had some measure of credibility, and they had
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: some successful program, they would be screaming about it in
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: the streets. Look, this worked. We had 10 homeless people
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: two years ago, and now we have none.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: Because the programs that we implemented with your taxpayer dollars,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: we did it effectively, efficiently. We looked at what worked
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: and what didn't, and we came up with a successful solution.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: You've never heard that from anybody, have you?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: Nope.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: We have an accountability problem in this country.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: The country's filled with criminals and criminals are people of opportunity.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: When they see an easy way to steal something, they
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: might not have been inclined to steal something in the
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: first place, but look, Hey, I'm a member of some
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: tightly knit community. I heard my cousin found out a
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: way to rip the government off really easily and almost
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: without any fear of prosecution. The system was actually built.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: So my, my brother-in-law could do it or my relative
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: could do it this way. Hey, I may as well
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: get in line and do the same thing. 717-55-KRC-D, talk station, Q.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, see, no, that's not right. Treehouse Surgeon Gregory
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: Lester is waiting for your call. 721-55-KRC-D, talk station. It's Monday.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: It means it's time for Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: of the city of Cincinnati, venting his spleen in the
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: segment we always call the Smith event. Christopher, welcome back,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: my friend. Always love having you on the program.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for having me on. Brian, I really appreciate it.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: I usually don't comment on national cases, national things, but
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: I'm going to touch on one this morning that caught
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: my attention, and that's in this Lindsay trial where you
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: have a white woman who killed her three children, Corey,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: who was five, Dawson, who was three, and Kaylin, who
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: was eight months old. So she killed all three of
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: her children while her husband was out and about. And
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: so now we have this trial, and it ended in
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: a hung jury, 11-1. Now, the one person who held out,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: people didn't know what the person's race was until recently.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: And so this person is African-American, African-American male, and an
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: African and a male Republican. And so now all of
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: this is kind of pouring out, and people are like,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: how dare you be the holdout, da-da-da-da-da. And in this case,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: he's indicating that the other 11 jurors walked in and said,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: not criminally responsible, period, out of the gate. And he's like,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: what are you talking about?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 7: Like, all the.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: Evidence that we've heard, and you guys say not criminally responsible.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: But this is the frustration that I have, because my
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: speculation is the other 11 jurors are Democrats, are liberal,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: and he's not. And he's sitting there saying somebody should
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: be held accountable for the murder of these three kids, right? Now,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: you're saying she has postpartum. I know nothing about that.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: She psychologically didn't know what she was doing, mental illness.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 7: All of that.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, there were three young children.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: I'm a father of five. You're a father of two
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: that were killed. And I believe that this juror was
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: saying not being criminally responsible was not the right direction.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: But it's just amazing to me, amazing how they are
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: just basically saying you don't have a mind of your own.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: You can't think differently than us. How dare you have
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: a different perspective? And I'm sharing with you, Brian Thomas,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: this is the craziness within the Democratic Party and how
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: they approach black Americans across this country. Most black Americans,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: as I talk about this right now, don't even know
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: anything about Michael. They don't know anything about Michael Desronville.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: They don't know that he's a 48-year-old African-American guy who
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: stood up for what he thought was the right thing
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: to do. And by the way, that was his right.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Well, of course it is because he did not have
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: reasonable doubt. She admitted to killing her kids. There was
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: no question that she's the person responsible for the death.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: The question is, at the time she did it, did
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: she know right from wrong? Postpartum depression, I guess she
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: was so, oh, I don't know, psychologically distraught that she
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: thought it was okay to kill her kids and didn't
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: think it was wrong. Well, he didn't buy into that argument.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: I do not have reasonable doubt she killed her kids
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: and she knew what she was doing. That's what he concluded.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: The rest of them said, well, you know what? It
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: seems to me to be, well, at least it's reasonable
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: to think, because of what the testimony was, that she was, well,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: out of her blanking mind when she killed her kids.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: There's a division. Honestly, Christopher, I don't know how this
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: has anything to do with race. I really don't.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 3: But they're making it about it. Why does this black
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: male have to hide? Why is he in hiding somewhere
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 3: in our country?
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: See, I would argue any, you would be hiding, I
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: would be hiding. A woman who held out and said no,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: she killed her kids, and she knew what she was
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: doing at the time, and I have no doubt in
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: my mind that was the case. She too, I imagine,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: might be doxed or accused or something. I just don't
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: understand it, Christopher. I really don't. You're entitled to say no.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: You're entitled to say yes. This is your right as
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: a juror. You absorb the evidence as long as you're
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: not biased and and using something that's untoward in your
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: deliberative process. He listened to the expert testimony. He said, nope, nope,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: it wasn't that. She killed him and knew it.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: What I'm trying to share with you, my brother, what
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to share with you is that these white
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: jurors were not ready for this black male to stand
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: up to them and tell them, I disagree with you.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: How dare you? They're the ones making it about race.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: They're the ones that are making it about he's a
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: Republican or that he's conservative. They're the ones that are
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: doing all of that crap. I wouldn't know that he
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: was a Republican or that he was black or had
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: conservative values. I don't even know what that means anymore.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 3: I assume that means that this guy believes in family
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: values He probably believes in the Second Amendment. He probably
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: believes in the First Amendment. He probably loves his country.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: He probably loves the flag. He probably loves the military.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: And those things make you conservative today. The bottom line
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: is he did not believe. what the defense put before him,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: and he stood up.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: To these jurors.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: I'm just sharing with you, I'm amazed about how they're
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: pushing back on this guy, and now they're coming out,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: putting all of his business, and did he vote for Trump?
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: Didn't he vote for Trump? I mean, all of this
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 3: is coming out now. And I'm sharing with you, this
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: is what the Democrats do, Brian Thomas. You cannot be
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: black and American and have a different perspective than the
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: Democratic Party without them saying something crazy like this about you.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: I'll concede all that. And you know what? This discussion
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: back and forth, my perception and your understanding is Or
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: exactly that. Mine is a perception because I haven't read
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: any of the damn articles about it. I know he's
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: a black guy because his pictures plastered all over paper
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: on the Internet. I know the subject matter of the
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: story because I've been able to glean it from headlines.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: But to me, it's one more of thousands and thousands
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: of criminal cases involving murder, loss of life that are
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: pending in this country that no one gives a crap
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: about paying attention to. And somehow this one has been
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: elevated to the attention of the hearts and minds of
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: all Americans. Look, right here in Hamilton County, we've got
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: a guy who's been charged with killing his 23-day-old baby girl. Now,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. It's a rhetorical one.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: Do you think tomorrow, next week, down the road, it'll
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: be like every newspaper online will be talking about that
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: particular case? I doubt it.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: But what you won't have is you might not have
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: this 11-1 deal.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: No, of course not.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: Right? Where these white jurors, Brian, just weren't ready and
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: didn't understand that they were not able to push this
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: guy around. He stood up to them from the beginning
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: and said, I want to see the evidence. I'm concerned
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: about it. And all of a sudden, they're the ones.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not making it about race. There are a lot
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: of people that aren't.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: Making it about race. But now they.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 3: Are talking about his political persuasion. They're saying he's a
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: conservative and we think he voted for Trump.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: I hear you. And you know what? Me hearing it
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: from you for the first time, because I haven't read
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: any place else that that's become an issue, it sounds
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: bat crap crazy. It sounds stupid. It sounds foolish as
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: an argument or something to even utter out loud. That's
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: why I'm in a state of disbelief over that it's
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: even happening. and that people will buy into it and
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: parrot it and talk about the color of his skin
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: or his political affiliation when all this had to do
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: was weighing the evidence that was presented to them?
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 4: It's stupid.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. So I'm conceding your point, but I'm conceding
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: my ignorance on the whole subject matter.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 3: And I just want more black Americans to be able
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: to stand up and say, I am going to vote
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: my interest. I can be independent from my political party.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: Because I'm sharing with you, I don't know of any
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: other race of people that are so connected to a party,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: no matter what their platforms are, no matter whether they're
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: voting against their interests or not. I'm saying this is
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: an illustration, 11-1. One black juror said, I have a
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: different perspective, and the man is in hiding, and now
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: they're talking about his political persuasion, or he is a Republican,
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: and now they're saying, well, this guy voted for Trump.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: They're trying to destroy this guy's reputation so he can't
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 3: work anywhere, he can't live anywhere. We're way out of time.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: I'll give you the point, Christopher. It's just that people
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: who would listen to that and make that conclusion are really,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: really stupid. 729 right now, 55K or CD Talk Station.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: Get in touch with USA Insulation. They're still running this. 733,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: 55K or CD Talk Station. Brian Thomas for Christopher Smith.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: I've been doing that Smith event. Christopher, you got it, brother.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: Hey, brother, look, I heard your interview last week with
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: Vivek Ramaswamy. It was a really great interview, and I
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: want to congratulate both of you on the interview. I
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: think about and I've been watching a lot of information
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: that David Pepper has been putting out, and it looks
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: like he's in this class warfare situation. So, you know,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: things like, you know, this guy is rich. You know,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: he's disconnected from you. He's something other than you. This
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: is what I'm getting from David Pepper, who is second
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: on the ticket. He's running for lieutenant governor. And I
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: just want to kind of talk a little bit about
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: David Pepper so that everybody kind of has an understanding. First,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: I worked with David Pepper when I was a member
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: of city council. So I know him. So this is
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: somebody that I don't know. I worked with him a
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: number of years. I was on the campaign trail. He's
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: running against me in a field race. But David went
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: to Summit Country Day. OK, so Vivek Ramaswamy went to St.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: X and David Pepper went to Summit Country Day. Both
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: of these are stellar schools. Both of them are private
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: and both of them could be deemed as expensive schools.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: Summit Country Day is probably somewhere between $ 30, 000 and $ 40, 000
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: a year to go to Summit Country Day. So that's
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 3: where David Pepper went. David then went to Yale. He
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 3: then went to Yale and served, went there, did his
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: undergrad at Yale, did his graduate work at Yale. And
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: I'm saying– I'm not saying anything bad about any of that.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: What just kills me about Democrats– is they keep trying
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 3: to present themselves like they're from the working class, like
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: he has some extra connection that Vivek Ramaswamy doesn't have.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know what he's talking about, meaning his money
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 3: has had him not in a public school system ever
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: in his life. He's lived a very high-level life. I
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 3: would even say that it's fair to say that his
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: money was given to him, which I'm not saying is
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: a bad thing, and Vivek Ramaswamy's money, he earned it.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: This is a businessman who worked hard and has accomplished
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: things personally, where David Pepper is getting his money through
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: his family, through his father's successes, and I'm not hating
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: on that. What frustrates me is he presents himself as
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 3: if he's something other than that, meaning this is a very,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 3: very wealthy man, and most likely the reason Amy Atkin
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: put him on the ticket is so that he could
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: raise that money out of California, or he could raise
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: that money out of New York, or he could raise
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: that money out of the Ohio Valley, meaning this is
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: about money, and I just don't understand why David keeps
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: trying to present himself... that he's something other than a
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 3: very rich, privileged white male who's been given everything and
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: every opportunity that the United States and America has to
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: offer him. And I don't clearly understand why he seems
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: to not to embrace America. The America that gave him
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: everything that we have, gave his family and his father
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: everything that they have. And so don't come into black America.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: Don't walk through our neighborhoods and act like you're somebody
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: that's connecting to us in some different way that Vivek
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: Ramaswamy can't. You are that guy that lived that privileged life.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to say that for the record.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good point because you know him and you
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: know his background, and therein lies the challenge. He can
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: get away with it because people aren't aware of that
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: level of detail. Hell, they don't even know the three
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: branches of government, let alone the background of the candidate
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: that's trying to, you know, wealth redistribute the money out
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: of the pockets of people who earned it not. We'll
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: bring Christopher back. I know he's got more pent up
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: in the Smith event.
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  Speaker 3: 738-55-KRC.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: 741, coming up at 742.55, KRCV Talk Station. Right now,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: it's with Christopher Smitherman. Smitherman, Christopher, you have the floor
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  Speaker 2: yet again, my friend. Appreciate you coming on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. So, Lisa Davis, Assistant Chief Lisa Davis,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: I served with her when I was on city council,
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 3: and she is now the police chief in Austin, Texas.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: She's now Chief Lisa Davis. And she's right in the
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: middle of this person who was in our country illegally,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: who was shot in Austin, Texas, where all these riots
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: and fires are being set. So she's in the middle
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: of that story. This is a local person who cut
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: her teeth here in the city of Cincinnati, served, and
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: then was hired in Austin, Texas. And I did a show,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: and I said to you, after Labor Day, the Democrats
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: are searching for their Jerry Maguire moment. Right. And here
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: you have it for them. Right. Look for them to
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: try to organize and tell everybody again, ICE is bad.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: They don't even know the facts of what happened. They
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: don't know what the situation is. I don't know what
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: the facts are, but they're already trying to put their
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: signs out. They're already setting fires. And this was a person.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: who was in the United States of America illegally, which
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: means they broke the law. Now, there are people, let
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: me share with you, who every day wake up, they
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: go to work, they come to the country legally, they're
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 3: not breaking laws, they're not gangbanging, they're not walking around
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: with pistols and guns and all this kind of craziness.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: I don't understand the Democratic Party who continues to seem
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: to gravitate towards people who are criminals, meaning I suspect
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: that not only was this person in the country illegally,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: but they were doing illegal things, right? And so I
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: don't get why they're setting fires and acting like the
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: world is coming to an end, and now they're breaking
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 3: more laws But this is their moment to try to
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 3: line up with Latinos in this country and try to
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 3: get them to say, we need you to vote Democrat
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 3: in the midterms. That's what this is all about.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: Well, the idea that they are rampaging in the streets
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: as a consequence of ICE shooting the illegal immigrant, and
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: you brought up the important point about that. No one
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: knows what happened yet. The local Austin mayor, Kirk Watson,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: not exactly a conservative. Christopher even said it out loud
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: multiple times. Extremely preliminary, his words. It's extremely preliminary, the
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: information we have on it. We don't know. He warned
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: against rushing to conclusions based upon early claims circulating on
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: TikTok and X and other social media platforms where people
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: make crap up whole cloth. The city of Austin deserves answers,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: said the Austin Police Department. We're going to get those
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: questions answered, and we'll be as transparent as we can be.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: But as of right now, we don't have the facts yet.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: So why was Austin, Texas on fire last night? If
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 3: all the things that you're saying are true, I don't
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: understand the riots and the fires last night. And they
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: also were saying they shot his car up, which we now,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: Chief Davis, Lisa Davis there, again, who was the assistant chief,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: police chief here in the city of Cincinnati and then
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 3: was hired there. She said that that was not true
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 3: at a press conference. His car was not riddled with bullets.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 3: The guy, the human being was on foot. But we
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: don't have enough information to share with you. It's all preliminary.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: But guess what? A council member there, a council member
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: there in Austin, Texas, said they shot the car up.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: And so she had to come out and have a
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 3: press conference and simply say the council member has misspoken
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 3: and that is not what occurred. I'm just sharing with you,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: I constantly see Democrats trying to use these situations in
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: order to push their political agenda. That's the only reason
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about it. That's why they're not waiting to
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 3: get the information like a logical person, and that's why
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 3: they were setting things on fire and throwing things last night,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 3: because they don't need the evidence. They're in the midterm elections,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 3: and they're searching for something so that they can win.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 3: That's what this is about. They're not in search of
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 3: the truth.
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  Speaker 2: The only way they can win is if people don't
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: read the widespread reporting on it from everyone, including the
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: quotes from Lisa Davis, who did say specifically, we are
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: going to get the answers to the questions answered. We
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: will be as transparent as possible. As of right now,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: we don't know. She's the one that said, I heard
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: it was a foot pursuit, which, of course, wouldn't mean
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: that he wasn't in a car which got shot up.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: But they don't care because they're so dumb in their
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: echo chamber and all they need to do is read
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: the TikTok post talking about ICE unloading fully automatic weapon
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: inside the car. It blew them to pieces. It was
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: like watching a scene from The Godfather. Oh, it must
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: be true. Let's go riot in the streets.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: Because no one cares. They pull back the veneer of
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: that nonsense, and they'd say, well, wait a second. There's
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: been no reporting on that happening. There's been no credible report.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: There's no video camera footage released yet. They haven't even
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: gotten yet.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: See?
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: But no one cares about that.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: Let me share this with you. This is a assistant
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 3: chief who I know, who is now Chief Lisa Davis.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 3: I want to emphasize those people who are turning on
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 3: the radio in Austin, Texas. This is one of ours.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: This is a former Cincinnati police officer who did all
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 3: her training here. all the way to assistant chief, and
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 3: is now the chief there, who went through the entire
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 3: collaborative agreement. He was all in on community-based policing. He
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 3: is the face of community-based policing in our city. And
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: there she is standing in front of podium telling a
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 3: council member, you're jumping to conclusions. There was no shoot
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: up of any car, right? So my point is that
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: this is a woman who is absolutely vested in things
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: like the collaborative agreement and community-based policing. And she's even
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 3: telling people there, hold on, you all don't have enough information.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 3: We don't know what happened. Why are you out here
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: setting fires and throwing things? We don't know what happened.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: But what she doesn't understand, or maybe she does understand,
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 3: is that Democrats are searching in Austin, Texas to win
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 3: a Senate seat. They need to flip that Senate seat, people.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: This is about setting fires and getting control of the Senate,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas. They don't care about the Venezuelans. They're not
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: interested in the fact patterns. They don't care about that.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: They care about the election. This is in Austin, Texas.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: It is ground zero for a Senate race that they're
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 3: trying to flip. They don't want the Republican to win
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: and they need to gender up their base. That's what
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: this is about. I shared it on your show. The
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: Jerry Maguire moment has now come. I thought it was
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: I love the black man. No, it's I love the Latino.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: And I can lie to them. I can confuse them.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: I can say whatever I want to say. The facts
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: don't matter. They do matter.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: Well, evil orange man cracked down on immigration. Evil orange
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: man's the one behind getting rid of the most criminal
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: element from the illegal community out of our communities. Ergo,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: it must be bad. Let's riot in the streets, and
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: that way we can associate riots, regardless of whether they're
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: appropriate or not, regardless of whether they're based on real
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: information or not. Riots equal chaos. Riots because of ICE.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: ICE because of orange man. That's the only line you've
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: got to draw anymore, and that's all they're hanging their
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: hat on. They don't like Trump. They don't like anything
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: he does.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 5: Ergo.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: They don't mind violence and destruction of property if it
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: ultimately helps them achieve their goal of blaming Trump for
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: literally everything. That's my conclusion.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 3: And they want to control the Senate, meaning they're in
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 3: a heated race of a 3% to 4% margin out there.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 3: And that Senate race, which it shouldn't be that close,
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: but the reality of it is, and this is their
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: moment now to go out. This is organized. They're not
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 3: going to let it go. Chief Lisa Davis can walk
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 3: up on the podium in the next week and tell
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 3: everybody what the fact patterns were around it. And by
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 3: the way, if something bad happened and it was the
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 3: wrong decision, I'll be the first to come and say- Hey,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 3: ICE made a bad decision.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 3: There's no blank check out here. But my logic says
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 3: you don't jump to those conclusions before the investigation and
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 3: before we know it. We haven't even seen the body cam.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: We don't even know. But last night they're rioting. They're
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: setting fires. They're throwing things at ICE agents. I don't
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: understand it. But then I do because I go, wow,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: this is about that Senate election in Austin, Texas. They
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: want to win it, so they've got to gender up
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: the Democrats in that area to come out. A, they
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 3: are out here killing people in the street. That's the message,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: and that's what they're going to do.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 6: They need fear.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: They need fear in the electorate.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: Of course. Give it away from that one and talk
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: about fear from artificial intelligence, fear from figure it out.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: It's always about fear to keep us, oh my God,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: cowering and in search of a government solution. Christopher Smith,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: I always appreciate Your thoughts and comments here on the station.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: It's 8.06 here at 55K RCB Talk Station. Brian Thomas
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: right here. Always looking forward to this time of week.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: We get the benefit of financial planner Brian James. While
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: we're financial, it's time for Money Monday. Brian James, welcome
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: back to the morning show. I hope you had a
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: wonderful weekend.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 5: I did, and hoo-day to everybody out there. Yet another
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 5: year of saying they are going to get that man killed.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 5: But it was a fun game to watch.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: That's a good point. He did have a back injury
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: and he got sacked. How many times? Five or something?
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: Five, I think.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 5: He said something about he thanked the Texans for putting
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 5: his rib back in place at some point.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: I saw this morning. So it worked out as a
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: form of chiropractic adjustment, him getting tackled multiple times. Nice
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: offensive line there protecting Joe Burrell. No, but, you know,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: it was weird because throughout the game as I was
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: watching it, it I mean, I'm looking at 0-0 for
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: basically the entire first half. It felt like we were
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: doing a hell of a lot better than that, though.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Defense, I thought, performed admirably.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: And you're like, man, they're doing really well. They're doing well.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: And then you look at the score and you're like, well, no,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: not really. Yeah, where is this lightning-fast offense we have?
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 5: But the defense was ridiculously good. That was really, really
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 5: fun to watch. A nice change from recent years.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: Well, at least there's a win in the Bengals' win-loss column,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: which is great. So congratulations to the Bengals. I share
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: your joy over the outcome of that game. Brian James.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: I know Donald Trump does not share the joy of
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: the Fed raising the interest rate. He has obviously expressed
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 2: out loud, as he has wanted to do, his concerns
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: and frustrations over that. But the president doesn't have any
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: say on this. And I guess with inflation going up
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: and the Fed viewing its obligation as dealing with inflation,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: this is the right direction to go. At least they
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: concluded that. What's your take on this? Quarter point rise, right?
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Kevin Warsh's job. The Federal Reserve Chair is
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 5: not an employee of the president.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: It's his job.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 5: His job is twofold. Basically, keep inflation out of control
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 5: and get us to full employment and.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 4: Keep us there.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 5: So in order to do that, he made the decision
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 5: that we need to raise rates. A quarter point rate
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 5: hike last Wednesday. That takes the Fed fund rates range
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 5: to 3.75% to 4%. This is the first increase we've
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 5: had in three years, and the message was pretty plain.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 5: The economy is still expanding at a solid pace, and
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 5: unemployment remains low. These are good things, but inflation is
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 5: too high. So the Fed said the goal is a
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 5: timelier return to 2% inflation, which is just more creative
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 5: words to, we want to get back to 2% inflation,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 5: which we've been saying since inflation became a headline. So
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 5: that headline hasn't changed. But the important story, Brian, was
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 5: not just that quarter point move. It was the updated outlook.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 5: The moves are somewhat predictable. This wasn't a major shocker. Usually,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 5: we're talking about what is the next move going to be.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 5: So the Fed says it's now expecting 3.7% PCE inflation
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 5: in 26 versus 3.6% in June, at the same time
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 5: projecting 2.3% economic growth and just 4.1% unemployment. There's a
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 5: bunch of numbers. Here it is in English. The Fed
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 5: sees an economy strong enough to withstand tighter policy, but
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 5: inflation is stubborn enough that it can't declare victory. Therefore,
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 5: we've got to add some pain to the mix with
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 5: higher rates, but the Fed thinks we can take it.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess I'm old enough to remember, although I
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: didn't have an absolute clarity about economic realities in the 1970s, stagflation.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 2: You had inflation that was pretty substantial then. along with
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: stagnation in the economy. So unlike now, I get the impression,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: at least then, the job market wasn't very good. There
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: was your stagnation part. So are we with this rate hike?
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: Are they trying to push us toward a slower growing
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: economy and moving toward the stagnation we faced with inflation
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  Speaker 2: in the 1970s? Are there any parallels to be drawn?
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: I guess is what I'm struggling to try to ask there, Brian.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think it is different, right? That's why
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 5: it's tough to find a clear parallel because we want
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 5: to look at the 70s and say, you know, the
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 5: energy headlines were a problem back then. They're a problem
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 5: right now. But I think the difference is, of course,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 5: we've got economic growth happening, right? Maybe it's not cooking
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 5: as much as we want, but in the 70s, we
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 5: really just had no growth at all. And there were
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 5: no catalysts back then. So technology has been a major
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 5: driver for decades now, and that's continuing to happen today.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 5: So the fact that the economy is still chugging along,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 5: we're doing okay, and there's a huge catalyst in the
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 5: form of artificial intelligence, right? Not everybody loves AI, and
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 5: it comes with sharp edges just like anything else, but
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 5: it does exist as an opportunity to make things more
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 5: economically productive. So the way I think about this is
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 5: maybe I'll think about a married couple who has built
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 5: up a substantial amount of debt for whatever reason and
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 5: need to pay that down. And perhaps I'm sitting down
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 5: with them. We're putting a financial plan together. We can say,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 5: you know what? We can take some hits here. You
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 5: can back off of your 401k savings in order to
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 5: focus on the shorter term to get this debt paid
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 5: down with the debt being, of course, the inflation that
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 5: we're battling now in the comparison I'm making here. We
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 5: can sacrifice something elsewhere in order to focus on another
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 5: goal temporarily. and we will not be put in a
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 5: place where we have to worry about where the next
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 5: meal comes from. In the 70s, we didn't have that choice.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 5: We had to make those sacrifices, and it was a
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: lot more painful. We got through that, but it took
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: a decade or more, an awful lot of pain and
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 5: extremely high interest rates in the early 80s, but we
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 5: did fix it that way. Now we've got a little
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 5: more wiggle room because there is a healthy economy underneath
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 5: all this.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 2: You know what? As I was hearing you talk about
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: the financial recommendation you give to your client couple, and
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: I know you do this all the time, pare back
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: the 401k for now, pay off this credit card balance
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: you got. You're having to pay interest on it. Oh,
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: if only the federal government were given that advice by
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: someone like you, Brian James. You need to stop spending
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: so much. You've got $ 40 trillion.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 5: My phone doesn't ring.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: You get $ 40 trillion. Your interest is $ 1 trillion and
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: growing every year. You clearly have a spending problem. It's
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: time to start curbing the expenditures. Logic and reason, that
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: just doesn't exist on a federal level, though, Brian.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 5: No, the federal government does not function on a household
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 5: budget the way people have to. But the difference is
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 5: the federal government is not looking to retire someday and
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 5: never go to work again. It's going to kind of
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 5: always exist. That doesn't make it okay, but that means
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 5: we do– we should expect a little more crazy.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: You stumbled upon the reality of the problem is that
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: they're not interested in solving the problems of these massive,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: expensive programs they designed because they all want jobs today, tomorrow,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: and down the road and for the next generation of
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 2: government workers.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 5: There's no end point in future.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I have to go in this room. It's like
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: when you donate to a big organization like United Way,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: the dollar you give them results in maybe 50 cents
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: going out into the world to help because they've got
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: a massive bureaucracy to pay for. I read some figures
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: this morning exactly like that. It was a Milton Friedman
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: quote about government programs, and they calculated right now that
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: the value per individual who's considered poor in this country
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: is $ 38, 000 or $ 39, 000. For a family, it's $ 181, 000. And
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: Milton Friedman had made an observation back in the 1970s. Well,
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: you know, if all that money ended up in the
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: actual hands of the recipients, there wouldn't be any more
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: poor people.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 5: That is a great point. We would love for that
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 5: situation to happen.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, it would.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not quite as simple as he makes it.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: No, it's not. But, you know, it is something to observe.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: And any opportunity I have to interject something like that, Brian,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: folks like you have to suffer through it and let
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: me get it out of my system. Brian James. We'll
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: take an early break because I want to hear about,
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: I've got to talk about the Clarity Act, and there's
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: not enough time in this segment. Unless you think you
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: want to squeeze in in a minute why Warren Buffett
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: has stepped down from Berkshire Hathaway after, well, forever. Well,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: we could do that.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 5: So Warren Buffett stepped down. He's 96 years old. I
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 5: think we know the why. But that completes a full transition.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 5: So this isn't sudden overnight news. Greg Abel became the
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 5: CEO as of January 1st. So Warren is stepping down
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 5: as chairman. He's now chairman emeritus, which means he's still
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 5: in the mix. He's still a director on the board
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 5: and will continue to offer his judgment perspective and all that.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 5: Now his son Howard is the chairman. And Howard himself
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 5: is 71, right? So the age is still a thing here.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 5: But Howard is not new to this. Howard's been involved
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 5: for 30-some years. He is not in the investment world.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 5: He's much more in the philanthropic side of things. But
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 5: he's got a lot of experience with Berkshire Hathaway. And
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 5: Greg Abel is basically the one running the show. And
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 5: that's been in place for a very long time. So
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 5: Greg will be worried about– the one worried about how
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 5: the business runs forward. And Howard will basically make– kind
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 5: of ensure that his father's legacy and the way he
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 5: ran things still kind of hold true there.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: So this is– I'm just going to answer this. This
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: change in the hierarchy of Berkshire Hathaway is not going
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: to result in there. What is it trading at now
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: per share? They've never split, right?
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 2: No, they never do.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 5: So, boy, you're putting me on the spot.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 2: No, no. It's like 80 or $ 100, 000 a share. It's
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: just outrageous. So they never split. But it's not going
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: to impact the share value. This is not some major
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: disruption at Berkshire Hathaway.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 5: At the end of the day, Berkshire Hathaway is basically
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 5: one giant mutual fund. It owns a bunch of things
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 5: underneath it. So there's a lot of insurance companies under there.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 5: There's real estate companies. There's all kinds of things. It's
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 5: not just a factory that makes widgets out in a
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 5: field somewhere. Those companies are all in their own financial position,
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 5: and this isn't really a concern overall. It's just notable
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 5: because Warren has been obviously a soothing and sometimes prompting
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 5: voice out there for those of us in this industry
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 5: and those of us not in the industry. A lot
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 5: of people pay attention to him, so we will still
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 5: hear from him, I'm sure. He just doesn't have his
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 5: hand on the till completely anymore at Berkshire Hathaway.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: All right, Brian James from Allworth Financial. Put on your
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: fifth-grade teacher hat so you can explain to me in
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 2: very simplistic terms the Clarity Act, which apparently makes a
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: difference between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: and Exchange Commission. 819 here at 55KRCD Talk Station. It's Monday.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: Allworth Financial loans out, Brian James. who's a financial planner.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 2: Every Monday for a few seconds, we talk about stuff
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: going on in the world, in the financial markets anyway,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: and how it relates ultimately to our retirement savings. You
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: need a financial planner. Everybody does. Make sure you got
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: a plan in place and follow it and everything will
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 2: probably work out right for you. Anyhow, Brian James, much
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: like financial planning, not quite like the peace of God
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: for me. I do have some understanding, human being as
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 2: I am, but I don't have any when it comes
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: to Bitcoins and stable coins and cryptocurrencies I never have.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 2: And then again, I really haven't lifted much of a
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: finger to find out because, honestly, I just really don't
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: trust it. One day it was not in existence. The
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: next thing you know, everybody's trading this stuff. It's a
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 2: bunch of ones and zeros. It has no connection to reality, except,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 2: I guess, if it's a stable coin, which are these
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: cryptocurrencies that are actually pegged to something that we at
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: least traditionally have perceived to have actual value, like a dollar,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: a fiat currency, or a commodity. But what's the Clarity Act,
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: which is supposed to be dealing with all of these cryptocurrencies?
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: What's it all about? What's it do? And why are
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: the Democrats against it?
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 5: So the Clarity Act, this isn't brand new, right? We
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 5: do have a new headline for it. But the Clarity
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 5: is basically for digital asset market clarity. The main goal
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 5: was to answer a question that has plagued crypto for years.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 5: When is a token a security that's regulated by the SEC?
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 5: And when is it more like a commodity, which would
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 5: be the Commodity Futures Trading Corporation, right? So two government
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 5: regulatory bodies. The industry would very, very, very much prefer
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 5: the CFTC because there's less regulation. Treating it like a
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 5: commodity basically means it gets a lot less oversight and
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 5: it's just easier for those industries to operate versus the
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 5: SEC that, of course, is going to want to register
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 5: everything as an individual security, which makes things enormously more complicated.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 5: So That's been floating around for a while. The bill
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 5: had passed the House pretty significantly, 294 to 134 back
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 5: in July of 25. Senate Banking Committee approved it 15
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 5: to 9 in May. But the reason we're talking about
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 5: this headline, the Senate did not reject it outright, right?
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 5: This wasn't a vote that says, no, we're shooting this
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 5: out of the sky. This was a rejection of a
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 5: motion that is needed to start debate on it. So basically,
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 5: they tabled it for now. And it was still pretty
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 5: much split down the middle, 49 to 50. This was
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 5: a procedural vote, so it needed 60 votes to go
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 5: one way or the other. It got 49 yes and
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 5: 50 no, which basically means we talk about it later.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 5: So this is going to push it past the midterms,
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 5: of course, and that's a setback for the industry.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: Is that what it's all about? They don't want to
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: vote on this thing before the midterms, but after that,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: you think it'll move past the procedural vote and they'll
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: actually start debating it?
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 5: Well, I think that's the plan here. There's a lot
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 5: of people who just didn't want their names tied to it, good, bad,
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 5: and different. I think with all the stuff going on,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 5: enough names came out and said, you know what? My
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 5: name is already attached to a lot of things that
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 5: could push in one direction or the other. We don't
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 5: need to decide this right now. Let's procedurally table it
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 5: until after the elections.
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  Speaker 2: Well, those that would understand this and see, you know,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: I consider myself at least not the sharpest knife in
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 2: the drawer, but I'm not a complete moron. But, you know,
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 2: this is a very confusing topic. And I imagine those
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 2: that would respond had they voted on this and had
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 2: they brought it up for debate would be all of
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 2: the major industry players who have lots of money, campaign contributions, influence,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: lobbyists and all that. So it would bring that particular
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: very loud group out, but maybe not, you know, Joe
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: and Jane Doe out living the real world looking for
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 2: money to fill their gas tank.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 5: And that's literally what this is about, right? We're basically
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 5: trying to enshrine in law what cryptocurrency is. And this
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 5: has been a debate really since kind of the beginning
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: of it being used as an investment tool. It's cryptocurrency,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 5: despite its name, it's not a currency. People don't use
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 5: it to, it's not exchanged for goods and services. Could
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 5: it be?
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 5: But does anybody do that now? No, we hoard it.
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 5: We sit on it because we hope it goes up
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 5: in value and people jump in and out of it.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 5: They speculatively trade it. And so forth. So it's not
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 5: actually a currency. Not yet. I guess it could be.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 5: But I have a feeling it's kind of ensconced itself
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 5: as a special investment.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 2: You can hoard gold. Of course, you can trade it
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: if you want to use it as currency. But just theoretically,
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: you can hold gold. And the idea is you hope
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 2: it returns a greater investment down the road. At least
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 2: it has an independent value beyond the investment. Crypto does not.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 2: You just sit on it until it goes up. And
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: then you sell it. But it's not really worth anything
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 2: except something theoretical. It's like Pokemon cards.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 5: I think we'd be in a better spot if we
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 5: didn't have all of the flavors. If there were a
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 5: handful of them, rather than all celebrities tying their names
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 5: to something that is effectively the exact same structure as
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 5: the big boys, as Bitcoin and Ethereum, Melania coin is
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 5: the exact same thing. They're all the same. It's just
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 5: slapping your name on something, letting it move in a
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 5: speculative manner, which completely clouds what are these things actually for,
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 5: which leads us to the situation now where we can't
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 5: decide what the heck the thing is to begin with.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 2: Well, in an effort to be politically neutral, call me
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: Switzerland this morning. Don't forget there was a Hunter Biden Bitcoin, too.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 2: All of them.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 5: All of the coins, right? There was also a Huk
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 5: Tua one.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: I recall correctly.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 5: There's no logic or intelligence to this.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: There you go. There's no logic or intelligence to it.
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going back to my earlier point and thinking, well,
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 2: you know what? Maybe Thomas, you're not as dumb as
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 2: you think you are. Anyway, Brian James, not dumb. We're
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: going to talk one more time. Are you dating? And
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 2: if you are, I hope you're wealthy. We'll find out
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 2: why I got a better way to date and it
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't cost as much. And it's far more impressive for your, uh,
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: your date. Eight 25 right now. Don't go away. Be
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: right back. 55 KRC.com. And on a Monday, which means
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 2: we're still talking with Brian James from all worth financial
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 2: money Monday. And here's a good topic. Dating Brian James.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 2: Guess dating is expensive.
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: Real quick question, Brian. And I don't know why I
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: have my thumb in the pulse of modern culture, but, um,
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 2: Dutch treat where the parties to the day pay for
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 2: their own meals and divide the check? Is it still
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: an expectation in the world that I still have is
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: that the man is supposed to pay? But maybe I'm
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 2: just being paternalistic or something like that. But just the
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 2: idea of dating apparently is expensive. So is there some
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: sort of guideline or expectation out there in the world
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 2: of what people expect of the earnings of the person
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 2: they're dating? What's going on with this story?
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 5: So this is coming from, there's a study out there
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 5: that was actually done by Northwestern Mutual, big insurance company,
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 5: and they paid the Harris poll to do this, right?
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 5: I cite that because this sounds like it came from
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 5: a dating app, but it really didn't. It came from
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 5: a financial services company and some of the conclusions they
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 5: were able to draw. So Northwestern Mutual surveyed about 4,300
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 5: adults 18 and older in January. And then they looked
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 5: at the responses across gender, age, generation, and so forth.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 5: And the big conclusion that they drew was that 59%
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 5: of singles said a partner's income is not important to them.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 5: So that's important. But on the other hand, but for
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 5: the rest of those, the remaining 41%, they say the
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 5: average ideal income for a potential partner is $ 139, 000. Single
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 5: women in that group, they averaged $ 172, 000. Remember, this is
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 5: the response to when asked what's the ideal income for
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 5: a potential partner. Single women said $ 172, 000. Single men averaged
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 5: about $ 101, 000. Now, this one's interesting. So in terms of
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 5: the cross-generational opinions, millennials said that that income needs to
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 5: be $ 160, 000. Gen Z was down to $ 135, 000, X at $ 123, 000,
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 5: and boomers about the same there as well. So it's
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 5: interesting to me. Millennials are the ones who are in
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 5: the biggest of all the grinders right now, meaning they're
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 5: at the most expensive time of paying mortgages and raising
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 5: kids and all of that. So they are the ones,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 5: of course, who are seeing a higher dollar amount as
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 5: potentially necessary rather than the other generations.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 2: Do any of these people have a concept of what
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 2: the median or mean salary is in the United States?
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 2: Because I think these salaries exceed what is largely considered
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 2: to be the norm. Oh, absolutely.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 5: These expectations that they're saying in the survey here, you're
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 5: not going to find that many people out there. Remember,
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 5: the question was, what's your ideal? And that's how hard
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 5: it is to get to the ideal. Not a lot
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 5: of people are in these situations. So some of the
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 5: other conclusions that they drew here are 60% of them
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 5: said poor money habits are a deal breaker in a
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 5: new relationship.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 5: 60%.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 4: That's good.
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 5: What's the other 40% thinking? What are you looking for?
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 5: If you're saying, you know, you can be a financial mess,
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 5: just be good looking. I don't really care.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 2: As I was writing down, one should evaluate the person's
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: earning potential. What are they earning now may not be
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 2: enough down the road, but you know what, Brian, like you,
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 2: when I first started out working, I didn't make as
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 2: much as I've made in every year thereafter, right? the
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 2: earnings are going to go up. And if you combine
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 2: that earnings with a spouse who also is able to
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 2: make a decent amount of money, the two and two
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 2: added together can provide you a quite comfortable life in marriage.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 5: Exactly. That's coming from experience. And here's a conclusion also
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 5: that comes from obviously experienced people in this survey. For
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 5: the ones who flagged themselves as married or at least cohabitating,
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 5: 72 percent of them said financial compatibility mattered more than
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 5: emotional and shared interests and lifestyle and all those kinds
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 5: of things. Well, I think people do come to the
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 5: conclusion eventually that, you know what, looking back, the reason
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 5: we are not such a mess is because we were
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 5: financially compatible to begin with.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, doesn't that make sense? Maybe it isn't
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: the money doesn't make you happy. But the absence of
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 2: money creates problems and challenges in any relationship that makes
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 2: you unhappy. More stability on the financial side frees your
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 2: time up psychologically to enjoy the benefits of being married,
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: which are very long in length. Absolutely.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 5: And a shared goal of let's make more than we
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 5: spend for the balance of our lives really, really does
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 5: lead to happiness. Does the money create it?
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 3: No. No.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 5: But the teamwork does.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: That's where it helps to really seriously evaluate your potential spouse.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: How are they thinking? Are they going out and racking
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 2: up big credit card debts? Do they buy stuff they
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 2: don't need? Oh, Brian James taking me back a lot
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 2: of years. And God bless you to my wife. I
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 2: love Paulette, and we've been very happy and compatible over
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 2: the years because we shared that exact idea and those
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 2: exact goals. Quick, Brian, I wanted to mention because one
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 2: of the reasons I'm married to her is I learned
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 2: how to cook. And good morning to my mom who
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 2: cooked me. It was part of the wonderful birthday meal
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 2: I had yesterday, but mom taught me how to cook.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 2: I found that to be a very, very successful date.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 2: Ask a girl out and cook her a meal at
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 2: your place.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 5: Reasonably priced. It shows that you've got something unique going on.
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 5: You're not swiping a credit card for $ 250 at a
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 5: nice restaurant and portraying yourself as something that you're not.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 2: And you don't have to go out and spend money
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 2: on a movie when you've got an infinite number right
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 2: in front of you. You can choose together what movie
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 2: you want to watch. Steer the entertainment. And you've got
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 2: the bottle of wine there with the meal you cooked.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 2: It turns out that it can really work out to
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 2: your advantage and you don't have to spend much.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 5: Creative dating thoughts from Brian Thomas.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 2: Amen, brother. And cheers to the soundbite, Joe Strecker. Cheers
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: to the soundbite. Brian James, thank you to Allworth Financial,
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 2: your company, for sharing every week. I appreciate our conversations
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 2: and discussions. And thanks for shedding a little bit more
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 2: light on cryptocurrency for me. I don't feel nearly as
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 2: bad as I did before. Brian, we'll do this again
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 2: next Monday. I hope you have a great week.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 5: Thanks for letting me talk to your listeners.
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 2: Who day?
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 5: 3-0 next week.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 2: Amen, brother. I'm with you on that as well. It's 835.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 2: We're going to hear from Sheryl. It's 839 at 55KRC,
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 2: the talk station. Better late than never, especially when it
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 2: comes to Honor Flight Tri-State. Late edition on the 55KRC
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 2: morning show. Cheryl Pop says, hey, can I talk to
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: Brian about the Honor Flight Tri-State tomorrow? I'm like, heck yeah, man.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 2: Let's get it on the air because I want everyone
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 2: to show up at CVG, either for the send-off first
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 2: thing in the morning, but I think more importantly, the
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 2: return home and the welcome home party. Cheryl Pop from
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 2: Honor Flight Tri-State, welcome back, and thanks for what you
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 2: guys do throughout the year.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Brian. Sorry for the late notice.
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 2: It's all right.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 10: We're ready to fly tomorrow. The morning opening ceremony will
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 10: start about quarter of 6 a.m. If that's too early
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 10: for you, then we have the welcome home, which is
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 10: at 8.30 tomorrow night. We'll be coming in on a
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 10: charter flight. And come on over and welcome all the
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 10: veterans back. We have 88 veterans going on this flight.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 10: And also some of our new veteran guardian ambassadors.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 9: Who will be guardians to the veterans.
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 10: Over age 65. We're just starting a new program to
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 10: try to get some of the younger veterans involved, too,
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 10: as they come home.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 2: So you're employing currently young veterans, those who have just
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 2: recently been discharged, to be guardians for the older folks
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: down the road. Are they going to be prioritized? I'm
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 2: just asking you that with lack of information. My understanding
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 2: was there was a waiting list to be guardians. Am
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 2: I wrong on that?
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 9: Oh, there is a waiting list for sure.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 10: But some of the combat veterans that are over age
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 10: 65 ask us, do you have anybody that's a combat
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 10: veteran that can go with us? And that kind of
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 10: started this, you know, we're taking two this time. But
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 10: appointed guardians are always needed. That's not the point. This
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 10: is just like a Marine goes with a Marine, a
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 10: Navy guy goes with a Navy guy, an Army goes
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 10: with an Army.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 9: Just a little bit.
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 10: More of a healing thing than pulling someone off our
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 10: waiting list that is, of course, a patriot but may
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 10: not have the same combat experience.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 2: No, but that shared experience can be really valuable. I
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 2: would imagine if some of the veterans, as you well know,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 2: we all know from talking to veterans over the years
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 2: in veterans organizations, they just don't like to talk about it.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 2: You know, war is hell, and to relive the experience
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: by saying things out loud brings back all those flashback
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 2: memories of combat and everything. But maybe... You know, a younger,
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 2: recently discharged combat veteran, they could share their experiences, maybe
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 2: the difference in combat, what they experience in the real
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 2: world out in the field. It might bring about some
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 2: healing and help. I think it's an outstanding idea.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 10: Well, I think, too, the older veterans, now that they
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 10: have made it, if you will, through life, that they
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 10: have a lot to offer these younger ones that are
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 10: just coming back. And we're thinking, you know, it's like
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 10: a mentoring program almost. Plus, you spend a day with somebody,
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 10: you know, 18 hours. You get to know someone pretty well.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 10: And it might be somebody that could maybe continue on
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 10: in that mentoring role after they come back.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 2: It's all good.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 10: We did a little bit last year, and it was
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 10: working out all the returnees are still together and having
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 10: a great time going out to lunch and dinner and
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 10: getting involved with each other's families. So we're just now
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 10: launching what we call our push so that we can
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 10: find more combat veterans and maybe we can help some
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 10: of the younger ones. And they're in a guardian position,
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 10: so it hasn't really changed our mission at all. We're
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 10: 65 and over for our veterans, and then just a
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 10: few of these combat veterans are going to be sprinkled.
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 9: In as we go along.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 2: Great. Now, the makeup of the veterans on the flight,
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 2: not the recent ones, the ones that are acting as guardians,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 2: but the... senior veterans, primarily Vietnam, I imagine?
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 10: Yes, they're mostly Vietnam. We just have a few that
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 10: maybe served but were not in Vietnam, so they don't
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 10: feel like they can put that down. Maybe they were
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 10: in an early desert storm or Somalia, some other conflict.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 10: So The ones that we actually call Vietnam veterans are
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 10: the ones that are actually in that conflict.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 2: All right. I was just going to say, you do
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 2: prioritize the senior veterans, correct?
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 10: Oh, absolutely. We take the 88 oldest that are on
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 10: our waiting list for every flight. That's where we start.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 10: And we just go down, you know, there might be
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 10: a cancellation. We had someone call yesterday that was ill
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 10: and in the hospital. So, you know, we try to
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 10: fill it in real quickly to fill the plane back up.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 10: But It's an ongoing thing. I mean, it's very fluid,
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 10: especially with.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 9: It being tomorrow.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 10: So, no, the 88 oldest always go first.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 10: That has not changed, and it will not change.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, so for the interested veterans out there, whether they're
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: interested in being one of the senior veterans that gets
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 2: flown there with a guardian or someone who wants to
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 2: be a guardian, that's all at HonorFlightTriState.org to sign up
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 2: and register?
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 10: The new program, too, has its own little website because
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 10: it's a different application. and that's combat-vet.org, but it's associated
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 10: with Honor Flight.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: Now, is there a link over at honorflighttristate.org to that
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 2: particular site?
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 10: You have to go straight to combat-vet.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 9: And we'll link it up. Like I said, this is very,
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 9: very new, so.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 10: We're still getting all of our electronics in place. But
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 10: if you go to the Honor Flight, even contact me.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 10: If you go to honorflighttristate.org, we can hook you up.
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 2: All right, now the important details for my listening audience
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 2: who aren't going to be on the flight or beyond
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 2: just signing up to register for an honor flight is
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 2: being at CVG for the return ceremony. It's always amazing,
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 2: and it sounds to me, I haven't been to one
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 2: for a while. I was on two flights, but it
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 2: sounds like they keep getting bigger every time.
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 7: They do.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 10: We're really outgrowing our space. CVG makes accommodations for us
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 10: like you would not believe, but it starts at 830.
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 10: in the evening in the main rotunda area there, right
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 10: by ticketing on the main level. And it's, you know,
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 10: it's parking. It's, you know, it's fun.
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 9: We have bands.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 10: We have reenactors, military people, plus every family. And the
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 10: families that are coming to pick up their veterans, sometimes
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 10: they really surprise them with how many family members they
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 10: can get together this late in the evening.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 9: But it's huge.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 10: And it's, you know, they've had a long day, but
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 10: It's kind of like the icing on the cake. When
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 10: they come back, it's like, oh, especially to Vietnam, this
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 10: is the greeting that I never got.
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 10: I came back by myself, and now I'm coming back
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 10: with my whole new Honor Flight family, and here's my
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 10: family to greet me.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 2: Well, and I've observed in a sort of tongue-in-cheek fashion,
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 2: there's quite a few allergy outbreaks, and I'm willing to
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 2: suggest that it's almost as if someone just threw a
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 2: tear gas canister in the room because of the emotion
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 2: that's going on.
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 9: You're right.
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 10: It kind of lets them loose. And a lot of
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 10: them say, you know, it's been very healing. You know,
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 10: it's a very used word, but I think they kind
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 10: of let go of some of their baggage. You know,
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 10: 50 years is a long time to carry all this regret,
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 10: and we try to make them feel like rock stars
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 10: on these flights so that they really get the feeling
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 10: that they're important to us. They just kind of fell
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 10: through the gap, but not anymore. I was on a flight.
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 2: And they're a hell of a lot more important than
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 2: rock stars, Cheryl. You know that.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 3: I know that.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: My listening audience knows that.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 10: I mean the rah-wah when I get off the plane.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 10: It's kind of like a championship team coming home. Like
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 10: the Reds just won the World Series or something.
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 9: It's kind of on that level.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 2: So you know what? Here you go. For all the
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: people who are filled with gloom and doom, oh, my God,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 2: we're all going to die. War is raging all over.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: Inflation is going through the roof. Price of gasoline is
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 2: going to go up. You've got misery floating around. You've
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 2: got a black cloud around your head. How about making
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 2: yourself feel better? Engage in an act of selfishness. By
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 2: going there and experiencing patriotism, smiles, and emotion that is
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 2: a positive emotion, breaking into tears because of all the
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 2: great things that are going on around you, it'll make
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 2: you feel better, and you'll also be doing those veterans
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 2: a huge service by showing up and being there to
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 2: support them when they return. They deserved it when they
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 2: got home from NOM. They didn't get it, so let's
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 2: make it happen tomorrow night at 9 p.m. at CVG. Right,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: Cheryl Popp?
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 9: Sounds like a patriotic party to me.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 2: It sure does. Good for everybody. Tomorrow, CBG, be there.
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 2: Cheryl Popp, thank you and all that are involved with
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: Honor Flight Tri-State, a tremendous organization it is. And you
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 2: let me know when the next flight. Speaking of, let
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 2: me ask you right now, when is the next? Is
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 2: this the last one for the year? What's the schedule, Cheryl?
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 10: No, we have one more left, October 27th. October 27th
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 10: is our last flight of the fall season, and then
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 10: we will have our bourbon and barbecue on November 14th.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 10: That information is.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 9: All on our website, too.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 2: Well, and we'll have you on here to remind folks
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: when those events are coming ahead. How about that?
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 9: Thank you so much, Brian.
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 2: Love you, Cheryl. Thanks for what you do. It's 847.
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 2: Got a couple of minutes to talk after the break here.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 2: Be right back.