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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Empower U · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505-55KRC, Detox Station. Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the dude, man.
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  Speaker 1: I am not. I am Brian Thomas, host of the
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  Speaker 1: 55KRC Morning Show, and wishing everybody a very happy Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Try to make it so anyway. Got Christopher Spitherman coming
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  Speaker 1: up at 720, former vice mayor of the city of Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: every Monday here on the morning show. We are blessed
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  Speaker 1: with his presence. I feel that way anyway. And crime
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Cincinnati, obviously a problem. Every Thursday, Bobby calls
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  Speaker 1: in and gives you an over and an under. Just
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  Speaker 1: a random selection of a number. Is it going to
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  Speaker 1: be more than two was last week's prediction, and it went,
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  Speaker 1: of course, over. Sad to say, got local stories on
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  Speaker 1: that coming to the bottom of the hour. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
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  Speaker 1: the 55 KRC Morning Show. And thank each and every
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  Speaker 1: one of you for tuning in. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: Christopher's going to talk about violence. It's been one of
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  Speaker 1: his rages of late. We'll get him together at 720
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  Speaker 1: and find out together. Money Monday with Brian James. It
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  Speaker 1: is Monday. We do that. Fed rate hike is possible,
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  Speaker 1: which doesn't look real good considering that does have an
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  Speaker 1: impact on the mortgage rates. And on Friday, north of 7%.
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  Speaker 1: First time since May of last year. Yeah, rate 7.0%
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and then up to 7.12% on Friday. So that's
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  Speaker 1: not good. Although the one plus in the, if you're
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  Speaker 1: looking to buy a home, apparently it's one of the
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  Speaker 1: strongest buyers markets on records in spite of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that mortgages are so damn expensive or the interest rate is.
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  Speaker 1: So the sellers out there in the world of homes
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  Speaker 1: outnumbered buyers by 58% last month, which means there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of product on the market, which is obviously good
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  Speaker 1: for buyers. There's some haggle room in there. Maybe we
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  Speaker 1: can talk about this a little bit with Brian James,
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  Speaker 1: because this is exactly the situation my wife and I
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  Speaker 1: found ourselves in the first time we bought a house
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  Speaker 1: back in 1990 when we had to go with a
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  Speaker 1: 723 balloon mortgage with eight and an eighth. Balloon mortgages,
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  Speaker 1: of course, are fixed rate. Well, ours was seven years.
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  Speaker 1: And then at seven years, much like an adjustable rate mortgage, boom,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to refinance it and lock it in at
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  Speaker 1: whatever the rate happens to be. And that's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a gamble. Adjustable rate mortgages always are. You
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  Speaker 1: get a lower rate up front, but then again, it
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  Speaker 1: adjusts regularly, which means that the interest rates continue to
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  Speaker 1: go up. You're going to be paying more on a
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  Speaker 1: monthly basis. So what we did, though, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: throwing this out because you can negotiate more favorable terms
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  Speaker 1: from sellers, obviously, if there is a buyer's market. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things you might want to consider doing is
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  Speaker 1: what Paulette and I did, which is get the seller
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  Speaker 1: to pay points. You pay more for the home, but
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  Speaker 1: with the seller paying some additional points up front, you
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  Speaker 1: can buy yourself into a lower interest rate, stabilizing it
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  Speaker 1: for a longer period of time. In our case, the
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  Speaker 1: seller paid three points, so we upped the offering price
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  Speaker 1: to cover the points that they were paying for up front,
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  Speaker 1: which gave us a lower interest rate. Now, it's just
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  Speaker 1: something you might want to consider. It worked for us.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I can tell you. So not good news
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  Speaker 1: on that. Anyhow, so if the Fed hikes the rates again,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things that might impact mortgage rates,
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  Speaker 1: which means they might go up again. Also, diesel fuel
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  Speaker 1: is a real problem. Inflation, we'll talk about that with
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  Speaker 1: Brian James. Is it worse now or was it more
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  Speaker 1: volatile during COVID? Now, you remember during COVID, Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: we had 9% inflation. So, yeah, we're looking at 2%
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  Speaker 1: or 3%. Probably going to get worse considering the diesel
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  Speaker 1: fuel crisis we have in this world. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz being shut down. Saudi Arabia also lost
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  Speaker 1: its pipeline, the one that was going land, that was
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  Speaker 1: allowing it to ship oil over land, avoiding the Strait
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  Speaker 1: of Hormuz. You've got the Houthis now creating problems with
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  Speaker 1: the other strait. We have a real problem with diesel.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Donald Trump was on out the other day,
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration, considering whether to use the Defense Production Act
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  Speaker 1: to expand U.S. oil refining capacity. We don't have enough
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  Speaker 1: refining capacity. And of course, one of the problems is
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  Speaker 1: building refineries, which in our country takes decades. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you could graze the skids, I don't know how long,
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  Speaker 1: if you had no impediment to building a refinery, locals
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  Speaker 1: weren't filing NIMBY lawsuits, environmentalists weren't firing environmental lawsuits. The money,
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  Speaker 1: the willingness to invest was there by the oil producers
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  Speaker 1: who are obviously expressing reluctance because administrations change and attitudes
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  Speaker 1: toward refineries change. If all that impediment was gone, How
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  Speaker 1: long would it take to build a refinery? I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a good question. A couple of years? I'm guessing.
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  Speaker 1: But again, if you immediately decided you're going to start
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  Speaker 1: building refineries so we'd increase our diesel capacity, you are
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  Speaker 1: still stuck with a long period of time. This is
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  Speaker 1: called a lack of forward thinking. And of course, you
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  Speaker 1: can probably blame the green alarmists in the world for
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  Speaker 1: no one considering pursuing additional refining capacity because, well, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be using gasoline or diesel anymore in
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  Speaker 1: the future.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Anyhow, I wanted to start, I didn't start on a
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  Speaker 1: positive note, but I wanted to throw out something positive
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  Speaker 1: because we are dealing with this existential, yes, I use
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  Speaker 1: that word again, with regard to AI, artificial intelligence, and
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  Speaker 1: all the big players in AI are saying, we need
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  Speaker 1: to put the brakes on this. You heard the gloom
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  Speaker 1: and doom scenarios, wiping out mankind, the idea that AI
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  Speaker 1: is going to start working on itself, improving itself without
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  Speaker 1: any human involvement that it breaks free of the parameters
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  Speaker 1: of AI and does nefarious things, including engaging in criminal
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  Speaker 1: activity so it can solve whatever problem that's been presented. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the technology is moving faster than I think even the
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  Speaker 1: industry leaders can handle. So you've got Anthropic and Meta
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  Speaker 1: and everybody, including Elon Musk, saying, yeah, we need to
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  Speaker 1: tap the brake pedal on this. The big problem with that, China.
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  Speaker 1: It's a global competition and no one really truly believes
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  Speaker 1: that China has any interest in putting the brakes on
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  Speaker 1: because it wants to win the technology. But is it
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  Speaker 1: good at all? Yes. I saw this heartwarming ad. You
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  Speaker 1: probably saw it too. And you know how I love
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  Speaker 1: the American veteran. Meta announced that it is giving away
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  Speaker 1: their Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. And I've seen those and
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  Speaker 1: I find them creepy. And if I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: someone who's got them on, I'm like, what.
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Are you recording everything? But they're giving away these glasses
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  Speaker 1: to the 130,000 roughly, plus or minus, legally blind veterans
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  Speaker 1: in America. And if you watch the commercial, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, it sees for the veteran. It explains
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  Speaker 1: what's in front of that veteran. Like if you're walking
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  Speaker 1: down the street, the illustration was, you know, like a,
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  Speaker 1: where's the flag? And the AI glasses direct the veteran
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  Speaker 1: to the direction of the flag so the veteran can
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  Speaker 1: stand there and, well, of course, salute the flag or
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  Speaker 1: otherwise acknowledge the the beautiful thing that is the American flag,
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  Speaker 1: but so much more. Doing the work of a guide dog,
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  Speaker 1: for example. Saying out loud, reading letters for the disabled
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  Speaker 1: blind veteran.
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  Speaker 3: Reading.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, your eyes are open to the amazing
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  Speaker 1: realities of this technology and can be used for some
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  Speaker 1: really good. And they're doubling down on it. Not only
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  Speaker 1: are they just giving these things away, but they appreciate,
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  Speaker 1: I think on some level, that You know, this new
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  Speaker 1: technology might be a little confusing to veterans. It's a
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  Speaker 1: new technology that must be worked out. Bugs need to
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  Speaker 1: be ironed out. So they've joined together with the Blinded
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  Speaker 1: Veterans Association, along with others like Tunnel to Towers, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of organizations to create a program, webinars where veterans
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  Speaker 1: can troubleshoot issues in real time, meta and partner organizations
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  Speaker 1: running in-person events nationwide so veterans can get their glasses,
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  Speaker 1: get hands-on guidance, connect with others in the program. Blind
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  Speaker 1: Veterans of America developed a specialized training guide covering everything
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  Speaker 1: from activating voice commands and managing daily tasks. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be good for Meta, too, as
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  Speaker 1: a business model. They're trying to get people to buy
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  Speaker 1: these glasses, folks that aren't disabled, folks that can see fine.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you need them? Well, maybe this program, they're hoping,
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  Speaker 1: will iron out all the bugs and defects, give these
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  Speaker 1: blind veterans a Well, a new lease on life, allow
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  Speaker 1: them freedom and independence while Meta learns and how this
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  Speaker 1: product can better serve mankind. Hopefully, anyway, of course there's
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  Speaker 1: a profit motive there. We get that. They say Meta's
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  Speaker 1: veteran program, a test case for whether AI wearables can
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  Speaker 1: deliver on their promise. By targeting these blind veterans with clear,
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  Speaker 1: urgent needs, it'll give you a great illustration of, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, maybe AI isn't all bad. Maybe we can
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  Speaker 1: benefit from it. And I think there's something to say
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  Speaker 1: about that. But then again, when you back away from
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  Speaker 1: this really cool, great thing for the disabled veteran, then
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  Speaker 1: you run into the catastrophe that AI can probably be
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  Speaker 1: and is unfolding as a real challenge, most notably for
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  Speaker 1: our young people who are getting dumber as a consequence
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  Speaker 1: of AI. Alyssa Finley did a wonderful op-ed piece on this.
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  Speaker 1: And the stats are alarming. Kids are relying on AI
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  Speaker 1: to do all the labor, mental work, logical reasoning skills
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  Speaker 1: are being eroded and washed away because it's so much
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  Speaker 1: easier to just ask AI to solve the problem. And
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  Speaker 1: we know that does not create smart minds. It creates
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  Speaker 1: a dumb population who will ultimately be reliant on AI.
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  Speaker 1: And that in and of itself is frightening. So nice
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  Speaker 1: balance being struck here. And I suppose the elephant in
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  Speaker 1: the room, Maybe Chinese Communist Party. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: the Russians are on the cutting edge of AI, but
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  Speaker 1: there's so much downside.
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  Speaker 4: On this.
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  Speaker 1: And that's largely, I think, behind what's people's motivation to
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  Speaker 1: go after these data centers. Yeah, you want to kill
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  Speaker 1: the thing that allows this to happen, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: stopping what it can do. And you're also relying on
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  Speaker 1: those data centers. If you want to send texts out,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to search the internet, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to do anything beyond just using a artificial intelligence program,
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  Speaker 1: that's what that data center's for. So are you willing
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  Speaker 1: to give up all of the benefits of being hooked
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  Speaker 1: up to the Internet to get rid of the data
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  Speaker 1: center because AI is scary as hell? That's what they're
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  Speaker 1: struggling with right now, the scary as hell part. 516-55KRC,
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Legitimate question. So, okay, back to the AI. Anthropic CEO
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  Speaker 1: Dario Amodi, Amodi, okay, well, he had a new essay
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  Speaker 1: he published on the 12th of September, and this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, worried about this artificial intelligence, demanding that AI
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  Speaker 1: companies slow down the development because it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a problem. He said that simply investing in risk prevention
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  Speaker 1: is not enough. Instead, he said companies developing the frontier models,
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  Speaker 1: these new AI models, should deliberately slow the rate at
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  Speaker 1: which they increase their capabilities. This is a warning to
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the industry. We need to gather around, in
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  Speaker 1: spite of the fact that we're all in competition, and
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  Speaker 1: put the brakes on this. These systems are now self-learning systems.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that if slowing down brought us even an
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  Speaker 1: extra year or two before models reach critical levels of
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  Speaker 1: capability and we use that time to advance alignment, we
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  Speaker 1: could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong.
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  Speaker 1: These veiled words demanding industry cooperation. Save us from ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: They're literally asking for intervention by our elected officials. They
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  Speaker 1: want government intervention, for example. And I step back from
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  Speaker 1: this and I think, you know, it's hard enough for
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  Speaker 1: me and I don't, I sure as heck don't know
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  Speaker 1: everything about everything in this world. But do we think
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  Speaker 1: our elected officials have a grasp of this? And that
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  Speaker 1: they are capable and how quickly AI is moving so
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  Speaker 1: much so that they're screaming the industry, the people who
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  Speaker 1: developed it are screaming for brakes to put on, be
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  Speaker 1: put on. Can Bernie Sanders solve the problem? Referring to
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  Speaker 1: it as a rare moment of unity. Leaders and researchers
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  Speaker 1: and multiple rival AI companies all saying, hey, Amodi's right.
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  Speaker 1: Anthropic CEO Amodi is right. I agree with Dario Amodi
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  Speaker 1: that we need to pace the frontier. That's a comment
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  Speaker 1: from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. He wants to give independent
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  Speaker 1: evaluators employee-like access to systems so outside evaluators can, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: run checks? Who are the outside evaluators? Elon Musk said
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. Dario is right. He posted on social media. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Modi suggested a three-step framework to pace the frontier. Phase one,
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  Speaker 1: give independent safety evaluators permanent employee-like access to frontier AI companies.
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  Speaker 1: Anthropics said it'll do that. asked other major developers to
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  Speaker 1: also do that. So they're stepping up and being the
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  Speaker 1: first one to volunteer to have these independent safety evaluators.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who those people are. Second, phase two,
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  Speaker 1: require frontier AI companies to coordinate on common safety standards
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  Speaker 1: so that one company is in place at a competitive disadvantage.
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  Speaker 1: So all a unified approach on this with equal safety
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  Speaker 1: standards applying to all of us. Third, they say the
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  Speaker 1: most difficult task making agreements with China to prevent an
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  Speaker 1: AI race in which developers feel forced to advance faster
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  Speaker 1: than safety measures can keep up. So you've got companies
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  Speaker 1: in competition. Any antitrust lawyers out there want to contemplate
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  Speaker 1: the world or the vision of this? Will there be
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  Speaker 1: litigation because the AI companies are, in spite of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they're independent, they are capitalist companies, they're all
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  Speaker 1: coordinating their efforts together. Can this be argued to be
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  Speaker 1: price-fixing or something analogous? I don't know. That just popped
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  Speaker 1: into my head. But fine, if they all get together
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  Speaker 1: in the name of saving humanity, which is what I
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  Speaker 1: think Amodi is suggesting, does China care enough about saving
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  Speaker 1: humanity that it's willing to pause or slow down its
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  Speaker 1: progress on AI? I'm a bit jaded and cynical that
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  Speaker 3: I will be using the iHeartMedia app to continue to listen.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the plug, Tom. Yeah, 55c.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: iHeart. com.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Get your own.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Right on. Yeah, this whole thing with AI, these people
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: are wanting AI. Government involvement?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: What?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because all the other things the government gets involved
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: in work out great, right?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: That's why I brought up the point about who in government,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: who in our elected officials knows anything on the level
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: that Altman or any of these other people know about AI?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: They're the ones freaking out. They know all of the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: whys and wherefores, how it exists and how it works
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and everything. Please save us from ourselves. I mean, think
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: about that. How scary must it be, Tom?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: The people who are creating it are asking for help.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: They're freaking out.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: So that it doesn't get out of hand.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: That doesn't give us a comforting feeling, does it?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm thinking about altering viruses in
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the Wuhan Institute of Virology to make them deadly to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: human beings. Why are we doing this?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: That was Russian disinformation. Wait a minute. It's crazy. We
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: have enough evidence, people. If you just pay attention... You
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: don't have to spend but five or ten minutes online
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: to just convince yourself government cannot be trusted. They're a
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: bunch of bumbling knuckleheads. I mean, it's us going in
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: and making decisions for the rest of the people, and
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: it's just people with whatever bad intentions or, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: just people make mistakes or screw up. You know, we
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: cannot trust government to do stuff. I like to have
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: somebody in there that's trying to make a profit making decisions,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: because the representatives we have now, I mean, they're using
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: backdoor agreements and stuff like that. It's ridiculous. I don't
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: understand why we're trying to trust government to do stuff,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: take care of things. It just doesn't make any sense
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: So save your money. Save your money. Save your freedom.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if those measures
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: have proven well. To fail us time in and time out,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, my God, we don't have any answer
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to the problems we're facing. Maybe there's a government solution
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right, right. What is the definition of insanity? Yeah,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: keep on doing the same thing over and over again, people.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: It's still not going to work. So save your money.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Save your freedom. Don't be stupid. Don't vote Democrat. Have
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: a great day.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Take care, Tom. Appreciate you tuning in through the iHeart app.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: You can do the same, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, like Gary has
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: done this morning in New Hampshire. Gary, welcome back to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the morning show. Hope all is well in New Hampshire.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Good morning. I'm going to give this AI shot here.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: They got all these critics. They got this one guy.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: He came out. He's an engineer. He's made all the rounds.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: He's been on 12 different TV shows, numerous talk shows,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: talking about how AI is going to end all of humanity. A,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: what kind of political party does he belong to? How
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: many anti-AI, even though he's been in all the AIs?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I wonder how many NDAs he has signed with Trump.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: all the past employers he has, maybe even to promote
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: regulating the AI industry for their own advantage. So you're right.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: And how many secret payoffs do they have going on that?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I guess we're all left to speculate on stuff like that.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: But it isn't kind of strange that all of the principals,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: including the likes of Elon Musk and, you know, this
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Modi guy have all come out at the same time
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: saying this is a problem. Breaks need to be pressed
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: on it. The problem is we can't get China to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: join in the fun, but that's a critical element to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: slowing the pace of this AI development down. Why would
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: they all get together and say something like that unless they, well,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: if they didn't perceive it to be a genuine problem?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm just kind of wondering.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I think there's a host of self-interest involved in this also.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Isn't self-interest what drove them to develop AI in the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: first place? In spite of the risks and challenges we're
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: going to face as a consequence of it?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, true, but it's also about self-preservation and taking
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: over the industry. And if you're going to tell me
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: that we're going to take a pause on it and
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: China's not, or North Korea and everybody else, I mean,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: look at warfare and how it's developing, right? We have
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: to be on it. This is another Cold War. This
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: is life-changing for everybody. And if Bernie Sanders is going
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: to help you, I got news for you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe Bernie Sanders wants to put a pause on all
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: AI here in the United States because perhaps he wants
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the CCP to win the race.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I wonder how many NDAs he has signed with China.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: There is always that possibility. I see all the swirling
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: questions we have over a technology that a lot of
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: us really don't fully grasp. Just the stars are aligning
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: in a very weird way along these lines, so I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: just must observe that. It's kind of an odd position
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: we find ourselves in where private company CEOs who are
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: themselves invested in being the winners of this technology are
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: now looking at each other going, man, this has to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: slow down or stop. That's not normal in capitalism. KRC,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the talk station. It is 540 on a Monday. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: 950 on AT & T phones, directly to the phones
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I go. Sean, hold on, because Corey was kind enough
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: over to the break. Corey, welcome back to the morning show.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Happy Monday.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Happy Monday, Brian.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: Hey, like Tom earlier, I'm too listening on the iHeart app,
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: and I am traveling to Indianapolis this morning as well.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: What's with you guys in Indy? Tell Tom I said
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: hi when you get there, Corey. Thank you for tuning
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in on the iHeart app. Yeah, appreciate it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: I was calling about the whole Amy Acton thing. I
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: read reports early on that said all the stuff that
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: we're finding out to be true, like no guns was used,
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: all he was doing was pulling the camera.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: But also early reports, too, says it was Amy Acton's.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: Guards that when they rushed the guy to get him
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: to stop recording, they were the ones who knocked the
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: people down.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was suggested that was the case. And then
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: we were left in the dark because, of course, the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: authorities haven't released the video from that. The guy who
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: was filming it himself that got arrested or also any
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: other video that might be swirling around, like video taken
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: by Amy Acton's crew, who apparently walk around with cameras
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: all the time. But then you've got the follow-up incident
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: that was released over the weekend, which shows you, I think,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: their policies and protocols are what led to this. Her
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: people will not allow anyone to ask questions of Amy Acton.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: They'll interfere with someone who's trying to videotape it, even
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: though it's outside in the open, and she's a candidate
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: for governor of the state of Ohio. You can't tell
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: someone they're not allowed to film in a public place.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: That's just what happens all the time.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: Well, my question to it is, if that is all true,
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: why was the guy even arrested at all? Why is
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: the prosecutor prosecuting him? Why is the judge putting the
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: conditions on his release? He's violating his First and Second
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Amendment rights. And they're trying to do the disorderly conduct thing.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: If you look up the statutes, none of his actions
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: fall under any of that disorderly conduct.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Corey, I agree with you, and I think ultimately it'll
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: get dismissed. But in the meantime, he's going to have
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to lawyer up and get himself a criminal defense attorney
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and go into court to have the charges dismissed on
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the reasons you're pointing out. I mean, even the prosecutor
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: at the news report said he didn't hit anybody or
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: accost anybody, if I recall correctly.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: In my opinion, he's a political prisoner. That section of
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: Youngstown is very, very liberal, and I assume, I don't
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: know about the judge, prosecutor, but prosecutor as well. And
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: we don't know anything about his political beliefs. Going off
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: a hunch, usually liberals don't carry guns, just saying. And
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: I think he might be being prosecuted because of that,
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: because he had the wrong think at the wrong place.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: We've never seen this before, have we? Like, who was it,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: that Russian guy in the beatdown in downtown Cincinnati? They
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: demanded some white guy get arrested just because of the optics?
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: This never happens. Corey does it.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Ever.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: No one ever gets charged wrongfully in the name of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: making some broader political point to keep the, well, the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: crazies at bay for a moment in time. Only to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: find out later that, right, there's nothing there. There. Let's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: see what Sean's got this morning. Sean, thanks for calling
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: The Morning Show. Happy Monday.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: Happy Monday to you, sir. I, too, am also listening
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: on the Clear Channel app.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Clear Channel? I heart.
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: I heart.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: That's okay. I thought you were doing that on purpose.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: No, I'm sorry. I haven't had my first cup of
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: coffee yet on my way to work.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: Just wanted to say something about this AI thing.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I think it's not so much the government.
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: Wanting to be involved because they think they can help.
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: I think it's more not wanting us to have something
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: in our possession that helps us be free thinkers.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I think they want to figure out.
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: A way they can, you know, just like Google would recommend,
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: you know, if you do a Google search, it recommends
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: certain things at the top of the list. I think
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: they want, you know, just another way to influence. They
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: don't want it to be logical and free thinking. They
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: want it to you know, keep us going along with
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: the thing.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. You know, garbage in, garbage out.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: People obviously have some legitimate concern over what type of
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: information you're being fed when you ask AI a question.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That's a bias component. But the industry is standing up
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and saying, we need to pause that very thing we're
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: talking about, AI generally speaking, because of all of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: problems that are being, and the red flags that are
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: popping up as AI becomes self-aware and self-learning and And
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: it's capable of developing itself. That's where they're freaking out. So, yeah,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: they wanted this thing perhaps to control us, to dumb
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: us down as a society. And, yeah, we are getting
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: dumber collectively because of it. We're relying on it to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: do the thinking for us. Point well taken. But they've
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: accomplished that. Yeah, but they've accomplished that. Now they're saying, oh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: my God, we've created a monster, and it's worse than
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: we can get our heads around. We need someone to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: come in and stop us from ourself. That's the development
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that's really got me worried. Because normally people who want
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to achieve the goals you're talking about aren't going to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: be self-critical and go out into the world and demand
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: help from the outside. It's crazy. And that's what makes
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: me think it's perhaps worse than people like you or
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I even understand, Sean.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Keep your popcorn out.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: I agree with that. We should listen to the experts
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: and not pretend.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: People shouldn't pretend.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: They are, like you said.
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: What does Bernie Sanders know about AI?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly. That's C. There you go. Thank you very much, John.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: 546-55-CARE City Talk Station. We've got more. We've got to see.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The Talk Station. 551-55KRC, the talk station. Good morning, Dave,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: formerly from Middletown, now from Miamisburg. Yeah, I did talk
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: with Jack Windsor. He was wondering if I saw the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: videos that Jack Windsor from the Ohio Press Network posted
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: on his page of Amy Acton, of course. And you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: can hear the podcast at 55KRC. iheart. com. Jack joins the program
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: every Friday at 830. We'll go to the phones, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: we'll start with Paul. CJ, hang on. Paul, welcome to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the show. Happy Monday.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Hey, happy Monday to you. Can't wait till Friday.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I just want to say a lot. Stating the obvious.
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I'm already there in my mind, Paul.
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: I've got to ask AI how to make it happen quicker.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: True.
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: But I wanted to say thank you so much for
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: the information this morning about the veterans and the metaglasses.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Isn't that cool?
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: It is because I have a father-in-law who is absolutely
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: sight impaired, totally legally blind, and rides a bike.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: Great.
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: So I'm constantly trying to help things with him to
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: better see things, understand things, and it's an ongoing battle,
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: and you can do only so much. And I started
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: looking into AI glasses, and they were cost-prohibitive for him,
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: but I was like, you know, I'll just put the
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: bill for it. But then you came up with that story.
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: Then I went to BVA, which is, I guess, the
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: Blinded Association Association. in Cincinnati or whatever that are working
• 30:19
  Speaker 11: with Meta to give away these. And they have this
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: Wednesday on their website, Cincinnati location is.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Going to do the distribution point and the training for
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: these vets.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, great.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: No kidding.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, man, you guys are on it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it so much.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a life changer. Paul, that was
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: an element that the advertising just announcing that Meta is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: doing this didn't provide. they have this whole network of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: trainers involved and all these various organizations like the Blind
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Veterans Association who are going to help the veterans not
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: only obtain the glasses, but teach them how to use it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, just like the Veterans Service Commission to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: help veterans sign up to get their medical benefits. Apparently,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: there's a challenge right there for some veterans, you know,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: dealing with modern technology. Obviously, this is a big step
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: technological wise. So They're not letting them down. Not only
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: are they providing this thing for free, they're teaching them
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: how to use it. That's awesome.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: It really is.
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: Again, keep on doing the great work you're doing. Keep
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: on digging into those stories and let AI help you
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: with them.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, really.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I haven't done it yet, Paul. I haven't taken that
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: step yet, I'm afraid. Yeah, I'm afraid it might make
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: me lazier than I already am. Let's see what CJ's got. CJ,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, happy Monday to you.
• 31:38
  Speaker 12: I have a couple things to say about AI. I
• 31:41
  Speaker 12: teach a class to teenagers where I teach at about
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: how to make adult decisions. And last Friday with 9-11,
• 31:48
  Speaker 12: I taught them about being curious and not judgmental and
• 31:52
  Speaker 12: how all these heroes of 9-11 had all these stories
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: where people were judging them their entire life, but never
• 31:58
  Speaker 12: curious why they did it. And then they ended up
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: doing heroic things because of all the steps they did.
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: And what we're going to find out today with the
• 32:07
  Speaker 12: AI in this week, what companies out there are naked
• 32:11
  Speaker 12: under the water, playing in water that they shouldn't be
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: playing in. And it's going to be very dangerous to
• 32:17
  Speaker 12: people because they were never curious about what some of
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: these companies are doing. AI is a tremendous tool and
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: it's going to be incredibly helpful. However, if you were
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: not curious over what some of these other companies were
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: doing with AI... and the games that they were playing
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: with it, you're going to leave yourself really dangerous places
• 32:38
  Speaker 12: because you made false judgments of happiness that are going
• 32:43
  Speaker 12: to hurt you financially today if you didn't already sell
• 32:46
  Speaker 12: because it's going to be ugly on the markets.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I guess this is what they're just coming
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to the realization over.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: You mean we've created something that could make a dirty bomb?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Some individual out in the world who's crazy and wants
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to kill everyone? Yeah, apparently that is a real thing.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: or anything else. God almighty. And I will tell you, CJ,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you have statistics to back up the fact that, yes,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: it is making our children dumber. As if we need that.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Useful idiots are being created by artificial intelligence. Alyssa Finley's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: got an op-ed on that. I'm going to dive into
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: that for Top of the Era News. Plus, backed up by, well,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: grade inflation, which is also terrible. It's kind of a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: one-two punch on the young people of America. Just when
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: we need better educated young people, we're We're just, well,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: in the name of, I don't know, woke-ism or ideological
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: problems or just sheer laziness. Laziness?
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yo.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: 606, the 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas right here.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Glad to be here.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: It's Monday. I hate Mondays, but we'll muddle through together.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Of course, Monday is Smithervent Monday. Coming up at 720,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor, getting it off his chest.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Probably commenting on violence in downtown. One moment before I
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: get to Carl, who's on the line. Money Money with
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Brian James, 8.05. We'll talk about a Fed rate hike
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: possible as I stare at another article talking about how
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: interest rates for mortgages have gone north of 7%. Not good.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Fed rate hike may be going to influence that. Inflation. Yes,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: we have an inflation problem. Diesel fuel is a huge problem.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: We'll see if he can tie diesel fuel into that.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Everybody's saying expect your grocery bill to get worse. We
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: don't have enough refineries. We don't have, anyhow. Jay Rissover
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: is a new Empower You seminar. Jay will join the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: program at 840. Take it over for Dan Raggett. God
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: bless you, Jay Rissover, for doing that. It couldn't be
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in better hands. Dan did such a wonderful job with
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: creating Empower You and all the wonderful education opportunities. First semester,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: September 17th, we're going to be meeting the judicial candidates.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Jay will join the program and talk about that and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: some of the other upcoming events. Quickly, before Carl joins
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the program, he's usually got some updates and information about
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati. So going back to last Thursday... Bobby's joking prediction,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: sort of semi-joking about the over and under on violent
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: crime in downtown. Last night, Price Hill, 2,500 block of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Ring Place, report of a shooting. Male in his late
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: teens was suffering two gunshot wounds, serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: No suspect information at the time of the reporting. Millvale,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: man hospitalized after a shooting in Millvale. Saturday night, midnight, roughly,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: 3,300 block of Bowling Green Court. crash involving three vehicles. Afterwards,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: an altercation escalated into violence. One of the guys pulled
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: out a gun and shot the other guy. Gunshot wounds
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: are reported to the chest and wrist of at least
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: one person. That person remains in hospitalized. And then finally,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: number three, so it's over, he predicted, I believe, too.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Police investigating a shooting occurred in Coryville near the University
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. Joe, didn't they change policing to avoid problems
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and crimes in the University of Cincinnati area? I thought
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Interim Police Chief Henning talked about that.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: That's what Perval said. Didn't work. Guess the memo didn't
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: reach everyone. So we've got another shooting there. Happened near
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the Cincy Steak and Lemonade on Short Vine Street. Guy
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: shot in the stomach after another man walked up to
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: him and then ran off. Apparently, Short Vine had to
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: be shut down, and I don't know if there's any
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: suspect information. But there's three, at least three that were reported. Carl,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: thank you for calling this morning, and happy Monday to you.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Happy Monday.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: Say, I have a public service announcement for the residents
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: of Cincinnati, the 13 neighborhoods where the trash did not
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: get picked up last week.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: The trash will be picked up this week. They do
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: not want you to put your can out until... The
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: regular trash day, the email from Cincy Alerts mentions that
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: there is a staffing shortage. Now, this is not the
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: first time that this has happened this year. And if
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: there's anybody from media listening, there might be a story here.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Why do you think they're having a staffing shortage, Carl?
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: But like I said, it happened earlier this year. It
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: affected me. This email came out on Friday. It just
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: boggles my mind. You know, we go through the roads
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: are in poor condition and now they're not able to
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: pick up the trash. And people have trash every week.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Every week.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: You know, their cans are full.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Would you call picking up trash, Carl, a key core infrastructure,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a key service that government should be providing? I can
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: only imagine what the world would look like if we
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: didn't have trash cleanup, which is exactly why I salute.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the men and women at Rumpke all the time, it's
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the one bill I get on a monthly basis that
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I have no problem paying because I can envision a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: world where my garbage cans aren't taken away.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Jeez.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Appreciate the heads up, Carl. Silence may be deafening from
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the administration. Can't even get the garbage picked up?
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, look.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Elections have consequences. As I look at the dark blue
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: map on the most recent city of Cincinnati election, realize
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: that people, well.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: You make a bed, you got to lie in it
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: and take along with everything that goes with it. Pivoting
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: back over, I got to get this Alicia Finley thing
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: in because we're talking about AI. There's some great things
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: with AI. I acknowledge that. But the freakout that's happening
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: among all the industry leaders and demanding that brakes be
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: put on, whether voluntarily or by government edict, that's scary.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: They're revealing all kinds of terrible things. So we got
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the wonderful reality of Meta donating $ 130, 000 AI glasses to
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: blind U.S. veterans. And if you saw the commercial, this
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: is awesome. My American veterans out there, blind folks are
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: going to be able to live independently if those glasses,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: as revealed on the television program, are even remotely like
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: what is depicted. So good stuff. But then the bad.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Alyssa Finley, yes, children really are getting dumber. And she
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: writes in the journal, as machines get smarter, kids are
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: getting dumber. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have been matched
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: by an astonishing decline in student learning. More evidence arrived
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: last week from the Program for International Student Assessment, and
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that measures skills of 15-year-olds around the world. They do
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: it every three or four years. Between 2018 and 2025,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: reading performance fell in roughly three-quarters of all countries. U.S.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: math and reading scores fell by the equivalent of three
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: quarters of a year of learning. And of course, we
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: trailed China Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, the U.K., Canada,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and Australia in learning. Good.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: The report says most troubling is the decline in the
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: very skills that matter most in the AI age. Evaluating information,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: making connections across multiple sources, and thinking critically about what
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: we read. The instances of hasty reading in which students
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: read quickly but inaccurately nearly doubled between 2018 and 2025.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: The point that, you know, she mentioned COVID school shutdowns did,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: in fact, contribute to the learning loss, although not the
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: primary culprit, given that scores fell in countries that kept
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: schools mostly open. But there are two common denominators across
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: most countries where scores fell.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Ready?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Increasing classroom distractions And there it is, reliance on artificial intelligence. Now,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: insofar as distractions are concerned, she said one-third of the
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: students on these scores on average in developed countries reported
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: that noise and disorder disrupted lessons. About 30% saying classmates
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: don't listen to teachers. Now, pause for a moment. If
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the school classroom is noisy and disorderly, where does the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: solution lie? I would imagine it's the teacher. Anyway, one
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: in five reported they couldn't work well because of distraction.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Countries where students reported stricter discipline, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: experienced small or no learning declines. Oh, wow, you mean
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: discipline equals order equals quiet equals learning. How about that?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: As for artificial intelligence pivoting over, nearly half the students
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: in economically developed countries say they use chatbots every week.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Kids who didn't use AI for drafting texts scored 28
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: percentage points higher on average than those who used it
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: almost every day, equivalent of one and a half school years.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: She acknowledges correlation doesn't prove causation, but it does suggest
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: AI may be becoming a crutch, which is why I
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: try to steer clear of it in my world. According
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to the report, in the same way that we do
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: not become fit by watching sports, but by doing sports...
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Learning does not occur through the consumption of content, but
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: as a productive cognitive struggle of the mind with new material.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Where technology short-circuits the productive struggle of learning, it will
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: undercut students' development. Yeah, you've got to use your logic
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and reasoning skills. Just don't let someone feed you the answer.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: That's not thinking. This undercutting of students' learning development presents
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: a growing problem in the U.S. and likely other countries.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: She observes kids spend Much of class playing games and
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: watching videos on devices. I struggle with even thinking about
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: that reality. You mean there's a teacher in a classroom
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: that is allowing a kid to play around on his
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: phone playing, I don't know, Candy Crush or something? How
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: is that a possibility? Going back to that discipline or
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: lack thereof, teachers award A's for no effort. Since many
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: schools have banned homework, kids while away their afternoons on
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: social media where proper grammar and syntax are passe. I
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: try to mind my grammar when I'm sending texts, and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I know I'm like the only human being that bothers
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: to put a period or at least try to spell
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: correctly and use correct grammar. I feel like I'm wasting
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: my time along that, considering what I get back in response. Anyway, sorry.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: According to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute survey published last week,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: half of high school students and recent graduates... say they
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: use social media during class every day. Devices are supposed
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: to be used for instructional purposes in class. 58% said
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: peers watch videos, use social media, or engage in off-task activities.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: They're screwing around. Are students really to blame, she asked.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: As a result of their less mature brains, kids exhibit
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: less impulse control and self-restraint than adults. Assigning in-class lessons
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: on devices invites kids to rush through them so they
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: can goof off. The result? hasty reading and math. At
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the same time, AI is making it easier to succeed
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: in school without putting in the work. 48% of students
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: in the Fordham survey admitted to using AI to solve
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: math problems. 36% to summarize books. Remember book reports? Cliff
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Notes was the cheat back in the day. AI will
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: do it in a second. 29% use it to write
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: first drafts of essays and 26% to help during quizzes
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: and tests. 62% agree that most students are using AI
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: for assignments that were supposed to be completed without it. 57%
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: said peers who have done no real work are still
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: getting good grades thanks to AI and, of course, grade inflation.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Academic standards have also eased, with 69% saying they're allowed
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to retake tests at least once to improve grades. There's
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: that mention of grade inflation. Alyssa Finley pointing out it's
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: become so endemic that 44% of students who scored below
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: 1,000 on the SAT The bottom half reported receiving all
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: or mostly A's in school. Let that sink in. College
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Board in 2024 shortened SAT reading passages in the exam
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: itself to help kids with short attention spans. And in conclusion,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: because of this dumbing down of education, the PISA report says,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: In a world increasingly flooded with information, our students are
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: less likely to think deeply and separate signal from noise.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Politicians and so-called AI doomers are sounding the alarms that
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: AI could destroy humanity. The clearer and more present danger
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: is that young minds liberated from work and struggle turn
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: into slop. Amen, Alicia Finley. A question. Let it float
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: out there amongst yourselves in a world that seems reliant
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: upon useful idiots and politicians who like to pull the
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: wool over the rise and tell you they're offering the
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: grandest solutions to all of life's problems. We just need
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: more money. We just need a new program. Yeah, a
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: useful idiot will buy into that and not reflect on
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: history and the miserable failure that all these programs have
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: been over the years and the amount of debt we've
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: accumulated trying to make them happen. 618 right now, 55KRC
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Detox Station. You know John Ryan would love to hear
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Detox Station. It is 622-55KRC Detox Station. It's Monday. Happy
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Monday to you. One hour from now, Christopher Smithman. In
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: the meantime, let's go to the phone and see what
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Gary's got to say this morning. Hey, Gary, thanks for
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: calling in. Happy Monday to you.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Hey, how are you doing today?
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Well, for a Monday, I can say I'm doing pretty well, Gary.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Not firing on all cylinders. I never do on a Monday,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I had heard you make the comment about
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: the kids that get straight A's through school but then
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: screw up the SATs. And I've been looking at that
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: for years because I'm 50. I don't have any kids.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: But I've got a slew of friends always bragging about
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: how their 10- to 15-year-old is, oh, they've never gotten
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: a B.
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, and then you talk to the kid
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: and he's half goofy. But I was at Taziki's two
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: weeks ago. They have a– paper on the counter that says,
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: we are low on ones and fives. My bill is $ 11.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: 69.
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: I give them $ 22. The 17, maybe 18-year-old working behind
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: the counter separates the singles and the 20, looking at
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: it like it's a calculus problem, proceeds to keep handing
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: me back the singles. I said, please just ring it
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: up that way. They ring it up that way, and
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: the best part of the whole story is my change
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: comes back as two fives. I was just dumbfounded. I mean,
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: maybe the first time somebody interacts with you and does that, yes,
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: I could understand. I'm a high school dropout that owns
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: his house free and clear, worked in the car business
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: for a long time, and can do simple interest loans
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: in my head just because it's a decimal.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: People choke up. Like, it is sad.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: It is so sad. Gary, I cannot tell you how
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: many times I'm experiencing something along the lines that you experience.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: They stare blindly into the cash register drawer and try
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: to calculate change. I mean, the machine answered the question
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: for you, right? It's right there. Can't even manage that
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: when it's doing the work for you.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, borderline offended that I handed them the singles. And
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: look at me like I'm stupid because I gave them
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: too much money.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe the poor kid did not read the sign,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: which you were trying to address the problem with, right? Hey, kid,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: look right here. Apparently you guys need ones and fives.
• 48:15
  Speaker 10: Idiot.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: I felt sympathetic for a second until they gave me
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: the two fives, and then I thought, I hope this
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: place doesn't go under because they shouldn't be working the
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: cash register.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: And as you walked out, you shed a quiet tear
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: for the world and our future. Amen, Gary. I'm sharing
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: that tear with you right now. Take care, man. I
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And God bless you for, well, proving that
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you don't need a college education to survive in life. 625.
• 48:39
  Speaker 13: KRC Deep Talk Station.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: 630 at 55 KRC Deep Talk Station. We're going to
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: dive into some local stories. No phone calls on the screen.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: If you want to join the phone call screen and
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: get into the morning show, talk to me in the
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: listening audience, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Well, half-jokingly, it's not joke when
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: you're talking about violent crime in downtown Cincinnati, but Bobby's
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: prediction was, what, two over and under, and it went over.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Kind of getting used to that. Cincinnati Police said a
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: man's been hospitalized this after a shooting in Millvale. 3,300 block,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: a bowling green card about midnight on Saturday. According to
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Police Department, a crash involving three vehicles happened
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: in the residential neighborhood. Afterwards, an altercation reportedly escalated into violence.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: One of the men pulled out a gun and shot
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: at another. First responders showed up. A short time later,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: a victim determined to have suffered a gunshot wound to
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: the chest and wrist. Currently remains hospitalized in stable condition
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: at some local hospital. Suspect was located, taken into custody
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: by officers at a nearby apartment, arrested without incident. Apparently,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the victim of the shooting already had a warrant out
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: for his arrest on numerous charges, including felonious assault and
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: various gun-related charges. Expected to be booked into the Hamilton
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: County Justice Center after well-being discharged from the hospital. And
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: another one. Teenager described as seriously injured this in a
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: shooting in Price Hill Sunday night. 2,500 block of Ring Place.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Police showed up for report of a shooting where they
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: found one male in his late teens suffering from two
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: gunshot wounds. Taken to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Police did not say if there was a suspect at
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: the time of the publication, which was, you know, yesterday.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Very late. Since a police investigating a shooting occurred in
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Coryville Friday afternoon near the University of Cincinnati, which never happens.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: There's never any crime up at UC. Police at the
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: scene said a man standing in front of Cincy Steak
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: and Lemonade on Short Vine, 2600 block, shot in the
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: stomach after another guy approached him and then ran off.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Officers shut down Short Vine between Charlton and East Daniel
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Street about quarter to one in the afternoon. and an
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: alert was sent out to the community regarding an emergency.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Another alert was sent out at 1.10 p.m., giving the
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: all clear. Apparently, the alert said officers had done checking
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: the area, suspects fled, and the police will remain in
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: the area. Normal activities can resume. Victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: taken to UC Medical Center. The fifth, five, count them,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: reported shooting that happened near UC's campus since classes began
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: this year. Thought they had a lid on that. I
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: hate reading about motorcyclists dying in car crashes, but here
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: we have a crash in Northside. A motorcyclist has died.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: According to the Cincinnati Police Department, the crash happened near
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the intersection of Colerain Avenue and Ammon Avenue about 4 p.m.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: on Sunday in Northside. A 19-year-old man driving a Kawasaki
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Ninja northbound on Colerain left the roadway and hit a
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: concrete block retaining wall.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Sensei Fire Department attempted a life-saving measure, but the man
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: was pronounced dead at the scene. Impairment and speed are
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: not suspected to be factors. According to police, the motorcycle
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Identity not yet released. Sensei Police Department's traffic unit is
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: still investigating the crash. And if you have any information
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: that we'd love to hear from you, you can reach
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the traffic unit at 513-352-2514.
• 52:09
  Speaker 7: 513-352-2514.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I will point out, as I always do, Wear the helmet.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad he had a helmet on. I hate
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: to read him when that helmet might have saved a life.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: No one's forcing you to do it, but it's the
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: right thing to do. If you can't think about yourself,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I know you've got loved ones in your world or
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: family members in your world. They would like you to
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: wear a helmet. Police investigating after report of a domestic
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: violence incident escalated into gunfire. This in Hamilton. It's a
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: house fire in Hamilton. Happened Friday evening, 200 block of
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Eaton Avenue, about 10 till 7 in the evening. Someone
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: reported two men fighting in a yard. Hamilton Assistant Police
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Chief Brian Robinson said one man who was still outside
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: when the police showed up told him he was fighting
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: with his brother. According to Robinson... Says the police chief,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: one was swinging a rod. Hey, Joe, one was swinging
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: a rod. One appeared to be injured. They were yelling
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: and fighting. Police said firefighters had seen the burning home
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: on Eaton Avenue near Main Street in Hamilton. Man was injured.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Also let police know his injured brother had run back
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: into the house and was in one of the upper levels.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Family members told police the man inside had been making
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: suicidal threats, drinking, and might have access to firearms and ammo.
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  Speaker 1: Officers went into the home, went up to the second floor,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: found a rifle on the floor. Robinson said that as
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: he attempted to make contact with the man, officers heard
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: what they believed were gunshot wounds from inside the residence
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: a little after 7 p.m. Officers made their way out
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: of the house for safety and established a perimeter. Smoke
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: coming out of the house a short time later. They
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: continued trying to reach the man. Officers reported hearing what
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: sounded like additional gunshots around 7.30. Flames seen then coming
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: out of the roof of the third floor. Firefighters responded
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: and put out the fire. Crews did not enter the
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: home due to the active gunfire and the man's location
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: not known. Ammunition described as a discharge because of the heat.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Once the fire put out, police used drones to search
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: the house, determining whether it was safe enough for them
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: to enter. Police haven't said yet if they found the
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: man who was inside, but also haven't confirmed any injuries
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: or deaths from the incident. I'll give Genele Borak from
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Local 12. credit for the reporting on that one ah
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: looks like a phone call gotta get to tom z
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: on the phone on the hotline it's 636 at 55
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: care cd talk station wait for that i'm looking forward
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: to it all 640 55 care cd talk station and
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: happy monday hope you had a wonderful weekend and congratulations
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: to the bengals starting off on the right foot anyway
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Someone we get to talk to every week from wethepeopleconvention.org.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Calling in on the hotline. Can't wait to get to
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: his appointed segment this week. Tom Zawistowski, it's always a
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on the 55 KRC Morning Show,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: regardless of when.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Hey, Brian, it's just great to listen to your conversations
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: because you're touching on such important topics. And, you know,
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: the first one I loved was you opened up with
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: the meta glasses for the veterans.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Isn't that cool?
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: And, you know, I saw that commercial during, I think,
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: the Ohio State game or something. And I thought, wow,
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: that's really interesting. And it's funny because you're saying that
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: the problem we're having with all this technology is it's
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: got so much good and so much bad. So my
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: 92-year-old mother has macular dyslexia. degeneration in her eyes. She
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: is blind in one eye, and she has dry eye,
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: so she just can't see hardly at all. And we're
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: looking at these glasses. Because it's just as simple as
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: she can't read the prescription bottle.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: She can't read the text messages on her phone. And
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: I say, Mom, and again, this is like $ 300. If
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: you already have a phone, if you have to buy
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: a phone, it's more. But she has an iPhone, and
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: it's like $ 300. And then there's nothing I can spend
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: $ 300 on that would help her more. than than that
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: isn't that the truth and so so we're we're kind
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: of you know being whipsawed this because now the problem
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: is okay you know that would really help my mom
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: and and when she would go out when you know
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: someone takes her to the grocery store so she could
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: actually you know see the products and stuff like that
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: but then someone in that aisle that grocery store would
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: say well this person is spying on me this person
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: is you know capturing my image you know meta is
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: taking my my biometrics.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Yeah, there's the good and the bad,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: you know. It reminds me of that Dave Chappelle comedy routine.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: I'll leave it to you to look at it yourself
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: because I can't do the details of it, FCC compliance issues.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: But you're right. There's so much bad that goes along
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: with so much good. I mean, the commercial for giving
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: the blind veterans free glasses and what they can do,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: that was moving, man. I thought that was so heartwarming. And,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: you know, say what you want about the evil AI
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: and these evil meta consuming all of our data. Look
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: what it's bringing the blind American veteran.
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think it's smart for them finally to
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: think about, hey, why don't we show the good here
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: for people instead of just letting it just be these
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: negatives all the time. But it still has solved the question.
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: And so that takes us to this whole anthropic thing. Right.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: And this this letter from the CEO and this kid
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: that came out. I mean, I just say it flat out.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: The kid who came out and said, oh, it's going
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: to kill us all and they're not doing the right thing.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: I'm just telling you, that's a psyop. You can go
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: to WeThePeopleConvention.org. You can look at the PJ Media investigation
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: of how this kid who was nobody, no viewers at all.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Dario Amodai.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: 128 million people. Yeah. Yeah.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, I hear you, Tom. And, you know, someone might
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: be quick to label it a false flag operation, but
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: how is it then that all of the other major
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: players are chiming in and agreeing with them? Sam Altman,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, hell, that hugging face company that got hacked
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: into by the rogue AI program they were working on.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Their CEO, Clement DeLange, also joining in the fun saying, hey,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: we need to pause all of this. So it's one
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: thing for this emoti guy to creep out of nowhere
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and make these unbelievably horrific or concerning statements. But then again,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: when everybody else, including someone who I typically think is
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: telling the truth, Elon Musk saying the same thing, that
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: was kind of a strange star alignment.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: So I will call people's attention to a podcast I
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: watched this week. It's a very popular podcast called the
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: All In Podcast. And it's on our website at wethepeopleconvention.org
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: in the video section. And remember a guy, Sachs, who
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: was Trump's AI expert that he brought in, David Sachs?
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Got to watch this because he's explaining what's really going
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: on here is the investors who are trying to get– remember,
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: the anthropic wants to do an IPO that's going to
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: be valued at like a trillion dollars. And the investors
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: in Anthropic actually funded some of the people who promoted
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: that young man who came out and said, you know,
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: Anthropic's not doing enough. We need regulation. And they said,
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: here's why. They're trying to use the government to do
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: their dirty work to do what? To basically cripple open
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: source AI. to make it so that they, anthropic and
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: open AI and grok, have... Remember, this is the old
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: play you've seen a million times, the libertarian with government.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: We're going to regulate the food industry, and only McDonald's
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: and Pizza Hut and those people should meet the regulations
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: so mom and pop go out of business. That's the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: play here.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess I'm confused since you have the four
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: or five major AI players in the world before you
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: even count in China. Is this something that's within the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: realm of a home-based entrepreneur to even participate in, these
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: open intelligence models?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. Because they're trying to, and again,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: warning Will Robinson, when Bernie Sanders is all over it,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: you've got a real problem here. And what are they
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: going to do? You'll see it all on We the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: People convention. There's like four stories in a row that says, hey,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: the Democrats already had this legislation queued up. And this
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: comes out and blows up. And now the media is
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: all like, oh, it's all the stories about they're going
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: to kill us and we need regulation right now. That's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: the warning signal. That's the problem. Now, I'm not saying
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: they don't need regulation. And if you saw Trump with
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: Laura Ingraham on Friday, she brought that question right to him.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: She said, Mr. Trump, you know, the people are concerned
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: about AI not being regulated. And he said, Laura, we're regulated.
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  Speaker 4: He said, when Anthropic released Mythos, and he said, did
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: something very bad a few months ago, we stopped it
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  Speaker 4: in their tracks. We're watching. So I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: all the truth is. I know you need regulation, but
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: you've got to be careful that it's not using government
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: to benefit and, again, create monopolies. That's all they do.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: They used to break up monopolies. Now they create monopolies
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: like Amazon and people like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and, you know, I threw out the whole antitrust
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: question because if all these major players are wanting to
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: coordinate their efforts to sort of slow down this rapid
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: AI development, that seems to suggest they're all working together collectively,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: which I don't know. Can you coordinate your business efforts
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: along these lines and avoid antitrust issues?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's part of the play. But this
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: podcast with Zach, because you're a lawyer, you're going to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: get into this really interesting. He starts talking about the
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: problems that they're going to have with their IPO because
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: they're in the quiet period. And you've got people in
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: your company saying this is really dangerous and it could
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: hurt people. And he said, you've got a problem because
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: if you go forward with your IPO, something happens. you're
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: going to get sued into oblivion. And now, why would
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: investors invest in your IPO?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: So therein lies the point you're trying to make or
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: they're making, Tom, which is the IPO folks, the folks
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: that are getting ready to launch the stock availability or
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: convert this into stock, they need government regulations to provide
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: at least the air of stability for their new stock.
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  Speaker 4: And hey, Frank, let's not forget that all those pharmaceutical companies,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: they can do these vaccines and you can't sue them.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: You're taking this legislation? There might not be something that says, well,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: if you let us regulate you, you can't be sued.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Well, there's that, and I'm certain that these companies will
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: be advocating for that. And since they are working with
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: a bunch of elected officials who I would argue don't
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: know jack squat about the technology they've been charged to regulate,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I suspect the big players, which is always the case,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: ultimately get what they want. Right, Tom?
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Look at who the biggest lobbyist in Washington
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: is today. It's not pharmaceuticals. It's AI. They're giving all
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: these politicians millions of dollars for their election. Warning, citizens.
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  Speaker 1: Warning.
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  Speaker 13: 649.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Z, he'll join the program. It's wethepeopleconvention.org is where
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: you find the materials that Tom is referring to. And
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: we'll hear from him, of course, on the morning show
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: every week as we normally do. That will be tomorrow, right, Tom?
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  Speaker 4: Looking forward to it, Brian.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: As I am always. Take care, brother. We'll talk tomorrow.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: 649 right now, 55KRCD Talk Station. Cullen Elect Talk Station.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: It's 653 at 55KRCD Talk Station. Yeah, believe Tom or not,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: whether it's a false flag or not, the concerns over AI,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: you still have the Chinese out there, whether we regulate
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: ourselves or hand over the keys to the decision-making to
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders and the like. Or what seems to be
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: the desire from the various AI companies to go over
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: and give independent evaluators, like employee-like access, security clearance, so
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: independent evaluators can check the progress and pace of AI
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: and see what it's doing. As yet to be named
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: independent evaluators. So that's something less than government regulation. But
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: if they agree to have independent regulators take a look
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: at the product as it's moving forward, what about the Chinese?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: They're not subject to that. Will they agree to slow
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: things down? Probably no. But real quick here, since AI
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: can be awesome, going back to where I started the program,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: several people have brought it up because, you know, I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: love the American veteran and the blind. Every blind veteran
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: in America is going to get a free pair of
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: these meta glasses and it will read letters for you.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: It will identify objects, allow blind veterans to live more independently.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine a blind veteran being able to pick
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: up his or her mail and just open it up
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: and have the glasses read the mail to them? Someone
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: mentioned a prescription. What an awesome reality for blind people.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: They can have the prescriptions read. It's just, it's great.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: And so if you're a blind veteran, the place you
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: go is bva.org slash glasses. It's the Blind Veterans Association,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: which is teamed up with META. So BVA is going
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: to do the distribution of this and also training. So
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: they say the donation will be paired with training created
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: by BVA to ensure that all recipients can use these
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: glasses to their fullest potential. And that's great. So American veterans,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: at least Meta's looking out for you. And it is
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: in their business interest to do it. It creates goodwill.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: It does show a great use of AI in the
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: face of all the tragedy apparently we're going to be
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: surrounded by. So take advantage of that. And I will
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: salute Meta for at least doing that and for also
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: including the training program with it because these things can
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: be a bit of a stumbling block even for people
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: who are versed in technology. So bva.org slash glasses. Don't
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: go away, folks. Got some time to talk between the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: top of the hour and Christopher Smithman, who joins the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: program at 720 for the Smith event. I hope you
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: can stick around. At the top of the hour, get to... 706.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Here at 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas, yes? host
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: of the 55KRC Morning Show. I'm blessed to be in
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: that position and not happy it's Friday, but a good weekend,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: so I've got something to look back on and smile
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: about and looking forward to a great week here. Got
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: great guests lined up throughout the week, as typically the case,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: thanks to Joe Strecker, executive producer. Guests, which begin at
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: 7.20 here on a Monday on the Morning Show with
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor of the city of Cincinnati,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: waiting in the wings. He'll join us next. Monday, Monday
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: with Brian James, one hour from now. Fed rate hike
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: is possible, as I stare at the article I commented
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: on this morning. Daily average 30-year fixed rate mortgages are
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: north of 7%. Happened Thursday and went up even more
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: on Friday, up to 7.12%. And as I pointed out
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: earlier this morning, the good glimmer of positivity in all
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: this is the number of houses for sale is pretty substantial.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Sellers outnumbering buyers by about 58% last month, which means
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: that you have some haggle opportunities with the sellers. Lots
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: of inventory on the market, which, of course, benefits the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: buyer in spite of the fact you've got a north
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: of 7% interest rate. And with the Fed jacking the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: rate up even more potentially, I'm going to see what
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Brian James has to say about that because that is
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: a contributing factor, of course, to interest rates. Inflation, obviously
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: a big problem, and so many are pointing to the
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: diesel shortage, which is only getting worse. We don't have
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: enough refining capacity in this world. Saudi Arabia reporting another
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: pipeline outage, the pipeline they were using to avoid the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz for obvious reasons. Well, someone blew that
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: up the other day, I guess. Saudi Arabia is going
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: to run out of oil stocks for exports if it
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: doesn't restart this pipeline to the Red Sea, dodging the
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. leading to a loss of up to 4%
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: of global supply, and obviously that is going to be
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: an even worse problem for diesel. Donald Trump demanding that
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: we do something about the diesel problem here in the
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: United States. Of course, we don't have enough refineries. Talking
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: about emergency powers, Reuters reported that the Trump administration is
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: considering whether to use the Defense Production Act to expand U.S.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: oil refining capacity. Fined. Listen, I don't care what's out there.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: He previously referred to some other act to cite the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: problem we have here with diesel. Diesel moves everything in
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: the country. Warnings and red flags. Your grocery bill is
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: already through the roof. Guess what gets the groceries to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: the grocery store? Right, $ 6 a gallon of diesel. So
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: back in April, Trump had a decision to try to
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: support domestic petroleum production, the Defense Production Act. Identifying financial constraints,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: long construction timelines, permitting delays in supply chain limitations, all
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: obstacles to expanding capacity. Can anybody answer a question for me?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: If there were no impediments, environmental, land acquisition, whatever impediments
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: happen to be, NIMBY lawsuits, if all of that disappeared
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: and someone said, you've got a green light oil refiner
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: to build a new diesel refining facility. Take a spot.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: We're going to put it there. You just need to
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: build it. How long would it take just to build
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: something that has no regulatory impediments to it? I mean,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: the idea of more refineries has been a problem for
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: us for a long time, but no one wants to
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: build them. In fact, places like California, oh my God,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: we're all going to die because of carbon dioxide or whatever. Yeah,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: go ahead and pay six bucks a gallon for regular
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: gasoline there. I can't imagine what diesel is in California.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: I guess I could look it up on GasBuddy. But
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: so many impediments to doing something that we clearly need.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: You know, The amount of petroleum products that the world
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: relies on has not gone down. Despite trillions of dollars
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: in green energy investment, we're still using more. It's always
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: gone up more every single year. Natural gas, oil, even
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: some coal, still using it. It hasn't gone away, which
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: means there's been no reduction in carbon dioxide, for God's sake.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: It's just so damn frustrating. Yeah, we need more diesel.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: And go ahead and lay some blame at Donald Trump's
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: feet for causing the Strait of Hormuz to shut down.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Some blame the Iranians. Either way, a problem that didn't
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: exist before we started dropping bombs. The Houthis are now involved.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: We had a three-year period of peace with those chuckleheads.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: And now they're impacting global oil supplies. I think they're
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: the ones responsible for the Saudi pipeline outage. But either way,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: reduced supply thanks to global conflict in the Middle East.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: We are relatively energy independent here, but if you can't
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: refine the stuff into something we need, like gasoline and
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: diesel fuel, then what's the point? Joyce, thanks for calling
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: this morning. Happy Monday to you. Welcome to the show.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Brian.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 7: How are you doing?
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. For a Monday, anyway. I like to
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: always qualify it.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Mondays are rough.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. A little hazy, if you know what
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 14: Hey, I just wanted to make one real quick point about,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 14: I know you were talking about the diesel shortage and whatnot, but.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 14: Amy Acton refusing to debate, you have to think that
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 14: her people know that it's a bad idea to get
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 14: her out in front. Wait a second.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Just real quick. Let me pose a question to you.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: You are Amy Acton's advisor. You are painfully aware that
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: she always says that deer in the headlights look whenever
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: she is put in a position to answer questions, as
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: rare as that is. She doesn't sound very clear thinking
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: when she does answer questions, even in polished television commercials.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but when I see those
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: commercials from Amy Acton, I'm not overwhelmed with a sense
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: of confidence about her. So they know she performs poorly
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: when confronted with straight questions about policy and platform or
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: anything else, or like what she did when she was
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: medical director in the state of Ohio. So you have
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: to weigh terrible performance on the fly. against the optics,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: which look terrible because they won't allow her to answer
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: any questions or engage in debate. It's the lesser of
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: two evils. Have they chosen wisely? I don't know. I
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: can't imagine her hide-in-the-bunker strategy is going to pay off
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: for her.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 14: Well, it's just like the people that are supporting her.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 14: I mean, you have to know that the people that
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 14: are smarter than her are telling her not to get
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 14: out in front of you.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: So I.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 14: It is mind boggling to me that people would actually
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 14: check the box for her.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 7: I just I can't.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 14: I don't understand people. So I'm just going to end it.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 14: And I'll echo Tom for goodness sake.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: Don't vote Democrat.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly. I share your point all day long. And
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: how is it possible that she could even be close
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: to Ramaswamy in the polls, given his demonstrably better well
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: understanding of business and industry and success? And his willingness
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: to talk to literally anybody who puts a microphone in
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: front of his face and answer questions. How about that?
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Let's see what Jay's got before we get to Christopher Smith. Jay,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: welcome to the morning show. Happy Monday to you, my friend.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, happy Monday, Brian.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 10: Hey, I want to emphasize the point that you were making.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 10: Because there seems to be a long trend here with
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 10: the Republicans trying to fix big.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: Government with bigger government.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 10: Government is the problem. The regulations are the problem. If
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 10: they want to, everybody wants to take a look at
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 10: what the affordability problem is for any given topic.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: It is the government.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 10: And it seems like that is the last lever that
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 10: the Trump administration, they're in their sixth year. They have
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 10: all the power. We've given them all the controls. I
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 10: understand that they don't have a supermajority to pass.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: Anything they want, but.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 10: If you can't do it whenever you have this much power,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 10: you're probably never going to do it. But let's at
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 10: least try shrinking the size of the government, I don't know,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 10: by about half. And when's the last time we've heard
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 10: an update on how J.D. Vance is going on that fraud?
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 10: I'm tired of hearing about how many dollars have been identified,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 10: how many have been recovered. And when I looked at
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 10: that recently, it's like 50 billion.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: How many times do I have to remind you and
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: anybody else who wants to take a look at this? And,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: you know, how about going back to the 2020 elections
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: being stolen? I said at the time, you're never going
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: to know if the election was stolen until someone gets discovery,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: does research, puts all the pieces together in an understandable
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: picture to take it to court. That hasn't happened yet,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: has it? Same thing with the fraud. You can identify fraud.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: You can say, here it is. But prosecuting people and
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: endeavoring to bring back some or claw some of the
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: money back, that takes a long time. Evidence has to
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: be gathered. And you can't tell me a Justice Department
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: isn't overwhelmed with crime-fighting opportunities and abilities to bring actions
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: against people. There's only a finite number of people that
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: can do that. So, yeah, I think there will be prosecutions.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know the money we brought back, but maybe
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: people will end up in jail. It'll be a cautionary
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: tale to any other fraudsters out there that want to
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: do it. But it always takes time. The wheels of
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: justice move slowly. I'm sure you've heard that phrase before.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: And I'm not being critical of your observations, Jay. I'm
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: just saying, damn it, we don't get quick responses. We
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: are an immediate... instant gratification world. We know the problem exists.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: We expect something to happen immediately. It just doesn't work
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: that way. Never. The only problem is, or the typical
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: problem is, we fickle Americans, when faced with challenges and problems,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: don't let the system work through it as it's designed
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: to do. And therefore, we choose different administrations. And with
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: a change of administration, this type of problem, fraud, waste,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: and abuse, if we go with Democrats and Yeah, may
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: be ignored. They won't follow up in the Justice Department.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: To the extent they're following up, maybe the plug will
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: be pulled by a new administration. Keep that in mind.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: It happens all the time. 55KRC, the talk station. It
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: is 719 on a Monday, which means it's that time
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: of week. I always look forward to it. Friend of
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: the show, friend of the greater Cincinnati community, former vice
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: mayor of the city of Cincinnati, and here on a
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: Monday beginning at this time, Christopher Smitherman with the Smitherman.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Christopher. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: I did, brother. Thank you so much for having me on, Brian.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: I've been watching what's been happening at the University of Cincinnati.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: I just want to touch on it coming out. You
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: know that I dropped off my own freshman year. at
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: a university in the state of Ohio. And, you know,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: if I was a parent and I see, you know,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: four or five shootings around the University of Cincinnati and
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: I just dropped off my kid, whether she's a freshman
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: or he are senior, I'm terrified right now. And I
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: don't know how anybody else who's a parent couldn't understand that,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: couldn't connect with that because you're somewhere else. And our
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: kids are everything to us. And so to think, well,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: my kid could be off campus, walking around, get hit
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: by a stray bullet, that is not a good feeling.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: The University of Cincinnati is our largest employer in the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: city of Cincinnati, period. And so I am shocked that
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: the city, I'm talking about City Hall here, the mayor,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: members of council, really are not aggressively on this. But
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: we've been talking about it on your show that crime
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: was spreading. This is like a cancer. They're not on
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: top of it. So it now moves to this neighborhood.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Now it moves to that neighborhood. Now it's surrounding our
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: largest employer, Brian Thomas. And I just don't think they're
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: going to have a handle on this until the weather changes, until.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: It gets cold.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: We've got to wait for a weather change?
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: When you have leadership, when you have leadership at City
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: Hall like that, you start praying for winter. Because whatever happens, right,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: we know that when winter comes in, we know that
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: the crime, the murders, there's people shot. And to hear
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: City Hall last week proclaiming, you know, that crime was down.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: but they don't release shot spotter data. That's what I
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: want to see.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 4: I want to see shot spotter.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: How many people.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 4: how many shots.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: Were fired in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026? Give us
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: some kind of framework because you and I as a citizen,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: we think it's terrible when 40 or 41 people are killed, right?
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't tell us how many people were shot
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: and that the university hospital emergency room medical team saved
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: their life.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Or even where there's gunplay going on. I mean, I
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: have to observe. I think I can say with an
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely straight face, from a legal perspective, if a gun
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: is shot in the greater Cincinnati area, it is a crime.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to shoot off rounds in a populated area.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: I can't even do it in my backyard. That's a
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: good thing. Unless, of course, the rounds are being shot
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: because someone had reasonable apprehensive eminence grievous bodily harm or death.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: That will be a self-defense use of a firearm, which
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: is justified, but I doubt all the ShotSpotter info would
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: all be used in justifiable gunshot return fire.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And by the way, you see this
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: movement down at City Hall.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: To get rid of ShotSpotter.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: They're not really interested in that technology because it actually
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: measures shots fired and it looks bad. That's what it is.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: But notice they never give you that data. When I
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: served as chair of law and public safety, We held
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: open hearings on ShotSpotter. Matter of fact, I was a
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: part of the team that brought ShotSpotter to the city
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati under my leadership. So I'm saying we were
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: always looking at that data, always putting it in front
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: at law and public. They don't do any of that.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: Everything is under the cover. So those citizens out there
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: really doesn't know what's going on. And then you have
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: these press conferences where they say, hey, man, crime is down. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 10: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 2: <HAL> This is going on all around you, and you're going, man,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to put my kids on the bus at
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: 7 a.m. in the morning, and I'm worried about getting shot.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: So I'm just sharing with you there's a complete disconnect
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: because these politicians are more interested in elections.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: They're more interested in perception than the reality that citizens
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: in these 52 neighborhoods are living in. And so whether
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: you live in Clifton now or you live in Avondale
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: or you live in Kent, Washington or Bond Hill, you're
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: out here going a Millville. You're going out here going, wow,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: they keep telling me crime is down. But guess what
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: just happened last night? I heard five, six, seven, eight, nine,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: 10 shots fired. And ShotSpotter is picking all of that up.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: They have all of that data. Why doesn't the city
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: hall release it?
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: True.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: Or at least, you know, talk about they've used shot
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: spotter data without giving you the total volume but telling
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: you the reason we have increased patrols in Avondale or
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: around University of Cincinnati or any other neighborhood is because
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: there's been a significant increase or a precipitous amount of
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: gunfire in those particular neighborhoods suggesting there's more crime in
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: those neighborhoods. Is that what they don't want to say
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: out loud, Christopher? I mean, it seems logical and reasonable
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: that they would allocate police where the crime happens to be.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: That's what Mayor John Cranley and I did when we
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: brought all of the professionals together, and I mean everybody,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: the prosecutors, federally and countywide. We had the ATF. We
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: had FBI. It didn't matter. This room was lined with
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: law enforcement professionals.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: We had the city.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: Manager, myself, and the mayor. in that meeting, and then
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: the police did a presentation, we identified all the hotspots, right?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: And then we said, okay, team, what's our plan? What's our,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: John Cronley would say, okay, where are we, this crime, no, no,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: we're going here. This is what we're going to do.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's no sense that this mayor or this
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: council has any handle on the data, where the crime is,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: and they're willing to do something about it. And when
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: I come and talk about this, every time I put
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: a post up on my ex account, which was formerly
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: called Twitter, The liberals come after me like, oh, man,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: he's a MAGA guy now. He's a MAGA guy. I
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: said I literally just posted that someone was shot in Millville.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: Or I posted somebody was shot and killed in Avondale.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: A Spectrum person was shot.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 4: Why am I MAGA?
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: Because I'm literally putting up factual data about people being
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: shot in Cincinnati.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: Christopher, I'm surprised they haven't accused you of being racist.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: Don't look for it to make sense, man. This is
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: coming from the inane blatherings of left-wing activists.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: Pause.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: We'll bring Christopher Smitherman back with what we'll call round
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: two of the Smith event this Monday. Talk Station. 7.30,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: coming up on 7.31 at 55 KRC Talk Station. Happy
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: Monday to you. Money Monday with Brian James up at
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: the top of the hour news. Fed rate hike is possible,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: plus we'll talk about inflation with Brian James. In the meantime,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smitherman doing the Smith event. Christopher, you have the floor,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: my friend.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: Brother, when I put up posts about black Americans being
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: shot and killed in Cincinnati, I happen to be a
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: black American. So whether it's black American or African American,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: whatever label you want to put on it, that's me.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, and I apologize. I'm concerned. I'm actually concerned about
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: other black Americans or African Americans being murdered in in
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: my city.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: It is beyond me that I.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: Have some of these white.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: Liberals who think that they can get on social media
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: and lecture me about what is right or good or
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: the solutions for Black Americans and African Americans in Cincinnati,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: in the country, in.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 4: The whole world.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: They are clueless and disrespectful. I can post about every
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: single murder because it breaks my heart.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: It's insane, the violence.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: And they actually do not care. What they care.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 4: About is defunding the police.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: And so the way they respond is they say, oh,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: Smitherman is a MAGA now. He wants the police. He
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: supports the police. You're darn right I support the police.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Christopher, you've told my listening audience forever that you
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: who walk among and talk to people within these various black,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: primarily black communities, that they want the police too. I
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: guess the left-wing chunk of them haven't gotten the memo.
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  Speaker 4: They have not gotten the memo, dude.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: And they're so dangerous. Their mindsets are so dangerous because
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: they believe they're so arrogant that they believe they can
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: walk up to Black Americans and tell them what our
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: solutions are, not listen to a guy who has two degrees,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: who's raised five children, four boys, all of them engineers
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: or STEM, doing incredibly well in society. You want to
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: lecture me? An active, involved father who was married 30
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: years about what's right and good for a black American.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe you've demonstrated the right.
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  Speaker 4: And because I talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: The recipe for success, Christopher, is hard work and a
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: unified family unit that cares about their children and their education.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: In the city of Cincinnati, you're within the city limits, Christopher.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: That's where you raise your kids, right?
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I sure did, and sent them to Cincinnati public schools
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: except my daughter, right? And that was during COVID when
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati public schools closed down, shut everything down. You know,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: I'm blessed that our family is Catholic, and we found
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: a Catholic school over in St. Bernard and then went
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: on into Seton. But the bottom line is the reality
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: of it is you have this push within the Democratic
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: Party right now. With these white liberals, and I don't
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: want to do this broad brush because it's not all
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: of them, but they come and try to tell black
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: Americans what's good and right for us. Black Americans, in
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: my opinion, better wake up and start voting their interest
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: and not their party. Meaning I need a city government
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: that prioritizes police because overwhelmingly or disproportionately, the crime is
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: happening in black neighborhoods, right?
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 4: So if you're a rational person.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: You're not waking up going, hey, man, I want a
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: police force that's light or low. I don't want them
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: doing proactive policing. No, black neighborhoods where the crime is high,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: we want policing. That doesn't say we want police officers
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: who are not trained.
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  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: It doesn't say that we want police officers doing things
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: that are bad. But my point is that liberals, whether
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: they're black or white, when you start saying you support
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: the police... in their minds, they go in this mindset like,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: oh man, this guy just wants some kind of police state.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: That's not what I'm articulating. We have the best trained
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: police officers in the state of Ohio. People come here
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: from all over the country. Columbus says they've got a
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: great police training center because it's closed. You have to
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: go through a very regimented process. Cincinnati has a great
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: police training center. Our officers are over-trained. My point is
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: that I'm tired of these white liberals who getting out
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: on social media, trying to lecture black Americans on what's
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: good for us. You don't know what's good for us.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm here to tell you as a black man
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: who doesn't need to sit back and make you feel comfortable.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: What these white liberals think about me, I don't care.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: All I'm saying to you, Brian Thomas, is that I'm
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: sick of them trying to lecture instead of getting on
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: social media going, you know, Christopher, let me ask you,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: about what you think those solutions are that makes sense.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: Police is clearly one of them, right?
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: It's the first. But all I did is I posted up,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: I'm done with this, Brian, but all I did is
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: I posted up and I said, Our officers, our counts
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: are down, meaning how many police do we really need
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: in our city?
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 4: Well, I called who? Ken Colbert, the president.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: Of the FOP. How many officers do we need? He
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: said we need about 1,250.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: How many do we have?
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: We have 950.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: He says, man, we're down about 250 officers that we
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: need to protect this city. And he said, we have
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: 200 that can retire right now. That's what King Cobra
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: told me. So I posted it, and all of a sudden,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: now I'm MAGA.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: I'm MAGA.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: I'm MAGA. I'm MAGA. I'm MAGA. I'm MAGA.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 4: These people are crazy.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: I just literally put the stats up, and now you say, man,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: Smitherman is crazy.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 4: I went to the expert.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: The FOP president, and I said, hey, this is what
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: he says the numbers are.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 4: Hey, man, Smitherman wants a police state. These people are crazy.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: They are. Well, and obviously, I think about if I
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: was typing something along the lines of what they put
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: on your social media posts in response to real numbers
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: about where the officers are, I'd be embarrassed to try
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: to make that jump from statistics to MAGA. I don't
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: even know what the hell that means, Christopher. Keep up
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: the good work. Hold on. We'll bring Christopher back for
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit more rant here on this beautiful Monday morning.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: 741 at 55 care CD talk station. Doing that Christopher
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: Smith event thing. Get him every Monday from between 720
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: and basically the close of the hour. Back to the floor,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smith. You invite this stuff, man. You go on
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: social media. You stir the pot. Yeah. Good for you.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: I do. I do.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: I've had a couple of people already come out and
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: follow me, and I want to thank them for that.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: At Vote Smitherman on X. At Vote Smitherman.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: So, Brian, I watched this video. of Amy Atkins and
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: her crew walking at some fair or festival or some event,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: wherever she was.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 4: And a reporter walks up and says, hey, I want
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: to ask you a question.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: I'd like to know why you won't debate Vivek Ramaswamy.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: And she's just walking, and all of a sudden, these
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: two dudes with cameras start jumping in this guy's face.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: I believe they're even maybe putting their hands on him.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: They might even be pushing this reporter.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 4: And they start.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: And they start yelling at.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 4: Him saying, don't take a photo and don't.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 7: Ask a question.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 4: I'm going, is this person running for governor of the
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 4: state of Ohio? I have run for office a few times.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: That's sarcasm. I know.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 4: I cannot imagine.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: Walking through some event, right? And the people around me
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: started yelling at reporters saying, saying, don't ask Smitherman a
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: question and don't take a picture of him. Most politicians
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: walk to the mic. They are looking for the media.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: They want you to take a picture of them. This
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: lady is literally running a campaign from her basement. Everybody
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: must understand that. I don't care whether you're a Democrat,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: an independent like me, or a Republican. She is not
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: interested in And running a campaign that is transparent and
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: wanting people to be able to ask her questions is
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: the most bizarre thing that I've seen. I'm not making
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: it up that people can go to my post and see. Now,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: Amy Atkin doesn't say anything. It's the people around her
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: who are yelling this at the reporter. It's insane.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it gives us a pretty good glimpse
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: into the video that we have not yet received from
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: the guy that got arrested for allegedly, what, assassinating or
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: trying to assassinate or something, which was all nonsense. So
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: but if that's her protocol, if those two, let's say,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: call them thugs, whatever they were, the people who were
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: saying no video, no questions and interfering with that guy
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: asking the question. If that's what they are doing in
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: the video that you showed me that I saw, and
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you sending it to me, then it's pretty
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: much probably the protocol that that guy was having to
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: deal with. So he goes through the room like everybody
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: does these days. It's all about me. I want to
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: get my two minutes of fame on social media. I'm
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: going to ask Amy Acton the question. And he bumps
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: into people, or maybe his security guards did it. But
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: you can see how that would unfold. And they made
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: a big deal out of it, and oh my God,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: he tried to kill her or whatever, and the truth
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: finally will come out. I mean, I don't know. Someone
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: raised this earlier. Her people have decided that the optics
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: are going to be worse to let her come out
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: of her closet and answer questions than hiding her. It
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: looks so bad that they hide her, and it's obvious
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: that it's being done, but clearly... That's the lesser of
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: two evils from their perception of her ability to answer questions,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: deal with what she did as medical director, and talk
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: about her policies for Ohio into the future.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's fair to say that using the
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: word assassination attempt was too far.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen a clear.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: Video, right? As soon as I saw that, I hadn't
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: seen any video. I posted up, man, politics, there's no
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: place for violence there. So I take it very serious,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: like you take it, like your listeners take it.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 4: But when you see the.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: Video, right, it's hard to connect assassination attempt, right? So
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: we still need to drill down and figure out who
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: put all that out because it made national news that
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: someone tried to assassinate Amy Acton, and it doesn't look.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: Like that's what occurred.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: What was the press release?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: The other thing I saw reported— Yes.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't know that.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, her press release, and then the media parroted it
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: without looking into it for themselves. It's a problem we're
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: playing with these days. Yeah, it's pretty much the... You know,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: Joe Stricker.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: Reminded me of that. You're saying that her campaign was
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: driving that this was an assassination attempt.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: I do believe. Or at least, at minimum, some sort
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: of assault or attempted assault, an attempted attack on Acton.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: He didn't have a gun pulled out, and there doesn't
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: seem to be any reporting or evidence to suggest that
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: her life was in danger.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 4: So....
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: But the blown-up component of it is that this guy
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: tried to attack her, otherwise knock people over in an
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: effort to get at her. And it doesn't seem to
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: be the case from what we know yet, but yet
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: the authorities haven't released the police video of it, and
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: they haven't released the guy who was arrested, his camera video,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: which would show him holding the camera walking up to her.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: I think you bring up a great point, and I
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: hadn't thought about it, that because she's doing this basement thing,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: kind of campaign, that there are people out there hungry
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: to ask her questions. So when they're trying to get
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: to her, because she doesn't make herself available, she doesn't
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: do what Vivek Ramaswamy has been doing over the last
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: two years, just goes into an open town meeting or
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: goes to a fair and Right. And sometimes those citizens
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: drill up on a question. But I'm letting voters know
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: that's exactly what you want in a public figure. Accessibility,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: their ability and their desire to answer your questions in
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: a public setting. So I've never seen Amy acting to
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: her team who might be listening. I've never seen her
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: in an unscripted. town hall meeting where people can ask
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: her questions. And I think people now are really starting
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: to get.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 4: Frustrated across the state of Ohio that.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: She's making herself unavailable like President Biden did in that race,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: meaning you didn't see him. It's COVID. I can't talk
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: to you. I don't want to have access to you,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: whatever the script was. But the reporters couldn't get it. Now,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: I want to tell every editorial board who's listening to this,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: you have a responsibility to get to the bottom of it.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: So don't sit back and act like you're on the
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: outside of this. Every editorial board should be demanding a
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: debate between Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton in the state
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: of Ohio for governor, right?
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 4: And their lack of doing that, right?
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: I've seen some editorial boards start weighing in. I think Toledo,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: the Toledo dispatch might have recently. But every editorial board
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: should be demanding this kind of democracy and transparency. I'm
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: shocked that Amy Acton hasn't come on your show. quite
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: frankly that she won't come before brian thomas and say
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: hey let brian thomas examine right her public listen listen
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: brian i'm serious.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: Now i'm only laughing out loud because the reaction you
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: got from strecker it's like i can hear him in
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: the other room so yeah okay i mean.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 4: You're fair like you're like you would be a great
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 4: person to examine to examine her and examine her public
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 4: policy and not try to, I got you, I got you.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: Let's just talk about- where you are here. Let's talk
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 4: about where you are here. You have a very.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: Great platform for the Amy Acton team if she wants
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: to talk to your listening audience and talk to people
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: who are libertarians, independents, conservatives, and republicans.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 4: It's a great show to get that out.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: I'd like to know where she is on property taxes.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: I'd like to know where she is on developing business
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: in the state of Ohio. I mean, there's a million
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: things we need to know about. Ramaswamy is on record
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: with his platform positions. And to those out there, maybe
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: conservative-leaning folks who aren't big fans of Ramaswamy, why don't
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: you ask him questions directly? Let him answer the problems
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: you have about him, the rumors and wild accusations you
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: see on the line in forms of memes. Say, hey, Vivek,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: I saw this campaign ad for Amy Acton, and it
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: said you did or you are responsible for. You mind
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: clarifying that for me? Because it's got me worried. He'll
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: do it. Not Amy Acton. Christopher Smith.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: No, and that's the whole point. Making yourself accessible so
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: that other people can examine your public policy. That is
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: the heart of democracy. And Amy Acton, I'm letting every Democrat,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: every independent Republican know that Red alert when your candidate
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: will not go and provide basic information like a debate.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: It is a scary thing that we're living in. So
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the time.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Always enjoy it.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: People can follow me at Vote Smitherman. And God willing,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: I'll see you next Monday.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 15: God bless you. 806-055-KRC, the talk station.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: It's Monday. It's that time of week. You get the
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: benefit of Brian James, Smallwood Financial. He's a financial planner.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: He's always providing sound advice while preparing for your future.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: You've got to do it yourself. I don't think anybody
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: else is going to do it for you. Brian James,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: welcome back, man. It's always good to have you on
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: a Monday. It is always good to be.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: Here, Mr.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: Thomas.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the opportunity to talk to your crowd again.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your thoughtful analysis, and I guess the meeting
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: is scheduled for tomorrow, the Federal Open Market Committee. I
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: know Ed Fink used to recall it as the Federal
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: Open Mouth Committee, but either way you want to look
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: at it, they were going to be discussing whether or
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: not we're going to freeze the rates, we're going to
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: lower them, which doesn't look like it's going to happen,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: or most likely 70% of the... I didn't realize there
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: were interest rate traders, Brian, but according to the article
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: I'm reading... 70% of the interest rate traders are claiming
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: that there's going to be a raise today between 3.75%
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: and 4%. Ryan James, your predictions?
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 13: Well, I'm going to go with, you know, we never
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 13: want to predict, but we can definitely look at which
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 13: way the things are pointing. And yeah, your interest rate traders,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 13: that's not a new philosophy.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: Inflation, right?
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 13: That would be the thing. That's the topic of the day.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 13: But in any case, yes, over the past couple of weeks,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 13: let's look at recent headlines. Oil has jumped about 20%
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 13: to close about $ 100 a barrel on Friday. And then
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 13: along with that, your interest rate traders, that's a different
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 13: way to put it. But basically, there are, of course,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 13: traders of everything out there. And there are people who
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 13: trade bonds based off what they think interest rates are
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 13: going to do. We don't talk about them much until
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 13: these times, but until right around the Fed meeting, that's
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 13: when they become interesting to talk about. But you can
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 13: kind of look and see, the people who are putting
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 13: their own dollars, their money where their mouth is, What
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 13: do they think is going to happen? And based off
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 13: of that, you found your 70% figure. There's the traditional
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 13: bond market things that we look at here showing odds
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 13: of a Fed rate hike this week moving from 58%, Brian,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 13: to 88%. So that reflects that's coming coming from fear
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 13: of oil price surges. And of course, that trickles into
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 13: absolutely everything. But the pretty clear that we had, we're
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 13: hoping last week that we would get a good CPI print.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 13: But that didn't quite come out the way that we
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 13: wanted to. We actually came out a little bit higher.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 13: than what economists were expected about that. Core CPI last
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 13: week was up 0.3% against the 0.2% that economists expected. Remember,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 13: that's a monthly figure. So multiply it by 12, and
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 13: that'll give you roughly what our current inflationary gains are.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 13: So the bond traders out there are definitely thinking the
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 13: Fed just about has no choice but to hike this week,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 13: which is really crazy, given the fact that we are
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 13: headed into an election, Brian.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: Well, no question about it, but not shocking given the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: inflationary realities we're dealing with. And, you know, the biggest
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: problem seems to be the disruption of the oil thanks
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: to the conflict in the Middle East. You've got the
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: strait issues. Of course, that's reduced the oil supply flowing
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: through there. You've got the Saudis getting their pipeline bombed.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: They were using that pipeline as an alternative route to
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: the strait. So they say 4% of the globe's oil
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: may be taken offline for some measure of time. And
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: then the diesel supply. Apparently nobody's refining diesel fuel anymore, Brian,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: since every damn good and service is connected with diesel
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: fuel in this country and every place else around the world.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: We're not going to have any refuge from this. It
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: looks like the price is going to continue to go
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: up unless I've misread the reporting or the tea leaves. No,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: I think you're right, because everything is connected to oil.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: We can't do much of anything without oil somehow being involved,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: despite all the advances and all the things where we've
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: tried to get rid of oil over the last several decades.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 4: It still is.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 13: A core and will be for much time to come.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 13: So whenever those prices go up, it just trickles through
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 13: to everything. And these aren't new headlines. We're just getting
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 13: to the point where we can't get away with it anymore.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 13: And the Federal Reserve is looking like it's going to
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 13: have to do something That probably is not very desired
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 13: in Washington or, you know, among any of the incumbents
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 13: out there who are going to who are hearing from
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 13: their constituents about inflation. And then about what, six weeks
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 13: or so before six weeks before we have an election,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 13: we're going to have an interest rate hike driving everything
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 13: slightly further. So there's going to be some very loud
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 13: voices over the next several weeks.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: And of course, the voices will always get louder before
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: the election. And of course, the party in power gets
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: blamed for this kind of thing. And I thought it
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: was a bit absurd when Donald Trump claimed he was
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: going to reduce inflation on day one in office as
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: if anybody has that power. I don't think the Democrats
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: have an alternative solution to lowering the inflation rate. Again,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: oil alone is out of everybody's hands. Yeah, that's very true.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 13: I would think that if the other side, the Democrats,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 13: had a response, we'd have been hearing from them. This
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 13: isn't new news. Inflation has been a topic all year long,
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 13: and no one has stepped up to say, hey, here
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 13: is an actual plan. It's been much more about these
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 13: high school, grade school yard bully games where we just
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 13: go back and forth with name calling. We don't actually
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 13: solve problems anymore.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: Well, it serves as a nice distraction. It's like bread
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: and circuses, Brian James. Oh, look, meme wars and, you know, meme.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: Let's click on that.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: None of it makes any sense. I mean, none of
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: it advances society or deals with the actual problems behind
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: the scenes. But again, maybe that's not something we can
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: deal with because we can't build our own refineries anymore. Now,
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: in connection with the interest rate height, which I think
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: if we can go with the betting odds is probably
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: going to happen today, whether it's a quarter point or whatever,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: that has a direct, not direct, like a quarter point
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: interest doesn't mean a quarter point higher mortgage rate, but
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: there is a correlation between interest rates and mortgage rates.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: I saw on Thursday and Friday of last week that
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: jumped 7.7 mortgage rates and then 7.12 on Friday. Obviously
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: not providing relief for the American buyer, but the bright
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: light in all this, Brian, that I read is supply is,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: the housing supply on the market is a lot bigger
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: than it has been. So sellers are outnumbering buyers by 58%,
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: at least according to the story from the Epoch Times
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: that I read. That gives the buyers a little more
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: negotiating power than they had before, but it's still a
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: big ask in terms of interest rates. It absolutely is.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 13: And you remember, there's really two components to that. It's
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 13: the interest rate and the price that you're willing to
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 13: pay for that house. And while we have seen this
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 13: huge spike in the prices, as we're well aware, real
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 13: estate has just blown up over the past two decades,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 13: really hasn't taken a breather. I'm hearing headlines, Brian, every
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 13: now and then we start to hear from people who
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 13: are looking for homes in Florida, and they keep seeing
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 13: that Florida housing prices are crashing. Maybe this is the
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 13: time to go get a bargain on that condo. And
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 13: then they go look under the hood and realize that's
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 13: not the case. So we're starting to see some weakness there.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 13: For example, in your non-luxury homes, and I'm looking at
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 13: Florida because this seems to be the first place where
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 13: things actually might be kind of sort of changing just
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 13: a little bit. And I think Florida is a good
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 13: indicator of people buy a lot of discretionary real estate.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 13: Real estate I don't have to own. This would be
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 13: my second home or something like that. But so, for example,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 13: you're seeing non-luxury prices down 1.3% in Miami, up about 0.3%
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 13: in Tampa. These are your starter homes, your regular family
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 13: homes for people who just live in those areas. On
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 13: the other hand, Redfin's September report that covered through July
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 13: of 26 showed luxury homes going up 18% in Miami
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 13: and 15% in Tampa. For people in this area who
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 13: are talking about buying in Florida, that's what they're talking about.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 13: I don't think we're seeing any fears of inflation driving
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 13: real estate prices up. Interest rates going up has not
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 13: slowed these discretionary real estate purchases. Frankly, I think a
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 13: lot of it comes out of the stock market. Everybody
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 13: has made so much money over the last 20 years,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 13: it's now finding its way because I'm having these conversations directly. Hey, Brian,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 13: remember that condo we talked about buying? It was a
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 13: pipe dream three, four years ago.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 13: Well, the market's up 60%, 70% since then. Now we
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 13: have the money, don't we? That's where the demand is.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: Now, that's a great question. That's the question that you
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: get as a financial planner from some of your clients
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: from time to time. I understand that. I wrote down
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: a question to ask you as I hear about people
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: buying second homes. It's never been appealing to me, Brian James,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: because it's something that I'm not going to be using
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: all the time. And I know that if I have
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: to buy a home, I'm going to have the monthly payment.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: I've got insurance. I've got all these things that go
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: along with it. Maybe having to rent it because I
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: don't want it empty all the time. But anyway, it
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: could be a source of income. But in the final analysis,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: I can rent something for a vacation, use it, and
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: then go back home and not have to buy anything.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: Do you provide advice on whether or not it's a
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: good idea to even buy a home? a second home?
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: Is that type of analysis you go through? Is there
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: an advantage to buying one? Because it seems to me
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: to be a money pit.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 13: It depends on what you're ultimately going to want to
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 13: do with it. So the very first thing I'll do
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 13: is this assumes we already have a financial plan in place, right?
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 13: We already know how to keep the ship afloat. And
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 13: then we do this as kind of a what-if scenario.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 13: We can always calculate the mortgage.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: That's easy.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 13: What would the mortgage be? Where am I going to
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 13: get the down payment from? Which account?
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: And so forth.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 13: But then what I always encourage people to do if
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 13: we're going to do this, also give me very specifically
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 13: what are the property taxes, what are the HOA fees,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 13: and what does it cost to insure that place that
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 13: probably just had a hurricane sometime in the past 12 months.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 13: Give me those numbers, and then we can do real
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 13: math to see what the impact would be of you
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 13: simply owning two homes, period. Now you've got two sets
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 13: of utility bills, maybe two mortgages, whatever. It doesn't mean
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 13: you can't afford it, but let's look at it that way.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 13: Then if it doesn't look so good or if it
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 13: looks like somebody just can't stomach that kind of a thing,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 13: then what I encourage them to do is A couple things.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 13: First off, just like you said, let's plan on just
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 13: spending more. All that money you were going to sink
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 13: into a home. If you're talking a Florida condo, you're
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 13: looking all in. You're looking $ 750, a million, something like
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 13: that for the kind of place you would think of.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 13: If that's the kind of money you have, and I'm
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 13: not here to tell people they don't have it because
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 13: a lot of people do. then maybe consider just carving
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 13: out a sizable chunk of those dollars and renting nicer Airbnbs.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 13: Stay in nicer places. Just be okay with it. If
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 13: you've got that much money, then you can afford to
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 13: pay for shorter stays.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: And you get some variety in terms of your destination.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: If you buy a home in Florida, guess where you're going?
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: Now you sound like you're selling timeshares. No, no, no. Listen,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: my wife and I, for 20 years in a row,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: my parents owned condos in Florida or rented, you know,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: if they wanted to find out where they wanted to buy.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: So they rented. My dad took a month of February
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: off and they went from area to area, golf community,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: golf community, until they found one that they knew they
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: loved and wanted to buy. But the whole time they
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: were doing this and all the way up until they
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: finally sold it because of my dad's poor health, we
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: went to South Florida to visit them. You know what?
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: After 20 years of South Florida, you kind of get
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: used to the place, and it isn't that exciting destination
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: you used to want to go to before. Is there
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: other places in the world? That's the kind of thing
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: from a practical standpoint I think of. Everybody's got their
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: own choices, and I suppose, as you point out, Brian,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: if you've got that kind of fat bank and you've
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: done the analysis, maybe it is in your best interest,
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: but that's kind of not where I come down. Anyway,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: let us pause. We'll talk more about inflation with Brian James,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: and just hang on right back. It's 816 right now,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: and Oh, look, timing's everything. Suzette Lozacamp at Lowe's. KRC,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: the talk station. 821, I think about KRC, the talk station.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with Brian James from Allworth Financial. Financial planner
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: he is. I like your qualifying point on the second
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: home purchase. Assuming you already have a financial plan in place,
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: you're dealing with a financial planner. I mean, that's really,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: I think I would argue since it's been my case.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: That's how you get to a point where you can
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: even consider it, having a good, responsible plan into the future.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: Start early, save what you can, and it builds on itself,
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: and you're ultimately the great recipient of all that time
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: value of money parked away in what is typically a
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: positive market. In other words, it grows over time in
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: spite of setbacks from time to time. Right, Brian?
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 13: I can't offer anybody any useful information without having a
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 13: financial plan in place already. You know, that goes for, yeah,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 13: buying that second home. When do I file for Social Security?
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 13: Is a Roth conversion good for me? Every last little
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 13: decision involves the butterfly effect. If I do one thing
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 13: over here, that's going to impact something over there. And therefore,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 13: can I do it or not? It's always a lot
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 13: more complicated.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: So if you're thinking about buying a second home, be
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: prepared to talk about Social Security along the way, too. Well, and,
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously if someone's in a position to buy
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: a second home, they're not worried necessarily about the price of, oh,
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know, lunch meats. But I saw this article,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: John Mattarese of WCPO, who's the don't waste your money guy. And,
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: you know, his articles remind me of the stuff that
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: we were inundated with in the 1970s during stagflation, suggestions
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: on how to better manage your money. Mind the pennies
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: and the dollars mind themselves. Well, he wrote about Kroger
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: discontinuing boar's head meats. And some suggest that, you know,
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: the industry analysts he's written and speculated may have to
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: do with pricing. And it was written here, turkey, oven
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: roasted turkey from boar's head is $ 14. 99 a pound. Now, Brian,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: I just checked out the price of regular fresh or,
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: you know, frozen turkey. You're looking at something like less
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: than a dollar a pound. Even if you get boneless
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: turkey breast, it's $ 4.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 4: 50 a pound.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, You can make all kinds of turkey sandwiches
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: by roasting it and slicing it yourself. That seems to
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: be an easy fix and probably end up with a
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: better quality product because, of course, it's not processed.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 13: And remember, there are other brands on the other side of.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: That deli case. You can still shave turkey.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 13: There's nothing wrong with private selection.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: I think this is a great example. $ 10. 99 a pound,
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: by the way. John Mattarese mentioned that as well. So
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: it's $ 4, $ 5 savings right there.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, for a turkey that walked around the same pasture
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 13: that probably all the other ones did, too. I think
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 13: it's a perfect example of a company getting together at
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 13: a boardroom table and saying, hey, let's see what we
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 13: can get away with. Inflation seems to be a headline.
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 13: Let's just hike our prices just a little bit. I
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 13: wouldn't say the sum of it, yes, is inflation. But
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 13: on the other hand, like we just said, somebody is
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 13: delivering turkey to store shelves for 40% less than what
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 13: Boar's Head is doing. And this is a big deal
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 13: because I saw it all over Reddit all over the
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 13: weekend because People were talking, where can you get Boar's Head?
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: Where can you get Boar's Head? That's why the Boar's
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: Head people say, you know what?
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 13: We can probably hike these prices because people are going
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 13: to look for us just a little bit longer. We
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 13: can squeeze out a little bit.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: And I imagine, Brian James, one of our favorite pet
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: peeves is to mention Starbucks. Starbucks is still profitable, isn't it? Oh, yeah.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 13: They're making a dime or two. I think they're going
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 13: to be okay.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: But I love mentioning the fact that you go to Costco,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: you can get two pounds of coffee for, let's say,
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: 20 bucks. And I did the math on this. I
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: can make 30 pots of coffee with that. And if
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: you look at what it would cost Starbucks, it's like
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: $ 700 or something crazy. I think the coffee at home
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: is excellent. You know, it's ready when I wake up.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 13: I couldn't agree.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 13: I couldn't agree more. And then you're driving to work
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 13: and there's the Costco on the corner that has people
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 13: almost lined up out of the street because that's their
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 13: morning routine. Drop six, seven bucks on a cup of
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 13: coffee at Starbucks. That would drive me nuts. The money
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 13: wouldn't bother me anyway, but just sitting in line, starting
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 13: off my morning by sitting in line in my car
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 13: on my way to work. I'm much like you. I
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 13: need a bulk bucket in the kitchen.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: That'll do good enough. It is good enough. The caffeine's there.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: It's hot when you wake up. Put it in the thermos.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: Take it to work. You are set. There's some money
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: savings right there. Mind the pennies. In this case, the dollars.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: Everything else, well, we'll follow in order. Brian James, thank
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: you for Allworth Financial loaning you out, and I appreciate
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: the segment we do every Monday. We'll do it again
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: next Monday, and I hope between now and then you
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: have a great week, my friend. You have a good week.
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  Speaker 2: Hootay.
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  Speaker 13: Let's talk about the win on Monday.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: There you go. Positive note. They did great yesterday. A
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: little worried there in the third quarter it was going
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: to go as normal, but no, they pulled it out. Thanks,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: Brian James. Don't go away, folks. We can do local stories.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: You can chime in. The Talk Station. 830 here at 55KRC,
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: The Talk Station. One of the pleasures I've gotten over
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: the years of being a host of the 55KRC Morning Show,
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: pass along really good and valuable information to the listening
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: audience and One of those vehicles for great and valuable
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: information has been empoweryouamerica.org, and Dan Reginald started that, former
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: Frame USA owner Dan Reginald. Interested in providing some information
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: to folks and some great classes, not just politics, but
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: human interest kind of things. I mean, scotch tastings and
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: wine tastings and musical events and the life of Bob Dylan,
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's just a whole variety of classes. Well,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: Dan has gone off and retired on us. That doesn't
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: mean Empower You has gone away. No, it's... It's been
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: taken over. And I can't think of a better person
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: at the helm of empoweryouamerica.org than Dr. Jay Rissover. Jay,
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: it is a pleasure to have you on the show,
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: and I was pleased to hear that you are now
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: responsible for the series and the seminar going forward.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 7: Well, thank you, Brian. Thank you for the kind words. And, yeah,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 7: we can't say enough about Dan, who is actually– Not
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 7: often the sunset quite yet. He is our founding partner.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 7: We've given him a new title. And frankly, he's still
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 7: behind the scenes helping me all the way. And hopefully
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 7: I'll keep him there for the rest of the time
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 7: I'm on Empower You because he's a font of wisdom
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 7: and ideas.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: So Professor Emeritus.
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  Speaker 4: So, but.
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  Speaker 7: I have limited time. I'll have as much time as.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: You're going to give me. Hold on. Jay, we got
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: until the end of the show, and I got to
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: start off by saying Joe and I are at a
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: loss because empoweryouamerica.org doesn't work right now. I'm getting a
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: warning sign. You pull it up, and you got this.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: So I can't see the seminar series, so it's difficult
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: for me to follow along or maybe chime in on it.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: So you're going to have to be very good about
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: the details for these upcoming seminars.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 7: Thanks for the hint. I did catch that information from
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 7: you earlier. Let me apologize to you and everybody here.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 7: We actually had this issue a few weeks ago on
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 7: the website, our technical team, which I think you know
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 7: Jerry and some of the other people.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 4: On our technical team and Michael.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 7: They've been working on this. We haven't got it fixed.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 7: I can see it on my Safari browser.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 4: So I think it's safe to check it out on
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 4: the Safari browser.
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 7: That's not 100% guaranteed. but we have problems with particular
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 7: browsers and we're trying to clear that little thing out.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 7: I don't think it's too bad, but yeah, you get
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 7: a warning screen, so we're trying to fix it even now,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 7: pulling into action. So anyway, EmpowerU, where we hope to educate, enjoy,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 7: and engage our audience in new ideas and maybe even
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 7: more information on old ideas. Starting this Thursday, September 17th,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 7: we will have our first, which will be a panel
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 7: on the Henton County judicial candidates.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, good.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 7: We're going to have a take 20 with John Capaneri
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 7: and Becky Foster who are going to tell us about
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 7: some of the information about grassroots Republicans and what you
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 7: can do to work towards that kind of thing. But
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 7: Chris Monzel, a man you know and I think the
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 7: audience knows well, our former former Hampton County Commissioner and
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 7: former city councilman will be moderating a bunch of our
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 7: Hampton County judges. It'll be Judge Ralph Winkler, Susan Lucan,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 7: Roger Bouchard, Judge Leah Dinkalocker, Judge Robert Goering, Dennis Charles Mahoney,
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 7: and Judge Chris McDowell.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: That's a solid batch right there.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and, of course, you're aware of Susan Lucan.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 7: I believe she's a magistrate.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 4: She is.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 7: I think we've heard that.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 4: Yes. Not a judge.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 7: But I may have called her judge. I'd want to
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 7: make sure I get things correct.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to do that.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 7: On September 22nd, we will have our first virtual class,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 7: the Albie Hampton County Children's Services Levy with Adam Kohler of,
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 7: I believe, the Cincinnati Exchange. So glad to have him.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 7: He's always a great speaker, and he's done so much
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 7: for the local community.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: He really has.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 4: On September 24th? Yes. September 24th. Here's a little bit
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 4: of Cincinnati history.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 7: I've got to attend this. The history of Cincinnati-style chili
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 7: with Jake Cassman.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 2: By the way.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: That's a whole Empower You seminar series.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: That's fine.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 7: That's going to be fun.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: Now, question. Is this an in-person one, and will there
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: be samples?
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 7: I don't know if there'll be samples. In fact, I'm
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 7: not going to promise that. But that's a great idea.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 7: I wonder if we can pull that off. But it
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 7: is in person on Thursday.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 4: And we didn't mention where.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: We're going, did we?
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 7: I guess I should do that.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: Scarlet Oaks.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 7: Lovely Scarlet Oaks. 300 Scarlet Oaks Drive.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 4: If you mention that address to GPS, you should make it.
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 7: 300 Scarlet Oaks Drive, because there are several buildings. We're
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 7: in the 300 building.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 7: And it's 7 o'clock on either a Tuesday or a Thursday.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 7: We have the virtual classes on Tuesdays, and Thursdays will
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 7: be usually an in-person class, but also virtual if you
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 7: cannot attend it.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. I will tell you that, you know, the comparison testing,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: when I was living in Chicago, there were several displaced Cincinnatians.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: So we ended up buying a can of each of
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: the various different Cincinnati-style chilies, you know, the Cincinnati Recipe,
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: the Skyline, the Gold Star, Dixie, and Campo, all of them.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: And then we did a taste test comparison next to
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: each other and concluded, I believe, and this is going
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: to shock some people, I think, if I recall correctly,
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: we're going back quite a few years, Gold Star actually won.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: But that's an easy way to do it. Six different cans,
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: open them up, get a spoonful. Now, pause, we'll bring
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: Jay Riss over back to talk about some of the
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: upcoming seminar series. Again, empoweryouamerica.org. Try Safari this morning until
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: they get that thing hammered out. Be right back. This
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: is 55KRC, an iHeartRadio station. 55KRC, the talk station. 840
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: at 55KRC, the talk station. We're on time with Dr.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: Jay Rissover, who's handling primarily the functions of the administrator
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: for empoweryouamerica.org. All the great learning opportunities. I've got to
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: chime in since Christopher Smith was on this morning with
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: the Smith event talking about problems we have with crime.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine expecting an elected official in downtown Cincinnati
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: to change something that's going to result in lower crime.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: What you can do, going back to the 17th Judicial
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: Candidate Empower Youth Seminar, show up to that one and
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: listen to what the judicial branch can do to right
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: the ship that's sinking in Hamilton County.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: Stronger punishments, enforcing the law, and applying it to the
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: juveniles who are let free under the current set of
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: judges with a slap on the wrist and the perception
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: that they're never going to be held accountable. Sorry for
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: editorializing there, Jay. I had to get it in there.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: So pivoting over, what's the next seminar you want to
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: tell the listening audience about?
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 7: Well, I guess September 29th. This will be a virtual one.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 7: But the topic is how to influence your federal legislatures.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 7: And we're going to see at various levels inside the
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 7: government how ordinary people like us can interact and successfully
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 7: interact with our legislatures. was going to be there. We
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 7: have the legislative aide, Senator Jan Husted, and other insiders.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 7: So we're going to get multiple layers on how you
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 7: can do this. So that should be very interesting. Seven
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 7: o'clock virtually on the 29th.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: And there are opportunities for, Jay, there are opportunities for
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: question and answers even in a virtual class, are there not?
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, there are.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 7: Virtual and in person, we can ask questions. And we
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 7: also actually often have prizes that we give away to
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 7: people who attend. If you've never been to an Empower U,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 7: we do have kind of a prize for showing up.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 7: We give out tickets to everyone who comes in. So,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 7: you know, I don't know if that's a big reason
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 7: to come, but it's not bad. So anyway, October 1st,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 7: the Bricka murder case will be revisited. This was a
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 7: famous murder case 100 years or 60 years ago here
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 7: in town, and it hasn't really been solved. There's new
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 7: information that's come on. So The author of Summer's Almost Gone, J.T. Townsend,
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 7: will take you inside the brick of house here in Cincinnati.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 7: And then we're also going to have Tom Zalatowski for
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 7: a Take 20 on the election.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: Tom called in this morning. He was itching. He comes
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: on the program every Tuesday at his appointed time at 730.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: He couldn't wait this morning to chime on in on
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: some other topics, but he's a real firecracker, isn't he?
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 4: He sure is.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 7: He's going to be looking at the Ohio races for us.
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 7: October 6th, another bit of history. That's a virtual class.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 7: The Brick of Murder is in person. October 6th is
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 7: what we've learned about the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 7: We have a local expert, Stephen Tuck, and it should
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 7: be really interesting because they've found all kinds of new
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 7: archaeological things. We have pictures, and we will– have the
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 7: latest on Pompeii.
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: They're still uncovering artifacts after all these years. That's amazing.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 7: I understand they have some new techniques to be able
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 7: to look at scrolls that are rolled up. They can
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 7: now somehow scan them with AI and get the actual
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 7: images of the print that's on them without unrolling them
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 7: because they can't because they'll break.
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 7: So interesting class.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 3: October 7th.
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 7: Jet Noise is the Sound of Freedom with Jim Fath,
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 7: who is ex-Air Force, and he's going to go through
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 7: the history of the Air Force and talk about his book,
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 7: The Jet Noise is the Sound of Freedom. It should
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 7: be pretty good, about first aviation pioneers and World War
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 7: I biplanes. So if you like anything about... the Air
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 7: Force and air combat, you should definitely come October 7th.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I hope he dives in a little bit of
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: the history of people's reactions when the Wright brothers came
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: out with the flying machine, because we're dealing with a
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of lewdites in this artificial intelligence realm we're
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: talking about. People are freaking out because it's a new technology.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: And of course that worries everybody. I mean, I imagine
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: when people started flying around in planes, a lot of
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: people thought this is crazy. And you know, this is
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: not something I'll ever do.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 4: So true. It is true.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: Life transforming.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 4: October 15th.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 7: October 15th, Krav Maga, the Israeli self-defense martial art by
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 7: Aaron Binnick Thomas. He has a local gym on this,
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 7: has been doing this for years, and he's going to,
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 7: in person, show us a few moves, explain what it
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 7: actually is, the history of it and how it came about.
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 7: And we're going to also have a guy you may
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 7: have heard of, Jack Atherton.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 7: He will be going take 20 on why November's issues
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 7: are identical to those 250 years ago. Huh. Always like
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 7: hearing Jack Atherton.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: And Krav Maga, that's the martial art that Hannity talks about,
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 7: He talks about that all the time. Apparently, he's been
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 7: practicing it for a while.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 7: I'm going to go.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 4: I've got to learn a move.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 10: Well, yeah.
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: One move would be nice, and to have none, I
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: just rely on my concealed carry. Go ahead. Use your
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: Krav Maga. I'm going to stand about 15 feet away
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: from you. Yeah, I understand in my perception of Krav Maga,
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: if you're going to learn a martial art, then that's
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: the one you should probably try to learn because it's
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: all about just beating the living crap out of your opposition.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe I've got that boiled down incorrectly. Go ahead. Continue,
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: Jay Rissover.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 7: That's a good mistake. October 20th, we're going to have
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 7: Alex Marlow from Breitbart there to go over– the issues
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 7: of the election on October 20th, one month before, or
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 7: that would be what, three weeks before the election. We
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 7: figured we're going to let that be kind of dealt
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 7: with by the topics of the day, because there's going
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 7: to be some October surprise, right? So we will talk
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 7: about that then.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 7: A little history, October 22nd, that's in person, Lee and Grant,
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 7: before they were titans. These are two famous generals. And
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 7: what were they like before the war? They both had long,
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 7: distinguished histories, and we're going to go into that here.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 7: That was an in-person class Thursday, October 22nd.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 7: And we're doing a virtual class on Tuesday, October 27th.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 7: And that's we're going to have the Trenton residents fighting
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 7: Amazon's AI data center. Talk about data center.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 2: We are bringing both sides.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 4: That's what we try to do.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 2: We try to do every political issue.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 7: We don't always succeed. And any Democrats listening out there,
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 7: any Republicans out there, any independents listening, please empower you.
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 7: We'd like to be the place to bring all sides
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 7: together to hear all sides.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 4: That's what we want.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 7: To do, educate. We want to educate people.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 4: So anyway, we're going to have the citizens against it,
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 4: and we're going to have.
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 7: An engineer from Amazon who is actually the guy in
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 7: charge of building it. So we are going to have experts,
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 7: at least I don't know if they're experts or against it,
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 7: but the people who are leading the charge, so they
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 7: should know the most, against it. And I was trying
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 7: to build it. So you can hear both sides. Please
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 7: come to the October 27 virtual class.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: I like the idea that you've got both sides of
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: that particular issue. It's all the rage these days to
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: fight against the data centers. And, Jay, I think really
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: it's more about what AI can do and the fear
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: behind what it's capable of doing more so than, you know,
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: the idea that it's going to use some water or
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: there's going to be electric issues, all of which can
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: be solved up front. That's my take anyway. But I
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: am equally freaked out about AI, generally speaking, so... Make
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: sure you keep your issues separated when you're talking about
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: the facility itself versus what artificial intelligence can do, because
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: we're not going to really know the answer to that
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: latter question for a while. Jay, wrists over. Thank you
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: so much for your agreeing to dedicate your time to
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: empower you. And thanks, as always, to Dan Reginald for
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  Speaker 1: the whole concept. It's been a wonderful education opportunity. I
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  Speaker 1: look forward to joining the classes, and I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to having you back on the show again, Jay, to
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  Speaker 1: talk more about the upcoming classes.
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  Speaker 7: Got 30 seconds to talk about TPUSA?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you can.
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  Speaker 7: Well, thank you. We sponsor a TPUSA group. That's for
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 7: high schoolers who are interested in learning a little bit more,
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  Speaker 7: want to join the TPUSA action.
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  Speaker 4: We meet biweekly at All.
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  Speaker 7: Ready Cafe in Sharonville at 7 o'clock. That's Wednesday evenings.
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  Speaker 7: Every other Wednesday. We had the season-opening pizza party last week.
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  Speaker 7: I hear it was quite good. On the 23rd was
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  Speaker 7: our next meeting, and then October 7th, the 21st. November 4th,
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  Speaker 7: November 18th, December 2nd. So there, indeed, are the TPUSA group.
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  Speaker 7: Chris Monza will be there. We will have Warren Davidson there.
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  Speaker 7: We will have other special speakers. Dan Reginald is going
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  Speaker 7: to be there. So, you know, like I said, he's
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  Speaker 7: still around. He's going to be coming to some of
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 7: these classes. And, in fact, he's even giving one, I think, later.
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  Speaker 7: For example, we're going to have why George Martin was
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 7: called the fifth Beatle November 17th.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like Reginald. He's a huge Beatles fan. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll see you with your guitar performing at one
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  Speaker 1: of these events as well, Jay.
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  Speaker 7: I doubt that, but thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Jay, I appreciate you coming on the show today. EmpowerYouAmerica.org.
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: And again, presently right now, if you're using Google, it's
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: not working, but Jay and the crew will get that
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  Speaker 1: figured out at some point. If you've got an alternative browser,
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: you can check the list out. Maybe Safari works. It's
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: working for Jay right now. The link will be on
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  Speaker 1: my blog page, 55KRC.
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  Speaker 5: Com.