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55KRC Monday Show - CCVS, Smitherman, Money Monday, State Rep Adam Bird · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505-55KRC, the talk station. Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the dude, man.
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  Speaker 1: And I am Brian Thomas, and it is Monday, like
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  Speaker 1: it or not. And, of course, I'm usually in the
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  Speaker 1: latter category. Mondays suck. Anyway, got to get up and
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  Speaker 1: do it. And what's going on with the 55KRC Morning Show?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. Appreciate you tuning in. Thanks, as always,
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  Speaker 1: to Joe Strecker, executive producer of the morning show, getting
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  Speaker 1: guests on the lineup today. We're going to the Claremont
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  Speaker 1: County Veterans Services Commission coming in to talk about Veterans
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  Speaker 1: Day this Wednesday. They've got Vets Days, the details on that,
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  Speaker 1: and Of course, saluting the American veterans. So let's all
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  Speaker 1: get in the mood to do that. 7.05 with the
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  Speaker 1: Claremont County Veterans Services. And, of course, Monday means Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Smithman at 7.20. I'm kind of wondering, Jeff Strecker printed
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  Speaker 1: out one of the Signal 99's rants, and wow, she's
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  Speaker 1: on a bit of a tear, isn't she, about the
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  Speaker 1: failure for the 44% of the voters in Hamilton County
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  Speaker 1: to vote? Didn't even show up. Man, she ranted. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: Christopher will have a comment or two about that, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a swirling mystery what Christopher is going to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: We all get the benefit of finding out together at
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  Speaker 1: 720 on a Monday. That's coming up Monday, Monday. Brian
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  Speaker 1: James is out. We're going to get Allworth's Bob Sponseller
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  Speaker 1: taking Brian's place. You talk about stocks taking that big hit.
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  Speaker 1: It took a day. Post-election, the stocks actually went up,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess reality sent in, and down they went. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: the price of oil dropped. Price of gasoline is down. No,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats can't take credit for that. Go ahead, try. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: the post-election economy, economic outlook. We'll get Bob's comments on that. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: State Representative Adam Burr. Adam Burr is going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the reality, post-election reality, that the Republicans no longer
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  Speaker 1: have a supermajority here in the state of Ohio. Democrats control...
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats don't control the legislature here in Ohio, but...
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  Speaker 1: Republicans have a majority, just not the supermajority that could
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  Speaker 1: override Amy Acton's inevitable vetoes. So what is going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: State Representative Adam Burr to talk about that. With just
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks left to pass legislation, will anything get
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  Speaker 1: done here in Ohio? What's on your short list of
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  Speaker 1: things to happen here in Ohio? State Representative Adam Burr
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  Speaker 1: to 830 on that. And right now, sort of Congress
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  Speaker 1: is facing the same thing. You've got 55 days left
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  Speaker 1: with the lame duck Congress where we have a, well,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans at least control the House and Senate. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: not with a veto-proof override, but neither will the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have that. So what do we need to get done?
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  Speaker 1: Dividing over to the Wall Street Journal, a couple of articles,
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  Speaker 1: both of which have overlapping lists of things that Republicans
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  Speaker 1: can do in the remaining 55 days. Question, will they
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  Speaker 1: just go home, not show up, give up, throw in
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  Speaker 1: the towel? Or will they fight? They've got some good
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  Speaker 1: things to talk about. Permitting reform, this one is bipartisan.
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  Speaker 1: Because the left, and they're pushing for more green policy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the ink isn't even dry on last week's election.
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  Speaker 1: And the Democrats are already talking about pushing for more
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  Speaker 1: green policies. These do not work without government subsidies, taxpayer dollars, subsidizing.
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  Speaker 1: At least oil and gas pay for itself. It was
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  Speaker 1: an incentive for a company to invest in drilling because
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  Speaker 1: the return is going to be guaranteed. Can't make a
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  Speaker 1: green project work without taxpayer dollars. Anyway, but permitting reform,
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  Speaker 1: there is a bipartisan push, and this has been talked
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  Speaker 1: about for quite some time, to reform the country's permitting system. Some, well,
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  Speaker 1: described as discipline on never-ending environmental rules that hold up
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  Speaker 1: oil and renewable energy projects. You can wield the litigation
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  Speaker 1: option whether you're in favor of a green project or not.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with oil and gas. So both sides want
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  Speaker 1: their way. Let's move forward with these projects more quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But the Democrats aren't necessarily interested in pursuing the oil policies,
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  Speaker 1: but they want to do the green policies. And it
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  Speaker 1: suggested that they shouldn't count on Trump signing a partisan
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  Speaker 1: version next year. Both sides have some incentive to pass
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  Speaker 1: a deal this year, so both sides, in a bipartisan fashion,
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit of what they want. Also up
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  Speaker 1: in play, Donald Trump's request for a $ 1. 5 trillion defense budget. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats want to shave $ 350 billion off of that. So Republicans'
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  Speaker 1: request includes $ 47 billion for munitions, air defense interceptors, Tomahawks,
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  Speaker 1: $ 11 billion for space radars and networks crucial to modern warfighting,
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  Speaker 1: $ 14 billion for funding for counter-drone protection and more than
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  Speaker 1: 250 sites. Now it suggests the Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 1: be extracting a huge domestic spending price for any increase
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  Speaker 1: in defense. Lame duck, the last chance to make good
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  Speaker 1: on Trump's unfulfilled promises to rebuild U.S. military. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to do it through budget reconciliation, so they
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  Speaker 1: only need 61 votes in the Senate. Question whether that's
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  Speaker 1: going to move forward. Democrats are going to try to
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  Speaker 1: block any judge that Donald Trump advances or approves. You've
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  Speaker 1: got 55 days to approve the judges that are pending
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  Speaker 1: out there. Three judges awaiting a Senate floor vote, 18
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  Speaker 1: district court judges, two appellate nominees pending in committee, and
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  Speaker 1: noting that the fifth and eighth appellate court judges, especially important,
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  Speaker 1: so get them confirmed quickly. You're not going to have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to do it anymore. More health and welfare reforms.
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  Speaker 1: Journal suggests touching health programs, a heavy political lift even
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  Speaker 1: in good years for the GOP. But, and I agree
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  Speaker 1: with this conclusion, it's a national scandal that Medicaid, a
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  Speaker 1: program for the poor, pays more for able-bodied men above
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  Speaker 1: the poverty line than for low-income pregnant women. 90% of
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  Speaker 1: costs versus closer to half in some states. Is that fair?
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  Speaker 1: It's a system that was set up for poor people.
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  Speaker 1: Here's an excellent idea, and it's been thrown around too,
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  Speaker 1: how to reduce fraud, a $ 25 minimum premium payment for Obamacare.
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  Speaker 1: Just a little bit. We all are aware, I hope,
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  Speaker 1: of the egregious fraud that's found in food stamps, Medicaid,
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  Speaker 1: and Obamacare. Big subsidies have invited health brokers to game
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  Speaker 1: the system. Biden's enhanced payouts meant that some individuals paid
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  Speaker 1: nothing for insurance. A core defense against fraud, making sure
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  Speaker 1: each enrollee contributes at least something each month. It confirms
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  Speaker 1: that they're out there and they're a living human being,
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  Speaker 1: not some dead person who someone has enrolled. Another idea,
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  Speaker 1: ending broad categorical eligibility. People cross enroll in programs without
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  Speaker 1: any serious income or asset tests for each benefit. Just
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  Speaker 1: simply do not allow automatic cross enrollment. Country's aware of
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  Speaker 1: the rampant fraud in federal benefits. Now let's get the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans to, well, curb more of it and do it
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  Speaker 1: while they still have the opportunity. Democrats aren't going to
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  Speaker 1: want to do it. And ask yourself why that might be. Well,
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  Speaker 1: And as the Journal observes, and this is the sad
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  Speaker 1: reality of it, we know most of this is a
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  Speaker 1: long shot. Many losing members are demoralized and may not
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  Speaker 1: even want to return to D.C. to vote. GOP lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: are employed until January, and nobody knows when they'll next
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  Speaker 1: control both chambers and the White House. They've still got
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  Speaker 1: that right now. And to the extent your elected official
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  Speaker 1: is one that's not going to bother going back to D.C.
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  Speaker 1: to get some of this very important work done, which
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  Speaker 1: it can do, then I think you need to get
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  Speaker 1: on the horn or otherwise reach out and touch them
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  Speaker 1: in some way, suggesting that they better get off their
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  Speaker 1: ass and get back to D.C. The project of rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: a grand old party that chose voters that believes in
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  Speaker 1: something starts, well, today, when both chambers return to Washington.
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  Speaker 1: And it's going to be an interesting thing to see
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats and how they plan on regrouping. There was
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  Speaker 1: an interesting Axios article for the weed dwellers. The quotes
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  Speaker 1: from politicians within the Democrat Party on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the far left side, the AOC, the woke wing, the
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  Speaker 1: progressive caucus side. And then you've got the more centrist
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  Speaker 1: folks in the Democrat Party saying, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a time when we should go full
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  Speaker 1: on AOC socialists. So they'll be infighting. Majority leaders and
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  Speaker 1: minority leaders will be chosen in very short order. So
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of, well, soul-searching to do, I think,
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  Speaker 1: across the board. Both sides have it. Democrats obviously giddy
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  Speaker 1: with excitement. Still reeling over the reality of last Tuesday's election,
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  Speaker 1: but you know what? We're going to have to live
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  Speaker 1: with it. We're going to have to muddle through it.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have to live, thrive, and survive. And
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  Speaker 1: let's just hope that there's something out the other side.
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  Speaker 1: We aren't sort of remaking the entire country as a
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  Speaker 1: consequence of this leftist shift, which starts at a really
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  Speaker 1: young age. It's a frightening thing going on, as identified
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  Speaker 1: over at Fox News, about this DSA-linked group, Democrat Socialists
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  Speaker 1: of America, messaging to our young people, notably the Red Party,
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  Speaker 1: Sprouts program. We mentioned that coming up. 515-55-KRCD, Talk Station, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
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• 9:58
  Speaker 1: are feeling a little.
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  Speaker 1: Downhearted after the election. What are you doing? I'm just
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  Speaker 1: trying to just ignore it. Personally, it's a very difficult
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  Speaker 1: thing to cope with a terrible loss like that. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing my best to not let them, the collective
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  Speaker 1: that are the leftists in this country, ruin my day.
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  Speaker 1: So live to fight on another day. And check out
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  Speaker 1: the podcast page, 55KRC. iHeart. com. We heard from Jack Windsor from
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio Press Network. Thank you, Joe Strecker, for the graphic.
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  Speaker 1: Jungle Jim's International Wine Festival on the 14th. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a picture of Amy Acton there with that. Well played, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Help Squad Coat Drive. I hope you donated your coat
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  Speaker 1: you got until the end of this month to help
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  Speaker 1: the Help Squad help folks over on the west side
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  Speaker 1: get what they need. And a lot of young people
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  Speaker 1: and others need coats, which is, well, a way we
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  Speaker 1: can all help out. You got one in the basement,
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  Speaker 1: I know. A gently used coat that you aren't using.
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  Speaker 1: Pull it out of the basement and hand it over
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  Speaker 1: to the Help Squad. All the details and information on
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  Speaker 1: how to do that. Plus, get a copy of Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Lysak's book, Haitians of Springfield in Oral History. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this indoctrination camp that are the public school systems is
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  Speaker 1: getting worse and worse. Of course, we've known about colleges
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  Speaker 1: for years and years and years. I barely escaped, and
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  Speaker 1: I graduated from undergrad in 1987. Barely escaped the left-wing
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  Speaker 1: intrusion into colleges. It's now full on. Everybody knows it's
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  Speaker 1: almost impossible to find a conservative college. professor in college.
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  Speaker 1: So that is the icing on the now long indoctrination
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  Speaker 1: march that our young people are going through K through
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  Speaker 1: 12 education, get the memo.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Full on woke. And then they got young people now. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I love the Democrats. We're just going to offer pre-K education.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The state will raise your children. And how do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's going to turn out for your children? How
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  Speaker 1: do you think it's going to turn out for the country?
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  Speaker 1: The state.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They do not have a vested interest in your particular child.
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  Speaker 1: It's the collective, remember? Mediocrity for all. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: indoctrination for all. This is a frightening article I saw
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  Speaker 1: in the Fox News. Elaine Mallon reporting on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Taking its message to the classroom, child care programs, school boards,
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  Speaker 1: urging organizers to approach child care, in their words, from
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  Speaker 1: a socialist perspective, close quote. Approach child care from a
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  Speaker 1: socialist perspective. What does that mean? Well, it includes an
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  Speaker 1: initiative called Socialist Sprouts. They've been at this for years,
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  Speaker 1: according to a parental watchdog group. DSA Red Sprouts program
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  Speaker 1: held a training session in October this year to equip
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  Speaker 1: organizers to provide, quote, resistance-driven child care. That sound constructive?
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  Speaker 1: that would take place at demonstrations, meetings, and community events.
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  Speaker 1: Training encouraged participants to incorporate political themes into child care through, quote,
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  Speaker 1: radical storytelling. Close quote. Quote, cooperative games. Close quote. And
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  Speaker 1: age-appropriate discussions. Well, we all know the limits that the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats will go when it comes to age-appropriate, when they're
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  Speaker 1: shoving basically porn for kids down their throats.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: The coalition or this group that's fighting against this, or
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  Speaker 1: at least bringing awareness, I wasn't aware of this, until
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  Speaker 1: the American Parents Coalition leader, Ali Murray, spoke with Fox
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  Speaker 1: News about it. There's been a real influx of enthusiasm
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  Speaker 1: in their ability and desire to recruit and grow their movement.
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  Speaker 1: What's particularly concerning and insidious is their direct efforts to
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  Speaker 1: apply that to not just adults, but to youth. The
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  Speaker 1: American Parents Coalition launched what they call a lookout initiative.
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  Speaker 1: New York City DSA chapter, in addition to Red Sprouts,
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  Speaker 1: also now established a Comrades with Kids. That will be
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  Speaker 1: parents who are fellow travelers in communist movement being the comrades.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones that have kids, so what do we
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  Speaker 1: need to do? It's a family-focused organization seeking to be
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  Speaker 1: a political and social home base for working-class families. Incorporate
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  Speaker 1: into your young person's childcare, these communist socialist principles. Suffer
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  Speaker 1: the children, come unto me. That had this coalition, this Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Mary lady. The DSA really understands and values, this is
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  Speaker 1: an important point she's making here because it's the God's
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  Speaker 1: honest truth. Hey, can you tell a kid that Santa
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  Speaker 1: Claus is going to go around the entire world and
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  Speaker 1: come down every single chimney in the world over one night?
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  Speaker 1: They'll believe it. Won't they?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Easter Bunny, sure. Yeah, Easter Bunny shows up and brings eggs.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Tooth Fairy. You tell a little kid it's true,
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  Speaker 1: they'll believe you. Mary said, DSA really understands and values
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  Speaker 1: that if you can indoctrinate and teach these kids really young,
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  Speaker 1: their perceived values of socialism, and that's going to stick
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  Speaker 1: with kids for a lifetime. It's much easier to teach
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  Speaker 1: a child an idea or ideal in their infancy than
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  Speaker 1: and when they're very young, and they're forming their worldview.
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  Speaker 1: And we have seen many efforts to try to capitalize
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  Speaker 1: on that. There's this really concerted effort to instill an
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  Speaker 1: ideology in really, really young children. Rather than teaching kids
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  Speaker 1: how to think and encouraging breadth of ideologies or religious interests, etc.,
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  Speaker 1: it's really focused on socialist and communist-aligned ideas. Get the
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  Speaker 1: kids lined up, tell them this all works, and a
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  Speaker 1: child who has no understanding of economic principles, the value
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  Speaker 1: of the dollar, how the fiat currency is printed... How
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  Speaker 1: many complex issues are involved in evaluating socialism, communism, or
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  Speaker 1: any other system of government that some young child is
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  Speaker 1: not equipped to discuss or understand? Hell, there are a
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  Speaker 1: majority of adults out there that don't get the difference
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  Speaker 1: between capitalism, communism, socialism, Marxism. You're going to talk to
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  Speaker 1: some four-year-old about the collective, about the proletariat, the bourgeoisie?
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  Speaker 1: Are you just going to say from each according to
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  Speaker 1: his ability to each according to his need? Isn't that fair? Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course it's fair. No one should have more than
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  Speaker 1: anybody else. Okay, how's that work out when you start
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  Speaker 1: thinking about human nature, my young child? What's human nature, huh? Right.
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  Speaker 1: This is frightening stuff. This is one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: I advocate and have always advocated for school choice. Get
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  Speaker 1: the children out of the indoctrination camps and help them
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  Speaker 1: learn something that's going to actually benefit them in life. 525-55-KRC,
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  Speaker 1: a dog lover, and Cincinnati Animal Care has a real
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  Speaker 1: big plea. Adoptions. They took in more than 100 dogs
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  Speaker 1: over the past week. Among dogs taken in, 38 ceased
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  Speaker 1: through active animal welfare investigations. Cincinnati Animal Care says it's
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  Speaker 1: committed to making space for these dogs, but counting on
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  Speaker 1: you to give these dogs a forever home.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: Please, if you can, if you have it in your heart,
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  Speaker 1: if you have room in your home, dogs are just
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  Speaker 1: an absolute joy and pleasure. When you adopt one, especially
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  Speaker 1: one who's suffered from an abuse and you provide it
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  Speaker 1: So they're at critical capacity. Those extra dogs obviously flooded
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  Speaker 1: any animal care. It's your love here and from you. Ellesmere, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Police say a 17-year-old boy was taken to UC Medical
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  Speaker 1: Center after suffering a single gunshot wound to the head.
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  Speaker 1: It happened over the weekend on Saturday. Police have identified
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  Speaker 1: the shooter as another juvenile who was acquainted with the
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  Speaker 1: victim and apparently is cooperating with the Ellesmere Police Department's investigation.
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  Speaker 1: According to the release from Ellesmere, investigators believe the juveniles
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  Speaker 1: involved were showing a 9mm handgun to others during a
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  Speaker 1: group FaceTime call when the shooting occurred. Investigators working to
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  Speaker 1: identify the other people on the FaceTime call. Shooting apparently
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  Speaker 1: occurred on Garvey Avenue. Victim remains in critical condition. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have any video of the shooting? Were you part
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  Speaker 1: of the FaceTime group? They would love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: Contact Detective Daryl Caldwell by calling the Kenton County Emergency
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  Speaker 1: Communications Center, 859-356-3191 or the Ellesmere Police Department. Juvenile suspect
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  Speaker 1: has been charged with assault, second degree, for wantonly causing
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: serious physical injuries with a deadly weapon. Because suspects of juvenile,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: we don't have any further information. Kentucky law prohibits releasing
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of that information about juveniles. So get in touch with
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the authorities if you know anything about that one. More
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: juveniles in the news. Eight specifically arrested Saturday night after
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati police announced an increased presence in the Coryville area
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: this week after the big well, street closure that resulted
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: in a couple of police officers getting beat up. Cincinnati
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Police Captain Steve Bauer said they don't believe the juveniles
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: were tied to any sort of takeover at the time,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: despite the flyer that was making the rounds advertising the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: hood takeover part two. In advance of that, they announced
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: an increased presence, as the police did, in the area
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: near Short Vine and East Corrie Streets, including SWAT and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Civil Disturbance Response Team patrols. Now, while they were on patrol,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: officers came across a large group of juveniles acting unruly,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: made several curfew arrests. Captain Bauer, we had approximately 60
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: juveniles in the area that were being sort of disorderly,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and there's a special curfew in place that starts at
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: 9 p.m., Corrieville. So about 9.15, we responded up there
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and made eight curfew arrests in the area. Joe, do
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you think they were held? Think the revolving door hit
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the police on the butt? Anyway, Bauer said, we have
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: multiple resources in place prepared, and we want the young
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: adults to come out and enjoy and have a good time.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: But the violence and the destruction, we're just not going
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to tolerate. They maintained a presence in the area and,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of course, continued enforcing curfew. So eight arrested. One person
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: injured in a shooting over the Rhine happened on Saturday night,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: according to the Cincinnati Police. 1,400 block of Main Street
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: just after 10 p.m. One person injured. Two suspects involved.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Extended victims injuries not yet released by the time Fox
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: 19 reported this yesterday. Cincinnati Police closed the street after
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the shooting during the investigation. Hey, what was the over
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and under? Joe, was it three and a half from
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Bobby last Thursday? I think we did pass it, didn't we?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And he did take the over, as he always does,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: which you reminded me of. Oh, hey, look, that Signal
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: 99 post. Elections. You had tough-on-crime judges to choose from.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: You didn't. Or you just didn't show up. Anyway, Hamilton
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: County man previously convicted of inappropriately touching and stalking women.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Arrested last Thursday for allegedly abducting and raping, yes, a woman.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe we got an award to give out to Cameron Chambers,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: 34 years old, now facing a count of rape, one
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of abduction and one of kidnapping. Sharonville police called to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the Studio 6 Extended Stay Hotel, Houck Road. This happened
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: on November 5th, a report of a sexual assault. Victim
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: told police she and her boyfriend met a man, later
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: identified as this Chambers guy, earlier in the evening. When
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: she was outside the hotel smoking a cigarette, the suspect
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: approached her and asked if she wanted a ride to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the gas station to get more cigarettes. Victim said yes
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and got in his car. Affidavit alleges Chambers drove the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: woman to a nearby gas station that was closed. He
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: then drove her to a parking lot of a different
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: business where he allegedly locked the doors and began touching
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: her leg in a sexual way. According to the affidavit,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: she stated to him numerous times she has a boyfriend
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that she did not want him to be doing this.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Despite being told no a bunch of times, Chambers proceeded
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to assault her. Victim eventually escaped by climbing through an
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: open car window, ran back to the hotel. 34-year-old was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: convicted of criminal mischief in October of last year after
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: he brushed a woman's buttocks inappropriately several times. Whoops, whoops, whoops,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I keep doing it, whoops. Initially facing one kind of
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: sexual imposition, but pleaded down to criminal mischief, sentenced to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: community control. In September, he pleaded guilty to menacing by
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: stalking of it for an incident that happened in October
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of last year. According to the criminal complaint, he looked
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: through a woman's window after he was told several times
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to leave the property. Judge sentenced him to community control.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: In that case, too.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Community control.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: 535-55-KRC-Detox Station. Stick around. Stack is stupid. Come in your
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: way or your phone calls. Either way we go. Be
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: right back. This is 55-KRC. That's 540-55-KRC-Detox Station. Got to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: make it a happy Monday. 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK. Or pound 550
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: on AT & T. Real quick here. Good morning to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Cribbage Mike. I forgot to mention last week Mike did
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: beat the crap out of me in my Cribbage game.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: He's a veteran and he was on a submarine flight.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Fully six years underwater during his service to America's military.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: He just wanted to point out he was over at
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the Mohawk World War II Memorial and over the ride
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Judge and Army veteran Chris McDowell was there.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, Pastor Corey Bowman, delivered the invocation of benediction.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Mike chimes in. How much better Hamilton County and Cincinnati
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: would be with those two in office? Amen, brother. First
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of many veterans events this week. It is Veterans Day
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: coming up on Wednesday. We're going to have the Claremont
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: County Veterans talking about that at 7.05 here on the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: 55 KRC Morning Show. Good morning, Cribbage, Mike. Thank you
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: for your service to our country and pointing out the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: veterans events. Any more out there, please just give me
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a call. You or anybody else can mention what's going
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: on in and around the area. So salute to the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: American veteran. And without further ado, let's see what Corey's
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: got before we get to the stack of stupid. Corey,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: happy Monday to you. Thanks for calling in.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Morning, Brian.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just on a little side note, I don't know
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: if it's just the app or what, but every time
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: you go to break, a commercial breaks in while you're
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: still talking. But I don't know if that's just an
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: app issue.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Anyhow. I appreciate the heads up on that. And sadly,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: neither Joan or I have any control over the streaming realities.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: There's somebody out like in Zimbabwe or something that does
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that for the company.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: But anyway, with the supermajority still in Ohio, there's a
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Senate Bill 214, I believe it is. that's looking to
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: remove suppressors from the prohibited list. And there's also some
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: people wanting to add SBRs to that as well. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the Right to Carry Act in Ohio.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Added as well.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: And my understanding, Ohio representatives go on vacation this week.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So we only have basically today and tomorrow to get
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: anything passed. Your guess that you're going to have on later,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: if you can ask him about that Senate Bill 214
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: and adding those other things to it and the likelihood
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: of anything actually getting done.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I was just going to comment on that. I'm sorry. Corey,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: as much as I would love to see these bills advanced,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: being the Second Amendment guy I am and the fact
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that those laws that prohibit them are just flat-out stupid
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and unconstitutional from my perspective, I'm not optimistic. But I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: wrote it down.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: I'm not either.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: State Representative Adam Byrd. He'll be on at 830. I'll
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: see what he has to say about that. But, you know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: one of how many things you can come up with
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that they should get done before the supermajority is over with,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: at least the Republicans still maintain a majority post. What
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to call that last week? Bloodbath? Let's see. We go
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to Ann Kenney, Iowa, where two McDonald employees were injured
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: after a customer allegedly shot at them to the drive-thru window.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: 10.30 p.m. after a dispute over an order at the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: location on Southeast Delaware Avenue. In case you're in town
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: over in Ann County, one employee taken to the hospital
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: expected to survive after being shot in the arm. The
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: other one grazed by the bullet, didn't need to go
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to the hospital. Arrested, Hassan Mohamed.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Mohamed's 25 years old. He's from Des Moines. Facing two
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: counts of attempted murder, charged with two counts of intimidation
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: with a dangerous weapon, one count of willfully causing bottle injury.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: and one kind of willful injury causing serious injury. How
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: about that? Willful injury causing serious injury. Anyway, police say
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: neither employee knew this guy. Officers said they found the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: suspect in a nearby Wood Spring Suites where they ended
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: up taking him into custody without incident. Order mix-up. Well,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of course that deserves being shot. Who could argue with that?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: California man charged with murder after allegedly stabbing another man
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: to death when he found him in bed with his wife.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: What?
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Crime of passion. According to the Orange County District Attorney's Office,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Ismael Pindalopez, 34 years old, facing one felony count of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: murder and a sentencing enhancement for personally using a weapon
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: in connection with the death of 28-year-old Nicholas Garcia. Prosecutors
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: say Pindalopez. Pindalopez. I'll try. Uh-oh, returned home early from work.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: October 24th, discovered Garcia wearing only his underwear in bed
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: with his wife and the couple's two young children.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: What?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Vandalapet has confronted Garcia, stabbed him multiple times with a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: pocket knife. Anaheim police called to the home on North
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Pine Street. Officers found the victim's body in the bedroom.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Pindalop has shared with his wife and the couple's two-year-old
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: daughter and four-year-old son. Garcia pronounced dead at the scene.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Pindalop's wife and children, fortunately, were not injured. District Attorney
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Todd Spitzer stating the obvious, violence is never the answer.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Calling it heartbreaking that these two young children had to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: witness their dad commit such a horrific act of brutality
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: in their own home. He's facing a maximum sentence of
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: 20 years to life in prison, if convicted on all counts.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: Just walk away.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Probably a good idea, but If you catch your wife
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: in bed with another guy, you can walk away and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: still have the right to be pissed off about it.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Just a thought.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: 5KRC Detox Station.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's 550 at 55KRC Detox Station. Back over to the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Stack of Stupid. Westboro, Massachusetts. They just released some body
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: camera footage showing the, well, police officers finding Westboro Police
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Chief Tom Minardi is his name, in an unmarked cruiser
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: outside of a Shrewsbury liquor store with a bottle of
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: vodka in his hand. With another bottle nearby. Minardi, cited
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: for having an open container of alcohol in the vehicle,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't charged with operating under the influence because apparently the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: cruiser he was in was not running. Police were alerted
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to this after a business owner called 911 after seeing Minardi...
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: slumped in the vehicle for more than a day.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: What?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: In the video, the Shrewsbury police officers kept telling him
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: to keep his hands on the steering wheel as they
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: tried to determine whether he was all right. You've done
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: this long enough. I don't want to have to do
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: something bad today to keep him on the steering wheel.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: He apologized to the officer several times during the encounter
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and then did agree to go to the hospital. Surveillance
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: footage showed Minardi entering the liquor store on Wednesday and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: then again Thursday with his vehicle remaining in the parking
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: lot the entire time until the officers found him on Friday.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Apparently his wife had also called the authorities reporting missing.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Westboro officials placed him on administrative leave after the incident.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Town brought in an outside investigator to look into the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: whole thing and of course, The investigation continues. He was
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: appointed police chief three years ago. Okay. Here's one. Evansville, Indiana,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: where police say officials say a man is now facing
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a domestic battery firearm and child neglect charges. After police
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: say he passed... two children between balconies on the sixth
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: floor of the building while officers were trying to find him.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: According to the affidavit, officers showed up to a 911
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: hang-up call at the apartment building three to block of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. On Saturday, a woman told
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: dispatchers she and a man identified as Raphael Evans got
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: into a physical altercation. Officials say she told police Evans
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: hit her in the head while his two children were
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: there and then took her handgun without her permission. She
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: said she told officers... She never let him have the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: gun because he was a convicted felon. After officers showed
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: up to apprehend Evans, one officer reported seeing him pass
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the children across a gap between his balcony and a
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: neighboring apartment's balcony. Affidavit says the apartments were six floors
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: up and there was no safety net below them. Officers
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: also reported seeing Evans move between the balconies before entering
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the neighboring apartment. He later came out holding one of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the children and was taken to custody without incident. The
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: other child had already exited. Police searched the neighboring apartment
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: with the resident's permission and found the handgun. Both residents
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: told police they did not own the gun and don't
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: know how it got there. Evans told police the argument
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: with him and the woman was verbal and that she
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was the aggressor. He denied taking the gun and told
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: officers he could not possess firearms. Arrested for domestic battery,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: adult known presence of a child less than 16. Domestic battery,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: prior unrelated conviction for battery theft, firearm, possession of firearm
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: by a serious felon, possession of a firearm by domestic battery,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and neglect of a dependent. Partridge in a pear tree.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Let's see what Dick's got. Dick, welcome to the morning show.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you.
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: Hey, Brian. Good morning. This is almost a week since
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: the disaster of last week.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: And I was puzzled as to why. So I went
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: back and I looked at the voting totals across the
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: state and compared that to what happened in 2024. And
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: there's kind of some interesting things that I thought I'd
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: just share. According to what I found, there's like 7.6
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: million registered voters in Ohio as of now. And this
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: past Tuesday, 58% of them turned out to vote. Now,
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: that's pretty good. But if you compare that number to
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: what happened in 2024 when we were considering Trump and Harris,
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: 5.7 million turned out to vote in that. So that's
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: a significantly higher number. And in the comparison between 2024
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: president and 2024 Senate, when Brown lost— Reno, the numbers
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: were similar in the presidential race and the Senate race.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Well, since we're almost at it, we are out of time, Dick.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: What ultimately is your conclusion on this, or what do
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you find fall with? Here's the biggest deal.
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: In all six of these votes, all five of these votes,
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: including the voter ID, the variance of Democratic participants varied
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: by less than 5%. over those five votes cast. And
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: in comparing that to the Republicans, it's dramatically worse than that.
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: So they stick together and apparently we don't care, but
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: Houston got more votes than Ramaswamy did, which is pretty telling.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I agree with you completely. Question is, Why? That could
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: be the case. I just think that the people had
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: just really had their– want to wash their hands of
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. This is a rejection of Donald Trump vote
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: across the landscape, not a mandate for DSA wokeism. My
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: take anyway. Your calls are always welcome here. Maybe you've
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: got a different opinion. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. 556 right now. Be
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: right back. At the top of the hour, hear the–
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: It's 606 at 55KRC, the talk station. My name is
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, host of the 55KRC Morning Show. And I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: do appreciate guests on the morning show. Executive producer Joe
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Strecker is lined up. Claremont Caddy Veterans Service Commission at 7.05.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Veterans Day is on Wednesday. Lots of events going on
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: between now and then. And, of course, salute the American veteran.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: God bless each and every one of them. So that
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: will take place in one hour, followed by Christopher Smitherman,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: as we get him every Monday at 7.20 for the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Smith event. Monday, Monday. Ryan James out, but we'll get
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: all worth CFP Bob Sponsor taking his place, talking about
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: stock taking a big hit. At least after the delay,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: you had that bump up following the election. Then reality
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: set in. The stocks just fell through the toilet in
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the following day. So which direction are they going? What's
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: going to happen? Also, the economic outlook post-election. So we'll
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: talk to Bob about that at 8.05. Then State Representative
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Adam Byrd, Ohio's Republican supermajority will be no more. You've
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: got a lame duck session between now until the new
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: group gets sworn in still a majority but not a
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: veto proof majority so what's going to happen between now
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and the new uh congress being sworn in don't know
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: and we've got the same situation going on on a
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: national level in the federal uh with the democrats really
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: clobbering the republicans in case you get the memo on
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: that about last tuesday geez louise anyway uh tit for
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: tat with the Iranians. Donald Trump said yesterday, you heard
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: at the top of the hour news, it's unlikely, highly
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: unlikely it's going to be necessary for into kinetic activities beginning.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Although there has been some, some ships have been hit
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: here and there. I know the, I guess the Saudi
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: building in Riyadh, Aramco building got hit by a missile.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: That was the Houthis, if I recall correctly. But yes,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: there are still missiles being swapped. But insofar as the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: war ending, it just remains to be seen. But He
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: thinks that we're going to get an agreement, at least
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: at this brief moment in time. Iran has apparently submitted
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a nuclear proposal to Washington through Qatar. Senior Iranian officials
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: speaking with Reuters last Thursday talking about that and saying
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that the United States was reviewing it, but discussions would
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: depend upon Washington's first meeting with Tehran's seven demands. We
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: have a list of demands. You must meet them before
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: we move forward to talk about the nukes. Trump says
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: nukes first and foremost. And the relief, or rather the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: seven demands from the Iranians, and I don't see this
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: as going forward, sanctions relief, access to frozen assets, war reparations,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: are we going to concede on those before then moving
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: toward a discussion of nuclear energy or nuclear bomb production?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: So state of flux, it remains in. But Democrats are
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: talking about defunding the Iranian war and Republicans have a
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: short window of time. I guess it's 55 days to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: do a budget reconciliation package, which don't require 60 votes.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: The only opportunity they have left to, well, continue to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: fund this war because Democrats are looking at pairing Donald
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Trump's $ 1. 5 million defense, $ 1. 5 trillion defense spend by $ 350
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: billion or more.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: So their ideas, some Senate Democrats threatening to use the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: power of the purse to, well, cut off the funding
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: to the Pentagon. According to Chuckie Schumer, last week after
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the election, we are going to end the war. We
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: have some Republicans already who have joined us in ending
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the war, and the founding fathers had the power of
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the purse as one of the ways of deterring a
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: president who does war without the consent of the American people.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Staring down at a December 11th timeline to fund the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: government or suffer a shutdown. Which direction do you think
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: it's going to go? Now, of course, some Democrats, not
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: all of them, they're kind of divided on this, demand
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: an end of the war funding as part of any
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: agreement to keep the government funded. So just cut it off.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I guess that's, is that capitulation? I mean, nobody, I
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: wasn't a fan of going in there in the first place. Again,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going with the Constitution, the power of the purse
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: is in there as well. But, you know, the idea
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: of declaring war should have gotten some congressional involvement in that.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Perhaps we could have flushed through the ideas, maybe decided
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: what victory was going to look like, what we were
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: hoping was going to happen. So, yeah. But what is
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: defunding it going to do? Journal has an answer to that.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Voters who rebuke President Trump for his many excesses should
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: savor this week because politics in Washington aren't about getting
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: any more substantive or enlightening. First, Democratic big idea is
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to take government budget hostage to defund U.S. troops in
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the middle of a naval blockade in the Middle East.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Stopgap funding measure expires December 11th. Democrat Ro Khanna floated...
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: a continuing resolution prohibiting the financing of any combat activities
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: of the U.S. military in Iran. That's his idea, and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: it's in quotes. Chuckie Schumer told the press that his
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: members want to exploit the funding fight to, of course,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: force concessions on Iran.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: U.S.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Now has one political party and a faction of another,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: including Vice President J.D. Vance, openly telling America's enemies that
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we don't have the will to sustain so much as
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: a naval blockade. Now, here's where the challenge shows up.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: For someone like me who thought maybe it was a
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: bad idea to rush on into this, but now that
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: you're in it, do you just walk away? Think of
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: how complicated that would be. The Iranians, it would be
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: giving the Iranians an outright victory. We defeated the United States.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: They turned tail, packed up their stuff, and left. That's
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: really what's unfolding before our very eyes. Anyway, Democrats think
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: they have a mandate to end the war. No matter
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the details, but voters can recognize defeat. That's what's driving
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: the U.S. from the Strait of Hormuz at the current
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: moment would be. Ask the mullahs if they'll allow oil
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to move. Democrats can expect to then co-own the war's
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: unpopularity under the surrender strategy. I think that's a good observation.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to quit. Meanwhile, Pentagon's been running on a
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: war budget that didn't account for weeks of strikes and
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: months-long blockade. Republican Appropriate Senator Susan Collins has warned of
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: near-term solvency challenges in the U.S.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: Forces.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Pentagon's high fixed costs mean it may have to cannibalize exercises,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: flying hours, maintenance, and other things like that in order
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: to meet the demands of the war. Republicans had better
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: get moving with a lame duck reconciliation bill that gives
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: defense enough funding to survive democratic intransigence. Pentagon facing two
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: nuclear adversaries and a major technological evolution in warfare, and
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the department doesn't know whether its budget next year is
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: roughly $ 840 billion dollars. $ 1. 5 trillion, which is the president's proposal,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: or somewhere in between. Also unknown? When the money is arriving.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Sparris lectures about inefficient defense spending as long as Congress
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: operates this way. Well, that's true. The public isn't hearing
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: much about it, but America's naval commanders are working to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: defend the profound U.S. interest in freedom of the seas,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: moving oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. Aware that
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: any mistake could cascade into a political mess at home,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: the technical skill and courage is remarkable. Props to the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: American military. Democrats could denounce the war on the campaign
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: trail without responsibility. But now they have to govern in
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Congress and their immediate promises to pull the plug on U.S.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Commander Adam Bradley Cooper in the Middle East would be
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a disreputable start. I suppose so. So what is the solution?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: What would you prefer our elected officials do? See this
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: thing through, maybe keep the blockade in place, keeping the
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: economic pressure on the Iranians. Iranians also threaten to hit
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: targets far and away beyond the region. I kept they
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: had missiles that had to lock in at maximum of
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: 2,000 mile range. Apparently, they're going to be making missiles
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: that go farther than that. What that means to us,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know. What they plan on using them for,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But apparently any target that even remotely
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: has a connection with the United States is being hit.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Our military bases in the entire region have suffered billions
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: of dollars in damage. And our friendly neighbors in the area,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: including the Saudis, sort of friendly, are getting attacked as well.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know if there are any easy answers, but
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: welcome to having ownership of the problem, my Democrat friends.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: 55 days and it's all yours. How it's going to
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: look frightens the hell out of me. 615-55-KRC, the talk station.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe 5KRC, the talk station. That's 619-55-KRC, the talk station. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: That's some frightening figures coming out after this election. And
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I know we're still reeling from it. I get it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: But as I look over in Europe and you see
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the chaos in the street, Paris being burned to the ground,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: everything that's going on in the United Kingdom, which is
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: that slow, steady creep and erosion of British culture, which
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: has left huge swaths of the United Kingdom, well, not
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: looking like the way it used to a long time ago.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: And this is kind of the direction here in the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: United States of America. Now, the Muslims took over London
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: a long, long time ago. A huge Arab population there. And,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: of course, numbers mean consequences for election. If you have
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a huge Arab population, they're likely going to vote in
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: one of their Arab brothers or sisters. That makes perfect sense.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: It's the reality of it. But that it's happening here,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Population shifts have consequences. Four of the top
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: 20 biggest cities in America now have socialist mayors. Socialist.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Trump said it a while back because when you tell
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: people free medical, free education, no more student loans, all
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: the different things you say free, it's a great thing
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: to campaign on. But then down the road, it doesn't
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: get you anywhere. He said the country's down the tubes.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: It means the country is not going to be able
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: to afford it. This is the thing that I go
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: back to in the economic reality of socialism. Nobody ever
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: bothers asking the socialists how in God's name they're planning
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: on affording all the stuff that they promised you for
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: free and that we are so easily duped by promises
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: of free things. No, you're not going to pay for it.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Someone over there is. You know, it's simple math. Simple math.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: How much will Medicare for All cost? Ask anyone. The
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: range is huge in terms of the potential cost for it,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: but I think one of the lowest figures you get
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: is like $ 40 trillion over 10 years. Can someone have
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: a socialist explain how we're going to pay for that?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: There aren't enough dollars in the billionaire's pockets that pay
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: for this. Let's just get over that notion. Go ahead.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Hate them all day long for their success, but You
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: can tap into whatever money they've got, and it will disappear,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: never to give you money again. You ever hear of
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the story of the goose that laid the golden egg?
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: This is exactly what they'd be talking about. It doesn't
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: work out. Hell, Gavin Newsom's begging Californians to vote no
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: on the billionaire's tax.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Well, because he knows it, as everybody else has seen it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: If you tax people into submission and they have someplace
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: else to go, they're going to leave, probably to rule
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood that they moved to, as we've observed recently,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: but they're going to leave nonetheless. It doesn't work. 1.14
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: million people now governed under socialists. You got the democratic
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: socialist Nithya Raman beating the awesome governor or the awesome
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: mayor that was Karen Bass. See, there's something that illustrates
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: what it's like living in a Democrat city, the frustration
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the voters get with the lack of choices. Now, sure,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: they're all going to vote Democrat, but here you go.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: You got Karen Bass, who has just epically failed everyone
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. She's the fire mayor, right? Hey, where
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: is she anyway? Now, she's not in town. Hey, why
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: is that reservoir empty? Okay. So you had that absolute
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: disaster running for re-election, then enter socialist Nithya Rama. That's
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: all you got. Because ranked choice voting, it's amazing what
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: that'll do. We don't need any Republicans in the fight.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: We're going to give you two crappy choices, a socialist
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: or the failed Karen Bass. Let's see here. Janice Lewis
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: George won the Washington, D.C. race, socialist. And then, of course,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: you pivot over and you already have a period of
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: time with New York Mayor Mom Dommy. How well has
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: that worked out? Has he delivered on the promises that
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: he made, speaking of free stuff and things that he
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: chose to run on? Where are the free buses? Where's
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: the grocery store? Yeah, where's affordable housing? It's easy to
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: run on, but you can't deliver on it. And you
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: just go ahead and blame evil orange men or somebody
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: else over on the Republican side of the ledger. I'm sorry,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: New York, you don't have any Republicans to blame anymore.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Your entire state's blue. It has been. You've been running
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: as a blue city forever now, probably longer than the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. Well, maybe no, not.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: But still.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: They don't have scapegoats. Wait for it. It's not going
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: to be pretty. And then maybe the Democrats will overread
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: this and they will all go full-on woke socialist, which
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: is certainly not what any of the exit polling shows
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: that we actually wanted. 625, 55KRC, the talk station. Oh, station.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: It's 629 at 55KRC, the talk station. Good morning to
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: my wife. Over at CVG, she's got to be out
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: of town for a few days. I've got bachelor week
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: ahead of me, and she is dreading having to go
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: out to this legal trip she's got to go on.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I'll miss you, hon. You'll be back soon enough. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: pound 550 on AT & T phones. Got local stories.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: No phone calls this morning. What's going on? Don't you
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: like me? Person injured shooting over the Rhine. Oh, look,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: shooting it over the Rhine. That never happens. No, this
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: one happened Saturday night. According to Cincinnati Police Department, 1,400
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: block of Main Street just after 10 p.m. They responded,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: finding a person injured and that actually two suspects were involved.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Instead of the victim's injuries not released, Cincinnati Police closed
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the street at the time and investigated. So moving toward
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: the over on Bobby's Thursday over and on the prediction
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: of 3.5 last week. Saturday night, eight juveniles were arrested.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Police had previously announced an increased presence in the Corrieville
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: area because the prior week we had Hood Takeover, I guess,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Volume 1, and then the circular went around, but Hood
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Takeover Part 2. Great. Since I policed Cabin Stephen Bower,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: so they don't believe the juveniles were tied to any
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: sort of takeover in spite of the flyer being circulated.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Since I policed announced their increased presence in the area
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: near Short Vine and East Corrie Street, which included SWAT
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: and Civil Disturbance Response Team patrols, Officers came across a
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: large group of juveniles acting unruly and made those curfew arrests.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: According to Captain Bauer, we had approximately 60 juveniles in
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: the area that were being sort of disorderly, and there's
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: a special curfew in places that starts at 9 p.m., Coryville.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: So at approximately 9.15, we responded up there and made
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: eight curfew arrests. Police said additional presence was helpful in
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: addressing the disorderly behavior. Bauer said, We had multiple resources
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: in place. We were prepared. And we want the young
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: adults to come out and enjoy and have a good time.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: But the violence and the destruction, we're just not going
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: to tolerate. Well, amen to that. At least the police
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: aren't going to tolerate it. The voters in the Hamilton
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: County are more than willing to tolerate it by voting
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: for all those leftist judges. At some point, the police
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: are just going to pack it up and leave. Ellesmere, Kentucky.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Ellesmere police say a 17-year-old boy was taken to UC
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Medical Center after suffering a single gunshot wound to the head.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Happened on Saturday. Police have identified the shooter as another
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: juvenile who was acquainted with the victim and apparently is
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: cooperating with the Ellesmere Police Department. According to the release,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: investigators believe the juveniles involved were showing a 9mm handgun
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: to others during a group FaceTime call when the shooting occurred.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Investigators working to identify the other people on the FaceTime call.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Shooting occurred on Garvey Avenue. Victim remains in critical condition. Anyone,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: if you have video of this shooting or are part
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: of the FaceTime group, call. Please give Detective Darrell Caldwell
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: a call. Kenton County Emergency Communications Center, 859-356-3191.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: 859-356-3191.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Alternatively, just call up the Ellesmere Police Department. Juvenile suspect
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: was charged with assault, second degree, for wantonly causing serious
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: physical injuries with a deadly weapon. As he's a juvenile,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: or she, don't know. No additional information is going to
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: be released. Kids playing around with firearms. When I let
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: off the local stories this morning, being the dog lover
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: I am, and salute to all those who work at
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: rescues since animal care Apparently was inundated last week. They
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: took in more than 100 dogs over one week. 38
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: were seized through active animal welfare investigations. They say they're
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: committed to making space for all the dogs, but we
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: are there in desperately need of you to be a
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: foster or rescue one and provide a forever home. They
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: need resources, donations. You know, they got a lot of
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: food they need now. So it's a lot of additional dogs.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Humane agents and dog wardens removed 14 dogs from one
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: property on Tuesday last. Then on Wednesday, they removed another
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: 10 from a different property. It's a historically busy month,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: according to the care folks. October is. More than 100
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: dogs coming in this week alone. The people there said
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: they need the fosters and the adopters urgently. We are
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: definitely at a critical capacity and in desperate need, they said,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: since they need animal care. Please, please help out. Hamilton
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: County man previously convicted for inappropriately touching and stalking women
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: arrested last Thursday for allegedly abducting and raping a woman.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Cameron Chambers, 34, facing one count each of rape, abduction,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and kidnapping. Sharonville police officers called to the Studio 6
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Extended Stay Hotel on Houck Road November 5th for report
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: of a sexual assault. Victim told police she and her
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: boyfriend met a man, this Chambers guy, earlier in the evening.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: and she was outside smoking a cigarette. He approached her
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and asked her if she wanted a ride to the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: gas station to get more cigarettes, and apparently she said
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: yes and got into his car. Chambers apparently drove the
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: woman to a nearby gas station that was closed and
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: then drove her to a parking lot of a different
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: business where he locked the doors and began touching her
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: leg in a sexual way. According to the affidavit, she
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: stated to him numerous times she has a boyfriend that
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: she did not want him to be doing this. In
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: spite of being told no multiple times, he proceeded to
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: assault her. Victim escaped, having to climb out through an
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: open car window, then ran back to the hotel. Chambers scheduled,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I guess, for last Friday arraignment. He was previously convicted
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: of criminal mischief in October of last year after he
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: brushed a woman's buttocks inappropriately several times. Initially facing one
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: kind of sexual imposition, he pleaded down to criminal mischief
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: and sentenced to community patrol. Oh, September. Last year, he
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to menacing by stalking for an incident that
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: happened in October of 2015. looking through a woman's window
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: after he was told several times to leave the property.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: What happened to him in that one? He was sentenced
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: to community control.
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: 635. 55 KRC, the talk station. KRC, the talk station.
• 56:22
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• 56:26
  Speaker 1: to call 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK. Look out 550 on AT &
• 56:27
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• 56:42
  Speaker 1: He's going to take cover for Brian James this morning
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: on For Money Monday. Talk about the economy outlook post-election
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: as well as the stock taking that big hit last week.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I was looking up this morning, maybe on the heels
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's statement that the attack on Iran is unlikely.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: as long as talks progress. I know the Iranians have
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: some sort of ideas about the talks progressing. Progressing won't
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: happen until a list of demands has been met, which
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: has always run headlong into Donald Trump's desires to get
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: this thing over with. But markets, Dow Jones futures up
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: a point. It's like 0.65 up for S & P 500.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: NASDAQ up 0.45, at least in terms of futures. So
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: positive direction indicated. And, oh, look, the price of gas down.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: U.S.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: National average price of gasoline below $ 4 for the first
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: time since August. GasBuddy reporting this yesterday. Average gasoline price $ 3.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: 99.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: And falling. Diesel prices, they say, poised to slip below
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: $ 6 per gallon soon, according to GasBuddy analyst Patrick DeHaan.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Decline seasonal due to oil prices dropping on optimism over
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: a possible deal. There it is. Gas prices typically decline
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: in the autumn and rise in the spring, so this
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: is a seasonal adjustment as well. So you've got two
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: factors maybe resulting in some relief for you and me
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: at the pump. Brent crude futures down 16% last week.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Of course, oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. Question
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: whether the Democrats are going to pull the plug on
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: any additional funding there, because at minimum, one might think
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: that the blockade is having some effect. They've got some
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: decision-making to do. So there's that. Fill them up while
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: you can, I suppose. Meanwhile, back in Ohio, Ken Blackwell
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: on the job. Now, we did pass the voter ID mandate. Remember,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: it was already part of state law. And what we
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: did over the last Tuesday, one thing that went right, 65%
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: of the vote went to pass Issue 3, which enshrines
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: the current law in the state of Ohio into Ohio's Constitution.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Looks like the vast majority of people like photo IDs.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Ken Blackwell is waving a warning. He says, look, way
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: more people voted to make votes. ID permanent than voted
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: for Alison Russo, the incoming Secretary of State. 640,000 more
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Ohioans voted to make an ID permanent than voted for her.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: Why is she claiming or threatening to dismantle a change
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: to the Constitution? Scott Wright, issue three, takes the photo
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: ID law. Ohio has used since 2023, writes it into
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: the state constitution. Voting in person means showing an unexpired
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Ohio driver's license or state ID, U.S. passport, or military
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: or veteran's ID. Changes nothing about how Ohio has voted
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: up until last Tuesday. Simply means no future group of
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: politicians can repeal voter ID without going back to the
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: voters first to change the constitution again. Russo, of course,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: voted against putting it on the ballot in the first
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: place as a member of the House. He voted no
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: on it again in the fall. And speaking with ABC6
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: in Columbus after the election, saying if questions arise about
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the amendment under state or federal law, she said the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Secretary of State has an obligation to challenge those questions
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: in court. She also said she expects some of those
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: questions to end up in front of judges and maybe
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: the Ohio Supreme Court. Well, and Ken Blackwell says, hey, man,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: those words carry real weight. Coming from the official who's
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: going to be running Ohio's elections.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Left-wing legal groups have spent years challenging ID laws in
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: courtrooms across the country and, of course, here in Ohio.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: The ACLU of Ohio campaigned hard against Issue 3. By
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: going against the voters, she said, Russo is inviting more
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: of those lawsuits to attack the constitutional amendment. She says
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: she sees possible legal problems with the amendment that you
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: and I just voted for. She says she worries about
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: how Issue 3 could affect early voting, mail-in voting, and
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: ballot drop boxes. Elections have consequences. So how can a
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: constitutional amendment that merely enshrines Ohio law on the books
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: be something that she wants to go after? Maybe she
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: views last Tuesday as a mandate. Did anyone vote to
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: get rid of photo ID when they voted last week?
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Did you vote blue for Amy Acton because you wanted
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: to get rid of photo ID or voted for Russo
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: for that same purpose? I really seriously doubt it. 645, 55KRC,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: the talk station, most notably, since 65 per se, about
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: the crime and violence over the weekend in downtown Cincinnati.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Money Monday with all-worse CFP, Bob Sponseller, about stocks taking
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: a big hit last week, but on the uptick this morning,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: at least in terms of futures. And what about the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: post-election economy? State Representative Adam Byrd, will the Ohio supermajority
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: currently held in the House and Senate do anything before
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: they lose the supermajority? He'll answer that question at 8.30.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: You can feel free to call in the meantime. I
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: guess Bobby didn't want to talk to me, huh? That's fine.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: I just pivot over to something that has absolutely nothing
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: to do with last week's election. Maybe that's a good thing.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Porn.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: I saw it over the Daily Caller. OnlyFans. If you're
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: not familiar with OnlyFans, it's described as a UK-based subscription
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: service platform used... almost exclusively for pornography and other not-safe-for-work contacts.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Subscribers pay monthly fee to access the general content, but
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: then they also pay a significant portion of subscriber spending
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: for pay-per-view personalized content and direct messaging. So you can
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: steer what the person that's an OnlyFans presenter does. Use
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: your imagination, but apparently a hell of a lot of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: people are using these. the United States, the largest market
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: for OnlyFans. Americans spend $ 4. 9 billion on the platform in
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: this year, 2026. $ 4. 9 billion, one single website. Apparently, people
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: in Portland, Oregon, dominate OnlyFans. The Portland, Oregon, greater metropolitan
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: area spent Just under $ 500, 000 per 10,000 adults on this
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: single website, far more than any other metro area in
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the world. But apparently we got a problem with it
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: As well.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: According to Max Anderson, CEO of a thing called OnlyFinder,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: which I guess sifts through the content on OnlyFans and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: allows you to get statistics. People in D.C. spend more
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: on OnlyFans content per capita than any of the 50
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: states in the United States alone. According to this report,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: the report does not present data related to the time
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: spent on OnlyFans. Anderson explained that the firm's internal finding
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: about pornography spending in the district to the DCNF. People
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: who work in DC are heavily using OnlyFans inside the
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: boundaries of the District of Columbia during the workday. And
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: then their usage drops off a cliff when they go
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: home to the suburbs at night.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: He said.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Data certainly supports that D.C. workers are heavily using OnlyFans
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: during the workday. Ah, your taxpayer dollars at work here.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Population of Washington, D.C. spent $ 277, 000- plus per 10,000 adults. Now,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: while Portland hasn't beat, but still. Around 23% of Washington, D.C.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: jobs are in the federal government. Federal workers, if you remember,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I can't believe this was 2017. Remember the report they
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: found that there were more than 100 federal workers watching
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: porn for up to six hours a day on their
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: office computers?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously the problem hasn't gotten any better. States that
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 24
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: presidential campaign spent about 13% more on OnlyFans per capita
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: than states that President Donald Trump won. That's funny. Top
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: 12 states per capita for OnlyFans spending were all Democrat-led states. And,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: pivoting over, shocking, literally no one. Over 90% of OnlyFans
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: spenders are men. Of course, at a time when men
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: purport feeling lonelier than ever, 90% of men consume pornography
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: at least once a month. And with figures in the
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: billions of dollars, I would argue it's probably a lot
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: more than that. Some commentator speaking to men generally was
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: along the lines of this, and I'm just paraphrasing. Get
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: out of the basement. Make a friend. Get a girl.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Get off the device. Put your social media down and
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: start participating in life. You got a mental health challenge
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: going on out there, and this is exacerbating all of this.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: So how about reentering the real world? measure your expectations
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: you consume and porn that much you might get an
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: appropriate perception about what women might want and what is
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: genuine real and what is uh normal versus abnormal and
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff what are you going to
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: do about it stick around because we're going to talk
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: we're going to celebrate the american hi it's ryan thomas
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: from the 55 kc morning show in studio look it's
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  Speaker 1: steve belzer from the clement county veteran services steve it's
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: always a pleasure to see you and Who's this character
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: you brought with you today?
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 10: The character is a great definition. Brian, I brought with
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 10: me Mr. Glenn, Glenn from Hamilton County, the executive director,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 10: Glenn Welling from Hamilton County Veterans Services.
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  Speaker 1: It's Veterans Day, and it's obviously so important. And, you know,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: I want to start by thanking you and everybody at
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: the Claremont County Veterans Service Commission for all the wonderful
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: services you provide to our deserving veterans. trying to make
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: their lives a little bit easier, you know, ironing over
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: the complications. You know, government websites aren't always, you know, user-friendly.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: You help them navigate the challenges, signing up.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 10: You're surprising me by this. What do you mean?
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Steve, so. Anyway, let's talk about this. From your perspective,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: from the Columbia County Veterans Services and as a veteran,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: your comments on Veterans Day, Steve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: What a great way to recognize a group of individuals who–
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 10: regardless of the reason, have elected to sign up to
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 10: defend their country. Regardless of the branch, regardless of the
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 10: mode of occupation, whether active reserve or guard, you still
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 10: sign on a dotted line knowing that you were going
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 10: to sacrifice your life, the potential existed, to lay down
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 10: for your country, for this wonderful country that we live in,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 10: and all the democracy that is available at our fingertips.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: I've always been impressed by someone's ability to literally sign
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: a piece of paper that might be signing their life away,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: and the reason they do it is service to their country.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like to be a fading concept, man.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 11: It does.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 10: And I've often wondered, in Israel, when I'm traveling and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 10: working with the IDF, there's a conscript force. And the
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 10: pride in that country, because of a conscript nation that
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 10: everybody is going to serve, and realize the value of
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 10: this land that we hold and the pride of a nation.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm quick to say, well, I'm glad we aren't
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: in a position where, like Israel is in, where you
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: literally are surrounded by people who want to eliminate you
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: from the face of the earth.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Well, it used to be that oceans kept us away
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: from foes like that. Like the Iranians have always been
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: halfway around the world, but with modern technology, internet connectivity...
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: sleeper cells the ability to do harm anywhere i mean
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: we are facing that.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 10: Kind of challenge certainly are certainly we are and i
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 10: i think most of our enemies know a frontal assault
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 10: from our beaches would not work right however from within
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 10: and the sleeper cells you mentioned.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: You could And from without, from a remote control location,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: hacking into computer systems, they could shut down our grid.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: That's why we need brave men and women to step
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: up to the challenge and continue down that. So what
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: are you going to do to say thank you for
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: your service? What should we be talking about on this
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: upcoming Veterans Day?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 10: You know, it is a Even in these days, for
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 10: the young men and women that are joining, it's a
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 10: different landscape than when I joined back in the 80s.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 10: Back in the 80s, we were still online, face-to-face, frontal assaults,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 10: coming in off flanks. But now it's an electronic war.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 10: It's peeking around corners. It's dropping out of the sky unheard, unseen.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 10: There is such a different landscape in how wars are
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 10: being fought these days that the intellectual psychosis of, I
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 10: went to war, but I stayed in Washington, D.C. I
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 10: stayed in Seattle, Washington, and I fought it from a
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 10: game console is so much different than Mr. Ken Williamson
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 10: over here on my right that was in the middle
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 10: of a jungle.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: And you.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 10: Couldn't see through it, right? So looking back through the centuries,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 10: that we've existed and how war has changed and evolved.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 10: And frankly, we'll continue.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Without question, we'll continue. Well, let's pivot over to the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: Claremont County Veterans Services Commission. Again, going back to the
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: services you offer, including travel. I've listened to your commercials
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: that you run on the 55K RC Morning Show as well.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: And you got some veterans that really enjoy being picked up,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: taken to their doctor's appointments. What a great service that is.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 10: You know, there's a... And Glenn will agree with me
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 10: because they have a transportation out of Hamilton County now
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 10: as well. But even this week, there was an individual
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 10: that rode with us. And it gives you... So in
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 10: the military, inspect what you expect. Senior leaders are always
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 10: walking amongst their troops. What's going on? Who's of a
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 10: different exposure? Why is Johnny looking a little different? Why
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 10: is this one limping over here? What's the result of this?
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 10: And so when they're coming into our vehicles going for rides...
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 10: I want my drivers to assess this veteran that you've
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 10: known for the past 10 years and what's right, what's wrong,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 10: what has changed, where can we help shore them up?
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: And it's- And broach the subject with them, maybe. Absolutely right.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 10: And so it was unique that one of my drivers
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 10: came to me even this week to say, hey, I
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 10: do need a passenger. I know him well, and something's
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 10: a little off. And we were able to reach out
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 10: to social workers and say, hey, ride with us. And
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 10: it's just that way of, shoring them up, but shoring
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 10: them up gently, right? It's not that I'm trying to
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 10: be invasive in their lives, but it's what we do
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 10: in the military. I've checked my left. I checked my right.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 10: I want to know that Glenn over here is okay,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 10: even though he's dressed like a hoodlum and that Lou
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 10: over here is, is okay.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 5: And Ken, right?
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 10: Ken's always dressed to the nines. He's dapper Ken. And
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 10: so if he were to come in slothfully looking and
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 10: hair straight up looking like Glenn over here, I was going.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: To say, if Ken came in looking like Glenn, he'd
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: be in commitment papers.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: So really, it's the great thing of what we get
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 10: to continue to do. Glenn's a retired E9 from the Navy,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 10: and it's almost ingrained in the fibers of our muscles
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 10: to know your people and look out for their welfare
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 10: and what's right, what's wrong, because this is what we're
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 10: going to do.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 6: And this is the one day out of the year
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 6: where we have that opportunity to do that, to focus
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 6: that entire day.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 11: On those that wrote that blank check.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: And it wasn't up until maybe two or three years
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 6: ago that anytime someone would thank me for my service,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 6: I felt very uncomfortable. And I didn't know why I
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: felt that way until it finally hit me. It was
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: because I'm the one that's thankful. Everything that I value
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 6: in life, from my family to my education, my career,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: and my lifelong friends, I owe to my.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 11: Decision to join the Navy back in 1979. My life
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 11: was on.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: The wrong path, and the Navy completely turned me around.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: I would venture to say I wouldn't even be sitting
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: here today had it not been for my time in
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: service and all that I learned and the tremendous mentorship
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: that I received that allowed me to bring out what
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: was ultimately I learned was inside of me, but that
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: I had no idea. And so for our veteran community,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: so many others have experienced that same thing. And so
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: you may think, Thank a veteran for their service. And
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 6: if you don't get necessarily the response that you might expect,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: just think about that as well. And oftentimes our veteran community,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: you know, we're a humble group of individuals. And we
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 6: chose to make that decision to serve for a higher purpose.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Well, and, you know, that's a beautiful sentiment and it's
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: quite revealing, man. And I'm glad you said it out
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: loud that way because I've never heard another veteran express
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: it and explain it that way. So appreciate that. But
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: that also kind of allows me to pivot over to
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: something that I've talked about with Steve many, many times. Veterans,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: they don't want to take away service from anybody else.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: They think there's a finite amount of benefits out there,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: and I don't need my VA benefits. Let some other
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: guy take it. I don't want to take away. They're
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: willing to continue that sacrifice, but that's an unnecessary sacrifice.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: It's there for them. I mean, tell them, Steve.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 10: Absolutely. We do. So in a federal budget world, If
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 10: you don't consume your budget, your budget's going to be
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 10: reduced by that which you didn't consume. And to my
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 10: veterans out there who want to delay accepting benefits so
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 10: that someone they feel may, which is a clause of possibility,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 10: may need them, you're only going to guarantee that it's
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 10: there for them if you're helping the VA consume that
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 10: which they've been given.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: Beautifully stated also.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 6: We experience this all the time. Veterans come in and
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 6: they're reluctant to apply for those benefits.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 11: And I just try to agree.
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  Speaker 6: We, the whole team at the office, emphasize that these
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: are the benefits that you earned. And in no way
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 6: are you taking those from any other veteran. Again, back
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 6: to the kind of the mindset of our veteran community
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 6: and one of self-sufficiency and not taking from others. But
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 6: you're not doing that. This is something that you've earned
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 6: and you deserve it.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: ClaremontCountyVeterans.com's website for the Claremont County Veterans Services. You can
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: see all of the services that are available for you,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: and it is a wealth of services. You're not taking
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: advantage of it. You are utilizing what has been prepared
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: for you. So enjoy those services, utilize them, and come
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: see us. And come see them, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And, Brian, to your point, if we're in the middle
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 10: of combat, I wouldn't say, no, I can't take more
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 10: ammo because Glenn might be.
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  Speaker 1: Out right now.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely no sense.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 10: Yes, I need ammo. Come here. Resupply us. And it's
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 10: the same way now. See it that way and be
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 10: outfitted so that you can.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Steve, it's always a pleasure having you in studio.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: And so it's good to see you, too.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Salute the American veteran Veterans Day. Slap them on the back.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Thank them for their service. And if they get a
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: humble look on their face and don't appear to be
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: overly gracious, you know exactly why that is.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 5: That is.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: A typical American veteran response. It's not that they don't
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: appreciate it, but just very humble. That's right. And very
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: happy that they served.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 10: Visit a Veterans Day parade this year.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: That's a great idea.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 10: Take your grandkids. Take your kids. Take yourself. Go visit
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 10: a Veterans Day parade and just show your appreciation because
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 10: the veterans will be there.
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  Speaker 5: Show up.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 10: Show out. Give them a clap.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: You'll get the same goosebumps I'm getting right now.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, brother.
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  Speaker 11: Just a thought of that.
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  Speaker 5: Amen.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: And thank you, gentlemen, for your service to our country
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: and your continued service to our country. ClaremontCountyVeterans.com. KRC, the
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: talk station. 720-55-KRC, the talk station. It being a Monday,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: it is that time of week. I get the benefit,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: we all get the benefit of Christopher Smithman, former vice
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: mayor of the city of Cincinnati. Christopher Smithman joins the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: program every week to vent his spleen, so we call
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: it the Smith event. Welcome back, Christopher. I really appreciate
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: you joining the show, especially on days like today when
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm firing on about half of my
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: available cylinders. Good to have you here, brother.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me on. Well, good news,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: I'm firing on all of them. Good. I'm honored to
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: pull you through for... for 40 minutes or so. First,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: let me start off and congratulate all those people who
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: were elected last Tuesday. I believe deeply in our country
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: and democracy and the outcome of our elections. That's what
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: makes our country special and great. You won't see me
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: out protesting or saying terrible things about elections. We had
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: the election, and the election is over. It's now time
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: for governing, and we're going to get a chance to see,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: when I say elections have consequences, what that governing looks like.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: I think the only pointed thing I'll say about the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: election is my disappointment on those who were registered to
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: vote in this show. I understand that. I mean, there's
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: so many sacrifices and so many reasons why an American
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: would get up and participate and not say they were
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: busy or too busy or they you know, there's an
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: entire month that people can show up and vote and vote.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: Hamilton County in particular, but across the entire state. And
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: what I find, Brian, in my spleen vent is those
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: are the people that complain the most, those who don't show.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: And so now something happens, they don't like it, and
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: they're holding the corner in a restaurant, in a bar,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: and they're just complaining. And if you pulled up their registration,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: it doesn't tell us who they voted for, but we
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: can tell because it's public information whether they participated in
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: the election or not. And so I share with people
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: that even when you don't participate, it's a vote. It's
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: a vote. It's a vote on an outcome that you
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: can't complain about or that you can't say you have
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: an opinion about. And so that's part of my spleen
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: vent this morning. Those who didn't vote, I'm disappointed. And
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: I hope that they change that in the next election
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: two years from now.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I saw Signal 99's post, and she obviously is very,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: very stressed about the outcome of the election, most notably
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: here in Hamilton County with the judicial votes. And she
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: pointed out, and I got to take her at her
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: word because she typically is very accurate, 44% of registered
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: voters in Hamilton County did not vote. 44%, which translates
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: to 270,958 votes. that were not cast at all.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. It's shocking. And based on the amount of advertising
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: about the midterm election, I think it's the most expensive. Oh. Right? Yeah.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to even say midterm. I'm saying most
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: expensive election in our history, you know, whether it was
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: presidential or not. So the money was spent, the advertising,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: whether it was billboards or whether it was literature that
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: people got in their mailboxes, if you were a registered voter,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: phone calls, text messages, radio, TV. I mean, you could
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: not miss that there was a midterm election, right? And
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: so I share with Signal 99 my frustration. Let me
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: give my love out to people like Jim Kiefer, right?
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: who has fought and continues to fight, spending a lot
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: of his time trying to educate and get people out
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: to participate in the political process. And if you don't
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: have people like Jim Kiefer holding the line, I don't
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: know what would happen to politics in Hamilton County. But
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: he really makes a difference, and there are lots of
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: people that are like him that fought very hard and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: it hurts them. It disappoints them greatly when you don't
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: get that kind of, when you get that kind of outcome,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: meaning so many people didn't show up and even take
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: the time to cast a vote. Yeah.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: I talked to Josh Gerth a day after, a matter
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: of fact, he was at Anderson pub for the listener
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: lunch and he, he took it personally. You could see
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: the look in his face and his comments. It just,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: just in, it was like shell shock look on his
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: face and took it very personally, but I know he
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: worked very hard to try to get people out, but
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: You know, I see people blaming Alex Chiantafilo in the
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: state of Ohio as well, but when I step back
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: from Ohio and look across the carnage, I can call
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: it for the rest of the country, at least for conservatism,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: it wasn't just Ohio. We weren't just an outlier. Very,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: very blue shift, but it happened all over the place.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of wondering where Blaine is properly laid on that,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: and all I can say is people didn't go to vote.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: Let's bring Christopher back. I know he's got more in
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: his mind. It's 726 right now. at 55KRC, the talk station.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: 730 at 55KRC, the talk station. We're on time with
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithervant, former vice mayor of the city of Cincinnati.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Smithervant is what we're doing right now. Christopher, you have
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: the mic, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Brother, I'm going to get in front of the mayor's
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: state of the city, and I think we're going to
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: hear his similar rhetoric that crime is down and that Crime,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: in his mind, is measured by the number of murders
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: that happen in our city, which is not true. And
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: so there are all types of crimes that are happening
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: across the city of Cincinnati, and some of those crimes
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: we know are not even being reported. So things like
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: breaking in on cars, or assaults, or robberies. or someone
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: is shot, but they didn't die. And so notice how
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: they never release the stats on ShotSpotter, which when I
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: was chair of law and public safety for the city
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati, I was instrumental with the rest of council
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: and the mayor in implementing ShotSpotter, which they now want
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: to get rid of. I understand why they want to
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: get rid of it, because it allows them to hide
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: information crime statistics. And so as you and I have spoken,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: when you discharge a weapon, that is a crime. And
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: that is happening all over parts of our 52 neighborhoods,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: which has people living in fear. These aren't firecrackers. You
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: and I know the difference when someone is discharging a weapon.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I guess I get why the
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: mayor continues to tell everybody that it's our perception that
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: But when you see OTR shots, you see the beatdown
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: that happened to one of our Cincinnati police officers Halloween
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: in the Clifton area. A man being a police officer
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: in uniform with a weapon being kicked in the head,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: punched in the face. He's on the ground. That shows
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: you what I think the Gotham City of Cincinnati, that
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: direction is. I've never seen anything like that, Brian Thomas, in.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 5: All of my years.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: You would never tell me that I would see an
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: officer down on the ground being videotaped by juveniles being
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: kicked and punched in the face. What does that mean
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: for everyday people that live in the city of Cincinnati
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: or those who want to visit? Meaning if you're willing
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: to punch a cop and beat him when he's on
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: the ground with a gun, It means that I'm not safe,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. I'm not safe. I knew when I was
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: a kid, if a uniformed officer walked up and said,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: young man, what are you doing here? I tell him
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: my name. I tell him what I'm doing there. This disrespect.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: But I don't even want to put beating up an
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: officer in that bucket. That's something that's at a whole
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: nother level. And these team takeovers that are happening across
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: the country, not just in the city of Cincinnati, Those
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: things will continue to accelerate. My point is, when I
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: hear the mayor continue to misinform the public about crime,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: it just saddens me because it just creates a feeling
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: of those who are living in places like Avondale, a
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: sense of despair because you're ultimately telling them what's going
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: on in their daily lives every day isn't true or
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: isn't accurate. That's not fair to those citizens that live
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: in Avondale to say, man, we had 50 shots this weekend. No,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: you really didn't. You know, that really didn't happen. Yeah,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: it did. I was laying on my floor in my
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: living room with all my children. We were all sleeping
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: on the floor because we were worried about being shot
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: through the window or through the door. So I'm very interested.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: I think many people will listen to the mayor's state
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: of the union, and I think he's going to continue
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: to push the narrative that all of us are safe,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: crime is down, we hire police officers, we're headed in
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: the right direction, and I just don't believe any of that.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: Well, do you think the Cincinnati Police Department itself believes
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: any of that? I mean, they're facing this type of
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: violence each and every day, and the memo's been out
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: for quite some time, morale in the Cincinnati Police Department,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: not exactly at its zenith, if you know what I mean.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: having a difficult time hiring officers, the contingency is down,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: more and more people are pursuing, not even going through drop,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: they're just quitting or taking a position at another police
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: force if they can find one. But him coming out
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: and saying that crime is down, I'm guessing another shot
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: against the Cincinnati Police Department who knows that that's just
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: an outright lie.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: That part that you brought there, and I don't know
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: if your listening audience appreciates your statement about drops, So
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: officers enter drop for eight years. And what Brian Thomas
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: is saying, that they're not finishing those eight years. They're
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: leaving in two or three. They're tired. And they're saying,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: it's not even worth the deferred compensation over those eight years.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 7: I'm out.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: I can go work for another organization, a private organization,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: whether that's the Reds, or whether that's the Bengals or
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: whether it's FC, whatever. I can go work for Western Southern.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: So they're not leaving the profession. They're just walking away
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: from being a Cincinnati police officer. So that is a
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: very important point, Brian, because you're talking about attrition. And
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: so even though we brought on 50 new officers, we
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: will lose 50 new officers or 50 old officers, excuse me,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: over the next year, just through attrition. Those officers will say,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: I can't take it. And you're right. every time the
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: mayor says crime is down, really what our cops are
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: dealing with on a daily basis, it just punches them
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: in the face. And let's not forget our fire department's
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: morale is also down. It's not just police, it's police
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: and fire. They don't see the mayor, they don't see
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: the city manager, and they are absolutely just heartbroken about
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: a profession that they love that has changed so much
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: since your sister even retired. And I thank her publicly
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: for her service to the Cincinnati Police Department.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate that. Shout out to my sister. Don't
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: go away. More with Christopher Smitherman. It's 736 right now. 55KRC,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: the talk station.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: 740.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: On a Monday, we'll continue the conversation with Christopher Smitherman.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: During the Smith event this Monday, we got Money Monday
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour. And then
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: State Representative Adam Bird is going to show up at
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: 830 to talk about the Well, the waning days of
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: the supermajority here in Ohio with the House and Senate
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: numbers changing after the election, what are they going to
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: get done before the new Democrats are sworn in? In
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: the meantime, Christopher Smitherman, let's talk further. What else is
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: on your mind?
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: Brother, Chief Washington, and I'm going to continue to talk
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: about his case, is so explosive right now. And you're
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: not going to hear a lot about it until the city...
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: has to issue a judgment bond. This is what you
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: do in order to pay for litigation. And so the conference,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: meaning now that the appellate court 19-0 smacked down the city,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: it goes back to Judge Cole. And it's my understanding
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: that they have their first conference today. And so the lawyers,
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: your lawyer, your beautiful wife is a lawyer. Everybody's going
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: to huddle up today back to Judge Cole. The city's
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: been appealing every decision that he's made and every decision
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: Judge Cole has communicated to the city has been upheld.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: So now they've got to go back to daddy today.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: And they've got to tell daddy you were right the
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: whole time. And every decision that you made, and those
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: decisions go like this. Chief Washington was wrongfully terminated. That
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: the city manager failed to listen to her legal counsel.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: And she absolutely lied. Now, that is what the appellate
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: court has said. It has now been upheld. And the
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: only thing for the city to do is appeal this
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: case to the Supreme Court, which, by the way, they're
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: not going to ever hear from a city manager who
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: refused to listen to her own legal counsel and who
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: in writing from the court said, you didn't tell the truth.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: So now what's going to happen? Well, the city, Brian,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: has to make the decision on whether they're going to
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: go to trial or not. The trial is not on
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: the facts of the case, meaning the trial is not
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: about whether Chief Washington was wrongfully terminated. The trial is
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: about punitive damages. It's about what are you going to pay?
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: And so we're talking about $ 10 million settlement if they
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: put 12 in the box, Brian Thomas. We're probably talking
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: 30 million. So the city better buckle up, because imagine
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: if they take the court through the exercise of all
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: the disrespect of all of the appeals they've made on
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: all this silliness. And and and the chief Washington's lawyers
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: come in with a reasonable request. They reject that reasonable
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: request and say, no, we're going to put 12 in
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: the box. And the 12 in the box here from
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: the city manager on the stand that she didn't tell
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: the truth, that it was already a wrongful termination, what
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: are they going to say? The 12 in the box
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: are going to say guilty. And I would guarantee you
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: that that judge is going to uphold a massive settlement
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: in order to teach the city a lesson. You cannot
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: do this ever again. So we're talking $ 10 to $ 30 million.
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  Speaker 2: And right behind that litigation is Chief Fiji. is the
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: police department. And if people don't understand union lingo, it's
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: called the Me Too clause. Look for Chief Fiji to say,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: Me Too. If you're going to give him $ 10 million,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for $ 10 million for wrongful termination. So these
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: are terrible decisions that taxpayers are going to have to
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: fit this bill. And I'm letting you know that you
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: won't hear one word of this from the mayor today
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: in a State of the Union address the amount of litigation,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: the amounts that are facing, because guess what they want
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: to do? Continue to kick it down the road until
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: they're out of office and leave this mess to the
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: next mayor and the next council to resolve.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: Well, I doubt that they have enough time to do that.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, it seems to me at this point, at
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: least insofar as Washington is concerned, they're on the way
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: to having this thing resolved in at least fairly short
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: order in the legal system.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree if a trial is set, look, dude,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: this is your area. I hear this word, continuance, continuance, continuance.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: I hope Judge Cole has a very short wick with
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: the city today. Saddle up or saddle up. We're going
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: to trial, and I'd like to see a trial before Christmas.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: I'd like everybody to be brought in over the holidays,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: put 12 in the box, let's get this thing over
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  Speaker 2: and get a settlement. Guarantee you if that settlement is
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: $ 30 million, the city will appeal it, but they're going
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: to have to escrow those dollars through that appeal.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: You mean a jury award? You mean a jury award
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: of $ 30 million?
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. That's right. If they put 12 in the box,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: I believe a jury is going to come back with
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: a massive. Because remember, they have ruined this man's reputation.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you go out online and you see
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: the things that were said, he has applied for at
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: least 21 jobs, and he hasn't gotten any of those
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: jobs based on what the city manager and what the
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: city said in those fresh releases. So you've ruined his
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: reputation on his ability to get a job. That's the
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: big number. The big number isn't his pension, his drop,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: all of that. It's what are the punitive damages.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: Well, he'll be, I presume, well taken care of financially.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: Chief Washington isn't interested in getting the chief role back.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: Isn't Police Chief Fiji interested in being returned to police chief?
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: You're right. Chief Washington is not interested in being the
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: police chief. I mean, the fire chief. Excuse me, the
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: fire chief. He's going to be an excellent fire chief.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: He will be hired at some point. You are right
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: that Chief Fiji, at least through the administrative hearing, is
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: posturing that she'd like the job back. That's why you
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: can't get rid of the interim. It's why you can't
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: do a national search, because you're right in the middle
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: of an administrative hearing, which is the administrative hearing they
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: failed to give Chief Washington. So they learned from that,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. And so now they're going through the motions
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: of the administrative hearing. I believe the city is going
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: to decline. that we don't want you back. And then
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: you'll see Chief Fiji file a lawsuit against the city
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati for wrongful termination. And I don't know how
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: that's going to all play out. And I agree with
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: you sometime next year, most likely Chief Washington's case will
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: be resolved. I just want taxpayers to understand this money
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: is coming directly out of our pocket. What is most
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: interesting about the Chief Washington case, I've never seen it before.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: The courts have said, that the city manager can be
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: sued personally. So I've never seen that before, and I
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: don't know how that's all going to play out, but
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: I would tell you if I was a member of council,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: I would ask the city manager, you're going to have
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: to get your own lawyer going forward here. We're not
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: going to cover you here because what the courts have
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: said is you acted outside of your job. And so
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: the taxpayers are not responsible for providing a lawyer for
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: the city manager. She's going to ask for one. Probably
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: this weak city council and weak mayor will probably hold
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: their hand and provide a lawyer for her, which I
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: think is even illegal. But I think they will absolutely
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: do that because corruption in government is still very real,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: It is, indeed. And before we part, company, Christopher Smitherman,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: since you used to be the vice mayor of the
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati, and you already referred to the request
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: that they would need to do to get legal fees,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: who has the authority to enter into a settlement at
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: any given level? I mean, who approves, okay, let's say
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: they sit down and Washington's willing to accept, oh, pick
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: a number, $ 10 million to settle it without having to
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: go to trial. Who has to provide the authority for
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: that settlement amount?
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: The city solicitor's office has the ability to settle documents.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: But in a case like this, the protocol is that
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: city council takes a vote on it because you're going
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: to have to issue judgment bonds. I remember in the
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: last budget they moved $ 9 million over for settlements. That's
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: not going to be enough. But at the end of
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: the day, when you have to issue those judgment bonds,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: meaning counsel has to vote on that because you're issuing debt.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: So whether it's an agreement on the settlement itself, Brian Thomas,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: or whether it's the issuance of the debt in order
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: to pay Chief Washington, because what I think also happens
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: in these cases is his lawyer's, meaning Chief Washington's lawyer's
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: Not only will they be compensated for the litigation, but
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: they're also going to submit their legal fees. And I
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: don't know what those legal fees are going to be.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: But on top of all of that, his lawyers are
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: going to get their legal fees reimbursed. So this is
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: going to be a massive, massive, massive settlement. And I
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: want the public not to blame Chief Washington. because if
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: they take this thing to the Supreme Court, I don't
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: know what those legal fees are going to ultimately be.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: Are they going to be $ 1 million, $ 2 million, $ 3 million?
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're the lawyer. I don't know. But I
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: just know that sounds very, very expensive to me. It is.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of dollars easily. Well, Christopher, popcorn's been
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: out for a long time on this one, and let's
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: hope it gets promptly resolved. And I'm very interested in
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: seeing if and how much Cheryl Long is personally responsible
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: for in this.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and me too, Brian Thomas. And people can follow
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: me at Vote Smitherman, of course. I will continue to
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: listen to your morning show. I want to thank you, Brian,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: for all of the wonderful work you did in this
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: last election with providing information to voters. I'm serious, dude.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, I listen to your show. I wake up
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: because I get to hear from the candidates themselves. So
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: many debates didn't happen. So the only place I could
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: get that kind of information was your show. Kudos to
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: you and thank you so much for everything you did.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: I wish it mattered more, Christopher, but I certainly appreciate it.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: I'll keep fighting. I promise you that. And I know
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: you will, too. 7.51 right now, 55KRCD Talk Station. Don't
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: go away. We've got Monday, Monday coming up, top of
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  Speaker 1: the hour news and state representative. Potato 5 at 55KRCD
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: Talk Station. Brian Thomas wishing everyone a very happy Monday.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Try to make it so anyway. We're talking with State
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: Representative Adam Burr at the bottom of the hour about
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: losing the supermajority in Ohio but still controlling the House
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: and Senate. What can they get accomplished before acting as governor?
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, though, Brian James out. He normally does
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: Money Monday. He's a financial planner with Allworth. financial, but
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: taking his place today. Welcome to the 55KRC Morning Show,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: Certified Financial Planner, Bob Sponseller. It's great having you on today, Bob.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: Good to see you as well. Great to be with you, Brian.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you. Phone ringing off the hook. We
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: talk about it with Brian all the time. You got
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: to be a hand holder as a financial planner. You
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: got to keep people from jumping off the ledge, stop
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: people from making really stupid mistakes. It's a challenging time
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: when the market drops precipitously. I just want to get
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: your reaction to Wednesday, I mean, we knew at the
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: result of the election, but Wednesday the markets went up,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: and that kind of surprised me. And then, no, it
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: all hits the fan on Thursday. Did it take the
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: markets that long to sort of judge the scope of
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: the Democrats' win, Bob? Or what's your response?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll try to keep politics out of it and
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 4: just do my best to call balls and strikes here, Brian,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 4: which is what I always try to do. But I think— Wednesday,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 4: the market does not like uncertainty. And any time you
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 4: go into an election, that's uncertainty. And I think we
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 4: got a little bit of a reprieve in the markets
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 4: on Wednesday because everybody took a big exhale and said,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 4: all right, I'm not getting text messages every 30 seconds
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 4: on my phone. I'm done with all these crazy TV ads.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 4: The election's over. We finally know what we're going to get.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 4: Life's going to move on. The market took a big exhale.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 4: And we had a nice up day. Now, then reality
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 4: started to hit. On Thursday, it takes all these money managers,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 4: portfolio managers, a little time to kind of sift the
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 4: wheat from the chaff here and say, what is this
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 4: actually going to mean for specific sectors of the markets?
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 4: And as we all know, Thursday was a pretty ugly day.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: Getting down to specifics, you know, the overall S & P.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 5: 500 fell about four and a half percent. But the real.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 4: Damage was done in that semiconductor index, which fell the
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 4: big semiconductor stocks, the chip stocks, the Dells, the Microns,
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 4: all those household names that have been on a tear, AMD, NVIDIA, Broadcom, Micron.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 5: That index, Brian, fell 12.2%. in one day.
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  Speaker 4: And I think this is all about data centers. We
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 4: had 41 ballot measures across the country in different states
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 4: on Tuesday, 21 of which.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 5: Were in the state of Ohio.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 4: And Brian, 40 of the 41 data center ballot measures
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 4: went down to defeat. So, you know, the best sense
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 4: I can make of this, the best analogy I can
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 4: give you is let's say you and I have season
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 4: tickets to Ohio State football. We're going to jump in
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 4: the car every Saturday morning and head up to Columbus
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 4: to watch football. And we know that the speed limit
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 4: on 71 is 70 miles an hour. I think after
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 4: these elections on Tuesday, the speed limit just dropped to
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: maybe 45 to 50.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 5: Miles an hour. We're still going to get to Columbus.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 4: We're still going to get to watch football. We're still
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 4: going to have data centers built. But the speed at
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 4: which those data centers are going to get built, I
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: think it's safe to say, are going to slow down
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 4: a little bit. And I think that's what happened to
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 4: the markets on Thursday. We got a little bit of
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 4: a bounce on Friday back up. Futures this morning are up.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 4: So I think everybody is starting to settle down a
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 4: little bit and realize that this is not Armageddon. But
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 4: the speed of this AI build out is going to
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 4: be a little bit slower and a little more deliberate
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 4: than people may have priced into the market.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: Well, reading tea leaf leaves, I personally got the impression
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: that it wasn't so much that the data centers were
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: noisy or use power, especially if you have both Republicans
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: and Democrats arguing that, well, no, we're going to require
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: them to bring the power. So if you take that
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: power consumption element out and higher energy bills out of
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: the equation, at least theoretically, there's nothing to worry about there.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: I think most of the water issues were really truly
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: resolved and not a problem based on closed loop systems.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: So This to me is people's, I think, generally freaking
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: out and quite rightfully so about what artificial intelligence does.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: But Bob, my position has all along been artificial intelligence
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: and what it does is not going away ever. And
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: that the control of it needs to be in our
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: United States hands versus obviously our biggest competitor in the
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: AI world is the Chinese Communist Party. But We're going
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: to have to get our hands around it. People who
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: are concerned about what it can do. Do you want
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: a regulatory environment brought to you by the United States?
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: You want one brought to you by the Chinese?
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 5: We got to have amen.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: So that's right.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 4: This stuff's either going to get built here or it's
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 4: going to get built in China. And these things are
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 4: going to get built. But I think, you know, and again,
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to stay as neutral here politically as possible.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 4: But the Democratic Party did a wonderful job of messaging
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: on this topic and And I would say these large
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 4: tech companies and the Republican Party did a horrible job
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 4: of messaging. I mean, just go up the road to Trenton, Ohio.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, Brian, that was an 80-20 vote up there
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: to reject that data center. Obviously, those people up there
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 4: did not feel good about it because people did not
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 4: communicate effectively with them. And I think that's what you're
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 4: going to see change over the next 6, 12, 18 months.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 5: It's going to get done.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 4: But these folks are going to have to go in
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 4: there and tell local citizens, and Brian, I am a
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 4: big state and local government guy. I love local government,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: local people getting together and deciding what they want and
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 4: don't want. I think we need to tune out all
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 4: this noise and hearings and pontificating from these federal government officials.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 5: These are state and local issues.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 4: And I think the Amazons of the world are going
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 4: to have to go in there and sit down with
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 4: the local people and make it worth their while to
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 4: build one of these things in their community.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 5: And I think they will.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: I agree with you completely. It's just going to be
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: a little slower process, which is, I concede your point
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: on that. It's pretty obvious it's going to be a
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: slowdown in the processes here, which may be a good
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: thing overall, as long as people don't try to bring
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: it to a screeching halt, because I can't see that happening.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: Anything else? I mean, you mentioned, I think, when Trump
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: utters anything relative to the situation with the Iran's, I mean,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: he can say we're going to bomb tomorrow or we're no,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: it looks like we're going to enter into an agreement,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: which is the most recent pronouncement. Doesn't look like he's
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: going to be dropping bombs. The markets do react to that,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: whether it's right or wrong. The price of oil down
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit at the price of the pump, according
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: to gas buddy is now under $ 4, which is a
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: welcome relief. How long it lasts, how much is the
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: energy sector involved in the market fluctuations from last week?
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: And where do you see it going forward?
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, diesel fuel, the price of diesel fuel
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 4: matters a lot. And I think we're all used to
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 4: President Trump going on there and saying, yeah, I might
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 4: bomb them tomorrow.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 5: I might not. We have a deal.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 4: You know, they want to make a deal and then
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 4: they don't want to make a deal. I think the
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 4: American public is used to that. I also think they're
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 4: tired of that. We've got to get diesel oil prices down.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 4: Roughly 60% of all goods that ordinary citizens buy every
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 4: day travel by truck, which require diesel fuel.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 5: We got to get that price down.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: We got to get that.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 4: Blockade in the Strait of Hormuz settled, and we got
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 4: to get refined diesel fuel flowing again. Your guess is
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 4: as good as mine is when that's going to happen.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 4: But broadly speaking, people are tired of inflation. You know,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 4: President Trump in his first term, you know, did a
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 4: great job of making life better from a cost of
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: living standpoint for everyday Americans. And he was rewarded for that.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 4: You know, during the first two years of this administration,
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 4: he came in promising that he would bring us off
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 4: of this 20 plus accumulated inflation under the last administration.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 4: And Brian, obviously, it hasn't happened yet. And the voters
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 4: responded in kind last week.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: And overwhelmingly so. And I guess I understand it on
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of levels. We can all draw our own
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: conclusions why he got such a thorough drubbing but um
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: i i guess the the response is well wait a
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: second everybody wants things more affordable donald trump said he
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: would bring prices down and make them more affordable uh
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: next act is democrats delivering on their promise to deliver
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  Speaker 1: affordability i've always viewed that as an impossible task there
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: are so many forces out in the world they have
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: an impact on inflation or affordability how can any political
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: party or one person change the dynamic Well, that's what's
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: going to be interesting in 2027.
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  Speaker 4: You could talk about bringing prices down. And again, Brian,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 4: you're baiting me here. And I'm probably going to swallow
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 4: the bait. The thing that Democrats like to do is
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 4: spend money. That's what they're good at doing. And when
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 4: the government spends money, inflation tends.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 5: To go up, not down.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: So it's going to be very interesting to see how affordability,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 4: in quotes, is going to become a thing next year.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 4: I think it's all going to be tied to when
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 4: we get the price of energy down. And President Trump
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 4: and his administration is still running the show in terms,
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 4: you know, like it or not, in terms of this
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: conflict with Iran. I think that's going to be the
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 4: real wild card here, because if you take away energy prices,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 4: inflation really is fairly tame and getting a little bit
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 4: better in most sectors of the economy. We just got
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 4: to get this diesel fuel down. And again, your guess
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 4: is as good as mine as to when that happens.
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  Speaker 1: What's the likelihood that we build a new refinery, Bob?
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: You can hear the tone of my voice.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 4: We haven't had a high capacity refinery built in this country, Brian,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 4: correct me.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 5: If I'm wrong, since 1977. Yeah. And I think that's the.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 4: Irony here is everybody complaining about the price of gas.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 4: Politicians included, these are the same people that did not
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 4: want any refineries built. They closed some existing refineries. We
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 4: waged war on the coal industry. We closed natural gas pipelines.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 4: Then when we tried to cut a little bit of
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 4: waste in government, we had people firebombing Elon Musk's Tesla dealership.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 4: That's where I find the big irony to be here
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 4: is people that were harping and harping about energy prices.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 5: Voted literally because.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 4: Of oil and gas is too high i know this
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 4: is a commodity that they wanted to eliminate a hundred
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 4: percent so uh that's politics in 2026 brian.
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  Speaker 1: Bob i've been talking that line for months and months
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: now don't you get it the price of gasoline necessarily
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: will go up said barack obama multiple times and that's
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: exactly what they want this is like the greatest gift
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: ever if you want to get rid of fossil fuels
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: then the price of gasoline goes through the roof and Already,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: I headlined, Democrats planning to push clean energy to lower bills. Okay,
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: I can never figure out how that's going to work.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: Don't go away. We'll get away from real hardcore politics
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: and find out what the future looks like, at least
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: in the mind of Bob Sponsella from Allworth Financially Certified Planner.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: Don't go away. I'll be right back after I mention
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: Queen City painting and decorating.
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  Speaker 5: Outstanding.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: It is 819-55-KRC-D Talk Station.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 5: It's Monday.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: We're doing the Money Monday thing. All Earth Financial's Bob
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: Sponseller taking over for Brian James today.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: He's out.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: He's a certified financial planner. He's trying to keep his
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: clients from doing the wrong thing. Counselor in volatile times
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: as well. Where are we going? Going back to the
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: energy thing. And everybody knows that I'm a huge fan
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: of small modular reactors. And there's quite a few companies, Bob,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: that are making these. It's sort of off the shelf,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: one size fits all. You don't have to do individual
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: planning and individual... a factory or power generating plants and
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: need their individual approval. So once one gets approved, like
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: pick it off the shelf, just plop it down and
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: there's your energy. Very little to no waste. It all
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: sounds like a wonderful idea. Are these companies publicly traded
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: and are these small modular reactor companies doing well? Is
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: this an area that we can be optimistic over, Bob?
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: Because I think it's the future for our energy needs.
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  Speaker 5: I totally agree with you, Brian.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, most of these companies that are really killing it
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 4: right now are privately traded. If you look on the
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 4: private equity side of things, that's definitely a space you
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 4: want to look. Look in the private equity world for
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 4: firms that could get you involved in some of these emerging,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 4: early producing alternative energy stocks. The energy sector, earnings growth
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 4: after the third quarter earnings have just come out are
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 4: up 151% year over year this year.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 5: So that's definitely a place to look.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 4: I think you're spot on there, Brian.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 5: Speaking of earnings, I.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 4: Do think last week's overall market sell-off overlooks just how
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 4: broad corporate profit growth has been this year. Third quarter
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 4: earnings season is nearly complete now, as 88% of the
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 4: S & P 500 has reported. Third quarter profits overall
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 4: are up a third. Yep, 33% over the past year,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 4: which is well above the 24.5% Wall Street was expecting.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 4: But if you just strip out AI, you know, completely
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 4: eliminate it, the S & P 500 index X AI
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 4: stocks is still.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 5: Up almost 24%.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 4: So, you know, We are getting an overall productivity boost
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 4: across the economy due to AI, and it is starting
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 4: to show up in sectors other than the tech space.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 4: And I think that bodes well moving forward, as long
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 4: as we talked about before, our newly elected government officials
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 4: do not overreach here and get too involved in the markets.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the 12.2% sell-off at NASDAQ and all
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: the chips and related companies. Just the stocks.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 5: Not the overall NASDAQ.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just the stocks.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I have been listening to, and no financial planner
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: am I, and market forces can bewilder me and perplex
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  Speaker 1: me from time to time, but the AI bubble that
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: is going to burst. I keep hearing that, hearing it.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: We've seen it before. We had the internet bubble burst
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: and the real estate bubble burst. Is there an AI
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: bubble bursting, Bob, that you can see? Does this slow down,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: maybe slow down the reality of that happening? What's your
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: TLE forecasting on that?
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 4: I don't see any bubble at all. I mean, it
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 4: all defines how you define the term bubble. I mean,
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 4: for somebody that was dramatically overweighted in the semiconductor stocks
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 4: last Thursday and lost 12% of their money in one day, yeah,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 4: they'll call that a bubble. I think the market is
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 4: an excellent pricing mechanism or discount pricing mechanism of where
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 4: it sees things six to 12 months from now.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 5: And I think it's safe.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 4: To say Things got a little ahead of themselves in
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 4: some of these AI names and semiconductor stocks. And this
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 4: is just a return to reality. It's not a bear market.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 4: It's not a 78% collapse in the NASDAQ like we
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 4: saw in the dot-com era. Stick with good quality companies.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 4: Remember back when the whole thing fell out of bed
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 4: in the early 2000s, we were buying anything with dot-com
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 4: behind its name. Think of like Pets.com and things like that.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 4: A lot of those companies completely went out of business.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 4: That is not going to be the case here in
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 4: these large companies with good balance sheets.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 5: It's just a pullback.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 2: And that happens.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, people forget the market on average.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 4: Goes down intra-year about 19% every year, at least one time.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 4: And as we know, the market averages year over year,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 4: you know, nine, 10 percent. So you got to build
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 4: your financial plan accordingly and get out in front of
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 4: some of this volatility, which always happens, always has, always will.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 4: And the money that you're going to need to repave
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 4: your driveway or replace your roof or go on your
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 4: vacation next spring is. Should not have been in stocks
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 4: in the first place or technology stocks in particular. That's
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 4: what good, sound financial planning is all about. But Brian,
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 4: our phones aren't ringing off the hook. Our clients aren't
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 4: panicking because we've been talking to them about this stuff
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 4: all year.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 5: And for the people that.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 4: Listened, they were ready for this and have done the
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 4: appropriate rebalancing in their portfolios.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: Amen to that. That's why I'm glad I have a
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: financial planner to keep me out of the mix, talk
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: me off the ledge, and keep me from doing stupid things,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: which is what you guys are great at. That's our job.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 4: Keep people from doing stupid things from which they can't recover.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 4: That's the whole reason we have a job, bro.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: And hopefully at the end of the year, show them
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: you have a really healthy return on the money invested.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: Bob Sponseller, certified financial planner with Allworth. I appreciate the
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: time you spent with my listeners today. Really enjoyable conversation, Bob.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: And thanks for Allworth for loaning you out for this segment.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe you and I will get to talk again.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 5: I look forward to that. Thanks for the time, Brian.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: It's been my pleasure. Take care, Bob. Stick around, folks.
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  Speaker 1: State Representative Adam. Well, is that Claremont in Brown County's
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: least part of for reelecting Adam Byrd as your representative
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: defeating the Democratic challenger? At least we got Adam back
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: and Adam's joined the program today to talk about the aftermath.
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  Speaker 1: It is good to have you on, Representative Byrd. Welcome.
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  Speaker 7: Brian, thank you so much. It's an honor to be
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 7: with you.
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  Speaker 9: And I definitely am thankful for the support of District
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 9: 63 in light of.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 7: Difficult election night results that we just experienced.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: Difficult is a good word for that one. Still reeling
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: over it, Adam, but we'll get through it as we
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: always do. Now, Ohio requires a three-fifths vote to override
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: a governor veto, also to refer constitutional amendments to the ballot.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: Republicans went in with a veto-approved supermajority in both chambers,
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: and then Andrew, last week, where Democrats flipped enough of
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: the House seats to drop Republicans below 60, which they
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: need to have the supermajority. The Senate's okay. But in
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: the remaining time, we're in this lame duck session when
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: you can override a governmental or a governor veto. DeWine,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: not exactly the most conservative Republican out there. So what
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: is on your short list, Representative Byrd, to get accomplished
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: before the supermajority goes away?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I want to point out to you, Brian, that yes,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 9: we do have a super majority right now of 65 members.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 9: We need 60 votes to override a veto. But despite
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 9: that number, we still have some members of our caucus
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 9: who are hesitant to override a governor. They're more moderate
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 9: in their leanings than many others of us. And so
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 9: we will still have some challenges to get to that
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 9: number 60 if we put something in front of Governor
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 9: DeWine that he vetoes. Now, you ask about what priorities
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 9: there should be. I will tell you what's on my list.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 9: data centers, number one, must be dealt with and they
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 9: should be dealt with real soon. And when it comes
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 9: to data centers, I think that it's very easy for me.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 9: There has to be local control. There cannot be nondisclosure agreements.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 9: There must be water and water discharge must be taken
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 9: care of. We cannot hurt the environment over this. We
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 9: cannot make the residents of that community pay extra. for electricity,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 9: so they must make their own electricity. There needs to
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 9: be some common sense to these issues. And so I
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 9: think the other reasonable thing, I don't know how you
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 9: put it in legislation, data centers should go in brownfield
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 9: sites to the extent possible and not using brand new land,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 9: virgin farmland, those kinds of things.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 7: That's a very easy issue.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 9: The other issue that we might look at would be
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 9: executive appointments. What kinds of executive appointments are we going
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 9: to allow the governor to have? And then finally, property
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 9: tax is something that still is an issue that is
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 9: plaguing Ohio, not income tax. It's property tax that is
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 9: plaguing Ohio and has gotten out of control.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 7: We got to do something about that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, you ran through the litany on data centers.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: It sounded exactly like the campaign that Vivek Ramaswamy ran on.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, he said all of the above on that.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your own power. Deal with the water issues. Make
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: sure the noise is in control. Let local governments have
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: measured control over this. That wasn't embraced by the Ohio voters,
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: sadly enough. I don't know where Amy Acton is on this,
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: but can you really hope to get something passed by
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: way of legislation that addresses any of this before the
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: top of the year? Or do you think there's really
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: going to be any opposition among your Democratic colleagues, growing number,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: but still in a minority in Columbus, that they too
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: would push for a lot of these data center issues
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: to move forward? Because it sounds to me like a
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: lot of things that they advanced as well by way
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: of proposals.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I can tell you that we did not advance
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 9: data center legislation in the previous six months because there
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 9: was some disagreement over property tax breaks.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 7: And by the way, I forgot to mention that issue.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 9: And there were some members of the Senate that were
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 9: in favor of data center breaks.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 7: For data centers. And the House, we stood firm on
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 7: the issue.
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  Speaker 9: A multi-billion dollar corporation does not need a property tax break.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 9: And if you don't give them a property tax break,
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 9: they're still going to come anyway. So that has got
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 9: to be in any legislation that we might pass.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: Well, and the final, before we do this, one more
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: issue on data centers, and we'll take a break and
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: come back with property tax and some of the other
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: ones that are on my mind. Bringing one's own electricity
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: or ensuring that the local residents don't pay more because
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: of the massive power consumption they have. How can we
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: do that as a state? My understanding, like, again, going
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: back to small modular reactors, it's going to require really
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: intense federal government cooperation. Can we even deliver on that
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: mandate for them to, quote unquote, bring their own power?
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 9: Well, we've been elected to serve the public, and that's
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 9: what we've got to do. And we've got to find
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 9: answers to that question. And I think that's the only
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 9: way possible forward. We cannot increase people's electrical bill because
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 9: of data centers. And I don't care what the federal
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 9: government wants. I don't care about whatever we're scared of
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 9: the Chinese. We are not going to force data centers
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 9: on people. rural Ohio or any Ohio unless they want it.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 9: And if they're going, you know, the data center should
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 9: be forced to come in and say, this is what
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 9: we're going to offer the local community.
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 7: We're going to build you this. We're going to do that.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 9: We're going to help offset local property taxes. They should
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 9: be offering the local something in order for them to
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 9: come into that community.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, put them in a position of advancing their role
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: and their position, and it caused them to require them
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: to negotiate with the locals and come up with terms
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: and conditions that are acceptable to both. This is the
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: kind of thing that happens all the time. Makes perfect sense.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: State Representative Adam Burt, let's pause. We'll bring you back.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about some of the other pieces of legislation
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: we might see in the short term here in Ohio.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: It's 835 right now, 55KRC, the talk station. This is 55KRC,
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio. 55KRC, the talk station. It's 839-55-KRC-D Talk Station.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: Got a couple more minutes here with State Representative Adam Byrd.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: Kind enough to come on the morning show and talk
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: about what might happen in the short term. And I
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: know you've got a meeting coming up, State Representative Byrd.
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: So let me get real quick here. Well, lots of
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: my listeners, big Second Amendment fans we are with the
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: federal government no longer collecting a tax when you purchase
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: a suppressor, a short barrel rifle. Courts determined that not
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: collecting the tax renders that bill, well, just no longer enforceable.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: But we still have state laws in Ohio that deem suppressors,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: for example, dangerous ordinance. Senate Bill 214 says remove that,
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: and it passed in March 31 to 1 in the Senate.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: It hasn't been voted on yet in the House, to
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: the best of my knowledge. Is that one that might advance?
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 9: That's a priority for us, Brian.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 7: I believe that we'll get that done. We'll get it
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 7: done quickly.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 9: It's still in a committee in the House, but I
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 9: think it's going to make it, and I hope that
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 9: it makes it quickly.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: Your tea leaf reading on Governor DeWine's reception of that thing,
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  Speaker 1: if it does pass in the House?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, when you see how overwhelmingly the Senate
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  Speaker 9: voted for that, just about every Democrat voted for it.
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  Speaker 9: So I don't think that Governor DeWine would say no
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  Speaker 9: to that with overwhelming support.
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  Speaker 1: Well, since the Senate removed the short barrel rifle component
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  Speaker 1: from it and just left the suppressor component... Would it
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  Speaker 1: be possible that the House would change that to put
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  Speaker 1: back in SBRs or they just do it as a
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  Speaker 1: standalone previously passed by the Senate bill?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: We haven't had a conversation about that. But, you know,
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  Speaker 9: I'm okay with adding it back in. We want to
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  Speaker 9: protect the Second Amendment. And, you know, I'm not worried
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  Speaker 9: about what Governor DeWine thinks. We should do what is
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  Speaker 9: in the best interest of Ohioans. We should protect the
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  Speaker 9: interests of conservatives and Second Amendment. And so we need
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  Speaker 9: to get it done. And if Mike DeWine vetoes it,
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  Speaker 9: it's on him.
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  Speaker 1: Does he still have Does he still wield power? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you just got done saying, I don't care what Mike
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  Speaker 1: DeWine thinks about it, but are there politicians in Columbus
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  Speaker 1: that are concerned about the reputation in the mind of
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  Speaker 1: Mike DeWine going forward? No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 9: But I think the point of that statement from me
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  Speaker 9: was before the election, we were wanting to protect a
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  Speaker 9: Republican governor and not embarrass him too much in front
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  Speaker 9: of an election.
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  Speaker 7: And now that the election is over, there's no need
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  Speaker 7: to do that anymore.
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  Speaker 9: And we should move forward in whatever is the best
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  Speaker 9: interest of Ohioans.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things you brought up was property tax.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Ramaswamy ran on property taxes. I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember if Acton had anything to say about it, but
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to at least roll back property taxes to
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  Speaker 1: their 2019 pre-COVID level. Is there any legislation that's out
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  Speaker 1: there pending that might bring some property tax relief before
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  Speaker 1: the supermajority or is it coming in the next year?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, are even Democrats interested in providing some property
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  Speaker 1: tax relief?
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  Speaker 9: Well, we passed four or five bills in the last
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  Speaker 9: year that reformed property taxes around the edges. We didn't
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  Speaker 9: make major change. Again, the governor would not have signed
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  Speaker 9: off on anything major. But remember that in order for
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  Speaker 9: us to provide any major change on property taxes, we've
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  Speaker 9: got to find another way to provide revenue to your sheriff,
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  Speaker 9: your police, your fire, your schools. Those kinds of things
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  Speaker 9: would be detrimentally affected by you know dramatically reforming property
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  Speaker 9: taxes the way they need to be reformed and so
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  Speaker 9: that means we're going to have to be creative do
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  Speaker 9: we add a little bit of sales tax do we
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  Speaker 9: uh income tax i'd never hear anybody brian complain about
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  Speaker 9: income tax because when you do your income tax right
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  Speaker 9: after you've done your federal income tax you think wow
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  Speaker 9: ohio's doing a great job on that So, you know,
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  Speaker 9: finding other ways to keep your sheriff, your police, your fire, EMT,
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  Speaker 9: your school, public schools going. I think we've got to
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  Speaker 9: find creative ways to make sure that those are still
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  Speaker 9: funded at the same time that we're providing relief to
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  Speaker 9: property taxpayers that are, it's out of control right now. And,
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  Speaker 9: and it's really a property valuation issue. The property values
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  Speaker 9: have dramatically climbed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I couldn't agree with you more on that last statement, but,
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  Speaker 1: Are we not still facing what I will view as
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  Speaker 1: a rather challenging reality if we all vote for elimination
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  Speaker 1: of property tax to a ballot initiative? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: still out there as a thing, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't think it's going anywhere.
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  Speaker 9: And I think that the people who want to see
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  Speaker 9: property taxes abolished, they're going to keep working. And I
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  Speaker 9: think that when Democrats become in power and the executive branch,
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  Speaker 9: I think that that will just encourage those who are
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  Speaker 9: opposed to property taxes to keep collecting signatures.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's going to move.
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  Speaker 9: And I wouldn't be surprised if it's on the ballot. So,
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  Speaker 9: you know, we're going to keep doing what's in our
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  Speaker 9: best interest for what I think is Ohioans, which is
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  Speaker 9: to bring property tax relief. But if they get that
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  Speaker 9: to the ballot and eliminate them all, we will certainly
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  Speaker 9: have an emergency on our hands and we will have
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  Speaker 9: to be creative about. in the midst of an emergency
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  Speaker 9: like that in a variety of ways so that we
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  Speaker 9: don't lose police, fire, public schools, libraries, parks, all of
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  Speaker 9: these things that are currently funded by property tax.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it seems to me to suggest if something like
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  Speaker 1: that happens, the train wreck that's unfolding actually happens. Property
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  Speaker 1: taxes are eliminated. You're left with this need to be
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  Speaker 1: creative to come up with a solution in the aftermath
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  Speaker 1: of that, that that's going to force some bipartisan cooperation.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, it would be an emergency, there's no doubt,
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  Speaker 9: because if that's on the ballot in November of 27,
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  Speaker 9: the way that currently reads, we would have to have
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  Speaker 9: a solution by January of 28. And so you've got
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  Speaker 9: less than two months to figure it out, and it
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  Speaker 9: would bring the crisis to Ohio that would be necessary
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  Speaker 9: to bring some real creative solutions to the issue.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the clock's ticking. You've got about a year. State
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  Speaker 1: Representative Adam Birch, if you sit down and start talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, because I I really do see that wave coming.
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  Speaker 1: I think people are angry enough that they would say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to roll the dice. I'm
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  Speaker 1: done with property tax. Let's see how our elected officials
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  Speaker 1: deal with the aftermath.
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  Speaker 7: We certainly know what anger looks like. We saw it
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  Speaker 7: this week. Isn't that true? Especially at the federal.
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  Speaker 9: Level, we don't do what we said we would do
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  Speaker 9: by ending foreign wars and by taking care of America first.
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  Speaker 9: And the federal government was more outwardly focused on whatever's
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  Speaker 9: happening in Ukraine and China and Taiwan and Iran. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: when we get focused outside of America, we see what
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  Speaker 9: anger does, and we're definitely affected by that.
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  Speaker 1: Without question. State Representative Adam Bird, it's been a real
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  Speaker 1: pleasure having you on, offering your thoughts and comments as we, well,
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  Speaker 1: deal with