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

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Speaker 1: Five o five. I think if KRC the dot pasack Monday,
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Speaker 1: some sense will a vacation called Kenny Loggins because you're
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Speaker 1: in the danger zone. Indeed, you may very well be
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas right here. I'm not quite sure how glad
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Speaker 1: I am to be here. Kind of a little this bad,
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Speaker 1: kind of blue, funky kind of moods Typical Monday. But man,
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Speaker 1: the world seems to be falling apart, doesn't it. Anyhow,
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Speaker 1: I'll dispense with my lamentation on that and just dive
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Speaker 1: on forward. Seven twenty Christopher Smithmen, former Vice mayor of
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Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati, A little thing that we all
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Speaker 1: call the smither Van. Typical Monday, seven twenty with Christopher Smithman.
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Speaker 1: I enjoy I always enjoy having him on the program
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Speaker 1: and getting his thoughts in comments. So I always enjoy
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Speaker 1: your thoughts and comments too. Seeing feel free to give
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Speaker 1: me a call five on three seven for nine fifty
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Speaker 1: five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk pound
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Speaker 1: eighth five. It's Monday, so we get money. Monday with
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Speaker 1: Brian James. Some frightening information that we have to talk
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Speaker 1: about with Brian James and things that I've been sort
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Speaker 1: of lamenting and worried about for a long time, notably
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Speaker 1: the national debt. Yeah, inflation, it's a problem stretching people
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Speaker 1: to the breaking point. And artificial intelligence stock apps are
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Speaker 1: growing up popularity, gether some buying options there with AI still,
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Speaker 1: but this national debt problem is getting really, really, really concerning.
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Speaker 1: They point out that we get to this point in
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Speaker 1: time where the average interest rate on the national debt
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Speaker 1: exceeds the economic growth rate, leading to this sort of
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Speaker 1: death spiral, making it increasingly difficult to even respond with
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Speaker 1: fiscal policy restraint like curbing spending, interest rising, boosting debt,
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Speaker 1: rising debt, boost interest rates, rising rates, boost interest costs further.
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Speaker 1: It just keeps its a vicious cycle. And that's where
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Speaker 1: we are Treasury yields going up, which is a problem
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Speaker 1: also in how do you refinance the debt? Who's going
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Speaker 1: to service our debt? How are we going to pay
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Speaker 1: the interest on it? Figures are really really quite alarming,
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Speaker 1: adding to my you know, feeling feeling overwhelming distressed and
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Speaker 1: disturbed this morning, one of the many topics of Brian
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Speaker 1: James eight oh five for that. And then we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk to Deanna Coleman from She's an r N
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Speaker 1: with the Cincinniva. Apparently lots of new innovation and technology.
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Speaker 1: So Keros does care and when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: American veterans, you know, we really care. Here on the
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Speaker 1: fifty five Karrosse Morning Show, So dedicating a few tough
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Speaker 1: few minutes with Deanna Coleman of the since Antiva coming
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Speaker 1: up at eight forty. There you have it tomorrow of
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Speaker 1: course the bright Burn inside Scoop and the Daniel Davis
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Speaker 1: Deep Dive. Speaking of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive, what
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Speaker 1: is going on? How's the negotiations going? Have we resolved
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Speaker 1: this skirmish we have going with the Iranians now now
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Speaker 1: apparently we're striking them again. I don't know if the
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Speaker 1: ceasefire can still be called in place like this sort
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Speaker 1: of tongue in cheek talk about that one. But apparently
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Speaker 1: we exchanged fire over the weekend. We attacked some air
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Speaker 1: defense radar and drone sites in Iran and Kuwait received
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Speaker 1: the backlash from the Iranians. They came under attack with
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Speaker 1: some drone strikes. All the while we're still trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out a deal with Trump, indicating a deal was
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Speaker 1: close that at least going into the weekend, and then
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Speaker 1: we have these strikes that happened over the weekend. Apparently
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Speaker 1: mediators are still saying issues like the nuclear commitments and
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Speaker 1: the timing and the scale of the financial reef that
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Speaker 1: the relief that the Iranians are demanding all unresolved. Pretty
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Speaker 1: major sticking points as far as both sides are concerned.
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Speaker 1: US Central commands that American warplanes attack these Iranian radar
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Speaker 1: sites and drone command and control facilities, specifically Keshum Island
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Speaker 1: and Gorick. If you keep in track of the geography
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Speaker 1: in Iran, there's your two points of attack. Both happened
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Speaker 1: on Saturday and yesterday after they say Iran shot down
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Speaker 1: an American MQ one drone and US fighters shot down
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Speaker 1: to Iranian attack drones that they say post a threat
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Speaker 1: to ships out there in the Strait of horror. Moves
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Speaker 1: now the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, which appears to have
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Speaker 1: taken over full control, get to that in a minute.
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Speaker 1: No longer the swirling question marks about whether the president
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Speaker 1: has any say. Oh, look, Iranian President Masud Bezeskian submitted
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Speaker 1: a letter of resignation. Hey, Joe, if you're president of Iran,
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Speaker 1: who do you submit a letter of resignation to.
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Speaker 2: You?
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Speaker 1: Should yourself inner office memo to me from me, put
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Speaker 1: it in the outbox, have somebody come in, and then
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Speaker 1: just put that one right back in the inbox. Oh look,
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Speaker 1: I resigned, I accept my resignation.
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Speaker 3: Goodbye.
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Speaker 1: Can you see him on an air playing with the
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Speaker 1: palette of cash flying the hell out of the country anyhow,
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Speaker 1: Kuwait's armies said this morning the country was under attack
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Speaker 1: by missiles and the drones didn't say where they came from,
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Speaker 1: although apparently alarms were sounding all over Kuwait. You got
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Speaker 1: to get used to that kind of thing if you're
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Speaker 1: living there. And of course Kuwait's been one of the
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Speaker 1: hardest hit Gulf countries during the war, so they get
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Speaker 1: they get the benefit of the retaliatory strikes from Iran,
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Speaker 1: and of course that's it points out something that Daniel
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Speaker 1: Davis has been pointing out. The problem is all of
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Speaker 1: the other Arab nations in the region. Now they can
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Speaker 1: attack our military bases which are all over the region
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Speaker 1: of these various Arab countries, but it's the oil, infrastructure
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Speaker 1: and the economy of those various Arab nations that are
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Speaker 1: going to be coming under attack. So I think it's
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Speaker 1: safe to say that if the Iranians succeed in crippling
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Speaker 1: or doing enough damage to that infrastructure, opening up the
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Speaker 1: straight of horror moves to provide all us, you know,
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Speaker 1: we out here in the in the world, with some
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Speaker 1: economic relief. That economic may not happen, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: part of the problem is the oil going through the Strait.
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Speaker 1: What if under some crazy scenario there isn't the ability
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Speaker 1: to produce oil and even send it through the Strait?
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Speaker 1: Swirling questions and speaking of oil, oil prices jumped more
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Speaker 1: than two percent, So welcome to this morning. After paying
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Speaker 1: outrageous amounts of money to fill your tank up over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, like I did, oil prices jump more than
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Speaker 1: two percent and early trading this morning after Israel Prime
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Speaker 1: Minister Benjaminattanya who ordered troops to move further into Lebanon
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Speaker 1: for the purpose of degrading his Bala, and they have
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Speaker 1: made some good progress and moving in. His Bala apparently
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Speaker 1: now has some drones. Another disturbing development. Not that I
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Speaker 1: am surprised his Bala's got drones. They have other countries
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Speaker 1: out of the world, some are suggesting China, maybe even
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Speaker 1: Iran are providing his balla with the ability to fight
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Speaker 1: back against the Iranians. Now they have night time drones
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Speaker 1: with sensors, thermal sensors, able to fly at night using
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Speaker 1: heat signatures. Sounds like stuff that we and our sophisticated
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Speaker 1: military have. Now everybody's got it, you know, in a
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Speaker 1: world where we can go to Amazon and buy a
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Speaker 1: pretty darn sophisticated drone that can carry at least a
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Speaker 1: reasonably decent payload, and in a world filled with very angry,
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Speaker 1: angry left wing, well funded protesters, anybody have any concern
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Speaker 1: about that? How long is it going to be before,
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Speaker 1: you know, locally, domestically, we start finding out about drone strikes.
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Speaker 1: These are some very very very angry, far leftist militant
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Speaker 1: people who want to bring down our country. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's a stretch for me to have some measure
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Speaker 1: of concern to wonder that, well, you know, if they
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Speaker 1: are physically assaulting and being violent against the police officers
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Speaker 1: in the name of protecting pedophile illegal immigrants who've been
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Speaker 1: locked up for deportation, we don't want them in our neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: say I would argue most rational same people. But if
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Speaker 1: they're willing to go out and fight for the rights
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Speaker 1: of those people, get angry, chuck molotov cocktails, run over
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Speaker 1: police with cars. I don't think it's much of a
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Speaker 1: stretch and think that these crazy nut jobs, if given
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Speaker 1: the ability to do so, might oh, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: launch their own drone strike against that power station you
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Speaker 1: got right down the street from you, or some other target.
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Speaker 1: And I saw this article about how much money from
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Speaker 1: these none or from these wealthy outside influencers to fund
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Speaker 1: these organizations millions and millions of dollars and show up
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Speaker 1: at one of these local protests. What are they handing
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Speaker 1: out communist literature? They're communists. There's folks outside the ICE
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Speaker 1: facility in New Jersey, Democrats, Socialists of America, Freedom, Socialist Party,
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Speaker 1: Internationalist Group, Labor Committee to Defend the Immigrants, and the
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Speaker 1: Sunni Internationalists Club, and even the mayor or the governor there,
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Speaker 1: I believe, Yeah, Democrat New Jersey Governor Mike Cheryl. Now
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Speaker 1: you know Democrats, you think that maybe they're on the
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Speaker 1: side of the ICE protesters, because sometimes they are. We
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Speaker 1: know that people from outside the state have been interfering
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Speaker 1: in the protests or escalating them. Five of the six
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Speaker 1: people arrested last night by state police outside New Jersey. Gee,
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Speaker 1: I wonder how they got there. Oh, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's the multiple billions or millions of dollars rather
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Speaker 1: than been thrown at these organizations for the purpose of
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Speaker 1: causing civil unrest. Some people know the names Arabella, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: sing them Chinese communists, Parabise live it ever in China. Personally,
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Speaker 1: I guess through hundreds of million millions of dollars at
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Speaker 1: these organizations domestic extreme and extremism and or civil unrest
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Speaker 1: advocates Arabella, buffe at Ford, Rockefellers, Singham, Soros of course
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Speaker 1: on the list, and the TIDES Foundation. TIDES is a
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Speaker 1: big contributor, almost nineteen million dollars from that one organization
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Speaker 1: flowing into these extremist groups. Why are those extremist groups
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Speaker 1: in existence? I can only at the two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary the United States of America, which apparently we
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Speaker 1: can't even rally around that concept to undermine and oh,
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Speaker 1: I say the word overthrow the United States of America
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Speaker 1: byolet whatever means possible.
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Speaker 4: And.
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Speaker 1: It just flies in the face of what people actually want,
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Speaker 1: pivoting over and looking at things sort of on a
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Speaker 1: macro standpoint. Yeah, these protests are local, and they're at
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Speaker 1: ice facilities, and they're raging in the streets of any
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Speaker 1: particular given city wherever they're told to show up and organize,
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Speaker 1: probably pay to do so. Since they're coming from out
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Speaker 1: of state. You got to really be an anti American
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Speaker 1: person to spend your own money and resources to travel
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Speaker 1: to the far reach of some other state to rehavoc
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Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Now I saw this ongoing concept that
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Speaker 1: most people are aware of. Texas has emerged as the
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Speaker 1: biggest winner in corporate America's flight from high tax blue
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Speaker 1: states taxes and regulations, driving companies out of really overly
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Speaker 1: oppressive in terms of regulatory environment and redistribution of wealth
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Speaker 1: high tax states because that's what they do with it.
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Speaker 1: They take your money that you earn and give it
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Speaker 1: to somebody else, and usually giving it to something that
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Speaker 1: doesn't have any you know, benefit to the economy, generally
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Speaker 1: throwing moneys at organizations that don't produce or create anything
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Speaker 1: by way of income except for salaries for the employees
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Speaker 1: of these various non governmental organizations. You don't get any
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Speaker 1: building of economy. Worse, you have taking from people out
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Speaker 1: there really truly working and benefiting the economy. But it
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Speaker 1: goes down to a rat hole that doesn't have any
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Speaker 1: any I mean, it's not self sustaining. It exists because
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Speaker 1: they take money from others who actually work. California suffer
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Speaker 1: the nation's steepest corporate losses. I wonder why that is.
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Speaker 1: San Francisco lost one hundred and sixty three headquarters during
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Speaker 1: the same period while Texas posted all these games. Then
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Speaker 1: you've pivot over and see this Texas population boom. Why
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Speaker 1: is Texas doing so well? People are fleeing the high tax,
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Speaker 1: high regulation states, the socialist states, and going someplace where
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Speaker 1: they get more economic and personal freedom. Texas added four
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand residents in just last year, just last year,
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Speaker 1: most of any state. They have now thirty one point
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Speaker 1: seven million people living in the state. Since twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: Texas jumped two point six million new residents, which is
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Speaker 1: more people than the entire state of New Mexico. The
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Speaker 1: entire population of New Mexico effectively moved into Texas in
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Speaker 1: a five year period. Ask yourself why, then step back
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Speaker 1: from that reality happening within the United States of America,
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Speaker 1: all fifty states. I can choose where I want to go. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm packing the bags and I'm moving. Not to Beverly Hills, California,
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Speaker 1: mind you, I'm moving to Texas because it's going to
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Speaker 1: be better for me. And then step back from that.
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Speaker 1: Why in God's name when you do the surveys or
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Speaker 1: read the surveys about the global population, when you looked
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Speaker 1: at four years of the Biden administration, when literally every man, woman,
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Speaker 1: in child from the four corners of the globe wanted
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Speaker 1: to be here as opposed to where they are probably
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Speaker 1: a hell hole by comparison to the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: Apparently we've got the right recipe. This is why everyone
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Speaker 1: wants to come here. And who wants to throw it
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Speaker 1: all down the toilet? Right, the leftist, the Marxist, the socialist,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I never have understood why these multiple
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Speaker 1: billionaires would want to throw money at organizing an effort
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Speaker 1: to overthrow the very country that made them rich. George
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Speaker 1: Soros wouldn't be a multi billionaire without the United States.
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Speaker 1: Dates he built his empire on us. What we have here,
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Speaker 1: not what they had in Venezuela, and you know, go
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Speaker 1: ahead and pick another country where it's mismanaged, corrupt Marxist socialists.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy, but you know, I jump back to that
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Speaker 1: macro sort of viewpoint. We as individual humans, even if
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Speaker 1: we're not paying attention to any specific thing going on
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Speaker 1: in politics or the globe, and even if the world
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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily understand Marxism, communism, capulism, capitalism, they know what's
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Speaker 1: good for them that people do generally. Just like here,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm
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Speaker 1: sick of homelessness, I'm sick of high taxes. I'm sick
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Speaker 1: of that I can't afford to live here. I'm gonna
14:43
Speaker 1: go someplace else. And where do you go? Huh? You
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Speaker 1: go to someplace that conservatism, low economic, low regulatory burdens,
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Speaker 1: lower taxes, more freedom. That's where you go. Five twenty
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman in the studio, a whole bunch of issues,
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Speaker 1: I'm calling them, anyway, Todd zins or Citizen Watchdog following
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Speaker 1: up on them, a list of really great questions for
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Speaker 1: the administration about IRIS Rolly's contract. I love that guy anyway.
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Speaker 1: Just to conclude my thought on this whole reality, we
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Speaker 1: apparently are gravity. We want to gravitate toward where we
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Speaker 1: get freedom's liberties and lower taxes. We want the ability
15:42
Speaker 1: to control our own destiny. And that's why you flee
15:44
Speaker 1: overly highly regulatory states or countries and you come to
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Speaker 1: where you can enjoy your life a little bit more freely.
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Speaker 1: That will be here, or that'll be Texas relative to
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Speaker 1: New York. And I thought about that in the context
15:55
Speaker 1: looking to the Berlin Wall. Why was the Berlin Wall
15:57
Speaker 1: built to keep the common or to keep the post
16:00
Speaker 1: World War two German folks from escaping to West Germany? Hmm.
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Speaker 1: West Germany didn't build a wall to keep its people in.
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Speaker 1: The Commings built a wall to keep their people in
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Speaker 1: and preventing them from escape. What are people doing in California.
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Speaker 1: Why do they want an exit tax right to try
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Speaker 1: to convince people not to leave, because if you leave,
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Speaker 1: you're going to have your money taken away or some
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Speaker 1: of it. Anyway, we have the freedom of travel in
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Speaker 1: this country. That pesky constitution allows us freely to travel.
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Speaker 1: Why do we have a wall on the southern border
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Speaker 1: to a certain degree, Why is the United States trying
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Speaker 1: to protect itself from people coming in because it's the
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Speaker 1: place to be and everybody who comes in here gets
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Speaker 1: to hook themselves up to the social welfare safety net,
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Speaker 1: which is a stupid concept. But you know, there's a
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Speaker 1: hilarious video. A couple of left wing women left California
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Speaker 1: fearing for their lives. I guess they were social media commentators,
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Speaker 1: and I guess that baggage goes along with social media commentary.
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Speaker 1: They ended up in Vancouver, British Columbia, where they found
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Speaker 1: out that, oh, we are out here on a tourist
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Speaker 1: visa for six months, but we're not allowed to work.
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Speaker 1: Canadian law does not allow us to work. Oh, and
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Speaker 1: they were dismayed to find out that you can't get
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Speaker 1: on the Canada's social healthcare system either. They actually were
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Speaker 1: pleading in a video for a like a GoFundMe help
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Speaker 1: us to afford rent because they found out they couldn't
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Speaker 1: afford rent when they got there. Huh. Well, it sounds
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Speaker 1: to me like the Canadians have better protections about their
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Speaker 1: social welfare safety net than we do. And maybe it's
17:36
Speaker 1: a little warning sign if you're planning on fleeing from
17:39
Speaker 1: one place to another, you might want to look into
17:41
Speaker 1: the destination choice because it may not be as rosy
17:45
Speaker 1: as the press paints it in terms of how great
17:48
Speaker 1: things are with socialized medicine and blow that kind of crap.
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Speaker 1: Five twenty six fifty five Krcity Talks Stations. Got some
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Speaker 2: Sticks Like It or Not.
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Speaker 1: Five one three seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty
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Speaker 1: two three Talk Now five fifty on AT and T phones. Hey, Joe,
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Speaker 1: do you know whether Bobby was right or what the
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Speaker 1: over and under was? I think he called seven shootings
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Speaker 1: between Friday and Sunday. We hit the under. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: actually good news, I suppose, depending on where you placed
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Speaker 1: your bet. Let's get to the phones five on three
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Speaker 1: seven fifty eight two three talk. Tom is on the phone.
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Speaker 1: All is right with the world. Welcome back, Tom.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it depends on how much you bet, Yeah, what
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Speaker 4: what you actually had on it? I mean you made
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Speaker 4: a little something often, I guess.
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Speaker 1: But oh, it's.
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Speaker 4: Always good news when there's less shootings than then we
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Speaker 4: think there would be. But I don't know what what
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Speaker 4: well it actually was except for the maybe the two
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Speaker 4: or three that got shot. I don't know how many
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Speaker 4: actually how many shootings actually happened? Do we know?
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Speaker 1: We don't how many gunshots? How many well that shootings.
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Speaker 1: Usually when someone actually gets hit, that's when we are
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Speaker 1: I think dealing with Bobby's over and under. But I mean, hell,
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Speaker 1: I right, how many guns? How many bullets were fired
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Speaker 1: that didn't hit anybody? How many uh you know, shot
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Speaker 1: spotter incidents were recorded? Because apparently in certain neighborhoods, the
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Speaker 1: gunfire is so regular that you don't even notice it anymore.
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Speaker 1: It's like blues brothers. How often do the trains go
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Speaker 1: by them? So often you won't even notice it?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 5: Uh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're you're one of your topics this morning, you're
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Speaker 4: bringing up about these I agree with you. I think
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Speaker 4: it's stupid. I don't understand people are trying to tear
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Speaker 4: down a country that made them stealthy rich. And the
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Speaker 4: only thing I can think of is is what you
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Speaker 4: have when these countries like Venezuela, on all these countries,
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Speaker 4: when they go belly up and they're still in existence,
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Speaker 4: they still are going along, but they there's a very
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Speaker 4: small percentage of people that are are are getting rich still,
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Speaker 4: and they're getting rich off everybody else. And maybe these
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Speaker 4: people are hoping that they're going to be that very
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Speaker 4: small percentage of people. Yeah, and the corrupt ones, the
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Speaker 4: ones that are still getting Yeah, that's the only thing
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Speaker 4: you think of.
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Speaker 1: That's that that goes hand in hand with some of
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Speaker 1: my listener's theories about you know, the future. They want
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Speaker 1: a world with a far lower population, with you know,
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Speaker 1: a handful of of you know, like Woodrow Wilson's sort
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Speaker 1: of experts that know everything there is to know about
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Speaker 1: how you and I are the remaining people should live
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Speaker 1: their lives. And I suppose if you are a multi
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Speaker 1: multi billionaire like George Soros, you kind of assume that
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Speaker 1: you're going to be one of those people, because well,
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Speaker 1: you've got a whole lot of money and kind of
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Speaker 1: can make better preparations for that. It's like, why are
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Speaker 1: all these multi billionaires building bunkers on their compounds? A
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Speaker 1: little concern over that maybe they see the future that
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Speaker 1: we don't see, or maybe they're anticipating something perhaps a
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Speaker 1: little paranoid. Maybe I don't know, but maybe they know
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Speaker 1: something we don't. I'm not that. I'm not in that
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Speaker 1: level of wealth and and you know, cash reserves and holding,
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Speaker 1: so I can't even consider contemplating something like that.
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Speaker 4: Not up in the Willie Cunningham strategy. No well no, not.
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Speaker 1: Never gonna make that level, never gonna make Well this.
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Speaker 4: This the stupid. The stupid people are the ones that
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Speaker 4: continue to vote for this crap. That's more that my
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Speaker 4: message is aimed at you people that go out and vote.
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Speaker 4: Think about what you're doing. Think about the people that
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Speaker 4: you're elected. That's what they stand for and what they're pushing.
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Speaker 4: I mean, come on, think about it. It doesn't take all.
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Speaker 4: You don't have to be a rocket sciences to see
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Speaker 4: what's going on. Don't loot democrats have a great day.
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Speaker 1: To Tom Yeah, to that point, I was one of
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Speaker 1: the things that's got me so depressed. I wake up
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Speaker 1: and I'm reading about this Graham Platner guy again. He's
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Speaker 1: almost in the news every single day running for the
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Speaker 1: Senator from Maine.
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Speaker 3: The guy is unhinged.
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Speaker 1: By all objective measures we can objectively, we can conclude
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Speaker 1: the man is unhinged, and yet he may very well
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Speaker 1: become a senator. The total cough Nazi tad to wearing
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Speaker 1: crazy guy who's insulted almost every single person of every
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Speaker 1: It's just how do we how are we in the
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Speaker 1: country like this? And he's only one of a multitude
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Speaker 1: of crazy, unhinged and quite frankly, really really stupid people
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Speaker 1: who may very well who actually stand a decent chance
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Speaker 1: of getting elected. What has happened to us collectively? Local stories?
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Speaker 1: We got a woman dad after a single vehicle crash
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Speaker 1: and happen Union Township yesterday evening Mason Morrow Millgrove Road,
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Speaker 1: Union Township, seven to ten pm yesterday. Preliminary investigation found
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Speaker 1: a two thousand and six Ford Focus driven by Paulette Hines.
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Speaker 1: Not a whole lot of paulettes in the world happened
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Speaker 1: to be married to one. She's fifty one, traveled off
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Speaker 1: the left side of the road, hit an embankment, then
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Speaker 1: flipped several times. Declared dead at the scene. Official say
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Speaker 1: heines not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
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Speaker 1: Police are still investigating as the time I'm reporting. Go
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Speaker 1: to Louisville. Child dad two others are facing life threatening
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Speaker 1: injuries after a car crash into a horse and buggy
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Speaker 1: in Carroll County. Kentucky State Police said they responded to
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Speaker 1: a two vis vehicle collision in Carrollton yesterday. Investigation indicated
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Speaker 1: that a white Nissan Ultima driven by Daniel Crawford, forty four,
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Speaker 1: of Carrollton, rear ended a horse and buggy carrying three juveniles.
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Speaker 1: All three of the juveniles taken to Norton Children's Hospital
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Speaker 1: Louisville with life threatening injuries. Kentucky State Police later updated
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Speaker 1: that one of the children sadly passed away from these
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Speaker 1: from the injuries and the crash does remain under investigation.
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Speaker 1: I'm old. I guess it revealed that every time. It's
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Speaker 1: like breaking news. Ryan. You know we have the Internet
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Speaker 1: now you can listen from elsewhere. I just think it's cool.
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Speaker 1: a wife who actually wants to hear me. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I get I honey. I will acknowledge I am using
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Speaker 1: my indoor voice. I was a bit of an inside joke.
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Speaker 1: I can get passionate. When we were discussing, you know,
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Speaker 1: political matters, in around the dinner table. All had dinner
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Speaker 1: at my mom's last night to celebrate multiple birthdays, including
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Speaker 1: my wife's happy birthday, paul Ette. So try to steer
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Speaker 1: clear of politics otherwise. Brian Thomas's voice goes up and
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Speaker 1: he is reminded that he needs to use his indoor voice.
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Speaker 1: All right, I think we need to cue up, but
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Speaker 1: just walk away, Joe, Eric Pierriza. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I'm pronouncing right pie r wz wsz at Pierza close enough.
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Speaker 1: Eric's forty eight years old. I guess he snapped because
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Speaker 1: for some reason he jumped on top of a Caboda
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Speaker 1: excavator and started tearing apart his home. Best good to say.
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Speaker 1: The damage is so severe that there are concerns about
25:37
Speaker 1: the home structural integrity. I'm looking at it and yeah,
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Speaker 1: he did one hell of a job tearing the house up.
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Speaker 1: Please say the incident unfolded. Yes, Last Tuesday morning, arn
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Speaker 1: Martin Road in Buffalo Township, one of his neighbors said,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to know what, she referring to the guy's
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Speaker 1: wife said to him, because I'll make sure I don't
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Speaker 1: say it. Forty two years I've been married, I've never
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Speaker 1: threatened to tear the house down, and according to the
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Speaker 1: criminal complaint, this guy told his This guy's wife told
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Speaker 1: police that he showed up home at the family's house
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Speaker 1: after drinking all night and then started an argument with her.
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Speaker 1: That's when she told him the marriage was over. His response,
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Speaker 1: if it's over, I'll tear the house down, please say.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, he climbed onto the Caboda excavator
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Speaker 1: and started yes tearing the house down while his wife
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Speaker 1: and two daughters were still inside. You know, I was
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Speaker 1: anxiously reviewing the facts of this article to figure out
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Speaker 1: hole in the hell this excavator was right there in
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Speaker 1: his yard, ready to use to tear the house down.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he was getting work done, but
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Speaker 1: it was conveniently located enough that he could do this
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Speaker 1: rash thing. Criminal complaints They dispatches could hear yelling and
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Speaker 1: the sound of the excavator while his wife called nine
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Speaker 1: to one one. Investigators say that the once the destruction stopped,
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Speaker 1: peers up, went back inside, grabbed the jim bag, and
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Speaker 1: took off toward Fawn Township before eventually being taken into custody. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: KDKA news there interviewing folks in the neighborhood. One of
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Speaker 1: the guys said he's hunted with Piersoa before, and he
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Speaker 1: described as being a big outdoorsman, and he was also
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Speaker 1: shocked by the allegation his charges. I love this one
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Speaker 1: causing a catastrophe. I didn't even know that was a charge,
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Speaker 1: reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. Court records show his wife
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Speaker 1: planned to seek a protection from abuse order after the incident,
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Speaker 1: shocking literally no one. He's doing court again June ninth.
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Speaker 1: If you're in the area and want to show up,
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Speaker 1: you think for a moment, the guy contemplated the reality
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Speaker 1: that you know, he's got a vested financial interest in
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Speaker 1: the home, and tearing the home down just because he's
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Speaker 1: pissed off at his wife might not be in his
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Speaker 1: own best interest. Oh, I know, Joe, I understand, you
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Speaker 1: get it. I know you get the anger. But you see, Joe,
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Speaker 1: you would never do something so unbelievably stupid as that.
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Speaker 1: That's a good question. Joe wanted to know. If he
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Speaker 1: had a go fundme page, You've planned on making a
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Speaker 1: contribution just because you can relate on some level, Strekker. Okay,
28:31
Speaker 1: let's just go ahead and take Frank herrecuse. I can
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Speaker 1: mention Bud Herbert motors. I don't know if Bud Herbert
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Speaker 1: sells Cabota Excavators. There's there's sort of a thought. Sorry
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Speaker 1: to Bud Herbert for even bringing that up. But you
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Speaker 1: know what by KRC the talk station, it is five
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Speaker 1: forty nine here fifty five krs the talk station blagging
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Speaker 1: or not dealing with another Monday. Try to light it
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Speaker 1: up with a stacker stupid this one? Wow? Okay, partly
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Speaker 1: agreement with prosecutors. A criminal case has been dropped against
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Speaker 1: a Texas embalmer who last year allegedly mutilated the corpse
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Speaker 1: of a sex offender. Brace yourself, stuffing the decedents severed
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Speaker 1: penis into his mouth. What phony charge against Amber Loudermilk,
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Speaker 1: who's thirty six thrown out earlier the month, Harris County
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Speaker 1: District Attorney Court judge granted dismissal motion filed by the prosecutors,
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Speaker 1: who noted an alternative resolution agreement was entered into with
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Speaker 1: missus Loudermilk. In his motion, the prosecutor offered a one
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Speaker 1: line description of the agreement explanation. Colon defendant completed a
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Speaker 1: class for dismissal close quote whatever complaints dismissal and the
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Speaker 1: quote unquote class not further explain. Another court records to
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Speaker 1: court to the Texas Funeral Service Commission records Loudermilk's and
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Speaker 1: Balmer's license, which was suspended after her arrest, expired at
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Speaker 1: the same time the abuse of corpse charge was dismissed.
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Speaker 1: Investigator's alleged that Loudermilk used a scalpel to disfigure the
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Speaker 1: corpse of Charles Roy Rodriguez, who was fifty eight, was
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Speaker 1: a registered sex offender who lived outside of the Houston area.
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Speaker 1: Mutilation occurred shortly after a Memorial Day. I'm sorry memorial
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Speaker 1: mortuary and crematory workers learned of his criminal history, ledged court. Hey, Joe,
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Speaker 1: I guess like pedophiles going into prison suffer the fate
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Speaker 1: that we all know they suffer, this is a new
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Speaker 1: one for me as a legend, the court complained. A
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Speaker 1: provisional Embalmer told police that she saw Loudermilk's stab defendant
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Speaker 1: Rodriguez twice with a scalpel in the growing and then
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Speaker 1: cut it off and place it into his mouth. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't say whether she has a GoFundMe page. Joe Laudi Milk,
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Speaker 1: according to police, told the witness who watched this, you
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Speaker 1: didn't see anything. H funeral director said loudermlks fondling the
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Speaker 1: mouth of the deceitan, That's what she said she saw,
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Speaker 1: adding that the decedent penis was in fact in his mouth.
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Speaker 1: Well that's a whole lot to swallow on a Monday,
31:18
Speaker 1: isn't it, Joe phrasing. Ah, here's a bizarre one, aren't
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Speaker 1: they all? We go to Florida where a woman who
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Speaker 1: stole a coworker's Stanley cup so she could use it
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Speaker 1: to store her breast. Milk has accepted responsibility for theft.
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Speaker 1: It's part of the deal with prosecutors, and she will
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Speaker 1: complete as a consequence of her deal with prosecutors, what
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Speaker 1: they're calling a shoplifting awareness course. What it's part of
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Speaker 1: the pre trolley intervention agreement. Arianna Moss, who's twenty nine,
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Speaker 1: is going to be paying fines and court costs related
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Speaker 1: to the theft of a singular insulated coup. You know,
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Speaker 1: I thought about this in the context of US not
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Speaker 1: even bothering to prosecute criminal juveniles in the Greater Cincinnati area.
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Speaker 1: They won't even go through the process of writing them up.
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Speaker 1: They'll let them out. We don't have anything. This woman
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Speaker 1: stole a sixty dollars cup and went through the entire
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Speaker 1: judicial process in Florida. Joe doesn't say anything about her
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Speaker 1: having to get a library card, so the misdemeanor charge
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Speaker 1: is going to be dismissed after she completes this six
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Speaker 1: month program six month course in shoplifting Awareness. Arrested in
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Speaker 1: January after taking the forty ounce insulated to tumblr owned
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Speaker 1: by a female coworker at a wrec complex in Florida.
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Speaker 1: Before mos stole the sixty dollars item, a witness told
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Speaker 1: police that she had pointed to it and mused, quote,
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Speaker 1: this cup would be great to hold my breast milk
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Speaker 1: those quote And of course there was a surveillance camera
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Speaker 1: which did record her hiding the Stanley cup in her
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Speaker 1: lunch box before leaving the Highland Rec Center. That's where
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Speaker 1: she worked as a supervisor past tense On worked. She's
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Speaker 1: no longer there. She quit her jobs after the theft,
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Speaker 1: and she's been barred with having any contact with the
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Speaker 1: rec center. I hope it was worth it. Local Story
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Speaker 1: Local twelve reporting since a woman allegedly passed out and
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Speaker 1: crashed her car while driving under the influence, while her
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Speaker 1: two young children were in the back seat. Hamil on
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Speaker 1: the Communistipal Court records say they received a nine to
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Speaker 1: one one call May thirty three regarding a quote possible
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Speaker 1: impaired driver who struck her guardrail, was unable to maintain lanes,
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Speaker 1: and was also reported to be unconscious. Close quote. Vehicle
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Speaker 1: found by police pulled over for a traffic stop. Police
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Speaker 1: said the driver, identified as Kayla Helton in the court documents,
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Speaker 1: determined to be under the influence. She reportedly admitted to
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Speaker 1: being on methadone. Police investigated the vehicle and found two children,
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Speaker 1: ages five and eight, in the back seat. She was
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Speaker 1: rest charger two counts of endangering children. Wow, that's sad.
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Speaker 1: What more can one say? We are out of time
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Speaker 1: in this. I see carl Is on the phone. Carl,
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Speaker 1: if you gonna mind, don't mind holding a little bit,
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Speaker 1: I'll be more than pleased to take your call after
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Speaker 1: the top of the hour. News and yeah, I plague
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Speaker 1: update in the next hour, just in time for World Cup,
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Speaker 1: says Joe Strecker. Don't go away, I'd be right back.
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Speaker 3: At the top of the hour.
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Speaker 1: Here the top stories of the talkstation.
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Speaker 3: Six oh five here.
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Speaker 1: At fifty five caroson Talk station. My name is Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 1: quick for we get the Carl hold on one second,
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Speaker 1: Carl coming up seven to twenty. It is Monday. That
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Speaker 1: means we hear from Christopher Smith, Aman, former vice mayor
34:58
Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati, and the Smith event. We're
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Speaker 1: here from Brian James. We do Money Monday with allword
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Speaker 1: of financials Brian James every Monday at eight oh five
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Speaker 1: Wall Street bubble concerns about the national debt and those
35:08
Speaker 1: are justified concerns. Inflation really hitting people hard and to
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Speaker 1: the breaking point. And finally, artificials, a artificial intelligence stock
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Speaker 1: some apps are growing in popularity. I guess investment opportunities
35:19
Speaker 1: still exists. We have care seet cares. Today we're going
35:22
Speaker 1: to have Deanna Coleman, she's an RN with the Cincinnati
35:24
Speaker 1: VA talking about innovation and technology at the VA. So
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Speaker 1: there's our lineup for this morning. Let's get over to
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Speaker 1: the phones. Carl, thank you so much for holding over
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Speaker 1: the break. Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 5: Sure, good morning, Brian, good to talk to you.
35:36
Speaker 1: Say.
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Speaker 5: I received a email from Greg Landsman yesterday. He's my
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Speaker 5: first congressional district member in Congress, and the title is
35:46
Speaker 5: fighting Trump's corruption. Of course, has put out a taxpayer expense.
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Speaker 5: But as I scrolled down further in the email, he
35:55
Speaker 5: met with first Student Bus Company. Now that bus company
35:59
Speaker 5: provides rides to school for the students. They service five
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Speaker 5: million students a day, and they talked about how he
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Speaker 5: can support their efforts to expand electric school buses and
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Speaker 5: ensure students continue to have reliable It says reliable transportation
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Speaker 5: to school. And anyone who listens to the media at
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Speaker 5: all knows that the school buses are not reliable in
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Speaker 5: the cold weather during the winter.
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Speaker 1: I know, Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 3: I'm laughing for a variety of reasons.
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Speaker 1: The other this is the cost associated with acquiring an
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Speaker 1: electric school bus, which I understand are substantially more expensive
36:38
Speaker 1: than the diesel buses out in the world. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You know, a FIR student is looking for a handout
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Speaker 5: here because if they weren't, they would just go ahead
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Speaker 5: and buy the electric school buses. So they want to
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Speaker 5: you know, taxpayers to support these things.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand, fuel prices are up, but come on,
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Speaker 5: fuel bull.
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Speaker 1: Fuel prices go up, fuel price go down, and you know,
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Speaker 1: and you know the other component of this, Carl, how
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Speaker 1: is electricity generated these days? Do you think that the
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Speaker 1: electricity when you go to power up your electric vehicle
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Speaker 1: or buses the case may be, is being powered exclusively
37:15
Speaker 1: by wind turbines and solar panels. No, it's being powered
37:19
Speaker 1: by a natural gas and maybe if you're lucky in
37:22
Speaker 1: nuclear plant, but you know, the traditional quote unquote fossil
37:25
Speaker 1: fuel type power generation. Maybe you got some hydro in there.
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Speaker 1: It's a mixed bag, but a lot of it's coming from. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the the the energy sources that have gone up. And
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Speaker 1: I asked someone the other day, I said, is there
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Speaker 1: do you save money charging up an electronic an EV
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Speaker 1: versus pumping at the gas, And because I have never
37:43
Speaker 1: charged an EV, I don't know what it costs to
37:44
Speaker 1: do so. But you know, considering we're supposed to be
37:47
Speaker 1: doing this the name of global warming, you're still not
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Speaker 1: reducing carbon necessarily. It still costs money to charge it.
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Speaker 1: And if the price of energy is going up, I
37:56
Speaker 1: don't know that you're necessarily going to achieve any money
37:58
Speaker 1: savings by moving away from d diesel and going with electric,
38:01
Speaker 1: but let's say that's possible. The price of buying an
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Speaker 1: electric bus is far exceeds the cost of a diesel bus.
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Speaker 1: And if you're doing this in the name of global warming, Carl,
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Speaker 1: you got to factor into the global destruction and carbon
38:13
Speaker 1: output that it takes to build an electric bus. It's
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Speaker 1: the whole this nonsense is collapsing on top of itself, Carl,
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Speaker 1: and I got to thank you very much for bringing
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Speaker 1: up that particular topic, because among the topics I wanted
38:25
Speaker 1: to get into is exactly that. Thank you. I saw
38:29
Speaker 1: this and I wrote jump the Shark for those who
38:31
Speaker 1: remember happy days when Phonsie jumped the shark. That's the
38:34
Speaker 1: moment in time you realize that you know they've run
38:36
Speaker 1: out of ideas and concepts, and they've gotten so ridiculous
38:40
Speaker 1: that you know, it's a moment in history that now
38:41
Speaker 1: has a name, California Climate Change Program. They are actually
38:47
Speaker 1: giving free there's that word, solar panels to illegal immigrants.
38:54
Speaker 1: There's a program. Of course, there is the farm worker
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Speaker 1: housing component or the low of the subset of the
39:01
Speaker 1: low income Weatherization program. Taxpayer dollars throwing money at this
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Speaker 1: in the name of global warming, climate change. This is
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Speaker 1: how these programs get created. And of course there are
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Speaker 1: some non governmental organizations that are responsible for administering this,
39:15
Speaker 1: and they've all agreed that, yeah, we've spent forty nine
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Speaker 1: million to hand out free solar panels to recipients, many
39:22
Speaker 1: of whom illegal aliens. All right, do not care what
39:25
Speaker 1: you say one way or another. I'm just thinking another
39:28
Speaker 1: sort of social welfare safety net program that people who
39:31
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be in our country are glombing onto. There's
39:34
Speaker 1: your tax payer dollars going to get another one. But
39:38
Speaker 1: why we have these programs out there feeding families that
39:44
Speaker 1: work for NGOs on global climate change. It's an industrial
39:49
Speaker 1: complex out there. Trillions of dollars been thrown at these
39:52
Speaker 1: pivot over Holman Jenkins Junior op ed p's Donald Trump
39:55
Speaker 1: climate scientists how a presidential tweet force the media to
39:59
Speaker 1: come to terms with its faulty global warming reporting. Now
40:04
Speaker 1: we need to get the word out on this because
40:06
Speaker 1: of our young people are all indoctrinated and mindlessly say
40:09
Speaker 1: your car is killing us, among other ridiculous assertions. You
40:13
Speaker 1: also need to talk to those people that are true
40:14
Speaker 1: believers about the reality of what we use petroleum in,
40:17
Speaker 1: which is literally everything, including you know, the plastic bottle
40:20
Speaker 1: they're drinking their water out of. Anyway, he points it out,
40:23
Speaker 1: many Americans still think the key question in climate politics
40:27
Speaker 1: is a human effect on climate yay or nay believer
40:32
Speaker 1: versus denier those your two camps. No, you're right. For
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Speaker 1: forty years, the only interesting questions have been how and
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Speaker 1: how much are we influencing the climate and the cost
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Speaker 1: and benefit of proposed actions, questions that can't be answered
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Speaker 1: by shouting yay or nay about human role in climate change.
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Speaker 1: Activists have taught us one thing. Hectoring about the end
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Speaker 1: of the world insisting the science is settled. Equating doubters
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Speaker 1: to holocaust deniers has been a stimulant to green pork
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Speaker 1: and not real climate policy, the pinnacle of cynicism being
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. The public understandably long ago
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Speaker 1: stopped listening, or maybe it started getting its guidance from
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, which wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
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Speaker 1: This month, when the authoritative United Nations Advisory Panel quietly
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Speaker 1: junked a long misused worst case emission scenario known as
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Speaker 1: RCP eight point five, one of the first to notice
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Speaker 1: was the President, who charmingly tweeted about Democrats and their wrong, wrong, wrong,
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Speaker 1: all caps climate estimates. This was a public service, it
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Speaker 1: turned out, for mister Trump's post forced the media to
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Speaker 1: reckon with a decade's worth of its own bad reporting.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with a bit of perspective. It all began
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Speaker 1: with the twenty eighteen US Government Assistant An Assessment, instigating
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Speaker 1: what I. Homa Jenkins Junior called a psychiatric moment for
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Speaker 1: the news media, piling up worst case assumptions, including this
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Speaker 1: RCP eight point five. The report issued by the government
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Speaker 1: showed warming nevertheless to be an affordable burden for Americans,
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Speaker 1: who would be three or four times as rich by
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Speaker 1: twenty ninety despite an adverse climate, a warming climate. In
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Speaker 1: other words, we're not all going to die. But this
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Speaker 1: created a problem for the press. All climate news must
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Speaker 1: be bad, tending toward worse. Reporters did the only thing
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Speaker 1: they could. They ignored the numbers and filled their dispatches
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Speaker 1: with adjectives indicating a doom that, hilariously, the study didn't
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Speaker 1: even support par for the course. Maybe, but the episode
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Speaker 1: was so grossly stupid it gave birth to a resolution
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Speaker 1: by scientists to stop feeding the media worse case scenarios
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Speaker 1: to misrepresent. This impulse has now been honored with a
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Speaker 1: semi congratulatory presidential tweet. Always a lagger, though, is the
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Speaker 1: New York Times first It resorted to a canard in
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Speaker 1: response to Trump's posting a story claiming that our cpaight
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Speaker 1: point five, far from being faulty, simply was rendered moot
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Speaker 1: by the glorious carbon reducing progress of green energy. This
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Speaker 1: was so obviously false the paper ran a second report,
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Speaker 1: now admitting that, in their words, news stories in other word,
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Speaker 1: its own about climate research often emphasized the results based
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Speaker 1: on our cpaight point five as a picture of what
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Speaker 1: the world can expect unless countries slash their emissions, which
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Speaker 1: isn't right. Understand, it's a close quote. Understand. Our PC
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Speaker 1: eight point five was created to give scientists a high
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Speaker 1: emissions path to play with. From the start, it lacked
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Speaker 1: any consistent and internal logic, as its original designers stipulated.
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Speaker 1: Only later was a backstory of justification added in an
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Speaker 1: RCP eight point five World All Technological Project. A progress
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Speaker 1: in the energy field would end. That is, with a
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Speaker 1: strange exception, the technology to allow the world to quinn
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Speaker 1: tupple its coal consumption, such as burning coal in cars. Remember,
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Speaker 1: as the worst case scenario, we will never progress forward
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Speaker 1: in terms of energy generation. We're all gonna die because
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Speaker 1: of carbon creation. They failed to take into account something
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Speaker 1: that I've been advocating for now forever. As my regular
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Speaker 1: listeners know, small modular reactors. They're a thing. We could
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Speaker 1: have them now. They would produce carbon free energy in abundance. See,
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Speaker 1: it didn't even take that into account. It ignored the
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Speaker 1: bright reality that might happen. There's always progress, folks. We're
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Speaker 1: not gonna all starve to death. We have fertilizers in
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Speaker 1: modern crop production they didn't have, and we all thought
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Speaker 1: the world was going to run out of food because
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Speaker 1: of overpopulation. Anyway, back to home, and in any sane model,
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Speaker 1: of course, technological advance is routine and must be accounted for,
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Speaker 1: and we've had plenty in all areas of energy production
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Speaker 1: and distribution, including green energy. But the world consumes more
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Speaker 1: of every kind of energy, even renewables, without necessarily having
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Speaker 1: any deliberate effect on emissions, though those emissions remain far
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Speaker 1: below the RCP eight point five forecast, which proved useful
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Speaker 1: only for over selling climate doom to the public. The
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Speaker 1: larger lesson is an extraordinary story of futility and cynicism
45:37
Speaker 1: which passes itself off as climate politics. Literally trillions of
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Speaker 1: dollars have been wasted. The story begins with the Obama
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Speaker 1: administration ditching a carbon tax in favor of green pork.
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Speaker 1: It ends with the former John carry Aid arguing last
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Speaker 1: year that the effects of climate change, in his words,
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Speaker 1: resemble those if China or Indonesia were to launch miss
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Speaker 1: at the United States, in other words, saying this climate
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Speaker 1: change is basically had going to have the same impact
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Speaker 1: as nuclear war. Homan Jenkins interjects the US should consider
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Speaker 1: employee military power against emitting countries. This record of disgrace
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Speaker 1: only underlines the glory and mystery of the current moment.
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Speaker 1: Organized climate science is finally repenting of its overuse of
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Speaker 1: worst case scenarios, and not because of searching criticism from
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Speaker 1: an honest and competent news media, but because of embarrassment
46:37
Speaker 1: that shoddy mainstream coverage of climate science. This climate sciences
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Speaker 1: are embarrassed that they had the reporting. It was done
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Speaker 1: this way. That's not what we said. More amazing, the
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Speaker 1: truth has now reached the readers of the New York
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Speaker 1: Times and likely wouldn't have if mister Trump hadn't posted
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Speaker 1: about climate science in his usual hyperbolic all caps way
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Speaker 1: bill of goods we've been sold. If I say it's
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Speaker 1: a bill of goods and hopefully everybody'll figure it out
47:21
Speaker 1: talking about this green energy crap and the reason we
47:23
Speaker 1: need it, and then we find out the predicate for
47:26
Speaker 1: it is, well, maybe things aren't going to be so bad,
47:28
Speaker 1: and it won't be bad. Spin it back to al
47:31
Speaker 1: Gore's movie Inconvenient Truth. We were all going to die
47:35
Speaker 1: and those the predictions came and went and none of
47:38
Speaker 1: them came true, not a single one. And yet school
47:43
Speaker 1: children were lined up to see that movie was shown everywhere.
47:46
Speaker 1: This is our future. If we don't get all we
47:48
Speaker 1: don't get, we need to start well. And Joe Strekker said,
47:51
Speaker 1: he goes, I did not put this spot in here,
47:53
Speaker 1: the electric vehicle spot we just heard. The timing was
47:56
Speaker 1: just already built in the equation. We didn't even know
47:57
Speaker 1: what it was. But if you take out the alarmism,
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Speaker 1: the fear that was put into our hearts and minds that,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, carbon dioxide, it's going to kill us.
48:11
Speaker 1: All the sea levels are gonna rise, New York City
48:14
Speaker 1: is going to be underwater in or to step back
48:19
Speaker 1: from that and realize that you know, all of this
48:21
Speaker 1: was built on lies that you have been convinced that
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Speaker 1: of about something that isn't true. I personally would feel
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Speaker 1: let down, But then again, I never bought into the
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Speaker 1: bill of goods it was being sold anyway. It all
48:34
Speaker 1: seems so illogical. And crazy, So you step back from
48:37
Speaker 1: it and then wonder what was the motivation. Why were
48:44
Speaker 1: they trying to get us to believe the world was
48:45
Speaker 1: going to come to an end if we didn't quit
48:47
Speaker 1: pumping gas into our cars. And you know, some out
48:53
Speaker 1: there say they just want to control us. They want
48:55
Speaker 1: to limit our freedom of travel, they want a limit
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Speaker 1: our ability to move about. I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand that philosophy because I don't spring from such a
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Speaker 1: level of narcissism that I think I know better than
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Speaker 1: everybody else about how to live your life. But clearly
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Speaker 1: we are filled with a world full of our politicians
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Speaker 1: and our leaders and those that make the decisions for us.
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Speaker 1: People like that who think we are a bunch of
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Speaker 1: children who are incapable of making our own decisions and
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Speaker 1: we need to be controlled and kept in our little environment.
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Speaker 1: But if you can convince someone who is a believer,
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Speaker 1: a firm believer, that they have been lied to, what
49:32
Speaker 1: do you think the reaction is going to be to that?
49:35
Speaker 1: As I stare at Ebola getting to be a bigger
49:37
Speaker 1: and bigger problem, And Joe Strecker pointed out that Congo
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Speaker 1: is in the World Cup and there are more than
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Speaker 1: a thousand cases and death so far about ebola. Is
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Speaker 1: that going to come out into the world? And if
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Speaker 1: it does, are you going to remember the bill of
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Speaker 1: goods that we were sold about COVID nineteen hmm. Yeah,
49:57
Speaker 1: we were lied to about that as well. Maybe not everything,
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Speaker 1: but the mask and the social distancing all pulled from
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Speaker 1: someone's sphincter, like maybe doctor Fauci. Oh, yeah, an Amy
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Speaker 1: lockdown acting here in the state of Ohio, Jo, thank
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Speaker 1: you very much for a plug for vvig Ramaswami, which
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Speaker 1: is a much better option. I would hope that you've
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Speaker 1: concluded than Amy lockdown acting. You can't go to church,
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Speaker 1: you can't go to work, and you can watch your
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Speaker 1: Since Juck was talking about traffic, I saw the reporting
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Speaker 1: on the Brents Ben's Big Bridge project that got the
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Speaker 1: equipment showing up tugboats pulling in cranes and other equipment.
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Speaker 1: The project four point zero five billion dollars. How many
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Speaker 1: presidents campaigned on getting that one done? Yeah, well it's uh,
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Speaker 1: it's starting right now. Timeline has changed a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Let's see. Early approach work is going to continue to
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Speaker 1: the spring. Utility relocations, preparation for the bridge foundation work.
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Speaker 1: The Companion Bridge, the one they're building, expected to open
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Speaker 1: in twenty thirty one, and officials anticipate the approach work
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Speaker 1: will be completed by twenty thirty three. Got quite a
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Speaker 1: few years of this coming our way. Timeline for the
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Speaker 1: upcoming closures regarding the Brents Benz Bridge Corridor project revised
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Speaker 1: for some additional time, they say, to allow the utility
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Speaker 1: work to be done. Temporary and permanent closures of interstate
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Speaker 1: ramps were originally scheduled for last week, now expected to
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Speaker 1: start on June eighth. Specifically, I seventy one seventy five
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Speaker 1: northbound off of Twelfth Street slash MLK Boulevard and the
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Speaker 1: ICE seventy one seventy five southbound ramp from Twelfth Street
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Speaker 1: MLK Boulevard will close, along with Bullock Avenue from Pike
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Speaker 1: Street to the Ice seventy one seventy five southbound ramp
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Speaker 1: on twelfth. Twelfth Street bridge between Simon Kenton Way and
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Speaker 1: Bullock also be closed. Simon Kenton Way will change the
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Speaker 1: two way traffic at that time traffic We detoured via
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Speaker 1: Pike Street and Dixie Highway to Kyle's Lane and then
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Speaker 1: I seventy one seventy five southbound. Man, this is as
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Speaker 1: I read this and I'm thinking, yeah, you're driving along
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Speaker 1: going What the hell is he talking about? I need
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Speaker 1: a map to really figure out where this is. Just
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Speaker 1: expect a lot of delays and problems. Ultimately this will
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Speaker 1: all work out for everybody's benefit, hopefully, but presently gerdia
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Speaker 1: Llin's another local news. A child dead two others are
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Speaker 1: facing life threatening injuries after a crash into a horse
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Speaker 1: and buggy. It happened in Carroll County corner to the
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Speaker 1: Kentucky State Police who responded to this two vehicle collision
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Speaker 1: in Carrollton yesterday. Initial investigations indicate that a white Nissan
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Speaker 1: Ultimate driven by a guy named Daniel Crawford, who's forty
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Speaker 1: four from Carrollton, rear into the horse and buzzy buggy
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Speaker 1: that was carrying three juveniles, all three taking a Norton
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Speaker 1: Children's Hospital. Sadly, one of them succumbed to the injuries.
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Speaker 1: Crash remains under investigation. We have a woman dead after
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Speaker 1: a single vehicle crash in Union Township. This happened last
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Speaker 1: evening crash having a Mason Morrow Milgrove Road in Union
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Speaker 1: Township ten minutes after seven pm. Preliminary investigation found that
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Speaker 1: at two thousand and six Ford Focus, driven by Paul
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Speaker 1: Atte Hines fifty one A Mainville, traveled off the left
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Speaker 1: side of the road, hit an embankment, flipped over several times,
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Speaker 1: and then came to a rest on the guardrail. She
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Speaker 1: was declared dead at the scenes. Official st Hines was
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Speaker 1: not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
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Speaker 1: This investigation also continues. Butler County Sheriff see here, Steve Home,
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Speaker 1: let's see here. I'm sorry, I got confused on this
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Speaker 1: local story. I apologize and without further deo, let's take
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Speaker 1: an early break here because a posity. You know, actually,
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Speaker 1: I can go back to Bobby's over and under. I
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Speaker 1: didn't see a whole lot of gunfire and murders over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, so in a nod to Bobby who put
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Speaker 1: the over and under at seven for gun violence over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. At least it appears to have come in under,
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Speaker 1: so there's a positive local story made on the fly.
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Speaker 1: this song means we're gonna do a plague update. I
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Speaker 1: the next plague. It's coming our way. Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: The alarm bells are going off. And we've heard about
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Speaker 1: a bola before. It never really did quite make it
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Speaker 1: out of the area where it was found in Africa.
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Speaker 1: We now have some concerns being expressed by a lot
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Speaker 1: of medical health professionals that got a real problem on
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Speaker 1: our hands. Are we going to take it seriously if
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Speaker 1: it comes here? After we relied to about COVID, let's
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Speaker 1: start over in Republic of Congo, where they say more
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Speaker 1: than eleven hundred people are suspected of having contracted ebola.
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Speaker 1: Head of the African Union's Health agency said yesterday talking
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Speaker 1: to The Financial Times, Director General Gene Cassea of the
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Speaker 1: African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention they have their
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Speaker 1: own CDC there, how about that said two hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty three confirmed cases, forty three confirmed deaths, more than
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Speaker 1: eleven hundred as I mentioned, suspected case still being investigated.
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Speaker 1: According to the officials African CDC, they said there have
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Speaker 1: been two hundred and forty six deaths from the virus CASEYA,
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Speaker 1: criticizing African's dependence on outside financial support, another reality we
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Speaker 1: must move at the speed of the epidemic. Health Minister
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Speaker 1: of the Democratic republica Condo Congo, Uganda and South Suzan
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Speaker 1: Sudan recently adopted a some three hundred and nineteen million
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Speaker 1: dollar response to this outbreak and what they anticipated and
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Speaker 1: they anticipate it's going to get worse. It's not enough
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Speaker 1: money to be thrown at it, apparently. Outbreak declared May
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Speaker 1: fifteenth in the northeast part of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
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Speaker 1: home to more than one hundred million people and also
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Speaker 1: one of the poorest countries. In the world. The disease,
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Speaker 1: described as causing deadly hemigaic fever, has been detected in
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Speaker 1: three Congolese provinces as well as Uganda. There is no vaccine.
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Speaker 1: There apparently is no approved treatment against this version of
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Speaker 1: the virus. It's the bunded bugio virus or the strain
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Speaker 1: rather of it. World Health Organization they say they've triggered
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Speaker 1: an international health alert. The true scale the outbreak, they say,
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Speaker 1: is unknown. Again, you're talking about a very very poor
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Speaker 1: country with very very poor communications. People do not understand
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Speaker 1: and have an understanding of what this virus can do,
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Speaker 1: how it can be contracted, or what to do if
57:22
Speaker 1: you do contract it. And people apparently are fleeing the
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Speaker 1: area when they become aware that the bowl is floating around,
57:30
Speaker 1: they pack up their bags and they move. And international
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Speaker 1: health authorities are saying this current figures that we've got
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Speaker 1: right now. Again, the scope of this is really truly unknown.
57:40
Speaker 1: They say, all of this is probably an underestimation. Now
57:43
Speaker 1: going back to a climate alarmism, you know, the reporters
57:46
Speaker 1: like to do and report what the reporters like to report.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they're all just trying to get us all gemmed up.
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Speaker 1: Over something else. This one's kind of a scary proposition.
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Speaker 1: CDC director Robert Redfield said he would not be surprised
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Speaker 1: there are multiple ebola cases inside the United States, and
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Speaker 1: this ebola outbreak that's going on right now that I
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Speaker 1: mentioned in Congo in the regions around there, the third
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Speaker 1: largest in history, a cord to the World Health Organization,
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Speaker 1: which has declared a public health in our emergency of
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Speaker 1: international concern. Redfield, the former CDC director, said, I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: won't be surprised if we don't have one or two
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Speaker 1: or three sporadic cases referring to here in the United States.
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Speaker 1: And here's the fun fact, Jostrekker glombed onto this because
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Speaker 1: he's a huge soccer fan. I'm only saying that because
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Speaker 1: of the World Cup coming a lot of travel. It
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Speaker 1: depends on how much of this virus does get outside
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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Administration officials said last
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Speaker 1: Wednesday that White House plans the sen's Americans exposed to
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Speaker 1: ebola to a quarantine treatment facility being constructed in Kenya.
59:02
Speaker 1: Well that kind of sounded weird, isn't it. We've already
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Speaker 1: thrown at resources at a treatment facility in Kenya to
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Speaker 1: treat Americans, notwithstanding the fact that it's being constructed there.
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Speaker 1: It's Fox News or remembers The News Nation reported that
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Speaker 1: a court in Kenya last Friday block the government from
59:26
Speaker 1: permitting the United States to establish the quarantine facility. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Former CDC director Redfield said the facility in Kenya is
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Speaker 1: not a good decision by the administration. He suggests that
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Speaker 1: Americans affected by Ebola are best off receiving the highest
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Speaker 1: quality care possible, which he said is in the United States.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, that's a red flag to me too.
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Speaker 1: If you could treat people elsewhere and not bring the
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Speaker 1: ebolavirus into the United States, doesn't that sound better, at
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Speaker 1: least in terms of protecting the population of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America. Well, it does to me anyway. And
1:00:09
Speaker 1: there already had been affected Americans, they said. The administration
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Speaker 1: has evacuated at least one American doctor who was infected
1:00:15
Speaker 1: with a bowl and they sent him to Germany. Another
1:00:18
Speaker 1: doctor exposed to the virus was sent to Prague. I
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Speaker 1: wonder if Germany or Prague had anything to say about that. Oh, sure,
1:00:26
Speaker 1: bring them on in. That's nothing nothing to see here,
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Speaker 1: following up on that, lots have really pointed, and great
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Speaker 1: questions from citizen watch dog Todd Windsor about this contract
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Speaker 1: she entered into and all of the missing documents and
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Speaker 1: the suspicious reality of the money that's being paid to
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Speaker 1: her and her sons. No nepotism when you got a
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Speaker 1: subcontractor doing the work, you can't do it if you're
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Speaker 1: a city employee, which maybe why she's not employed by
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Speaker 1: the city and is being employed under a separate contract.
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Speaker 1: But Traction Galore online with signal ninety nine comments about that.
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Speaker 1: So happy to have her on the program and I
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Speaker 1: her more about the information that she presents to everybody,
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Speaker 1: and doing some great local reporting by having the inside
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Speaker 1: scoop and the inside contacts with the various organizations in
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Speaker 1: downtown since say, like police and fire and ems and others.
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Speaker 1: I am struggling with this one. I really bothered by it.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a patriot, I try to be anyway.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand the evil and hatred that's being You
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Speaker 1: on about all the things. The illustrations, these these mark
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Speaker 1: literally Marxists trying to get illegal immigrant murderers and rapists
1:02:10
Speaker 1: out on the streets in New Jersey. And you know,
1:02:13
Speaker 1: the the Antifa folks, black Lives Matter, and that's not
1:02:17
Speaker 1: saying anything about the race of anybody. It's Black Lives
1:02:20
Speaker 1: Matter organization, which was a self described Marxist organization. So
1:02:23
Speaker 1: I don't get any of that. All of them, as
1:02:26
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier in the program, well funded. They're non
1:02:30
Speaker 1: governmental organizations. This is a new business model. You get
1:02:33
Speaker 1: really wealthy Marxist leftist donors who made billions of dollars
1:02:37
Speaker 1: off the American economy funding these organizations which are designed
1:02:40
Speaker 1: solely to undermine the United States of America and create
1:02:43
Speaker 1: division in our country. And it's having some wild success.
1:02:47
Speaker 1: Does anybody feel like we're united on anything? And it
1:02:51
Speaker 1: was disturbed. It is a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
1:02:54
Speaker 1: of our countries founding, and there should be a lot
1:02:56
Speaker 1: of reason to celebrate. And I don't get you know,
1:02:59
Speaker 1: this whole Freedom two fifty thing, this concert and this
1:03:02
Speaker 1: event that Donald Trump is pushing and great, let's celebrate
1:03:05
Speaker 1: the United States. He's cleaned up Washington, d C. Figuratively
1:03:08
Speaker 1: and literally. It's a lot better than it was a
1:03:11
Speaker 1: short time ago, making it look great. So when people
1:03:14
Speaker 1: visit the nation's capital, it's something that maybe you could
1:03:16
Speaker 1: be proud of. So Saturday, the group organizing this event,
1:03:22
Speaker 1: it's a group called Freedom two fifty, announce that Donald
1:03:27
Speaker 1: Trump would kick off of State Fair June twenty fourth
1:03:29
Speaker 1: with an opening ceremony as the visionary behind the Great
1:03:33
Speaker 1: American State Fair. We're excited to announce that President Trump
1:03:35
Speaker 1: will personally kick off as historic celebration Wednesday, the twenty
1:03:39
Speaker 1: fourth and an opening ceremonies celebrating America's tour to fiftieth Birthday. Now,
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Speaker 1: the problem is getting Donald Trump mixed into this, and
1:03:45
Speaker 1: now it's become a political thing. The celebration of the
1:03:49
Speaker 1: mayor of America. Two hundred and fifty years, We've had Republican, Parsanans,
1:03:53
Speaker 1: Democrat presidents, We've had whigs, we've had all kinds of folks.
1:03:56
Speaker 1: Over the years. Our country has been, you know, a
1:04:00
Speaker 1: obviously wildly successful republic. And apparently the bands that were
1:04:09
Speaker 1: signed up to attend and play at this concert are
1:04:12
Speaker 1: withdrawing from the event. Why because it's become a political thing.
1:04:16
Speaker 1: And that's what I find disturbing about all this. So
1:04:22
Speaker 1: after some of the bands quit, Donald Trump said he
1:04:25
Speaker 1: himself will be headlining the event. And you know, I
1:04:30
Speaker 1: don't have any problem with Donald Trump, necessarily. I do
1:04:32
Speaker 1: have with some problem with some of the things he does,
1:04:34
Speaker 1: and this happens to be one of them. It's he's
1:04:36
Speaker 1: making it more about him than the country's celebration. Here's
1:04:40
Speaker 1: what his post said, draw your own conclusions. I understand
1:04:42
Speaker 1: artists are getting the yips having to do with their
1:04:45
Speaker 1: performance on Wednesday. So I'm thinking about bringing the number
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Speaker 1: one attraction anywhere in the world, the man who gets
1:04:51
Speaker 1: much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he
1:04:55
Speaker 1: does so without a guitar, the man who loves our
1:04:58
Speaker 1: country more than anyone else, And the man who's some
1:05:00
Speaker 1: say is the greatest president in the history, the goat
1:05:05
Speaker 1: in all caps, Donald J. Trump, to take the place
1:05:09
Speaker 1: of these highly paid third rate quote unquote artists and
1:05:14
Speaker 1: give a major speech rallying the country forward like I
1:05:18
Speaker 1: have done ever since being president close quote with an
1:05:20
Speaker 1: exclamation point on the end. So I would like to
1:05:23
Speaker 1: see the country united for the two hundred and fiftieth celebration.
1:05:27
Speaker 1: I really wish this wasn't you know. Go ahead and
1:05:29
Speaker 1: wish all you want, Thomas. It's not going to do
1:05:31
Speaker 1: you a damn bit of good. But I don't think
1:05:35
Speaker 1: the situation is helped by Donald Trump declaring himself to
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Speaker 1: be the headlining act and speaking of himself in such grand,
1:05:44
Speaker 1: glorious terms. Perhaps maybe that's one of the reasons that
1:05:49
Speaker 1: these acts have quit. And I'm so sad, Joe. You know,
1:05:54
Speaker 1: we are no longer to be blessed with a performance
1:05:56
Speaker 1: from Morris Day in the time, we're not going to
1:06:00
Speaker 1: be hearing Young mc the commodores, Martina McBride, and Brett Michaels.
1:06:08
Speaker 1: Do any of those names ring a bell to anybody anymore?
1:06:11
Speaker 1: Or ever? Some are still participating, and I'm in a
1:06:19
Speaker 1: loss on this one. Fab Morvin, Milli, Vanilli maybe just Millie.
1:06:28
Speaker 1: Joe says well, no, Vanilla is dead, Vanilla Ice, CNC
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Speaker 1: Music Factory, and some rapper named Freedom Williams flow Rita.
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Speaker 1: They're still scheduled to perform. I and Donald Trump referred
1:06:51
Speaker 1: to them as third rate artists. Well, maybe he is
1:06:53
Speaker 1: onto something on that one. Six fifty six fifty five
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Speaker 1: KCD talk stations stick around a few minutes time before
1:06:59
Speaker 1: we get to Vice my former vice Mayor of the
1:07:00
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smith Smith event coming your way
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Speaker 1: at seven to twenty.
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Speaker 3: At the top of the hour.
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Speaker 1: Here the top store. It's a seven o five here
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Speaker 1: if if you've got ker CD talk station, let me
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Speaker 1: just correct the record here apologies. A SHAFFAXX credit Union
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Speaker 1: Shred event which the commercial set is on the sixth,
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Speaker 1: is on the thirteenth. I was originally given a copy
1:07:26
Speaker 1: that had the erroneous date. It's the thirteenth. Apologies anybody
1:07:30
Speaker 1: who wrote that down, and I apologize that that spot
1:07:34
Speaker 1: wasn't was still in the system. So let's just make
1:07:36
Speaker 1: sure the record is clear. It's a great thing. Get
1:07:38
Speaker 1: all those confidential documents and take him on into one
1:07:41
Speaker 1: of the Shaffacs locations on the thirteenth. So we'll see
1:07:44
Speaker 1: if we can't get rid of that spot. We'll see
1:07:46
Speaker 1: if we can't talk to Dan Reganold. God bless Dan
1:07:48
Speaker 1: Reganold wasn't on the rundown this morning in oversight, but
1:07:51
Speaker 1: he is there on the phone to talk about the
1:07:53
Speaker 1: George Washington, the indispensable One. If you aren't familiar, Dan
1:07:57
Speaker 1: Reganold is the man who's behind the empower You America
1:08:01
Speaker 1: seminar series outstanding learning Opportunities that we've been Dan Reagan,
1:08:06
Speaker 1: welcome back to the program. How many years has this
1:08:08
Speaker 1: been going on? I've kind of lost track. I apologize.
1:08:10
Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend.
1:08:12
Speaker 6: It's good to be with you, and it's going on.
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Speaker 2: This is our sixteenth year.
1:08:16
Speaker 6: And I'm just so excited to have a chance tomorrow
1:08:20
Speaker 6: night Tuesday too, as part of our America two fifty
1:08:23
Speaker 6: series to talk about our first president, George Washington, the
1:08:27
Speaker 6: one they called the Indispensable One, and I just can't
1:08:33
Speaker 6: wait to kind of give a new look to this
1:08:35
Speaker 6: first leader we had. I was up about five years ago.
1:08:40
Speaker 6: I was up in northern Ohio visiting a Patriot group
1:08:43
Speaker 6: up there at a friend at the end brought me
1:08:45
Speaker 6: this book called The bullet Per. George Washington gave it
1:08:48
Speaker 6: to me and he said, you got to read this
1:08:50
Speaker 6: book because it's so important to the founding of the country.
1:08:53
Speaker 6: And I read it, and I've been waiting to do
1:08:55
Speaker 6: something with it ever since. And what better time to
1:08:58
Speaker 6: talk about it than now.
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Speaker 1: Well now the two hundred fifteth Diniversity of our country,
1:09:02
Speaker 1: which we're also celebrating on the fourth of June. If
1:09:05
Speaker 1: you can go to Empoweroamerica dot org, not only can
1:09:07
Speaker 1: you get the information about George Washington and the Indispensable One,
1:09:11
Speaker 1: which has taking place tomorrow evening at seven pm, which
1:09:14
Speaker 1: is typical of the empower of your classes, but also
1:09:16
Speaker 1: the event on the fourth. We're having a serious fun
1:09:19
Speaker 1: at Glendelle I see him, to celebrate America's two fiftieth.
1:09:23
Speaker 6: Yeah, we got a big party that night with music,
1:09:25
Speaker 6: some speeches from some friends that empower you over the
1:09:28
Speaker 6: years about America and it's founding. And that's Thursday night,
1:09:32
Speaker 6: and gosh, I hope to see so many friends. And
1:09:35
Speaker 6: we've had a lot of people sign up comments free,
1:09:37
Speaker 6: We've got food from the Works Pizza Group in Loveland,
1:09:42
Speaker 6: and it's going to be a great night. So you
1:09:45
Speaker 6: you were talking Brian about about how the things had
1:09:48
Speaker 6: gotten off a little bit off track about America to
1:09:51
Speaker 6: fifty with President Trump, And you know, the thing about Washington,
1:09:55
Speaker 6: one of his most incredible leadership traits, and there were
1:09:58
Speaker 6: many we'll talk about tomorrow night, was the fact he
1:10:00
Speaker 6: was just so loved by so many people, and he
1:10:03
Speaker 6: was a unifier and what he said about the United
1:10:06
Speaker 6: States that that I'm always going to try to remember
1:10:09
Speaker 6: that of the two words United States, it's the first one.
1:10:14
Speaker 6: That's so that's the more important one. That we're united,
1:10:19
Speaker 6: that we're unified. And what we'll talk about tomorrow night
1:10:21
Speaker 6: is all the things he did to try to bring
1:10:24
Speaker 6: the country together. The guy was incredible. At twenty three,
1:10:29
Speaker 6: he joins General Braddock, a famed British general, to take
1:10:33
Speaker 6: on the French up at up up around Pittsburgh. And
1:10:38
Speaker 6: he's fighting with General Braddock every single British staff member
1:10:44
Speaker 6: and leader is killed. This braddock at five horses are
1:10:48
Speaker 6: shot out from under him, if you can believe him.
1:10:50
Speaker 6: And who's left standing George Washington, twenty three years old.
1:10:57
Speaker 2: And the leader.
1:10:59
Speaker 6: And this guy is brave, he's courageous, and all of
1:11:03
Speaker 6: a sudden, when that fight's over, he goes back to
1:11:07
Speaker 6: just be a businessman at his home, and the British
1:11:12
Speaker 6: start to impose taxes on us. We've got the Stamp Act,
1:11:15
Speaker 6: the Townsend Act. And Washington never went to college and
1:11:19
Speaker 6: was not really educated. He was always self conscious about that.
1:11:23
Speaker 6: And he embarks with his friends George Mason and Patrick
1:11:27
Speaker 6: Henry and he becomes really a leader. And all of
1:11:33
Speaker 6: a sudden, John Adams says, you're going to be the
1:11:36
Speaker 6: guy that leads the Revolutionary War. And it was just stunning.
1:11:40
Speaker 6: Thirty three thousand British troops stroll into the United States
1:11:44
Speaker 6: on July third, seventeen seventy six. Can you imagine what
1:11:48
Speaker 6: that must.
1:11:48
Speaker 1: Have looked like?
1:11:50
Speaker 4: Oh?
1:11:50
Speaker 1: I cannot.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just stunning. And you know, we'll talk about
1:11:55
Speaker 6: things like this incredible winner at Valley Forge in seventeen
1:11:59
Speaker 6: seventy seven, and you know, all the horses that are dead,
1:12:04
Speaker 6: the soldiers have no shoes, and the crossing of the Delaware,
1:12:09
Speaker 6: and just how he got us through that the war.
1:12:14
Speaker 6: When the first battle is it Long is in New York,
1:12:19
Speaker 6: at Long Island and Washington. He was always he was
1:12:23
Speaker 6: just such a strong leader. He decides to throw all
1:12:26
Speaker 6: the chips, all fifteen thousand troops at the British in
1:12:32
Speaker 6: New York on Long Island, and he just gets hammered,
1:12:35
Speaker 6: and the British just just just take him up. And
1:12:39
Speaker 6: it looked like the war could end on the first battle.
1:12:41
Speaker 6: And it was only this group called the Maryland four
1:12:43
Speaker 6: hundred that provided the backstop to get him and his troops,
1:12:46
Speaker 6: to allow them to escape, or the war could have
1:12:49
Speaker 6: been over and we could have been talking about just
1:12:52
Speaker 6: just something entirely different, you know.
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Speaker 1: And it's I see that it is in the notes
1:12:58
Speaker 1: under the class description says, I just want to let
1:13:01
Speaker 1: you know that I independently thought of the whole concept
1:13:04
Speaker 1: of divine intervention. When you think about everything that that
1:13:08
Speaker 1: young man went through and ultimately became the first president
1:13:11
Speaker 1: of the United States of America, was instrumental in the
1:13:13
Speaker 1: formulation and the foundation of our country. It almost does
1:13:19
Speaker 1: seem that there was something divine about it. How did
1:13:21
Speaker 1: he was I mean, again, you point out in the
1:13:23
Speaker 1: notes about him getting shot multiple times. Back then before
1:13:27
Speaker 1: modern medicine, people died of infections all the time. How
1:13:31
Speaker 1: was he able to manage get through that, get through
1:13:33
Speaker 1: all of these battles. And I mean at twenty three,
1:13:35
Speaker 1: no college education, no formal education, and yet found a country.
1:13:39
Speaker 1: It's just it's seemingly divine interventions. Really.
1:13:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: One of the things I talk about tomorrow night was
1:13:48
Speaker 6: was God behind the setting up of this incredible experiment
1:13:53
Speaker 6: we have here the United States. I've got so many
1:13:56
Speaker 6: cases we'll talk about tomorrow night of people that reported
1:13:59
Speaker 6: Washington being shot so many times, and how he survived,
1:14:04
Speaker 6: and how he began to think that this was something,
1:14:08
Speaker 6: how this was something in God's hands. It puts a
1:14:11
Speaker 6: whole new new look at the at the at the
1:14:14
Speaker 6: founding of our country. And and this is one thing
1:14:17
Speaker 6: that astounded me about Washington. So after we had had
1:14:22
Speaker 6: had had won the war and we started talking about
1:14:25
Speaker 6: the Constitution, Washington was just always self conscious that he
1:14:29
Speaker 6: was not up to some of these other incredible cast
1:14:32
Speaker 6: of characters. Ben Franklin, John Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson Madison, and
1:14:38
Speaker 6: Washington goes to these people and he says, I need
1:14:41
Speaker 6: you to put me through training sessions so that I
1:14:43
Speaker 6: understand what this new government should look like. And Supreme
1:14:48
Speaker 6: Court Judge John Jay and James Madison sit Washington down
1:14:53
Speaker 6: and give him classes on why we needed three branches
1:14:56
Speaker 6: of government, What would federalism look like, what would state?
1:15:01
Speaker 6: What would the rights of the states be? And then
1:15:04
Speaker 6: Washington begins to read the federalist papers to get a
1:15:07
Speaker 6: better understanding, and Madison writes the Bill of Rights. I
1:15:10
Speaker 6: mean this class tomorrow, and I hope you'll join us,
1:15:13
Speaker 6: because we're going to go from a young Washington to
1:15:17
Speaker 6: the Declaration to the Constitution, and I guarantee people that
1:15:23
Speaker 6: they'll walk away with just a better understanding of the
1:15:27
Speaker 6: start of these United States.
1:15:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we all tend to complain about so much
1:15:32
Speaker 1: these days, and I'm not happy about the price of gasoline,
1:15:34
Speaker 1: but I mean, you consider the comparative pain and anguish
1:15:39
Speaker 1: that you know, the folks and the troops at Valley
1:15:40
Speaker 1: Forge went through in order to bring about this great nation.
1:15:43
Speaker 1: What they they could have just packed up and walked off,
1:15:46
Speaker 1: you know, I mean things were that miserable, and we
1:15:49
Speaker 1: can't even manage to get through a small economic bump here.
1:15:52
Speaker 1: I hate to lament that, especially since we're supposed to
1:15:54
Speaker 1: be in a celebratory mood this two hundred and fifty
1:15:57
Speaker 1: years and we're going to be doing that on Thursday.
1:15:59
Speaker 1: I just I think more people should study history and
1:16:01
Speaker 1: appreciate what they've got, because things were a hell of
1:16:04
Speaker 1: a lot worse, and yet people managed to survive and persevere.
1:16:07
Speaker 6: Dan, Yeah, you know Washington. He was a self aware guy.
1:16:11
Speaker 6: He understood his role. So many people said to him
1:16:16
Speaker 6: after the Revolutionary War, you're our next king. There's an
1:16:19
Speaker 6: incredible quote from King George the Third that says Washington
1:16:24
Speaker 6: is the leader that could be the next king. And
1:16:27
Speaker 6: Washington understood that. He didn't want more power. He wanted
1:16:31
Speaker 6: power to come up through through the people. And he
1:16:35
Speaker 6: was a visionary in that respect. Brian, and you'll like
1:16:38
Speaker 6: this that his number one thing that he spoke about,
1:16:41
Speaker 6: and he talked to all these people, all these great
1:16:43
Speaker 6: leaders about, was the number one thing we have to
1:16:47
Speaker 6: do is not get this young country in another war.
1:16:51
Speaker 6: For at least twenty years, the country just couldn't stand
1:16:55
Speaker 6: it and that's about how long it was before the
1:16:57
Speaker 6: next war happened, which was the War of eighteen twelve.
1:17:02
Speaker 6: But he's quite quite a quite a leader, and I
1:17:05
Speaker 6: can't wait to tell people about him tomorrow night.
1:17:09
Speaker 1: Hey, you always do such a wonderful job when you
1:17:11
Speaker 1: do the presentations, Dan Regueld, and I want to thank
1:17:13
Speaker 1: you personally for doing empower for creating empower You and
1:17:16
Speaker 1: offering these wonderful opportunities for folks. Had some fascinating speakers
1:17:20
Speaker 1: over the years. My friend.
1:17:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, and anybody who wants to join the class tomorrow
1:17:25
Speaker 6: you can watch from home. It's virtual. It's also in
1:17:27
Speaker 6: person if you want to. If you want to come
1:17:29
Speaker 6: up to Scarlet Oaks, but just go to empower Youamerica
1:17:32
Speaker 6: dot org. It's free.
1:17:34
Speaker 1: We would love to have have you join us well
1:17:36
Speaker 1: and show up on Thursday too. That's the Thursday start
1:17:39
Speaker 1: time for the for the celebration two hundred fiftieth birthday
1:17:43
Speaker 1: Celebration of America but also celebrating empower You is at
1:17:46
Speaker 1: the Glendale I SEUIM. It begins at five point thirty
1:17:49
Speaker 1: and I have the good fortune of being able to
1:17:51
Speaker 1: speak a few words. I'm kind of going to facilitate.
1:17:54
Speaker 1: Chris Monzelle is going to be there. The next guest
1:17:56
Speaker 1: on the fifty five Carsey Morning Show, Christopher Smitheman will
1:17:59
Speaker 1: be there, Mike Wilson taking us back to the tea
1:18:01
Speaker 1: party days, and you're gonna have live music as well.
1:18:04
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a fun time for.
1:18:06
Speaker 6: All well and most of all, it's gonna be just
1:18:11
Speaker 6: a fun time to see friends.
1:18:12
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. Fellowship is really the pinnacle
1:18:15
Speaker 1: for me, but all these other benefits we're gonna get
1:18:18
Speaker 1: for being there. That'll be five thirty Glendale I Seum
1:18:20
Speaker 1: on Thursday, but make sure you at least register to
1:18:22
Speaker 1: log in from home for the class on George Washington
1:18:24
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Easy to do empower You America dot org
1:18:27
Speaker 1: or show up to see it in person at the
1:18:29
Speaker 1: empower You Studios located at three hundred Great Oaks Drive
1:18:32
Speaker 1: at Scarlett Oaks. Dan Reaganold for all the years you've
1:18:35
Speaker 1: done this, and on a going forward basis, I guess,
1:18:38
Speaker 1: since I know you are moving on to a new
1:18:39
Speaker 1: chapter in your life in retirement, are you going to
1:18:41
Speaker 1: continue to be involved in empower You? I know Doctor
1:18:44
Speaker 1: j Rissover has agreed to step up to the plate
1:18:46
Speaker 1: to some measure.
1:18:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, doctor Risover, it's been my friend for twenty years.
1:18:51
Speaker 6: We're going to continue to lead Empower You, hopefully for
1:18:54
Speaker 6: many more years to come. We just love the mission,
1:18:58
Speaker 6: which is to educate, enjoy, and engage and enjoy Thursday night,
1:19:02
Speaker 6: That's what we're gonna be doing, Brian.
1:19:04
Speaker 1: I'll be there to do that along with you. Dan
1:19:06
Speaker 1: Reguld God bless you, sir. Look forward to seeing you
1:19:07
Speaker 1: on Thursday. And of course I'm logging from home and
1:19:09
Speaker 1: see you tomorrow night. Empower You America dot org. Take
1:19:13
Speaker 1: care of my friend, best of health. Don't go away, folks.
1:19:16
Speaker 1: He is waiting in the wings, former vice mayor of
1:19:18
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati, coming up with a smither vane.
1:19:20
Speaker 3: See the talk station.
1:19:23
Speaker 1: Seven twenty two if you have a k CD talk station, Hey,
1:19:26
Speaker 1: his name come up. When I was talking to Dan Reagan,
1:19:28
Speaker 1: well about Thursday the Empower Youth Seminar to celebrate the
1:19:31
Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth this Thursday, starting in five thirty,
1:19:34
Speaker 1: be there at the Glende Elysium because you're gonna hear
1:19:35
Speaker 1: from this man every Monday at this time. We get
1:19:38
Speaker 1: to hear from the former Vice mayor of the City
1:19:39
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, Christopher Smitheman with a smither event. Christopher, it
1:19:43
Speaker 1: is always a pleasure to have you on the show, sir.
1:19:46
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks for having me on. Brian, you're the man,
1:19:49
Speaker 2: and I of course have a lot to say today
1:19:52
Speaker 2: about a lot of different topics, but let me start
1:19:55
Speaker 2: with something that's a little sobering. It's historic and it
1:19:59
Speaker 2: is a part of our American history, and that is
1:20:02
Speaker 2: what we call the Tulsa Massacre. Right this what happened
1:20:07
Speaker 2: one hundred and five years ago today in nineteen twenty one.
1:20:12
Speaker 2: This was the Black American Wall Street of America. And
1:20:17
Speaker 2: what happened there is a massacre of black men and
1:20:23
Speaker 2: black women who had businesses and homes that were burned
1:20:27
Speaker 2: down today by the ku kluks Klan, a terrorist organization.
1:20:33
Speaker 6: A horrible, horrible.
1:20:35
Speaker 2: Event that happened in American history. And let me share
1:20:38
Speaker 2: with you, brother, is that a lot of Americans do
1:20:42
Speaker 2: not know this history. And the reason is it's not
1:20:45
Speaker 2: in those history books. So I'm asking everybody who's listening
1:20:50
Speaker 2: who wants to learn and understand all the complete American
1:20:53
Speaker 2: history and give a context of things that have happened
1:20:57
Speaker 2: in our country, some good, some bad. This is something
1:21:01
Speaker 2: that that happened that was bad. Is look into the
1:21:05
Speaker 2: Tulsa massacre nineteen twenty one in Oklahoma. It was a
1:21:09
Speaker 2: horrible situation. It was triggered supposedly by a young black
1:21:15
Speaker 2: male who did something or said something to a white
1:21:19
Speaker 2: female American. No one knows whether that happened or not.
1:21:24
Speaker 2: They just know that the young man was hung and
1:21:27
Speaker 2: after that, lots of people, lots of clan members showed up.
1:21:32
Speaker 2: What was interesting in this fight is that black Americans
1:21:35
Speaker 2: then had guns. They did fight back. They were shooting
1:21:40
Speaker 2: back and forth until they got to the business district
1:21:45
Speaker 2: where people kind of really didn't know what was happening,
1:21:47
Speaker 2: and all of those businesses and many homes were absolutely
1:21:52
Speaker 2: burned down in torture. It's a tragedy. There's one There
1:21:55
Speaker 2: is one survivor still today living and a is Leslie
1:22:03
Speaker 2: Benningfield Randall. And he didn't he's probably deep into her hundreds. Yeah,
1:22:13
Speaker 2: she's she's a there's a sole survivor. Man. Anybody that
1:22:17
Speaker 2: could ever get to her to interview her or look
1:22:19
Speaker 2: her up and figure out what's happening, because they have
1:22:21
Speaker 2: sued the federal government. They have sued the state. They've
1:22:25
Speaker 2: been looking for justice for their loved ones, justice for
1:22:28
Speaker 2: those business owners, justice for their property that was destroyed,
1:22:32
Speaker 2: and at this point there's been no justice at all
1:22:35
Speaker 2: for any of those These were some of the smartest
1:22:40
Speaker 2: accomplished black business owners in the United States of America,
1:22:45
Speaker 2: and that's why they called it the Wall Street, the
1:22:47
Speaker 2: Black American Wall Street. And I'll conclude by saying this
1:22:52
Speaker 2: to you on a personal note, my own family still
1:22:55
Speaker 2: today owns property in that area, and so this this
1:22:59
Speaker 2: touches my mom because she goes there annually. Matter of fact,
1:23:03
Speaker 2: the family will be in Columbus this summer, and that
1:23:06
Speaker 2: is really true. So this is a personal touch for
1:23:11
Speaker 2: my mother, who is eighty seven years old and has
1:23:14
Speaker 2: maintained property there and our family there for all of
1:23:19
Speaker 2: those years, still to this day, and our family gets
1:23:22
Speaker 2: together to deal with the commiseration of what happened there,
1:23:25
Speaker 2: but also that our family still owns property in that area.
1:23:28
Speaker 1: Well we'll bring that very furious. Yeah, And Jost Record
1:23:31
Speaker 1: just chimed into my head said he said, there is
1:23:33
Speaker 1: a documentary on this on Amazon, Amazon Prime or with
1:23:38
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. So I'm going to make a note to
1:23:40
Speaker 1: myself on that and check it out when I get home,
1:23:42
Speaker 1: because I have Amazon Prime. But I was not aware.
1:23:45
Speaker 1: So it's time we raise some awareness. And that's what
1:23:46
Speaker 1: we have you for. Christopher. Obviously a very important chapter
1:23:49
Speaker 1: in history. And last time I checked the clan that
1:23:52
Speaker 1: was Democrats, right y.
1:23:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should have We should have mentioned that that
1:24:01
Speaker 2: is really true, that it was the Dixiecrats that came
1:24:04
Speaker 2: through and did all of that, murdering, all of that hanging,
1:24:09
Speaker 2: no justice for any of those people even still to
1:24:12
Speaker 2: this day. But that is absolutely the truth, and it
1:24:15
Speaker 2: was a tragedy because these were really accomplished black American
1:24:20
Speaker 2: business men and women. There's nothing like it. There's nothing
1:24:24
Speaker 2: that has come back like it since then, from one
1:24:27
Speaker 2: hundred and five years ago. And for all again, I
1:24:29
Speaker 2: just want to conclude everybody listening, right, just take the
1:24:33
Speaker 2: time learn about the Tulsa nineteen twenty one massacre that happened,
1:24:39
Speaker 2: and it will open your eyes to a lot of things.
1:24:42
Speaker 2: But you have to also ask yourself, why is this
1:24:45
Speaker 2: not a party? It was just like in a nineteen
1:24:47
Speaker 2: sixty seven or sixty five that certain the Tulsa in
1:24:51
Speaker 2: that area, they are required to have it in their
1:24:53
Speaker 2: history books, but it's still not a part of our
1:24:55
Speaker 2: American history, and it really needs to be. And I committed.
1:24:58
Speaker 2: I just wanted to commission rate it today because it
1:25:01
Speaker 2: started on Memorial Day. It ended June the first today
1:25:05
Speaker 2: with with with what they call the Tulsa Massacre of
1:25:09
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty one. So I'm talking about it today because
1:25:12
Speaker 2: it was happening today one hundred and five years ago.
1:25:14
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing so, Christopher smithment We'll bring Christopher
1:25:17
Speaker 1: back for more. Don't go away. I want to mention
1:25:19
Speaker 1: Zimmer heating or cooling though, because they've been around. It's
1:25:22
Speaker 1: Semmer thirty two. If afty got karc De talk station,
1:25:25
Speaker 1: trying to make it a happy Monday if you can.
1:25:27
Speaker 1: It's always happy to me because we can talk to
1:25:28
Speaker 1: Christopher smithm and whatever's on his mind is a okay
1:25:31
Speaker 1: with me. It's always important like that last topic for
1:25:33
Speaker 1: me up there are you there, Christopher?
1:25:37
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm here here.
1:25:39
Speaker 1: I didn't know if that person in the background was
1:25:40
Speaker 1: you talking. You were yelling at somebody. It's somebody else.
1:25:46
Speaker 2: But thank you so much for giving me an opportunity
1:25:49
Speaker 2: to talk about the Tulsa massacre, you know, but I
1:25:53
Speaker 2: want to pivot to what is happening in the city,
1:25:57
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna you'll see how I tie this together.
1:26:00
Speaker 2: So you know, there's a thirty million dollar def that
1:26:03
Speaker 2: thirty million dollar deficit, let's say it's thirty one, twenty nine,
1:26:07
Speaker 2: thirty two million, whatever it is, it's big. And so
1:26:11
Speaker 2: I'm a small business owner. There are a lot of
1:26:13
Speaker 2: small business owners that are out there, okay, And we're
1:26:18
Speaker 2: watching city Hall settle a case right after the election
1:26:23
Speaker 2: eight point one million dollars for the people that were
1:26:27
Speaker 2: downtown rioting. They then give a point one million to
1:26:32
Speaker 2: some music mint venue right be right after the election
1:26:36
Speaker 2: they sign a contract with MSUs Irish Roby for six
1:26:40
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Right, and small business owners
1:26:44
Speaker 2: out here which make up and drive the majority of
1:26:48
Speaker 2: the tax receipts for the City of Cincinnati, not the
1:26:50
Speaker 2: major corporations. There's all these small businesses collectively that we
1:26:54
Speaker 2: send our taxes in. We get frustrated when we see
1:26:58
Speaker 2: the City of Cincinnati from the outside looks like they're
1:27:02
Speaker 2: just wasting our money, our taxpayers dollars. And so the
1:27:06
Speaker 2: Iteam report into what's happening with this contract. There are
1:27:10
Speaker 2: many facets to it, right, and I don't know the
1:27:13
Speaker 2: facts because I haven't looked at her the balance sheet.
1:27:16
Speaker 2: I have looked at the receipts that have been submitted.
1:27:20
Speaker 2: The iteam is raising questions about things. Here's what we
1:27:24
Speaker 2: do know. We know that the reporting of the information
1:27:28
Speaker 2: to the city has not been accurate, meaning either not
1:27:31
Speaker 2: being not providing the information, or the information isn't queer,
1:27:35
Speaker 2: it's not accurate. And so we have to get to
1:27:38
Speaker 2: the bottom of all of this with the contract to
1:27:41
Speaker 2: understand if your children are working and you say that
1:27:45
Speaker 2: that's legal, the city says that's legal because this is
1:27:48
Speaker 2: a contractor it might be unethical, but they say it's legal.
1:27:53
Speaker 2: We at least get to see the pay run, meaning
1:27:57
Speaker 2: how many hours, what day did you work, where were
1:28:00
Speaker 2: you when you worked it? And then this is what
1:28:02
Speaker 2: I paid you meaning what's frustrating is we don't have
1:28:07
Speaker 2: the transparency that is needed in the contract for you
1:28:11
Speaker 2: and I and every citizen out here who's paying taxes.
1:28:14
Speaker 2: And to those people who think that this conversation is
1:28:17
Speaker 2: racist because someone is asking questions about taxpayer dollars, that
1:28:23
Speaker 2: is absolutely absurd. Meaning once you start taking money from
1:28:28
Speaker 2: the government, right and you become that entity, nonprofit or
1:28:34
Speaker 2: that individual person, you are accountable to the tax payers
1:28:39
Speaker 2: of that of that city, or that state, or that
1:28:42
Speaker 2: federal government. That's what's missing. And so when the questions
1:28:45
Speaker 2: are being asked and people get defensive, these aren't private dollars.
1:28:49
Speaker 2: These are public dollars that are being passed to a
1:28:52
Speaker 2: private person. And we have the right to know what
1:28:56
Speaker 2: is ROI, which is the bigger picture. We have an
1:28:59
Speaker 2: a We have a right to know who's getting paid.
1:29:02
Speaker 2: All the employees that are getting paid, we get to know,
1:29:06
Speaker 2: like the questions of how much, why they got paid.
1:29:09
Speaker 2: If you're paying somebody sixty dollars an hour, we get
1:29:11
Speaker 2: to know why you're paying somebody sixty dollars an hour,
1:29:13
Speaker 2: what are those qualifications. That's what's so frustrating that the
1:29:17
Speaker 2: people involved, when you go out on social media, they
1:29:21
Speaker 2: immediately ran to their corner of race. This is about
1:29:25
Speaker 2: talking about a black American. She's a great person. I'm
1:29:29
Speaker 2: not questioning whether missus Irish Rollie has done wonderful things
1:29:34
Speaker 2: for the city and for the region. That's not the conversation.
1:29:37
Speaker 2: The conversation is if we passed over a million dollars
1:29:41
Speaker 2: to this entity, what did we get for it? Who's
1:29:44
Speaker 2: getting paid and provide the documentation to the city and
1:29:48
Speaker 2: why does that raise so many eyebrows On the other side.
1:29:54
Speaker 1: It's a legitimate question and also raises umbers. Wait a
1:29:56
Speaker 1: second on anybody receiving this kind of money, any entity
1:30:00
Speaker 1: adding money, regardless of who's running it or what color
1:30:02
Speaker 1: skin they happen to be. We need accountability so our
1:30:05
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars have been followed, and more fundamentally, that the
1:30:08
Speaker 1: money that's gone out to accomplish something that that's something
1:30:12
Speaker 1: has at least been accomplished or steps have been done
1:30:15
Speaker 1: to accomplish whatever goal they're being paid for. If you
1:30:17
Speaker 1: don't have any oversight over that component, you have a
1:30:20
Speaker 1: complete breakdown here. That you know, Christopher Smithman, as a
1:30:25
Speaker 1: person of color, you are dear you must be tired
1:30:27
Speaker 1: of hearing these allegations of racism, because you know what,
1:30:29
Speaker 1: when real racism exists in the world, no one is
1:30:32
Speaker 1: going to believe it. When someone starts trying to point
1:30:35
Speaker 1: it out. The boy who cried Wolf, don't go away
1:30:37
Speaker 1: more with Christopher Smithlman After I mentioned Gregory Lester the
1:30:40
Speaker 1: Tree health surgeon still got those little deep talk station
1:30:47
Speaker 1: seven point thirty nine here at fifty five Karseni talk station.
1:30:50
Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman's on the phone here. You're talking about the
1:30:52
Speaker 1: Irish early contract. The item did blow the lid off
1:30:55
Speaker 1: of some of the problems we have on this. Todd
1:30:56
Speaker 1: zens Or Citizen Watchdog, who's been following this as well,
1:30:59
Speaker 1: to your point in the last segment, listen to some
1:31:02
Speaker 1: of the he wrote up us whole series of questions
1:31:04
Speaker 1: which anybody following Citizen Washdog on Facebook can read for themselves.
1:31:08
Speaker 1: But a point number four, as Zenzer points out, Christopher,
1:31:12
Speaker 1: the contracts required subcontract or approval requests to be submitted
1:31:17
Speaker 1: prior to the commencement of work. Now, that would be
1:31:19
Speaker 1: her sons who are subcontractors beneath Iris Roley. They were
1:31:22
Speaker 1: retained to do some work on Government Square. That would
1:31:24
Speaker 1: also include her husband, who owns a printing company, who
1:31:27
Speaker 1: apparently was paid to print some T shirts up for
1:31:29
Speaker 1: folks to be identifiable, and their work for the work
1:31:32
Speaker 1: on Government Square. Anyway, Zenser says that was not followed
1:31:36
Speaker 1: the request and the city stated that it waived the requirements.
1:31:41
Speaker 1: Todd asks properly. How is the waiver done? Who approved
1:31:45
Speaker 1: the waiver? Also, the city spokesperson responded to a question
1:31:48
Speaker 1: about payments to subcontractors. She said that, quote, we would
1:31:52
Speaker 1: not maintain that information close quote. In fact, the contract
1:31:57
Speaker 1: requires the reports of all payments to subcontract just be
1:32:00
Speaker 1: fouled with the city on the fifteenth day of each month.
1:32:03
Speaker 1: Interesting absence of documentation, Chris three, you can't find out
1:32:06
Speaker 1: what's going out the door.
1:32:07
Speaker 2: Even Yeah, that's a problem. Let me just get one
1:32:10
Speaker 2: little know Jesse Rowley, which is mister Jesse rely missus
1:32:15
Speaker 2: Rowley's husband. I've used their business to solid business. I've
1:32:19
Speaker 2: used it. It had to be fifteen twenty years ago.
1:32:22
Speaker 2: But that's not the point.
1:32:23
Speaker 3: Right, No, no, no, I just want to highlight.
1:32:25
Speaker 2: That that is a legitimate business. The point is what
1:32:29
Speaker 2: Todd Zenzer is highlighting is that they're not following the
1:32:32
Speaker 2: process whatever that is outlined. And why aren't they following
1:32:36
Speaker 2: that process? And when they go outside of it? Who
1:32:39
Speaker 2: is allowing that to happen? Like who's saying what government official?
1:32:44
Speaker 2: Is it the mayor, is it the board of trustees
1:32:46
Speaker 2: or is it the city managers? Arbitrarily going Hey, this
1:32:50
Speaker 2: soul contractor. You don't have to follow any of the rules.
1:32:53
Speaker 2: You just report to me, and you don't even have
1:32:56
Speaker 2: to give us invoices. And that's why things are so
1:32:58
Speaker 2: hairy right now. But also made it not look good
1:33:02
Speaker 2: is the signing of the contract right after the election,
1:33:05
Speaker 2: right because we know if you talked to Corey Bowman,
1:33:08
Speaker 2: who was running for mayor, he would tell you that
1:33:11
Speaker 2: missus Rowley would show up to some of his political
1:33:14
Speaker 2: events and ask him very loud questions. They didn't have
1:33:19
Speaker 2: to be sensical questions, but there she was in exercising
1:33:23
Speaker 2: her first Amendment right fighting for the current mayor. That
1:33:27
Speaker 2: to me was a concerning thing during the election, and
1:33:30
Speaker 2: so right after the election, the city manager signing this
1:33:33
Speaker 2: contract to me is problematic if we had a functioning
1:33:37
Speaker 2: city council. But the chair of Budget and Finance, and
1:33:39
Speaker 2: by the way, i am the former vice mayor of
1:33:42
Speaker 2: the city and I've served on most, if not every
1:33:45
Speaker 2: committee that the City of Cincinnati has ever had, And
1:33:48
Speaker 2: so if we were serving right now and you had
1:33:50
Speaker 2: a functioning council, the Chair of Budget and Finance would say,
1:33:54
Speaker 2: let's bring in the contractor, let's bring in the city manager.
1:33:58
Speaker 2: And ask them some questions at least to bring the
1:34:01
Speaker 2: contract into compliance at a bare minimum, But then ask
1:34:05
Speaker 2: the questions about whether you're is it really true that
1:34:08
Speaker 2: you've hired your your sons to work for you? And
1:34:11
Speaker 2: if you have, what are they doing for you? What
1:34:14
Speaker 2: are the hours, where are they working, what are the
1:34:17
Speaker 2: time whatever? It is so that everybody in the city
1:34:20
Speaker 2: has a picture of how their dollars are being spent.
1:34:23
Speaker 2: You just can't keep running behind, Oh, this is a
1:34:25
Speaker 2: ten ninety nine contractor, and therefore this person it doesn't
1:34:29
Speaker 2: have to follow any of the rules of the city,
1:34:32
Speaker 2: the state, or the federal government. That doesn't make any sense.
1:34:35
Speaker 1: It doesn't in rules that quite often are in place
1:34:37
Speaker 1: to make sure that we get the best return on
1:34:39
Speaker 1: our taxpayer dollar investment. For example, I am not criticizing
1:34:42
Speaker 1: Irish Rolli's printing company, her husband's printing company. Was anybody
1:34:47
Speaker 1: else given the opportunity to do the work? Is there
1:34:49
Speaker 1: another printing company out there who could do equal, if
1:34:52
Speaker 1: not better work, or maybe equal work for less money.
1:34:55
Speaker 1: There's a thought. Same thing goes with their sons. Are
1:34:58
Speaker 1: they qualified to do the work that they were doing
1:35:00
Speaker 1: on government square? Apparently, since we don't know what the
1:35:03
Speaker 1: work is they were doing on government square. We don't
1:35:05
Speaker 1: know whether they were qualified to do it in the
1:35:06
Speaker 1: first place. But was that an open position that was posted.
1:35:09
Speaker 1: Because she's a subcontractor, she doesn't have to go through
1:35:11
Speaker 1: normal channels and post open jaw job openings. I mean,
1:35:15
Speaker 1: this is why it's also screwed up, because there's no
1:35:19
Speaker 1: accountability and she apparently gets to do whatever she wants.
1:35:23
Speaker 1: And of course it does look unethical for her to
1:35:26
Speaker 1: be hiring a bunch of family members to do work, right, right, I.
1:35:30
Speaker 2: Agree, And let me also say that it's this ties
1:35:34
Speaker 2: right into mayor the mayor's public conversation about raising our
1:35:37
Speaker 2: taxes in November, meaning the boldness of him to say,
1:35:41
Speaker 2: now we want to raise taxes when we are not
1:35:44
Speaker 2: confident that the money that you currently have that you're
1:35:47
Speaker 2: managing it properly. So I just can't see him raising
1:35:51
Speaker 2: our income tax and citizens in Cincinnati across our fifty
1:35:54
Speaker 2: two neighborhood and say yeah, let's go ahead and do that.
1:35:56
Speaker 2: Our property taxes are too high. I already think the
1:36:00
Speaker 2: come Pact is too high, and there is no way
1:36:02
Speaker 2: that someone would support that. But it's the boldness of it.
1:36:05
Speaker 2: And let me just pivot here because all of this
1:36:07
Speaker 2: is connected to the team takeovers. Maybe when we come.
1:36:11
Speaker 1: Back, yeah let's want to Yeah, let's do that.
1:36:14
Speaker 2: But this is this is all connected as this weather
1:36:17
Speaker 2: warms up and we know we're going to have some
1:36:20
Speaker 2: of that behavior that we're seeing nationally play out right
1:36:23
Speaker 2: here in the city of Cincinnati.
1:36:25
Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman will connect the dots on that one. Don't
1:36:28
Speaker 1: be eight fifty five gir C DE Talk station. Christopher
1:36:30
Speaker 1: Smithman join the smith Event. We're gonna get the money, buddy,
1:36:33
Speaker 1: Brian James. At the top of the art, news and
1:36:35
Speaker 1: concerns about the national dead percolating and growing for legitimate reasons. Christopher,
1:36:40
Speaker 1: you were going to explain how you connect all this
1:36:41
Speaker 1: with the street team takeovers.
1:36:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, what we have now are these team takeovers that
1:36:48
Speaker 2: we're seeing across the country. And I spoke about it
1:36:51
Speaker 2: last week. The difference was we were going through a
1:36:53
Speaker 2: real rainy season and a very cool season, and now
1:36:57
Speaker 2: we're moving into a warm season and we know that
1:37:00
Speaker 2: things are going to change. We know that unfortunately, crime
1:37:03
Speaker 2: ticks up the warmer it gets, the weather turns nice,
1:37:06
Speaker 2: people are out and they're interacting. And my fear is
1:37:10
Speaker 2: that yet again that this council and this mayor have
1:37:14
Speaker 2: not put together a plan. And missus irish rolely is
1:37:18
Speaker 2: a part of that plan, meaning that we're paying a
1:37:21
Speaker 2: lot of money to have people do a lot of things.
1:37:23
Speaker 2: But the question is what are they doing? What is
1:37:25
Speaker 2: that comprehensive plan? And so if all of a sudden
1:37:28
Speaker 2: the students got out last week from Cincinnati Public and
1:37:31
Speaker 2: now there are free today right meaning free meaning they're
1:37:35
Speaker 2: not going to school, we now need to know what
1:37:38
Speaker 2: is that curfew, what is that plan? What is going
1:37:41
Speaker 2: to happen? And if we see what happened at the
1:37:43
Speaker 2: opening day parade, if we see what happened for example
1:37:45
Speaker 2: in Price Hill at Price Hill, Chile, the team takeover
1:37:49
Speaker 2: that happened there, that we know that these things are
1:37:51
Speaker 2: going to happen. And where not just where are the parents,
1:37:55
Speaker 2: but where is city hall on holding those parents accountable
1:37:59
Speaker 2: if they don't know where they're twelve or thirteen or
1:38:01
Speaker 2: fourteen year old is at twelve midnight, two o'clock in
1:38:04
Speaker 2: the morning, nine o'clock at night downtown in our Dora
1:38:08
Speaker 2: on the banks with a gun, are not having a
1:38:11
Speaker 2: gun no matter what. I want our officers to be empowered,
1:38:15
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, to walk up and be able to ask questions.
1:38:18
Speaker 2: I'm looking at a young person. It's twelve o'clock at night.
1:38:22
Speaker 2: I know what o curfew is. I get to ask you,
1:38:25
Speaker 2: where are you? Where's your identification? And that is not racist.
1:38:30
Speaker 2: It is okay for our officers to engage in proactive
1:38:34
Speaker 2: policing in this city. And if we don't do it,
1:38:36
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, the teams are going to start running our
1:38:39
Speaker 2: city like you see them running parts of Detroit, like
1:38:42
Speaker 2: you see them running running parts of la like you
1:38:45
Speaker 2: see them running parts of whatever liberal city you want
1:38:48
Speaker 2: to see in America. And I want to tie this
1:38:51
Speaker 2: directly to the gubernatorial race in Ohio when I am
1:38:55
Speaker 2: clearly supporting the vek Ramaswami, because this is that last
1:38:59
Speaker 2: thing I don't want to wake up. And our state
1:39:03
Speaker 2: of Ohio is now run by Democrats. Meaning if we've
1:39:05
Speaker 2: got the Democrats running the state, they're running every county,
1:39:08
Speaker 2: they're running every city government. That will be the end
1:39:11
Speaker 2: of Ohio. And that is not an exaggeration. We've got
1:39:15
Speaker 2: to have somebody in some administration at the top that
1:39:19
Speaker 2: says No, this is where we're drawing a line in
1:39:22
Speaker 2: the sands. We're not gonna tolerate this level of violence.
1:39:25
Speaker 2: We're gonna demand higher and better education for our children.
1:39:29
Speaker 2: We're gonna make jobs as a top priority, whatever, We're
1:39:32
Speaker 2: gonna try to lower taxes, all of those things is
1:39:35
Speaker 2: what I want to hear coming from the state. I
1:39:38
Speaker 2: am so concerned that this race is even close, and
1:39:41
Speaker 2: it is directly tied to what we see these team takeovers,
1:39:44
Speaker 2: whether they're happening in Cincinnati, whether they're happening in Columbus,
1:39:48
Speaker 2: whether they're happening in Toledo, or whether they're happening in
1:39:50
Speaker 2: Cleveland as examples. We must have a zero tolerance Brian Thomas,
1:39:56
Speaker 2: making sure that every parent out here knows where their
1:39:59
Speaker 2: children and are. And we the government and we the
1:40:02
Speaker 2: people are not responsible for your teenager. You're supposed to
1:40:06
Speaker 2: know where that teenager is, and we should be able
1:40:08
Speaker 2: to hold a parent accountable if we do not, if
1:40:11
Speaker 2: they're not handling their business.
1:40:13
Speaker 1: Well, you know, just to hear this and recognizing, you know,
1:40:17
Speaker 1: as a parent who loves his children, that we need
1:40:21
Speaker 1: to bring about law enforcement in the law and the
1:40:24
Speaker 1: prosecutor's office to hold parents accountable because they don't care
1:40:28
Speaker 1: enough to know where their kids are. I mean, talk
1:40:31
Speaker 1: about a sorry state of affairs.
1:40:35
Speaker 2: It's where our family structures are only in America. And
1:40:39
Speaker 2: let me let me share with you people who travel here,
1:40:43
Speaker 2: immigrants who travel here, and they're watching this and they're
1:40:45
Speaker 2: trying to come in. They see it. They understand, they
1:40:48
Speaker 2: see the breakdown in the American family because their families
1:40:51
Speaker 2: are intact. The bottom line for everybody to understand is
1:40:55
Speaker 2: this is not the job of our government. Our job
1:40:58
Speaker 2: is to enforce the laws, not to they me sit
1:41:00
Speaker 2: people's children. And so City Hall has this mindset of
1:41:04
Speaker 2: we want to defund the police. The police are bad,
1:41:07
Speaker 2: ice is bad anything related to the government. Our judges
1:41:10
Speaker 2: are letting bad people out with very low bonds or
1:41:15
Speaker 2: box even when they have a gun. The reality is
1:41:18
Speaker 2: we must I'm going back to the vek Ramaswami. We
1:41:22
Speaker 2: must elect him as the next governor. And my last
1:41:25
Speaker 2: point is this is why we rolled out that petition,
1:41:28
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, because we also have a city manager that
1:41:32
Speaker 2: fired the police chief, fired the fire chief, and those decisions.
1:41:36
Speaker 2: The fire chief's decision is coming in June most likely
1:41:39
Speaker 2: we're going to know right here where Chief Washington stands,
1:41:42
Speaker 2: this is the city's last stand, their last appeal. They're
1:41:46
Speaker 2: either going to have to settle the case or put
1:41:48
Speaker 2: twelve in the box. They don't want twelve in the box,
1:41:51
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, because the lower court has already told him,
1:41:54
Speaker 2: you brought me a blank sheet of paper. I am
1:41:56
Speaker 2: not exaggerating to the public. There was no reason to
1:42:00
Speaker 2: fire Chief Washington. There was no cause of why the
1:42:04
Speaker 2: city manager did it. And that is the creation of
1:42:06
Speaker 2: our petition and why we're out here petitioning our government
1:42:10
Speaker 2: saying come and sign the petition so that we get
1:42:13
Speaker 2: accountability in our government and specific really the bottom line.
1:42:16
Speaker 1: Of it and Christopher's petition will require seven council members
1:42:20
Speaker 1: to be responsible for the hiring and firing decisions. I
1:42:23
Speaker 1: got that right, Christopher, you got it right. Okay, you've
1:42:26
Speaker 1: got it right, brother.
1:42:27
Speaker 2: And it was wild to hear the mayor say, man,
1:42:29
Speaker 2: this petition is going to make things more political talking
1:42:32
Speaker 2: about what we just found out from Chief Fiji is
1:42:37
Speaker 2: that the mayor has been in the room for every
1:42:39
Speaker 2: one of these decisions, denying the ing Governor, Mike DeWine
1:42:44
Speaker 2: to bring his assets in here to help remediate crime.
1:42:47
Speaker 2: The mayor is at the table, Irish Rowley is at
1:42:50
Speaker 2: the table. There are some other members of council that
1:42:53
Speaker 2: are at the table. The bottom line is that politics
1:42:56
Speaker 2: are already here. What we want is a board of
1:42:59
Speaker 2: trustees call city Council to be able to say, hey,
1:43:02
Speaker 2: City manager, why are you deciding to fire the fire chief?
1:43:05
Speaker 2: Because if that simple question was asked, we would not
1:43:09
Speaker 2: be where we are right now. We would not be
1:43:11
Speaker 2: facing a five to ten million dollar settlement to Chief
1:43:14
Speaker 2: Washington or a five or ten million dollar settlement to
1:43:17
Speaker 2: Chief Digi. That's why we have the petition. That's why
1:43:20
Speaker 2: it exists. And all of this is connected the contract
1:43:23
Speaker 2: with Missus Irish Rowley, the lack of accountability there them
1:43:26
Speaker 2: spending money over here to settle cases with people that
1:43:29
Speaker 2: were downtown rioting, or the eight million they did for
1:43:32
Speaker 2: the music venue. Rational citizens in Cincinnati don't understand this stuff.
1:43:37
Speaker 1: No, but you know, if council was required to engage
1:43:40
Speaker 1: on this, and most notedly in the case of Chief Washington,
1:43:43
Speaker 1: at least one of them would have raised their hands
1:43:46
Speaker 1: and say, do we have a reason to fire the chief?
1:43:51
Speaker 1: The answer would have been no, in which case they
1:43:53
Speaker 1: could have gotten seven votes to fire them. Right, yeah, exactly,
1:43:56
Speaker 1: And that one question would have saved these city taxpayers
1:43:59
Speaker 1: a lot of money because they're going to write a
1:44:01
Speaker 1: big check.
1:44:01
Speaker 2: Out of money. Do you think that our good friend
1:44:04
Speaker 2: Jim Keefer, if he were on council would not have
1:44:07
Speaker 2: raised his hands west side Jim and would have said,
1:44:10
Speaker 2: can you explain to me why why you're terminating the
1:44:14
Speaker 2: fire chief city manager? He would have asked that basic question.
1:44:18
Speaker 2: What we're lacking down there? Are just electing normal, rational
1:44:23
Speaker 2: people with common sense. I would vote for Jim Keefer
1:44:26
Speaker 2: or city council. And I'm gonna let you know, brother,
1:44:28
Speaker 2: we've got it in this next election. In a year,
1:44:31
Speaker 2: we've got to come back to this. My name will
1:44:33
Speaker 2: not be on the ballot, but we've got to come
1:44:36
Speaker 2: back there and make sure that we get somebody on
1:44:39
Speaker 2: city Council that is willing to ask the basic questions
1:44:42
Speaker 2: about transparency. We just can't go another two years like this.
1:44:46
Speaker 1: Well speculate I will, but I would think even Kramerton
1:44:48
Speaker 1: would have raised his hand and asked that simple question.
1:44:50
Speaker 1: He seems to be reasonable along some levels, Christopher, is
1:44:53
Speaker 1: your petitions to sign still still a Jim and Jackson
1:44:56
Speaker 1: the River. I mean, I guess where where might my
1:44:58
Speaker 1: city residents find that petition?
1:45:01
Speaker 2: They can come to Jim and Jack's Tuesday through Sunday decided,
1:45:05
Speaker 2: they can go to Dave Backer Auto on the west side.
1:45:08
Speaker 2: They can set Jim Keefer on west side. Jim he
1:45:12
Speaker 2: has a petition, And there'll be a lot of different
1:45:14
Speaker 2: people each each time I come on, I'll identify another
1:45:17
Speaker 2: person in your community. The people on the in Sailor
1:45:20
Speaker 2: Park have the petition. They'll be circulating there. So there
1:45:24
Speaker 2: are a lot of people that will have that petition.
1:45:26
Speaker 2: It just takes time to get two or three hundred
1:45:28
Speaker 2: petitions in people's hands to collect the signatures at the
1:45:32
Speaker 2: end of the day. Please citizens think about this when
1:45:35
Speaker 2: it gets on the November ballot, because we already know
1:45:37
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party is going to tell you not to
1:45:40
Speaker 2: vote for it, just like they told you to vote
1:45:42
Speaker 2: to sell our railroad. They're going to tell you not
1:45:45
Speaker 2: to vote for this transparency legislation that we're petitioning the government.
1:45:50
Speaker 2: So don't get your pink slip or your blueset, whatever
1:45:53
Speaker 2: it is, and it says vote no on this. You
1:45:55
Speaker 2: should be voting yes to make sure the city manager
1:45:58
Speaker 2: has accountability in the termination of our top two people
1:46:02
Speaker 2: in the city, our executives, police chief and Fire Chief
1:46:06
Speaker 2: Chanks Brian Thomas.
1:46:07
Speaker 1: Next week, brother, look see you on Thursday for the
1:46:10
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1:46:14
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1:46:15
Speaker 1: fifty years of America. And here's some great speeches, including
1:46:17
Speaker 1: Christopher Smith, and we'll talk soon. Christopher. Have a great
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Speaker 1: Money Monday and Brian James, welcome back, my friend. I
1:46:49
Speaker 1: hope you had a wonderful weekend and I was just
1:46:51
Speaker 1: pondering what was going on in this Wall Street Bulls
1:46:55
Speaker 1: bet Us Docks rallible to five. Bubble fears. Everybody's concerned
1:46:58
Speaker 1: about a bubble because the markets keep going up. I
1:46:59
Speaker 1: noted the SMP had eleven highs in the month of
1:47:03
Speaker 1: May alone. It's up eleven percent for the year. Tech
1:47:06
Speaker 1: stocks apparently doing really well, up sixteen percent over the NASDAC.
1:47:11
Speaker 1: And this is all and correct me if I'm wrong.
1:47:13
Speaker 1: I'm boiling it down to a finer point, which is
1:47:15
Speaker 1: this is all AI driven trades and increases. It's one
1:47:22
Speaker 1: and I said Nick niche sector, it's but all AI
1:47:25
Speaker 1: related gains. But these analysts in the article are suggesting
1:47:30
Speaker 1: it's going to continue for some time into the future.
1:47:33
Speaker 1: I struggle to deal with that, and I keep thinking
1:47:35
Speaker 1: about the bubble bursting, which I think is the concern
1:47:38
Speaker 1: people have. Welcome back, my friend, break this down for
1:47:41
Speaker 1: novices like me, please.
1:47:43
Speaker 7: Well, thank you again for the opportunity to talk with
1:47:46
Speaker 7: you and your listeners. And the first thing I'd point
1:47:48
Speaker 7: out is, I mean, first of all, let's all let
1:47:50
Speaker 7: go of the notion that we're ever going to time
1:47:51
Speaker 7: the market, and that's really not what we're talking about here.
1:47:54
Speaker 7: We're just kind of looking for the what should we expect?
1:47:56
Speaker 7: How do I brace myself if something does happen and
1:47:58
Speaker 7: the thing I'd throw out there. Brian and I talked
1:48:00
Speaker 7: about a bubble a year ago, we talked about it
1:48:02
Speaker 7: two years ago. This is what it feels like when
1:48:05
Speaker 7: the market does go on a run, and in which
1:48:08
Speaker 7: we have been on basically since twenty twenty two. We've
1:48:11
Speaker 7: had our hiccups. The past two aprils have been bumpy
1:48:13
Speaker 7: with we first learned what tariffs were like again, we
1:48:17
Speaker 7: all started talking about the holly smooth tariff and remembering
1:48:20
Speaker 7: the Ferris Bueller movie back a couple of aprils ago,
1:48:23
Speaker 7: and then this past April, it was the Iran war
1:48:26
Speaker 7: that rattled the market pretty significantly. But you know, yes,
1:48:29
Speaker 7: so we are seeing this type of this. I don't
1:48:32
Speaker 7: want to call it a bubble because you know, it's
1:48:34
Speaker 7: not a bubble until it is. Just because there is
1:48:37
Speaker 7: an industry out there that is that is driving things
1:48:40
Speaker 7: doesn't necessarily mean that the end is near. Are we
1:48:43
Speaker 7: going to run on this forever? Of course, not everybody
1:48:45
Speaker 7: knows that. So it's not really about the is this
1:48:47
Speaker 7: an accident? Is this not profitable? Is this some kind
1:48:50
Speaker 7: of a some kind of a scam? Noo, It's more
1:48:52
Speaker 7: about how long can it last before people take a breath. So,
1:48:55
Speaker 7: the S and P five hundred has repeatedly hit record
1:48:58
Speaker 7: highs in twenty twenty six, the Nasdaq has still significantly
1:49:01
Speaker 7: outperformed thanks to AI related stocks. Now, let's remember, as
1:49:04
Speaker 7: we always talk about, the S and P five hundred
1:49:06
Speaker 7: is consistent. It does consist of a lot of major
1:49:09
Speaker 7: technology companies. You name a big tech company, it's in
1:49:12
Speaker 7: the S and P five hundred. But that's not all
1:49:14
Speaker 7: it is. So if we were saying only the Nasdaq
1:49:17
Speaker 7: was outperforming, the S and P five hundred is kind
1:49:19
Speaker 7: of petering along and not really doing very much, that
1:49:21
Speaker 7: would be a different situation. But the S and P
1:49:23
Speaker 7: five hundred, while it is driven very much so by
1:49:26
Speaker 7: technology stocks, that's not the only thing that's happening out
1:49:28
Speaker 7: there very much. You know, the semiconductor companies are at
1:49:31
Speaker 7: the middle of all this. You know, even the for example,
1:49:34
Speaker 7: the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has served more than eighty percent
1:49:37
Speaker 7: this year, and you've got several chip makers of course
1:49:39
Speaker 7: posting these enormous gains. But you know, so we're still
1:49:43
Speaker 7: seeing good things from the big brains out there. Goldman Sacks,
1:49:46
Speaker 7: Morgan Stanley other major firms like this have raised their
1:49:49
Speaker 7: year end s and P five hundred targets, and they're
1:49:52
Speaker 7: simply saying that earnings growth does justify these higher valuations.
1:49:55
Speaker 7: Those are just opinions as much as anybody else's, but
1:49:58
Speaker 7: there's still some pretty significant opinions of it.
1:50:00
Speaker 1: Now, quick question I get too, Actually two questions for
1:50:02
Speaker 1: a first off, in connection with the SMP. Let's look
1:50:04
Speaker 1: at that. Just for example, if you took out the
1:50:09
Speaker 1: AI related businesses and looked at what's left within the
1:50:13
Speaker 1: s and P five hundred, would it still be up?
1:50:15
Speaker 1: I mean maybe not as much, of course, with all
1:50:17
Speaker 1: these records driven by AI, But would it still be
1:50:19
Speaker 1: up in other sectors? Because really, when you're talking AI,
1:50:21
Speaker 1: while you are talking about different components within AI, it's
1:50:25
Speaker 1: still a sector. So what about all the other sectors
1:50:28
Speaker 1: involved in our economy?
1:50:30
Speaker 3: Generally up?
1:50:30
Speaker 7: Not nearly as much, right, because we're a technology country,
1:50:33
Speaker 7: we're a technology world nowadays. So but of course there
1:50:37
Speaker 7: are other industries out there doing well. And remember what
1:50:39
Speaker 7: AI is. This is not AI for the sake of AI, right,
1:50:42
Speaker 7: I'm thinking back to the original Internet boom when a
1:50:45
Speaker 7: lot of those companies were kind of for the sake
1:50:47
Speaker 7: of themselves. You know, we companies that kind of came
1:50:50
Speaker 7: into existence out of nowhere and just we're we're the Internet.
1:50:54
Speaker 3: This is a little bit different.
1:50:56
Speaker 7: AI is a tool that any industry can use to
1:50:58
Speaker 7: make itself more efficient. That it's the reason for this
1:51:00
Speaker 7: that's really driving two things. It's driving the performance out
1:51:03
Speaker 7: of the semiconductor industry. Who are the people of the
1:51:06
Speaker 7: organizations that can deliver this type of technology in the
1:51:08
Speaker 7: first place. It's also driving efficiencies in just about any
1:51:11
Speaker 7: industry you can name that if we're with companies that
1:51:14
Speaker 7: have been willing to explore it, so that this is
1:51:16
Speaker 7: more of an infrastructural kind of a broad based opportunity
1:51:20
Speaker 7: for lots of industries to benefit from it. So it's
1:51:22
Speaker 7: kind what we're seeing the S and P five hundred.
1:51:23
Speaker 1: Kind of like the highway system we all benefit from
1:51:26
Speaker 1: because there's off ramps and on rans we can get
1:51:28
Speaker 1: goods and services efficiently back and forth. AI basically streamlines
1:51:32
Speaker 1: business models that allows them to accomplish more with fewer dollars.
1:51:36
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
1:51:37
Speaker 7: That's the point, right, this is, you know, this is
1:51:39
Speaker 7: the infrastructure of what business will be like over the
1:51:42
Speaker 7: next you know, however, many decades until we come with
1:51:44
Speaker 7: a better idea.
1:51:45
Speaker 1: Right now, that's a good pivot point for my next question,
1:51:47
Speaker 1: which is, Okay, looking at AI investment and all the
1:51:50
Speaker 1: wonderful you know, huge increases in the various AI related stocks.
1:51:54
Speaker 1: I get it when it comes to you mentioned chip makers.
1:51:57
Speaker 1: That's the hardware, of course, and I'm sure manufacturing it's
1:52:00
Speaker 1: a boost because they're building AI centers all over the place.
1:52:02
Speaker 1: But ultimately, what is the business model once you have
1:52:06
Speaker 1: a data center, once you have AI? Generally speaking, how
1:52:10
Speaker 1: does AI generate revenue? Beyond the revenue benefits that businesses
1:52:15
Speaker 1: get from the streamline effect. But a company that runs
1:52:17
Speaker 1: one of these centers, how is it profitable for them
1:52:20
Speaker 1: just to have that tool there available for the rest
1:52:22
Speaker 1: of the world to use.
1:52:24
Speaker 3: Well, it depends on your role in all of this.
1:52:26
Speaker 3: I would say.
1:52:27
Speaker 7: The first thing isn't necessarily that it's that it's going
1:52:30
Speaker 7: to drive more revenue. It's going to reduce expense, that's
1:52:33
Speaker 7: the first thing. So we're widening profit margins. That's why
1:52:36
Speaker 7: for those of you know, those out there on the
1:52:38
Speaker 7: bull side of this, in other words, thinking that the
1:52:40
Speaker 7: market can continue to run. What they're saying is, yes,
1:52:43
Speaker 7: we have the ability to be more efficient, and that's
1:52:45
Speaker 7: similar to what the Internet was originally, you know, thirty
1:52:47
Speaker 7: years ago. It's a way to communicate more quickly. It's
1:52:50
Speaker 7: a way to find markets more quickly. You know, think
1:52:53
Speaker 7: of some simple things that we take for granted now,
1:52:55
Speaker 7: like eBay, for example, thirty years ago, eBay was kind
1:52:57
Speaker 7: of the original somebody wants to buy widget and somebody
1:53:01
Speaker 7: wants to sell that. How do you connect those two?
1:53:03
Speaker 7: And Amazon built on that model and so forth. That
1:53:06
Speaker 7: didn't exist at all, so those were new sources of revenue. Nowadays,
1:53:09
Speaker 7: it's more about there's a lot of companies that already
1:53:11
Speaker 7: exist doing these things and taking advantage of these opportunities.
1:53:14
Speaker 7: How can they do it in a more efficient, more
1:53:16
Speaker 7: profit margin oriented type of way. And that's where this
1:53:19
Speaker 7: is coming from. And it's your question before about the
1:53:22
Speaker 7: S and P five hundred. It is largely technology driven.
1:53:24
Speaker 7: But if we equal weight the S and P five hundred,
1:53:27
Speaker 7: meaning take the technology companies and give them, you know,
1:53:30
Speaker 7: just every company is worth one five hundreds of the
1:53:33
Speaker 7: S and P five hundred versus the capital weight, which
1:53:36
Speaker 7: it normally is the equal weight at S and P
1:53:38
Speaker 7: five hundred, Bryant is up about eight point seven percent
1:53:41
Speaker 7: versus the S and P right now, which is about
1:53:44
Speaker 7: ten point seven percent.
1:53:46
Speaker 3: So still up. But so that's that's what I was
1:53:48
Speaker 3: getting at before.
1:53:49
Speaker 7: Everything is still up, because you know, it's not just
1:53:51
Speaker 7: technology running away like it has been.
1:53:54
Speaker 1: All right, And I suppose we all still have this
1:53:57
Speaker 1: looming concern over all. Right, the efficiencies in business are
1:54:00
Speaker 1: increasing with AI, and we can all point to a
1:54:02
Speaker 1: million reasons for that. But does that not necessary or
1:54:06
Speaker 1: doesn't that translate into fewer jobs needed or fewer employees
1:54:09
Speaker 1: needed to perform what that business does generally speaking? And
1:54:12
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest concern we have out here
1:54:14
Speaker 1: in the world.
1:54:15
Speaker 3: For sure. I think that's absolutely true.
1:54:18
Speaker 7: There were there were talk, though, you know, thirty years ago,
1:54:21
Speaker 7: that the internet was going to replace a lot of
1:54:22
Speaker 7: jobs too, and there was definitely a pivot. The internet
1:54:24
Speaker 7: does things that human beings did thirty years ago, and
1:54:27
Speaker 7: I don't think that has permanently. You know, unemployed a
1:54:30
Speaker 7: class of people that have not been able to find
1:54:32
Speaker 7: work ever since. So's it's easy to think about that,
1:54:36
Speaker 7: but I don't think we know enough yet to truly
1:54:38
Speaker 7: say that this is really just going that we're all
1:54:40
Speaker 7: going to be responding only to robots and computers do
1:54:44
Speaker 7: telling us what to do. I don't think that's coming
1:54:46
Speaker 7: anytime soon. Maybe that's in the future, but with the
1:54:49
Speaker 7: general public being as resistant as it usually is, you know,
1:54:52
Speaker 7: I bring up the example I have a lot of
1:54:54
Speaker 7: clients who still insist on paper statements. So I don't
1:54:57
Speaker 7: know that all the human beings in the world are
1:54:59
Speaker 7: ready to simply for it to be told what to
1:55:01
Speaker 7: do by a computer.
1:55:02
Speaker 1: Well, and then there's all that, there's also that resilience
1:55:05
Speaker 1: that we have to changes, as profound as they may
1:55:08
Speaker 1: seem when you're dealing with it and trying to contemplate
1:55:10
Speaker 1: what it's going to mean. Technology and other areas tend
1:55:14
Speaker 1: to develop along with it, so there will be roles
1:55:16
Speaker 1: for folks to play. Even in a post AI world
1:55:18
Speaker 1: or a full AI world.
1:55:20
Speaker 7: There is still a bridge to be built between the
1:55:23
Speaker 7: human being and the computer, and the job opportunities out
1:55:26
Speaker 7: there will be for those who know how to build that.
1:55:28
Speaker 1: Bridge get a job in the trades. It isn't impacted
1:55:31
Speaker 1: by AI to a certain extent. Brian James from Allways
1:55:34
Speaker 1: Financial don't go away because the next subject has me
1:55:36
Speaker 1: very frightened. It has since I was a young man.
1:55:38
Speaker 1: The cost of servicing our national dat and inflation stretching
1:55:41
Speaker 1: people to the breaking points sort of related to many respects.
1:55:43
Speaker 1: More with Brian James after I mentioned Father's Day coming up.
1:55:47
Speaker 1: Me being a dad, you know, I'm looking forward to
1:55:48
Speaker 1: Father's Day like all dads are. It's the twenty five
1:55:50
Speaker 1: pair CE talk station from all Worth Financial, Brian James
1:55:54
Speaker 1: talking through some of the issues. I tell you what,
1:55:56
Speaker 1: since it is a corollary of the AI issue. We
1:55:59
Speaker 1: were just talking, let's pause on the insane national debt
1:56:02
Speaker 1: and how much it's eating up of the federal revenue
1:56:05
Speaker 1: and talk about this robin hood stock as an illustration
1:56:08
Speaker 1: of artificial intelligence stock apps. This is this is one
1:56:12
Speaker 1: of those. It's like the peace of God, Brian James.
1:56:14
Speaker 1: The past is Brian Thomas's understanding, not all human understanding.
1:56:17
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got a good handle on robin hood
1:56:19
Speaker 1: and these other apps, but can you break this one
1:56:21
Speaker 1: down for us all please?
1:56:23
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, the headline here is that robin hood stock
1:56:25
Speaker 7: is surging, right. This is this is the erstwhile brokerage
1:56:29
Speaker 7: firm that came to came to the forefront during the pandemic,
1:56:33
Speaker 7: and that's why we keep hearing about it. It's very
1:56:35
Speaker 7: popular with the younger generations. In the past it's been
1:56:37
Speaker 7: much more about cryptocurrency, but Robinhood is trying to expand
1:56:41
Speaker 7: and become a full financial ecosystem. They've always been a
1:56:44
Speaker 7: brokerage at the very least crypto platform. More recently now
1:56:47
Speaker 7: they're getting into credit card issuance prediction markets operator right,
1:56:51
Speaker 7: those are the markets where we're betting on, you know,
1:56:53
Speaker 7: whether a one athlete is going to punch another in
1:56:56
Speaker 7: the mouth at the tip off or something like that.
1:56:59
Speaker 7: AI power or financial assistance assistance as well, and then
1:57:03
Speaker 7: also retirement cash management platform. So assets here have grown
1:57:07
Speaker 7: to apparently about three hundred and fifty billion dollars. So
1:57:10
Speaker 7: whatever they're doing is working among somebody. I don't know
1:57:12
Speaker 7: anybody that's opening account recently, but customer engagement does remain
1:57:16
Speaker 7: strong despite the weaker crypto markets, so they are apparently
1:57:20
Speaker 7: are succeeding and getting into some of these markets again
1:57:23
Speaker 7: moving beyond cryptout.
1:57:25
Speaker 1: Walk me through sort of an illustration of what this
1:57:27
Speaker 1: does I mean. I hear you you say you know,
1:57:29
Speaker 1: they're in credit cards and and bitcoin, and why would
1:57:33
Speaker 1: young people get gravitating to it? What would they do
1:57:36
Speaker 1: by way of day in and day out transactions, Because
1:57:39
Speaker 1: I get a feeling this thing as an all encompassing
1:57:41
Speaker 1: sort of phenomenon. Here.
1:57:43
Speaker 7: It's easy to use, and you use it on your phone.
1:57:45
Speaker 7: Quite frankly, I mean that's that. It's much more complicated
1:57:48
Speaker 7: than that. There are some pretty big, big brains behind this.
1:57:51
Speaker 7: But what they're looking to do is make this very
1:57:54
Speaker 7: approachable and make all these kinds of things, you know,
1:57:56
Speaker 7: you know, a little different than your major financial institutions,
1:57:59
Speaker 7: which can seem somewhat intimidating to people. And there's definitely
1:58:02
Speaker 7: an edge, you know, the think of the name Robin Hood.
1:58:04
Speaker 7: Robin Hood was the guy who stole from rich to
1:58:06
Speaker 7: give to the poor. They've definitely found sort of a
1:58:08
Speaker 7: marketing edge, you know, to break away from the established
1:58:12
Speaker 7: financial institutions and an attractive following that way. But it's
1:58:16
Speaker 7: not just about making the you know, being able to
1:58:19
Speaker 7: provide the transactions. It's about doing it away in a
1:58:21
Speaker 7: way that feels more comfortable to the generations that are
1:58:25
Speaker 7: going up with TikTok and Instagram and all those kinds
1:58:27
Speaker 7: of things. So it's just an evolution of how human
1:58:30
Speaker 7: beings think about investments and the robin Hood is taking
1:58:33
Speaker 7: advantage of that and apparently doing an okay job at it.
1:58:35
Speaker 1: Well, okay, the stock represents the popularity of what the
1:58:39
Speaker 1: app does, and I guess I'm really struggling with what
1:58:41
Speaker 1: the app does. What am I doing on that particular
1:58:44
Speaker 1: app that makes it popular? Am my trading stocks? Am
1:58:46
Speaker 1: I engaging in banking? Am I, you know, sending videos
1:58:49
Speaker 1: to my friends?
1:58:51
Speaker 7: What does it do all of those things? So remember
1:58:53
Speaker 7: where this came from. Originally, Robinhood was the original. You
1:58:56
Speaker 7: and I have talked about the meme stock, so game
1:58:57
Speaker 7: Stop and AMC and all that stuff over the past years.
1:59:00
Speaker 7: Robinhood's where a lot of that activity occurred. So you've
1:59:02
Speaker 7: always been able to buy to buy shares there. They
1:59:04
Speaker 7: found some creative ways to allow people to invest very
1:59:08
Speaker 7: small amounts of money. You know, maybe I've only got
1:59:09
Speaker 7: twenty bucks, but I want to buy a stock that's
1:59:12
Speaker 7: worth one hundred dollars when now I can buy a
1:59:13
Speaker 7: fifth of a share Because robinhood has put the technology
1:59:16
Speaker 7: in place to be able to buy fractional shares. And
1:59:18
Speaker 7: does this help the average retiree with a couple million
1:59:21
Speaker 7: dollars Not really, it doesn't change anything. But for the
1:59:22
Speaker 7: person who otherwise would not be engaging with the financial
1:59:25
Speaker 7: markets at all, which is the vast majority of the
1:59:28
Speaker 7: population of this country, if not the world, that's who
1:59:31
Speaker 7: they've come up with ways to be able to serve.
1:59:34
Speaker 7: And those are the kind of folks that you know,
1:59:36
Speaker 7: the fidelities and the schwabs and all that aren't really
1:59:39
Speaker 7: looking at So there's a market there for again, these
1:59:42
Speaker 7: making a huge volume of these very small transactions.
1:59:45
Speaker 3: But that's the beginning of it.
1:59:47
Speaker 7: And then of course it was since it was already
1:59:49
Speaker 7: you know, something that people were willing to engage with
1:59:51
Speaker 7: and became used to. When crypto hit the mainstream a
1:59:54
Speaker 7: few years back, it was already in position. Robinhood was
1:59:57
Speaker 7: ready to be able to place those trades for people.
2:00:00
Speaker 7: And so that's how people are already on those platforms.
2:00:02
Speaker 7: So it's not like they're starting from scratch to see
2:00:05
Speaker 7: all these new products. They're already there and they're being
2:00:07
Speaker 7: enticed now with credit cards and again these prediction markets.
2:00:10
Speaker 7: The big headline most recently here is Robin Hood's new
2:00:14
Speaker 7: AI agent strategy, and that's going to allow AI tools
2:00:17
Speaker 7: to help users manage investments, actual spending, and financial decisions.
2:00:21
Speaker 7: I'm not sold on this. I still want a human
2:00:24
Speaker 7: brain thinking about these kinds of things. It's an interesting
2:00:27
Speaker 7: story to watch. Somebody out there is going to pull
2:00:30
Speaker 7: the trigger and give it a try. But yes, Robin
2:00:31
Speaker 7: Hood is out there. Whenever you hear the word agent,
2:00:33
Speaker 7: that is no longer you know, AI simply being Google
2:00:37
Speaker 7: on steroids. That's AI actually performing transactions for you. I'm
2:00:41
Speaker 7: not ready to buy into any of that yet, and
2:00:43
Speaker 7: we're certainly not anywhere close to that here at all
2:00:45
Speaker 7: worth in terms of trading and all those kinds of things.
2:00:48
Speaker 7: But there's a market out there for it. And again
2:00:50
Speaker 7: that's why Robin Hood's in the headlines this morning.
2:00:52
Speaker 1: Is Robinhood overseen by some federal agency like the Securities
2:00:56
Speaker 1: in Exchange Commission or something like that. Are they regulated
2:00:59
Speaker 1: along those.
2:00:59
Speaker 7: Lines as much as anybody else is, because at the
2:01:03
Speaker 7: end of the day, they are in exchange, so they're
2:01:04
Speaker 7: they're they're monitored by by the same organizations that monitor
2:01:08
Speaker 7: you know, stock trading and all that kind of thing.
2:01:10
Speaker 7: The the it's the crypto side and these prediction markets
2:01:13
Speaker 7: that right now there's really that it's just not as
2:01:16
Speaker 7: well thought out by our you know, by our leadership
2:01:19
Speaker 7: in terms of how that's going to be. There's a
2:01:21
Speaker 7: lot of fights going on right now, you know, big
2:01:23
Speaker 7: new and I talked recently about big debates over whether
2:01:26
Speaker 7: it would be the Securities and Exchange Commission or the
2:01:29
Speaker 7: commodities organizations governmental organizations that are going to monitor these
2:01:34
Speaker 7: these types of markets. And somewhat good sized victory was
2:01:38
Speaker 7: won by the financial industry when it was decided that
2:01:40
Speaker 7: the commodities UH overseers are going to be in charge
2:01:44
Speaker 7: there because they are less strenuous than the sec. So
2:01:46
Speaker 7: it's not so much about Robinhood being on its own.
2:01:49
Speaker 7: It's about these markets in general. Again, crypto and predictive
2:01:53
Speaker 7: markets and all those are not really they're they're just
2:01:55
Speaker 7: in general not monitors as well.
2:01:57
Speaker 3: And it's established as the overall stockworker.
2:01:59
Speaker 1: Well, and I always like to I point out that
2:02:02
Speaker 1: I'm ignorant a lot of topics. This is one that
2:02:04
Speaker 1: I obviously am the way I brought in this subject matter.
2:02:06
Speaker 1: But then again, do you think anybody in Washington, d C.
2:02:09
Speaker 1: In elected capacity has any concept of how this stuff works,
2:02:12
Speaker 1: which ultimately leads me to conclude that no wonder the
2:02:14
Speaker 1: financial institutions end up winning on this because they have money,
2:02:17
Speaker 1: they have power, they have lobbyists, and they can sway
2:02:20
Speaker 1: the narrative in any direction they want to a bunch
2:02:22
Speaker 1: of people who really don't quite get it.
2:02:25
Speaker 3: That's very fair statement.
2:02:26
Speaker 7: And remember remember what talks it's money, right, So yeah,
2:02:28
Speaker 7: I can't imagine that these these somewhat geriatric leaders of
2:02:33
Speaker 7: our country aren't focused more on what the industry can
2:02:36
Speaker 7: provide to their next election coffers than what the impact
2:02:39
Speaker 7: over the next several decades will be of these tools
2:02:42
Speaker 7: that are kind of being in some cases rubber stamp.
2:02:44
Speaker 7: I'm worried about that too. I don't think that I'll
2:02:46
Speaker 7: fix itself anytime soon. But you know, I don't know
2:02:48
Speaker 7: what we do differently other than elect different people.
2:02:52
Speaker 1: Wow, there's an ask Brian James speaking of needing to
2:02:56
Speaker 1: elect different people. The writing's on the wall in terms
2:02:59
Speaker 1: of our national debt, and it is scary stuff. We're
2:03:02
Speaker 1: going to talk about that coming up next with Brian James.
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2:03:20
Speaker 1: not quite sure I can make it a happy Monday.
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Speaker 1: In spot off where I'm looking, Brian James, federal government
2:03:24
Speaker 1: spending more on debt interest than medicaid, national offense, and
2:03:28
Speaker 1: all non defense discretionary programs combined. And if that isn't
2:03:33
Speaker 1: bad enough, they're saying it's going to get worse and
2:03:35
Speaker 1: could turn into something far worse. We've been on a spending,
2:03:40
Speaker 1: reckless spending trajectory forever. And I'm actually surprised because the
2:03:44
Speaker 1: information that you relied upon it you provided me in
2:03:46
Speaker 1: this particular article. The source of the information the Congressional
2:03:50
Speaker 1: Budget Office Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. We have
2:03:54
Speaker 1: something called that. I know they misname things all the time, Brian,
2:03:57
Speaker 1: but that sounds like a good organize. But we don't
2:04:00
Speaker 1: have a responsible federal budget.
2:04:03
Speaker 3: We do not. We haven't had one in decades.
2:04:05
Speaker 7: You got to go back to the Cluton administration to
2:04:07
Speaker 7: find the last balanced budget, and we won't relieve it.
2:04:10
Speaker 7: We don't even talk about balanced budgets. That's campaign promises anymore.
2:04:13
Speaker 7: We really don't talk about the budget at all because
2:04:15
Speaker 7: really our leadership has no intention of doing anything about
2:04:17
Speaker 7: it anytime soon. So the debt interest bill is becoming
2:04:21
Speaker 7: its own budget category at this point, right, So it's
2:04:24
Speaker 7: not something that we have to pay for all the
2:04:26
Speaker 7: government employees. We've got to pay for all the government services,
2:04:29
Speaker 7: the military, and all those other things. Debt was always
2:04:31
Speaker 7: something that kind of happened in the background, of course,
2:04:33
Speaker 7: but of course it's not now, and it is getting
2:04:35
Speaker 7: to the point where we need to just treat it
2:04:37
Speaker 7: like a line item like everything else. The federal government
2:04:40
Speaker 7: now spends more on interest payments than medicaid, national defense,
2:04:44
Speaker 7: or all non defense discretionary spending individually. And in fiscal
2:04:48
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five, interest costs reached about three and a
2:04:51
Speaker 7: quarter percent worth of the GDP. That's the highest level
2:04:54
Speaker 7: we've seen on record. That means about nineteen cents of
2:04:56
Speaker 7: every federal dollar Brian Thomas now goes toward paying interest
2:04:59
Speaker 7: on the national debt. That committee you mentioned, the Committee
2:05:02
Speaker 7: for a Responsible Federal Budget, well they estimate that if
2:05:05
Speaker 7: treasury yields stay where they are today, then annual interest
2:05:07
Speaker 7: costs are going to rise from eight hundred and eighty
2:05:09
Speaker 7: billion to two and a half trillion by twenty thirty six.
2:05:13
Speaker 7: So under that scenario, if that comes to pass, about
2:05:15
Speaker 7: thirty percent of all federal revenue was going to go
2:05:17
Speaker 7: toward interest payments alone.
2:05:19
Speaker 3: That's not a happy thought.
2:05:21
Speaker 1: No, I do you think that they're just they just
2:05:23
Speaker 1: realize that it is going to be this insane amount
2:05:26
Speaker 1: of debt service like our credit card interest rate, that
2:05:29
Speaker 1: will force them into draconian cutting measures. I mean, listen,
2:05:33
Speaker 1: we didn't want to cut, but guess what we have
2:05:35
Speaker 1: to spend so much on the interest payment to service
2:05:37
Speaker 1: the debt. All these programs, your favorite, my favorite, his favorite,
2:05:41
Speaker 1: they're all going to have to be cut. That seems
2:05:43
Speaker 1: the only answer to the problem, because no one wants
2:05:46
Speaker 1: to present a responsible budget that's going to start whittling
2:05:48
Speaker 1: this away.
2:05:50
Speaker 7: Well, and ostensibly that's what this current administration kind of
2:05:53
Speaker 7: ran on. Remember those that's ancient history and really didn't
2:05:56
Speaker 7: have any impact whatsoever, And all the different things that
2:05:59
Speaker 7: we were going to do there, well, we we supposedly
2:06:01
Speaker 7: cut a lot and we cut out US AID. We've
2:06:02
Speaker 7: killed we're killing the Department of Education. I don't remember
2:06:06
Speaker 7: hearing where those savings have actually gone, and I'm not
2:06:08
Speaker 7: real thrilled about where I think they went. But so
2:06:11
Speaker 7: it seems like there are efforts afoot to at least
2:06:13
Speaker 7: reduce the size of government, but we're redirecting those those
2:06:17
Speaker 7: savings into other things that are you know, that are
2:06:20
Speaker 7: not exactly along the same line. Now, there's there there
2:06:22
Speaker 7: are some people out there that don't believe that we're
2:06:24
Speaker 7: at you know, or at the moment.
2:06:25
Speaker 3: Of a fiscal crisis.
2:06:26
Speaker 7: Right there's lots of people listening right now who don't
2:06:29
Speaker 7: who don't have to think about this stuff on a
2:06:30
Speaker 7: daily basis. So everything you and I have said in
2:06:32
Speaker 7: the last five minutes maybe prompting people to be concerned
2:06:35
Speaker 7: all of a sudden when before they weren't. But there
2:06:37
Speaker 7: are people who think about this stuff all the time.
2:06:40
Speaker 7: And there are some economists out there, you know, to
2:06:42
Speaker 7: who take from up from a modern monetary theory point
2:06:44
Speaker 7: of view. Uh, the fact that the US issues debt
2:06:47
Speaker 7: and its own currency, and so unlike Greece or maybe Argentina,
2:06:51
Speaker 7: that means we can't be deforced into default inflation, and
2:06:54
Speaker 7: their major concern is inflation, not insolvency is the real
2:06:57
Speaker 7: constraint here, And some other thoughts.
2:06:59
Speaker 3: Are in the past. The US has been in this
2:07:01
Speaker 3: position before.
2:07:01
Speaker 7: We had debt over one hundred percent of GDP that
2:07:04
Speaker 7: right after World War Two, but eventually strong growth reduced
2:07:07
Speaker 7: that debt burden. So the thought here for the people
2:07:10
Speaker 7: who believe that this isn't that big of a deal
2:07:12
Speaker 7: is that AI productivity gains and innovation could potentially increase
2:07:16
Speaker 7: growth enough to offset some of that fiscal pressure. And
2:07:18
Speaker 7: that's what you and I just got done talking about.
2:07:20
Speaker 7: At the moment, that is what is happening. We may
2:07:22
Speaker 7: not like it, we may not be comfortable with the
2:07:24
Speaker 7: fact that this country swipes its credit card every chance
2:07:26
Speaker 7: it gets, but at the moment, it's still working, and
2:07:28
Speaker 7: it has been for decades, so we still have some.
2:07:32
Speaker 1: Room to run here, believe it or not. Well, what
2:07:34
Speaker 1: about the reserve currency? I mean, I'm concerned that the
2:07:36
Speaker 1: globe is going to give up on the United States
2:07:38
Speaker 1: as a as a reliable currency based upon this scenario
2:07:42
Speaker 1: that we're looking at right now. If we don't get
2:07:44
Speaker 1: people to loan US money then we can't continue to
2:07:47
Speaker 1: service the debt Brian as I understand things.
2:07:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, but the thought I go back to there is okay,
2:07:53
Speaker 7: then who steps in? What country is it that's going
2:07:56
Speaker 7: to be and take take the place of the economic
2:07:58
Speaker 7: might that the United States has. Now, we've made a
2:08:00
Speaker 7: lot of changes over the last couple of years as
2:08:02
Speaker 7: to how we present ourselves to the rest of the world,
2:08:04
Speaker 7: and we've gotten away with a lot of it. Right,
2:08:06
Speaker 7: the markets are still at all time highs because in
2:08:08
Speaker 7: general the globe, the globes investors still think that US
2:08:12
Speaker 7: stocks are the place to be. The treasury hasn't collapsed.
2:08:15
Speaker 7: None of this has actually happened yet, So put it
2:08:17
Speaker 7: in the future. Sure, But then that means where are
2:08:19
Speaker 7: we going. Is it going to be China? Is the
2:08:21
Speaker 7: world going to line up behind China? I can't envision
2:08:23
Speaker 7: that happening. That's the second largest economy in the world.
2:08:26
Speaker 7: There's still a good amount of distance between the US
2:08:28
Speaker 7: and China, and then after that you get into Germany
2:08:31
Speaker 7: and Japan, and I just don't see somebody stepping into
2:08:34
Speaker 7: the role of the US plays And I don't think
2:08:37
Speaker 7: there's enough faith in cryptocurrency.
2:08:38
Speaker 3: Cryptocurrency is way too much of a speculative asset for
2:08:40
Speaker 3: that to average.
2:08:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wrote down crypto because you know the old
2:08:44
Speaker 1: adage don't let a good crisis go to ray waits.
2:08:46
Speaker 1: Guess what, we are facing a crisis right now that's
2:08:48
Speaker 1: only going to get worse and at some point someone's
2:08:50
Speaker 1: going to stand up and say, screw the dollar crypto.
2:08:53
Speaker 1: And I wrote that down, and I thought, wait a second,
2:08:55
Speaker 1: crypto is expressed in the form of a dollar valuation.
2:08:58
Speaker 1: It's got to be expressed in the form of something
2:09:00
Speaker 1: I think people can get their head around.
2:09:02
Speaker 7: Right exactly, And that's kind of exactly the point. I mean,
2:09:04
Speaker 7: when we think of crypto, we don't know. People don't
2:09:06
Speaker 7: generally think of what crypto itself is worth. We still
2:09:08
Speaker 7: translate in our heads to how does that mean if
2:09:10
Speaker 7: I dumped it into my checking account and converted it
2:09:12
Speaker 7: to regular US dollars, what would that look like? And
2:09:14
Speaker 7: the fact that you thought of it that way, that's
2:09:16
Speaker 7: the point. That's how ensconced in the world economy. The
2:09:19
Speaker 7: US dollar is and that's not going to change tomorrow.
2:09:22
Speaker 3: So the world's.
2:09:23
Speaker 7: Primary concurrency remains the US dollars. So it's fifty eight
2:09:27
Speaker 7: percent of global foreign exchange reserves. It's still the dominant
2:09:30
Speaker 7: currency for international trade. They may not like US, but
2:09:33
Speaker 7: it's still the most reliable currency.
2:09:34
Speaker 3: Think of it this way.
2:09:35
Speaker 7: There were companies out there, maybe what's five six years
2:09:38
Speaker 7: ago that were briefly accepting payment in the form of
2:09:41
Speaker 7: cryptocurrency in bitcoin. Tesla was one of them. I believe
2:09:45
Speaker 7: Microsoft did it for a little while, and they decided
2:09:47
Speaker 7: not to do that anymore because all of a sudden,
2:09:50
Speaker 7: their accounts receivable were bouncing wildly. When what you just
2:09:54
Speaker 7: said happened, somebody had to translate that cryptocurrency eighty US
2:09:58
Speaker 7: dollars to put it on the quarterly report. Well, and
2:10:00
Speaker 7: it's just bouncing wildly, not because of the products they've sold,
2:10:03
Speaker 7: but because of the crypto. Well, and that's been the
2:10:05
Speaker 7: that's been the weird thing for me. This is one
2:10:07
Speaker 7: of the reasons why I struly struggle to get my
2:10:09
Speaker 7: head around it, because crypto varies wildly. One day it's worth,
2:10:12
Speaker 7: you know, ten thousand dollars per coin, and the next
2:10:14
Speaker 7: day it's worth fifteen. It's like, oh my god, crypto
2:10:16
Speaker 7: is worth ap How do you buy something with something
2:10:19
Speaker 7: that moves so dramatically In price from moment to moment,
2:10:22
Speaker 7: let alone day to day. At least with the dollar,
2:10:24
Speaker 7: you got to wait for inflation to kick in. Okay,
2:10:27
Speaker 7: dollar's worth less this quarter than it was last, and
2:10:30
Speaker 7: we can always see that in the price of goods
2:10:32
Speaker 7: going up. But the other article about inflation, it's twenty
2:10:36
Speaker 7: five percent up for every day goods and services since
2:10:38
Speaker 7: twenty twenty one. That's really hitting people hard. But when
2:10:41
Speaker 7: you go to this store and you want to buy something,
2:10:43
Speaker 7: and you want to pay for it in crypto, it
2:10:45
Speaker 7: could cost you this fraction of a crypto coin today
2:10:49
Speaker 7: and something less tomorrow. I maybe AI can figure all
2:10:53
Speaker 7: that crap out down the road, Brian, but in real
2:10:55
Speaker 7: time calculations, it seems to be virtually impossible.
2:10:58
Speaker 3: You know.
2:10:58
Speaker 7: I think we're just moving into an era where basically
2:11:01
Speaker 7: everything is treated as a speculative asset. We don't use
2:11:04
Speaker 7: it to store value anymore. We don't use things to
2:11:07
Speaker 7: you know, as a currency of exchange. We simply want
2:11:09
Speaker 7: to own something and hope it goes to the moon.
2:11:11
Speaker 7: That's really what all this stuff is. And I really
2:11:13
Speaker 7: wish we'd dropped the you know, the last half of
2:11:15
Speaker 7: that word currency off of cryptocurrency because it's not currency
2:11:19
Speaker 7: is something that has exchanged. Crypto is getting hoarded because
2:11:22
Speaker 7: people are thinking it's going to be worth a bazillion
2:11:24
Speaker 7: dollars later. When was the last time you heard about
2:11:26
Speaker 7: somebody selling their entire horde of bitcoin?
2:11:28
Speaker 3: That doesn't ever happen.
2:11:29
Speaker 7: People sit on it and ride the waves while the
2:11:31
Speaker 7: new people jump in and out because they don't know
2:11:33
Speaker 7: what they're doing.
2:11:33
Speaker 1: True, which makes me kind of want to ask a
2:11:36
Speaker 1: question about gold. Gold keeps going up in price too people.
2:11:39
Speaker 1: Is that revealing of something broader in terms of people's
2:11:42
Speaker 1: concerns about the status of the world.
2:11:43
Speaker 7: Brian James, I think gold is really just a measure
2:11:46
Speaker 7: of how nervous are we today because if you and
2:11:49
Speaker 7: that's gold is is gets brought up by people who
2:11:52
Speaker 7: really want to do what I think society is letting
2:11:55
Speaker 7: go of.
2:11:55
Speaker 3: Right. Gold gets brought up by people.
2:11:57
Speaker 7: Who want to put their money in something and sit
2:11:59
Speaker 7: on it and be confident that it's going to somehow
2:12:01
Speaker 7: go up. But gold is treated anymore. It's just as
2:12:04
Speaker 7: violent as anything else when the waves change direction on us.
2:12:09
Speaker 7: So it's just not if you look over history a
2:12:12
Speaker 7: gold position, people start looking at gold when they want
2:12:15
Speaker 7: to try to time everything else. I'm worried about the
2:12:17
Speaker 7: markets right now, so therefore I want to put it
2:12:19
Speaker 7: in gold because I've perceived that that'll be a safer place. Well,
2:12:21
Speaker 7: as we know about timing anything, you're never going to
2:12:23
Speaker 7: get it right. You can get it right nine times
2:12:25
Speaker 7: in a row, and that tenth time comes along and
2:12:27
Speaker 7: puts you right back where you were.
2:12:28
Speaker 3: Gold does the.
2:12:29
Speaker 7: Same thing, just in the opposite. It's just the receiving
2:12:32
Speaker 7: point of where people are trying to shelter from something
2:12:34
Speaker 7: else for a brief period of time, and nobody has
2:12:37
Speaker 7: proven throughout history that there's a way to do this
2:12:40
Speaker 7: correctly multiple times in a row.
2:12:41
Speaker 1: And it's just a commodity like everything else. I think
2:12:44
Speaker 1: people are fascinated with gold just because it's had this
2:12:46
Speaker 1: long term, you know, multi multi millennial generational perception of
2:12:51
Speaker 1: just actual value. If I have gold, it is going
2:12:53
Speaker 1: to be worth something. But you can say the same
2:12:55
Speaker 1: thing about platinum or copper or anything else it has
2:12:59
Speaker 1: a value in in in society,