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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Eric Trump · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Five o five.
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Speaker 2: At fifty five k r C, the talk station, Happy Monday.
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Speaker 1: I'm the dude, man, I am not. I'm Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 1: host to the fifty five care See Morning, showing a
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Speaker 1: very happy Monday to you. Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
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Speaker 1: Hey go Bengals. That work out for us. All we
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Speaker 1: need is a new quarterback and everything is going to
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Speaker 1: be okay. Apparently not anyhow, Hope you enjoyed your day
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Speaker 1: of football yesterday and feel free to call me this morning.
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Speaker 1: Got something to talk about, man, I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 1: Chalk up another win for Donald Trump going on in
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Speaker 1: the with the red tentative tentative resolution, the situation between
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Speaker 1: Hamas and Israel. That's the living hostages free this morning,
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of celebration going on. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people really very thankful that the ceasefires at least
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Speaker 1: in place for now. Hostage is being released. They're busily
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Speaker 1: trying to find the dead hostages, which is a real
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Speaker 1: strange thing for me. In any event, I got to
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Speaker 1: talk about that just a moment here. We got a
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Speaker 1: great show line down thanks to Joe Strecker, Executi producer.
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Speaker 1: I hope you had a good weekend, Joe. Christopher Smithman
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Speaker 1: coming up at seven twenty, I'm going to get him
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Speaker 1: to respond to this. This keep mag at a Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: crap that I have to have parwalls floating around. Joe,
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Speaker 1: do you've believe this to be a sign of concern
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Speaker 1: from the Parvoll campaign or do you think it's just
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Speaker 1: typical efforts to fundraise. Probably a mixed bag of both.
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Speaker 1: Yet I haven't seen any polling to really know. All
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Speaker 1: we have is early voting, which Republicans have a bit
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Speaker 1: of an advantage in downtown CINCINNTI is early voting, and
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Speaker 1: it is early voting, So get out and cast your vote.
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Speaker 1: How Unkindy Board of Elections, check the hours of operation,
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Speaker 1: make sure you cast your vote. And of course Christopher
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Speaker 1: will tell you when he comes on at seven. Only
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Speaker 1: vote for the candidates you really want elected. Don't fill
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Speaker 1: in all nine council don't put a vote in for
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Speaker 1: all nine council members. And of course I hope you
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Speaker 1: choose Corey Bowman. But anyway, keep MAGA out of Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: real leuct have to have Pervall And he goes on
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Speaker 1: and on about you know, we have to protect what
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Speaker 1: we've accomplished. Don't undo what we've achieved together. And I
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Speaker 1: love this one. My opponent, Comma, you know what's next?
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Speaker 1: Of course JD Vance's brother, which is why it flies
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Speaker 1: under the moniker keep MAGA out of Cincinnati. As if
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman represents Donald Trump or JD Vance. He has
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Speaker 1: a name, it's Corey Bowman, not Jade Vance's brother. Didn't
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Speaker 1: put half brother in there anyway. I love this my opponent.
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Speaker 1: Jdvance's brother has already put us on the national stage.
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Speaker 1: And it's back by billionaires whose only goal is to
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Speaker 1: reverse our hard won victories for their own game. All right, Okay,
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Speaker 1: on and on. He keeps referring to what they have
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Speaker 1: accomplished under his administration. The hard run victory is that
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Speaker 1: they've accomplished what are they beatdowns in July. That's what
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Speaker 1: I was thinking of, Joe, because what puts Cincinnati on
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Speaker 1: the national stage was all of its great accomplishments under
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Speaker 1: the Purval regime. No, I don't think so. It was
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Speaker 1: Holly getting punched in the face and Sarah Heringer's husband
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Speaker 1: getting killed in their own apartment, where we find out
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Speaker 1: that you can cut off an ankle monitor and no
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Speaker 1: one will be looking after you or looking for you
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Speaker 1: after you've cut your ankle monitor off. Not exactly a
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Speaker 1: gold Star award winning reality that one. So, if anything's
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Speaker 1: been putting us on the national stage, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's idea that Corey Bowman is running for mayor. I
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Speaker 1: do believe it's uh, well, a bit of a negative
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Speaker 1: image on the city of Cincinnati. Yeah, a couple of
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Speaker 1: the beatdowns in the national reporting on Holly and the
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Speaker 1: terrible situation unfolding the end of July and that beat down.
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Speaker 1: Add that to it the well Bengals record. Yeah, we're
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Speaker 1: on the national stage all right, but not for some
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Speaker 1: positive things Anyway, Christopher, I'm sure we'll mention the election.
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Speaker 1: He might address that. I'm gonna see if he will,
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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna ask him about it. That's a seven twenty,
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Speaker 1: follow by money money of Brian James Tariff's up interest
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Speaker 1: on debt topping one trillion dollars and Doge didn't do much.
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Speaker 1: We'll also get an update on so is the security
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Speaker 1: plus credit unions versus banks? That conversation, or rather the
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Speaker 1: interest in that distinction brought up by the mysterious group
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Speaker 1: of ladies. As we found out Brian James and I
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Speaker 1: that listens intently to Brian James every Monday, Monday. Good morning, ladies,
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Speaker 1: if you're listening right now. What else is going on?
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Speaker 1: Eric Trump? That's right, Eric Trump? That Eric Trump, Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump's Son's written a new book Under Siege. Eric's gonna
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Speaker 1: be on the program at eight forty. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: that together, and I'm looking forward to that, and I
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Speaker 1: hope you are as well. Five one, three, seven, four,
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Speaker 1: nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three
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Speaker 1: taco pound five fifty on AT and T phones.
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Speaker 3: And yes, our long away.
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Speaker 1: To return of the twenty hostages that are still alive
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Speaker 1: in Gaza underway this morning as I was coming in.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's happy those hostages have been returned. I guess Red
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Speaker 1: Cross got them first and I did a health check
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Speaker 1: on them. But the families are obviously elated. World leaders
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Speaker 1: are very excited about the developments that are going on,
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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump's actually getting credit for it, much to
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Speaker 1: the chagrin of the lefties who apparently refused to open
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Speaker 1: the government up. Yes, that's right, who's done something and
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Speaker 1: who's done nothing? Look at four years of the Biden
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Speaker 1: administration of what he was able to accomplish, if you
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Speaker 1: can find anything, and then look at the first all
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Speaker 1: ten months of the Trump administration. Remarkable distinction between the
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Speaker 1: accomplishments of one and the other. Amazing. Now, I'm a
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Speaker 1: little reluctant to call this an overall success because these
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Speaker 1: things have fallen apart before and I've got a little,
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Speaker 1: you know, sort of the side story on this. But
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Speaker 1: what's this current situation right now? All the hostages that
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Speaker 1: are held are going to be released, plus the dead ones,
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Speaker 1: So bodies of about twenty eight hostages who died or
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Speaker 1: have are to be handed over later. They suggest it
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Speaker 1: could be a drawing out process because Hamas has already
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Speaker 1: told everybody, including the mediators in Israel, that it doesn't
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Speaker 1: know the location of some of the diseased hostages. They
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Speaker 1: have a multinational task force now being set up helped
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Speaker 1: find the missing remains wherever they happen to be. Once
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Speaker 1: those hostages are released by Hamas, Israel then will release
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty Palestinians that are in Israeli prisons,
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Speaker 1: as well as seventeen hundred Palestinians who've been detained in
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Speaker 1: Gaza during the conflict. Some of them pretty bad people.
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Speaker 1: One big name prisoner identified specifically Marwan Barghouti, ben in
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Speaker 1: jail in Israel over his role in the Palestinian uprising
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Speaker 1: in the early two thousand. So just a whole bunch
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Speaker 1: of them, a lot of them very dangerous people. But
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Speaker 1: if you return them to a defeated, depleted, perhaps disarmed Hamas,
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Speaker 1: what can they do? It's a good question. Now we
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Speaker 1: have US troops arriving in israelis past Thursday, about two
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Speaker 1: hundred of them to support the ceasefire and to be
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Speaker 1: part of it, I guess, being formed in a national
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Speaker 1: team that's supposed to provide the implementation of the ceasefire
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Speaker 1: while they transition into a civilian government. Troops also will
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Speaker 1: help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, which
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Speaker 1: I understand has started already, making people very happy. Starving
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Speaker 1: people are very happy when the humanitarian aid finally can
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Speaker 1: get through, maybe without Hamas intercepting it and taking it
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Speaker 1: for themselves. So celebrations are upting in Gaza and Tel Aviv.
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Speaker 1: Mediators and civilians both sides holding their breath to see
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Speaker 1: if the ceasefire will hold again, noting that these things
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Speaker 1: have well fallen apart and give away to renewed fighting
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Speaker 1: in Gaza. Oh, look, renewed fighting in Gaza. Here's where
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Speaker 1: I think this is quite revealing the complexity of the problem.
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Speaker 1: Revealed yesterday dozens dead in Gaza after violent fighting within
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Speaker 1: hours of the release of the hostages. So we got
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Speaker 1: to sign sealed agreement the twenty point plan, with obviously
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Speaker 1: some hills and humps and speed bumps to iron out,
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Speaker 1: but so it's announced. Clashes between local militias came ahead
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Speaker 1: of the television a televised address for Benjaminett and Yahoo
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Speaker 1: talking about the imminent release of the hostages. Wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: what are they fighting over? Well, it's because they're not
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Speaker 1: a well oiled, all organized machine. You have militias in
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Speaker 1: various areas. Some of them are like pro Hamas, some
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Speaker 1: of them are sometimes pro Hamas. Some of them probably
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Speaker 1: don't want a peace agreement with the Israelis, some of
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Speaker 1: them want to continue fighting. They're fighting amongst themselves now
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Speaker 1: reminds me of Monty Python Life of Brian with splitter organizations.
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Speaker 1: They can't agree accepted what the People's Front of Judea
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Speaker 1: was the unified enemy of all of these splitter groups,
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Speaker 1: right Joe. Or is it the Popular Front or was
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Speaker 1: it the campaign for Free Galilee. I get them all
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Speaker 1: mixed up. That's kind of thing that's going on right now.
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Speaker 1: Court of Reports at Israel. The violence in Gaza erupted
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Speaker 1: when Hamas militants raided the neighborhood of Sabran, Gaza City,
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Speaker 1: home to a clan referred to as the dagh Mush,
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Speaker 1: reports Mas Interior Ministry and accused the militia of hacking
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Speaker 1: its forces, while members of the dog Bush clan said
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Speaker 1: Hamas had exploited the ceasefire to target them over alleged
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Speaker 1: cooperation with Israel. Fighting amongst themselves. Local news reported fifty
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Speaker 1: two members of the Dogmush clan were killed. Twelve Amas
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Speaker 1: militants also killed. Say amid the bloodshed, three anti Hamas
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Speaker 1: militias publicly declared their support for Trump's peace proposal and
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Speaker 1: rejecting Hamasa's authority in the Gaza Strip. So we may
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Speaker 1: see a day when Hamasa's authority in the Gaza Strip
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Speaker 1: has been quick completely removed, And this negotiated settlement requires,
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Speaker 1: at least from Israel's perspective, Hamas to disarm, and I
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Speaker 1: think Hamasa's it's got a cold water do reality thrown
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Speaker 1: on it. In spite of the pro Palestinian protesters which
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Speaker 1: are all over the streets of various US cities with
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Speaker 1: a little hint of pro Hamas built in there, I
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Speaker 1: think the international community is not on Hamasa's side. World
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Speaker 1: leaders from all over praising the peace deal as we
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Speaker 1: move forward, hopefully worrying about a lasting resolution of the
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Speaker 1: pain that has been Gaza so for how many decades now?
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Speaker 1: five nineteen Monday. Like it or not, it is five
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Speaker 1: punds now not in the stack is stupid, but maybe
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Speaker 1: it should be. Considering the subject matter of the back
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Speaker 1: and forth between Paris Morgan and Zach Polanski, who's the
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Speaker 1: Green Party leader expressing and revealing the bat crap in
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Speaker 1: sanity to the left and one of the reasons and
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Speaker 1: I I can't remember who I talked to last week
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Speaker 1: about the growing majority of young people, young most notably
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Speaker 1: young men, returning to faith, returning to you know, core values,
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Speaker 1: returning to more conservative leanings. I gus specifically why that
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Speaker 1: might be and suggested perhaps maybe the day the left
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Speaker 1: went off the rails was when they started telling you
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Speaker 1: that you couldn't disagree with their interpretation of what it
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Speaker 1: means to be a man or a woman, which according
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Speaker 1: to the left, is a self individual saying I am
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Speaker 1: who I am, and you must acknowledge that and accept it.
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, I'm a guy, right, Okay, I can look
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Speaker 1: down and prove that I know that it's scientific fact.
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Speaker 1: If I did it looking at my chromosomes, I'd know
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Speaker 1: that X and Y are in my bodys because men
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Speaker 1: have X and Y, women have accent and ax. Aha,
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Speaker 1: pure plain, simple fact fact fact. Somewhere somewhere along the
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Speaker 1: lines of the left one completely off the blank and rails
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Speaker 1: dying you the biological reality and as I always point out.
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Just don't suggest that you can force
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Speaker 1: me to adopt your viewpoint. There's never gonna be to
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Speaker 1: day when that can happen. But they want everybody to
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Speaker 1: adopt their viewpoint. We live in this we gotta be
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Speaker 1: quiet world. You must use the appropriate gender pronouns, even
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Speaker 1: though they're all made up. And you can look down
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Speaker 1: and see very clearly that that well person claiming to
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Speaker 1: be a woman's got the whole twig and berrys things
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Speaker 1: going on, so you don't even know do a chromosomal
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Speaker 1: analysis analysis of it. Right back to Piers Morgan Zach Plancy,
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Speaker 1: Green Party leader. I don't know how they got down
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Speaker 1: this road, but Morgan pressed them on whether a woman
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Speaker 1: can have a penis? This is where this I mean
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Speaker 1: that this conversation, even it was a serious conversation, that
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Speaker 1: it even took place, rewind fifteen years ago or how
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Speaker 1: wherever wait, and by pulling into a moment in time,
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Speaker 1: the left adopted this backcrap in saint philosophy. And if
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Speaker 1: you said out loud, can a woman have a penis?
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Speaker 1: The whole world would have erupted in laughter, like what
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Speaker 1: that's even a thing? Apparently it definitely is now the
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Speaker 1: Green Party leader. In response, can a woman have a penis? Yes,
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Speaker 1: he said, and endeavor to institute a bit of humor
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Speaker 1: regard to the National Health Service. Yes, it's going to
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Speaker 1: take them a long time on the National Health Service
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Speaker 1: to get rid of it, suggesting like the National Health
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Speaker 1: Service paying for the gender transition surgery, where it gets
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Speaker 1: lopped off and replaced by something artificially created. He noted,
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Speaker 1: but that's a separate problem, Morgan trying to conclude the
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Speaker 1: issues that I think we'll leave it on. A woman
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Speaker 1: can have a penis, according to the Green Party leader.
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Speaker 1: Plasky respond tried to push him back, saying he lacked
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Speaker 1: nuance and complexity on this complicated issue. Is it complicated?
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Speaker 1: You're laughing at it, which I think demeans trans people.
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Speaker 1: He thinks mister Planski has a subjective opinion on behalf
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Speaker 1: of trans people. He just articulated it anyway, Morgan retorted,
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Speaker 1: I think it's an absolutely ridiculous response, Amen, peers. Plaski
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Speaker 1: then demanded, well, what if you got against trans people,
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Speaker 1: why are you punching down? Why are you not saying
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Speaker 1: the real problem? It sounds like you have a huge
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Speaker 1: problem with trans people. This is how they try to,
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Speaker 1: you know, engage a bit of subterfuge. No, that's not
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Speaker 1: what Piers Morgan saying. He doesn't have anything against him.
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Speaker 1: It's just whether or not women can have a penis,
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Speaker 1: and the answer is definitively no. A court of the
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Speaker 1: the UK Supreme Court has already issued a decision on this.
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Speaker 1: United Kingdom's highest court there right unanimously decided in the
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Speaker 1: case for Women's Scotland Limited versus the Scottish Ministers that
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Speaker 1: sex under their version of what Title nine or whatever
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Speaker 1: title we've got, it's the Equity Act of twenty ten
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Speaker 1: refers to. According to the Supreme Court, biological sex at birth,
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Speaker 1: not gender identity arly have a gender recognition certificate. You
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Speaker 1: can claim one of these if you believe yourself to
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Speaker 1: have turned into the opposite sex. They'll issue one of those,
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Speaker 1: which says you're a sex that you weren't born with.
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Speaker 1: But according to the Supreme Court, this g RC does
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Speaker 1: not trump reality. Your biological sex that birth determines whether
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Speaker 1: you're a man or a woman. Right, Pulaski believes he
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Speaker 1: is smarter than the United Kingdom's Supreme Court. Uh, Morgan,
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Speaker 1: there's not a cat in hell's chance of you ever
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Speaker 1: becoming a prime minister if you don't know what a
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Speaker 1: woman is. Morgan interjecting what is described as a sarcastic jab,
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Speaker 1: why don't you go out tomorrow with your big campaign
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Speaker 1: that women can have penises? See how you get on
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Speaker 1: when people see you say to me, women have a penis?
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Speaker 1: See how it plays out? Right? Pulansky to accused more
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Speaker 1: going of trying to divert attention for more pressing issues
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Speaker 1: like can we talk about inequality? Can we talk about
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Speaker 1: something other than this? Because you're embarrassing me. I've made
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Speaker 1: a fool of myself. Basically, Pierce said, yeah, you're a
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Speaker 1: fast emerging politician in this country. I'm perfectly entitled to
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Speaker 1: ask you what you believe, and you have been crystal clear.
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Speaker 1: Isn't this great? Plansky? People are not worried about the
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Speaker 1: trans people. Let's have a conversation about women's right, but
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Speaker 1: let's not talk about trans women, especially Morgan. Will not
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Speaker 1: let it go. You said women have penises, and then
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Speaker 1: Pulanski tries to clarify, saying, well, if a woman is transitioning,
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Speaker 1: then they can have a penis until someone lops it off,
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Speaker 1: I guess. Morgan then called it complete barber streisand not
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Speaker 1: his phrase mind because of the SCC. Plansky then said,
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Speaker 1: since when are you a doctor or an expert in
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Speaker 1: women's rights or UK science. That's when Morgan put it
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Speaker 1: out with the Supreme Court there said hey, the UK
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court has made at Crystal Claire what a woman is.
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Speaker 1: Then Plansky suggested it wasn't the Supreme Court's job to
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Speaker 1: do that. Morgan says, well, to lay down the law
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Speaker 1: of the land, so you know more than the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 1: And of course Polanski said, yes, I actually in this case,
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Speaker 1: I do. Okay, sure you do. Is that the hill
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Speaker 1: you want to die on? Is that the one? Maybe?
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Speaker 1: Five thirty on a Monday, five on three, five hundred
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Speaker 1: as is tradition, Tom Happy Monday to you. Welcome back,
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Speaker 1: my friend.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, sir. Do you have a good weekend.
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Speaker 1: I had a very nice weekend and nice dinner party
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Speaker 1: at the house on Saturday with a bunch of friends
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Speaker 1: over and that was really wonderful. That Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: the weather is just insane awesome, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: So it's it's pretty cool. Yeah. If I didn't if
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Speaker 5: I didn't work this weekend, I wouldn't have broke as
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Speaker 5: wet at all.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, and it's my weekend officially begins on
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Speaker 1: Friday morning at nine when the microphone goes off. I
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Speaker 1: got great, a great day on the rifle and pistol
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Speaker 1: range with my daughter and her fiance, just an outstall day.
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Speaker 5: That's cold, little family bonding.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, expensive day. I will point out.
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Speaker 1: I think I put five hundred rounds a nine millimeter
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Speaker 1: through my new handgun just to gott me used to it,
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Speaker 1: and you know, among other firearms that we shot that day.
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Speaker 5: So now I know you've you've waxed eloquently about your
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Speaker 5: future son in law there and uh talk good about
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Speaker 5: him and all that, But was there was there any
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Speaker 5: anything in there about hey son? What's what I could
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Speaker 5: do with this gun oh that going on.
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Speaker 1: He's he's quite aware.
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Speaker 5: That's already been set in stone already, right, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well a long time ago. But he and he
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Speaker 1: and I see eye to eye on the whole second
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Speaker 1: amend of concept. So that's one of the reasons why
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Speaker 1: I approve of them so much.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh good, all right, well you're yeah, you're bringing
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Speaker 5: up some topics this morning and more proof about how
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Speaker 5: crazy the left is. And yeah, they they pushed the
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Speaker 5: limits and I I believe there's something sinister behind all this,
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Speaker 5: but it's just I mean, even if you don't want
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Speaker 5: to go that far, it's just common sense stuff. And
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Speaker 5: it's not because it's tradition, these things that we believe
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Speaker 5: that you know, men are or women and one can't
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Speaker 5: become the other, and yeah, it's it's it's not because
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Speaker 5: we believed it for so long. We believed it for
21:10
Speaker 5: so long because it's true.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, okay, a chicken egg thing. Okay, So yeah,
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Speaker 1: religion does talk about men and women, you know. Okay,
21:19
Speaker 1: but what came first the science of the X and
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Speaker 1: the Y, the double X, the reality that men and
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Speaker 1: women exist separately. The one has a twigging of areas. O.
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Speaker 1: It is not that men need to have sex with
21:31
Speaker 1: you know, women. There has to be an egg and
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Speaker 1: there has to be uh, you know, there's firm to
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Speaker 1: make children. All of that preceded like, for example, Christianity,
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Speaker 1: it preceded the God of Abraham. It preceded literally everything,
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Speaker 1: go back to the dawn of mankind. Religion developed on
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Speaker 1: top of the science adopting the it's I mean, there
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Speaker 1: was no argument about it. It's just the simple fact
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Speaker 1: of nature and reality. Of course it got incorporated into
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Speaker 1: the religious text.
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Speaker 5: Yes, and of course it has become incorporated into common
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Speaker 5: every day lingo. And this we accept it because it's true,
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Speaker 5: not because we just accept it. There are things that
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Speaker 5: get accepted over time which we realize, you know what,
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Speaker 5: maybe this is such a good idea. But they're going
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Speaker 5: after stuff that is that's just based truth. And because
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Speaker 5: what you're dealing with is a side that operates with lies.
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Speaker 5: They lie about virtually everything they talk about. What they're after,
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Speaker 5: what they're trying to accomplish.
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Speaker 1: It's the very Porwellian ministry of truth. Two and two
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Speaker 1: is not four and damn it. We are going to
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Speaker 1: pound it into your head until we're blue in the face.
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Speaker 1: We're going to brainwash you into believing that two and
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Speaker 1: two is whatever the state says it is. Right. There
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Speaker 1: isn't a man or a woman. It's whatever we say
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Speaker 1: it is. We the state, that's it. There is no
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Speaker 1: religion to trump what the state has to say.
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Speaker 5: That's you know, Thank god, thank god our forefathers set
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Speaker 5: up a government that allows us to be able to
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Speaker 5: stand up against this stuff and do something about it.
23:09
Speaker 5: And when we see people on one side just killing
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Speaker 5: too far off the rails, as you say, we can,
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Speaker 5: we can replace them. And that's exactly what we need
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Speaker 5: to do more and more. We need to replace people
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Speaker 5: who are doing all this crazy stuff and trying to
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Speaker 5: take us down a road that we don't have any
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Speaker 5: business going down. We need to stay as best we
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Speaker 5: can in line with the truth and reality, and so
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Speaker 5: that means we need to get rid of the rhinos.
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Speaker 5: Don't vote for them, and of course, don't vote Democrat.
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Speaker 5: Have a great day with.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Tom, all's a pleasure here from you. You can
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Speaker 1: feel free to call us well five one, three, seven,
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23:57
Speaker 1: to turn to the phones right now before I get
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Speaker 1: to the stack of stupid, beginning with Hey, Jay, thanks
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Speaker 1: for calling Happy Monday to you.
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Speaker 6: Hey, Happy Monday, Brian Hey wanted to put a call
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Speaker 6: out to the listening audience that this past weekend I
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Speaker 6: finally got off off my butt and decided to go
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Speaker 6: sign the petition to end property tax in Ohio to
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Speaker 6: get it on the ballot or I believe November next year, right,
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Speaker 6: And so I called a couple buddies in the neighborhood
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Speaker 6: and friends, and I think we had five of us
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Speaker 6: show up, but I got to tell you I wish
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Speaker 6: and then I got some petitions and walk them around
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Speaker 6: the neighborhood. I was shocked to find out very smart,
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Speaker 6: capable people really had no idea about this, and so
24:43
Speaker 6: that really kind of got me going. And I think
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Speaker 6: we maybe got fifteen signatures ready to go. I would
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Speaker 6: encourage everybody, do not think that somebody else is going
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Speaker 6: to do it. Do not believe that everybody knows about this.
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Speaker 6: So if you can like minded people in your neighborhood,
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Speaker 6: we are in the final push here as Ohiolans that
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Speaker 6: are just getting slammed with these property taxes. There's no
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Speaker 6: end in sight, so now is the time to go
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Speaker 6: out and get it done. And the thing that scares
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Speaker 6: me the most when I hear voices on the right
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Speaker 6: and not necessarily you, Brian, but a friends in my
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Speaker 6: in my own group, they start talking about well, what
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Speaker 6: concerns me is, well, you know what are they going
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Speaker 6: to replace it with?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 6: Nothing? If if I had eight to ten thousand dollars
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Speaker 6: that goes into my pocket for property tax I no
25:38
Speaker 6: longer have to pay. I suppose I can make all
25:40
Speaker 6: kinds of educational decision for my children that I otherwise
25:44
Speaker 6: couldn't make, as far as private schools or homeschooling. That
25:49
Speaker 6: pays for a lot of homeschooling. We homeschooled, it was
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Speaker 6: about a one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars a year.
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Speaker 6: If I get ten thousand dollars, that pretty much pays
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Speaker 6: the full vote for you know, eight to ten years.
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Speaker 6: So I don't need them again to replace it with anything.
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Speaker 6: What I need them to do is spend a whole
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Speaker 6: lot less money, especially when you take a look at
26:13
Speaker 6: state's adjacent to us again. Pennsylvania annual budget of forty
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Speaker 6: five billion dollars and has a one trillion dollar one
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Speaker 6: hundred million dollars greater GDP in Ohio forty five billion dollars.
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Speaker 6: We're at one hundred and twenty billion. I think they
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Speaker 6: have enough, so we don't need to replace it with anything.
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Speaker 6: They just need to spend a hell of a lot
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Speaker 6: less money and figure it out. So whatever you do,
26:38
Speaker 6: don't vote right on and don't vote, don't vote Democrat.
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Speaker 6: Did Tom miss it today? By the way, I didn't
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Speaker 6: hear him say that tagline?
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Speaker 1: He did. He said it at the end. All us
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Speaker 1: right with the world? Jay, He's on record, and so
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Speaker 1: are you. In addition to that recommendation, also sign a petition.
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Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. Get your popcorn out and watch
26:57
Speaker 1: it all unfold. And I'm glad it's going to be
26:58
Speaker 1: on the ballot in next November. Is this year is well.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the reaction from the well elected
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Speaker 1: officials in Columbus on how they plan on dealing with
27:08
Speaker 1: the aftermath of the eradication of property taxes as a
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Speaker 1: constitutional amendment here in Ohio. Gotta be fun in games.
27:16
Speaker 1: Keep your popcorn out staggers stupid woman of Texas shot
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Speaker 1: and killed in a Pet Smart parking lot after arguing
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Speaker 1: over not saying thank you for opening the door. Do
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Speaker 1: what the hell? Forty one year old Cecilia Simpson shot
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Speaker 1: several times outside the Dallas PetSmart one in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Witness told Pollie Simpson held the door for Keona zach
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Speaker 1: Cua Hampton, who's twenty two. Simpson allegibly became irritated that
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Speaker 1: Hampton didn't thank her for holding the door open, triggering
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Speaker 1: an argument. Simpson and her daughter went into their car
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Speaker 1: drove to Pet Smart, which was in the same plaza
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Speaker 1: when Simpson had told her daughter. When Simpson and her
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Speaker 1: daughter entered the Pet Smart store, she told her employees
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Speaker 1: they were being followed by Hampton. Hampton allegedly walked into
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Speaker 1: the store, began arguing with Simpson's daughter, exited the store,
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Speaker 1: returned a few minutes later when she started another argument
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Speaker 1: with Simpson. Just let it go, it' be better. Are
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Speaker 1: being asked to leave the store. Hampton allegedly threw a
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Speaker 1: bottle at the vehicle Simpson was driving with her daughter.
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Speaker 1: Police say a physical fight that ensued when Hampton took
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Speaker 1: out a handgun and shot Simpson three times. Hampton, arrested
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Speaker 1: Tuesday night during a traffic stop, admitted that she got
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Speaker 1: into the argument with Simpson, claimed she only took out
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Speaker 1: the gun when the situation became physical. Physical at whose
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Speaker 1: hand booked into the county into the jail on murder charges.
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Speaker 1: No bail set as of the reporting idiots doing idiot
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Speaker 1: things because they're idiots. Died as a consequence of her injuries,
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Speaker 1: all for not saying thank you, Okay, we got to Toledo, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: They were accused of breaking into the hum of a
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Speaker 1: person she knows and cutting his testicle. Do what he
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Speaker 1: turned herself into Judge Friday facing a judge this past
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Speaker 1: Friday morning court show. Janny and Jenneta Hoppings, who's forty
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Speaker 1: five from Toledo, had her warrant cleared on Friday morning
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Speaker 1: when she appeared in court and charges of folonius assault
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Speaker 1: and aggravated burglary. A court of the charging record. She
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Speaker 1: kicked the door open to the victims Toledo home came
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Speaker 1: in without permission. Victim told investigators that he heard someone
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Speaker 1: break in and ran downstairs to see who it was.
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Speaker 1: He did not have any clothes on when he ran down.
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Speaker 1: After David alleges this Hoppings assaulted the man by cutting
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Speaker 1: his testicle sack with an unknown instrument, causing it to
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Speaker 1: be in the words of the report, clearly exposed as
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Speaker 1: the result of the laceration.
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Speaker 5: Just away.
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Speaker 1: She was released on her own recognizance after the court appearance,
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Speaker 1: placed on electronic monitoring. Yeah, we all know how that
29:54
Speaker 1: works out. The judge ordered to have no contact with
29:56
Speaker 1: the victim. Well, not Hamilton County, but it does sound
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Speaker 1: remarkably similar to an outcome coming from a Hamilton County judge.
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Speaker 1: Good the talk station, It's five fifty coming up at
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Speaker 1: and a happy one Day Christopher Smith minute seven to
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Speaker 1: twenty money Money with Brian James Ado five Eric Trump
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Speaker 1: of his book Under Siege and the most important uh
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Speaker 1: trivia fun fact of today. It's Joe Strecker's birthday. Executi
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Speaker 1: producer Joe Strecker, Happy Birthday. I just need to ask
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Speaker 1: him for sure. I had it in my cell phone.
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Speaker 1: It popped up this morning. It was like, Joe, is
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Speaker 1: it your birthday today? Yeah, So happy birthday. To Joe Strecker,
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Speaker 1: page or call him up and say hey, Joe, happy Birthday.
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Speaker 1: Over to the stack is stupid good to Cincinnati local
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Speaker 1: boy being held in the Hamilton County Justice Center in
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Speaker 1: a one million dollar bond. What do what? Judge was
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Speaker 1: in front of after prosecutors say he shot a woman
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Speaker 1: in the chest during a card game. This happened to
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Speaker 1: win in him bills. October fifth, police called a King's
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Speaker 1: Run court about quarter to eleven in the evening when
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Speaker 1: they discovered twenty three year old Rachel Counts dead at
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Speaker 1: the scene. Officers the next morning arrested in charge twenty
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Speaker 1: three year old o'marian Horn with her murder in court.
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Speaker 1: October tenth. Prosecutor say Counts, Horn and other friends gathered
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Speaker 1: at a home on King's Run. They were playing cards
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Speaker 1: when Horn pulled out a revolver. Prosecutor said Horn removed
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Speaker 1: all the bullets but one and said let's play rush
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Speaker 1: and rule that while he'd only be a bigger idiot
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Speaker 1: if he used a semi automatic, Joe Horn poned the
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Speaker 1: gun and it Counts then pulled the trigger, single bullet
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Speaker 1: and the gun fired, hitting her in the chest and
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Speaker 1: killing Herron. Prosecutors read the allegations against him, Horn began
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Speaker 1: to cry in court. Judge Allen Triggs agreed with prosecutors
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Speaker 1: that a high bond was warranted and said Horn used
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Speaker 1: a firearm as if it were a toy. It certainly isn't,
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Speaker 1: noted Judge Triggs, stating the obvious defense attorney had requested
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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars bond, telling the judge the shooting
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Speaker 1: was not intentional, and then horneh had no criminal history,
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Speaker 1: no juvenile record, insignificant ties to the community. That argument
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Speaker 1: obviously did not prevail. Here we go to Florida as
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Speaker 1: this tradition. Florida man hit with federal charges. He allegedly
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Speaker 1: stole seven thousand dollars in scratch off lottery tickets from
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Speaker 1: a convenience store and then showed up to the same
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Speaker 1: convenience store mere hours later for the purpose of redeeming
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Speaker 1: the scratch offs. What forty three year old Justin Farley.
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Speaker 1: He pulled into Saint Petersburg Circle K beginning of May
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Speaker 1: and opened multiple cabinets, took and he taking the scratch
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Speaker 1: off lottery tickets and then fleeing the scene in his
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Speaker 1: Sunday a Lantra. Forty minutes later, Farley arrived in an
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Speaker 1: Area seven eleven to redeem seven thousand dollars worth of
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Speaker 1: scratch offs You're dumbass. After an unsuccessful attempt, the idiot
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Speaker 1: returned to the same circle K and tried to cash
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Speaker 1: in on seven ticket books that he had stolen from
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Speaker 1: the store. That failed again. I guess two separate stores
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Speaker 1: wouldn't redeem them for him. He left and returned to
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Speaker 1: the circle K minutes later, only to come up empty
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Speaker 1: handed a third time. Finalley then drove back to the
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Speaker 1: seven to eleven and a black mass yellow shirt, black
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Speaker 1: nikes and pointed a replica glock at the clerk, demanded
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Speaker 1: the staff or opened up the cash register, successfully stealing
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty dollars from the register before escorting
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Speaker 1: the clerk to the back of the store and taking
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Speaker 1: a pack of Newport's cigarettes. Of course, lots of evidence
33:51
Speaker 1: his license plate plus surveillance footage all led police to
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Speaker 1: pull him over and book him on commercial burglary and
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Speaker 1: grand theft charges. After his arrest, Fairley told the cops
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Speaker 1: that he needed money while getting rine.
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Speaker 5: Who can argue with that.
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Speaker 1: He did admit to committing the Circle K and seven
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Speaker 1: to eleven robbery and a recorded interview with police Farley
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Speaker 1: and died to by Tampa grand jury. Charged with a
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Speaker 1: charge federally now faces a kind of interference with commerce
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Speaker 1: by threat or violence, a federal charge against under the
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Speaker 1: or rather under the Hobbs Act, and that prohibits robbery
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Speaker 1: that impacts interstate or foreign commerce. Apparently has a significant
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Speaker 1: criminal history five fifty five fifty five KR see the
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Speaker 1: talk station lots coming up at six o'clock hour. Peace
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East? Is it possible? Yeah, maybe, anyway,
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Speaker 1: a whole lot. I hope to hear from you as well.
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Speaker 1: Be right back after the brief words and the weather
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Speaker 1: today off headlines and Thomas right here wishing every one
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Speaker 1: with Brian James two hours from now. Tariffs are up
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Speaker 1: interest on the depth north of a trillion dollars and
35:22
Speaker 1: apparently Doge didn't accomplish a whole lot. Is it still around?
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get the details from Brian at eight five,
35:28
Speaker 1: followed by an update on social security and an analysis
35:31
Speaker 1: of credit unions versus banks. So, good morning to the
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Speaker 1: quote unquote secret group of women who religiously listened to
35:39
Speaker 1: Money Monday with Brian James. I hope you're all having
35:41
Speaker 1: a wonderful morning and that you two had a great weekend.
35:43
Speaker 1: Today's Joe Strecker's birthday. The most important thing going on
35:47
Speaker 1: today also happens to be the two hundred and fiftieth
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Speaker 1: anniversary of the US Navy. Thank you Cribbage, Mike my
35:51
Speaker 1: submarine or friend for reminding me about that. Since Joe
35:54
Speaker 1: Strecker's birthday is dominating the national news. Also happens to
35:57
Speaker 1: be Sammy Hagar's birthday, the Red Rocker sharing a birthday
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Speaker 1: with Joseph Strecker, executive producer of the fifty five Carocene
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Speaker 1: Morning Show. So a huge day going on, a very
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Speaker 1: celebratory mood in spite of the nature of what we
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Speaker 1: have seen to date since the massacre of Israeli's back
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Speaker 1: in October seventh, a couple of years ago. Today, the
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Speaker 1: twenty living hostages. When you consider how many hostages they
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Speaker 1: took at the outset. It's such a sad, sad state
36:28
Speaker 1: of affairs that only twenty remain alive. They've been released
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Speaker 1: by all reports, and the twenty eight hostages which they
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Speaker 1: say have dead, which are still held by Hamas someplace
36:40
Speaker 1: can't be located. Hamas has already explained to folks, mediators
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Speaker 1: and the other officials that are riding heard over this
36:46
Speaker 1: ceasefire that Israel they don't know the locations of some
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Speaker 1: of the deceased hostages, resulting in the formation of a
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Speaker 1: multinational task force to try to find them missing remains.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of families are anxiously awaiting to return
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Speaker 1: of the remains and Israel's releasing a lot of currently
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Speaker 1: captive Palestinians two hundred and fifty in Israeli prisons. There
37:11
Speaker 1: were seventeen hundred Palestinians detained in Gaza. Those will all
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Speaker 1: be released after the remains and the well the twenty
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Speaker 1: hostages that are living are secure. So I think that
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Speaker 1: latter part has already happened as this morning and again
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Speaker 1: huge celebration and world leaders and many from the Middle
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Speaker 1: East praising Donald Trump and his efforts to bring about
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Speaker 1: this peace agreement, and everybody is aware there's a lot
37:38
Speaker 1: of details and the devil's always in the details. Will
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Speaker 1: Hamas disarmed, that's an outstanding question. Twenty point proposal said
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Speaker 1: they have to. And as I read this morning, Jimas
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Speaker 1: isn't apparently in control of all these various militias. And
37:56
Speaker 1: it was reported that yesterday there was fighting among some
37:58
Speaker 1: of these militias in Gaza. So different sects and factions
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Speaker 1: beneath the loose Hamas Umbroa, and some of them are
38:10
Speaker 1: busily shooting at each other. So a lot of problems
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Speaker 1: to iron out. Ceasefire has gone into effect. There was
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Speaker 1: much rejoicing over that US troops have shown up. They
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Speaker 1: showed up last Thursday, two hundred of them who are
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Speaker 1: going to support the ceasefire and be part of an
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Speaker 1: international team that is I believe yet to be formed.
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Speaker 1: There's going to be folks from various different countries again
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Speaker 1: presiding over the peace deal and the reformation of Gaza
38:41
Speaker 1: in whatever format comes out on the other side. So
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Speaker 1: again celebrations erupting in Gaza and Tel Aviv. You've got
38:49
Speaker 1: all sides happy about this ceasefire. No more bloodshed let's
38:55
Speaker 1: see here humanitarian aid already flowing into Gaza. Apparently the
38:59
Speaker 1: Egyptian Read Cross sent four hundred trucks containing nine thousand
39:05
Speaker 1: tons of humanitarian aid in Gaza. Israel officials put have
39:09
Speaker 1: six hundred trucks carrying aid that have already entered Gaza. Food,
39:13
Speaker 1: flower fuel, medicine supplies like tents, blankets, and mobile bathrooms,
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Speaker 1: much needed stuff for those poor Gozzans Palestinians. I should
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Speaker 1: point out precise details though remain unclear now this big
39:27
Speaker 1: issues are days ahead, getting Israel and Hamas to agree
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Speaker 1: on the exact lines for Israel's military withdrawal. Hamas wants
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Speaker 1: Israel out of about seventy percent of Gaza in return
39:40
Speaker 1: for the release of the hostages. Israel wants to vacate
39:44
Speaker 1: less territory in the two sides still negotiating that detail.
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Speaker 1: And of course the critical detail for me is is
39:51
Speaker 1: a mosqueing to disarm and the Rafa crossing with Egypt open.
39:56
Speaker 1: That's long been a source of a problem because Egypt
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Speaker 1: said it would not allow the flow of humanity into
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Speaker 1: its countries. So that's one more detail that got ironed out.
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Speaker 1: And you add this development to what Trump was able
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Speaker 1: to accomplish during his first term in the Abraham Accords.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to be overly optimistic, and
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Speaker 1: how can you be, given the history of the various
40:24
Speaker 1: factions and the fighting among the various countries and the
40:26
Speaker 1: religious divisions that exist. But a note of optimism I've
40:32
Speaker 1: never felt, I suppose, in my life about negotiating peace
40:37
Speaker 1: with the Middle East. There was Carter administration was successful
40:43
Speaker 1: with regard to Egypt. We know how that turned out
40:45
Speaker 1: for the president of Egypt at the time. Yes, blown
40:48
Speaker 1: up by an assassin, But these countries seemed to want
40:55
Speaker 1: to I mean, they put aside their religious differences. They
41:00
Speaker 1: all have a vested interest in their own gross domestic
41:04
Speaker 1: product to secure some form of peace. How many resources
41:09
Speaker 1: have been thrown by these various Arab countries into military
41:13
Speaker 1: into you know, acquiring weapons and bombs, and actual loss
41:16
Speaker 1: of human life fighting amongst themselves a lot. Hmmm. Gee,
41:22
Speaker 1: if we could just play nicely together, think of how
41:25
Speaker 1: great it would be. We wouldn't have to worry about
41:27
Speaker 1: each other. We decided that we're going to take a
41:29
Speaker 1: peaceful approach of this for the benefit of everybody. Yeah, okay,
41:32
Speaker 1: you're a different religion. You're a different sact among the
41:34
Speaker 1: broader categories of religion. All right, you know what, We're
41:37
Speaker 1: just going to ignore that crap. Could we see peace
41:43
Speaker 1: in the Middle East in our lifetime? At least we're
41:46
Speaker 1: a step closer things to well, I suppose to some
41:51
Speaker 1: degree Donald Trump's willingness to exercise and flex his military muscle.
41:57
Speaker 1: What Arab country could not take into account, well, the
42:00
Speaker 1: United States response to Iran and dropping those bunk or
42:04
Speaker 1: buster bombs on the Iranian nuclear facility, blowing into Hellan
42:07
Speaker 1: back and setting back their nuclear weapons acquisition operation. How
42:12
Speaker 1: long has it been set back depends on what's talking
42:16
Speaker 1: head you listen to, but it has been set back significantly.
42:20
Speaker 1: Make a note of it, and I'm sure the Arab
42:22
Speaker 1: countries have made a note of it, and maybe even
42:24
Speaker 1: Hamas took that into account. Of course, the United States
42:27
Speaker 1: led Israel free to go after and pursue Hamas in
42:30
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form it it saw to. And
42:33
Speaker 1: what was Donald Trump's final warning before the peace agreement
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Speaker 1: was reached, before Hamas decided to say, yep, we're going
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Speaker 1: to sign on to this, even though we don't know
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Speaker 1: all the details. We're a little reluctant about this whole
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Speaker 1: disarming thing. But they're getting well slaughtered. I suppose there's
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Speaker 1: the word I could use by the Israeli defense forces
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Speaker 1: in Gaza. They're losing ground every single day. Yes, the
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Speaker 1: conditions for the human for the you know, the civilian
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Speaker 1: population have been catastrophic, you know, the collateral damage of war.
43:07
Speaker 1: But if you're making inroads and you're busily killing hamas
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Speaker 1: leaders and they're always announced the you know, leader of
43:12
Speaker 1: a mass, the most recent leader of a mosas, the
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Speaker 1: man who has just designated as leader of a mass
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Speaker 1: ends up getting blown up. And you factor into that
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Speaker 1: the United States obvious willingness, in spite of a lack
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Speaker 1: of congressional authorization, to make big military strikes in places
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Speaker 1: like your on I think you realize you got a
43:28
Speaker 1: problem on your hands. And to my final point on that,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump said all hell was going to be unleashed
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Speaker 1: if a Moss didn't sit down at the table and
43:34
Speaker 1: agree to this flexing his military might. If you're Amas,
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Speaker 1: do you think he's serious about it? Is this one
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Speaker 1: of those fake Barack Obama lines in the sand that
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Speaker 1: he ignores when the line in the sand has been crossed. No,
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Speaker 1: I think the message got out. Donald Trump puts a
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Speaker 1: line in the sand. I think he means it. We
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Speaker 1: might want to consider this peace thing. It's not going
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Speaker 1: He'll join the program today at eight forty to talk
44:38
Speaker 1: about under siege. Looking forward to that, and I hope
44:41
Speaker 1: you are as well. Uh, mass layoffs had begun well,
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Speaker 1: the government's still shut down. Donald Trump promised to do
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Speaker 1: this and Donald Trump delivering on yet another promise. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm shocked that the White House has started to cut
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Speaker 1: jobs and they're largely focused on Democrat priority shocking.
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Speaker 7: No One.
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Speaker 1: White House said on Friday it started la mass layoffs
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Speaker 1: because of the government shutdown. White House Office Management Budget
45:04
Speaker 1: Director Russell Vault. Are the riffs have begun, he said,
45:09
Speaker 1: He's new one b had. He characterizes the retrenchments as substantial.
45:14
Speaker 1: Thousands of federal workers are going to be losing their jobs.
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Speaker 1: President Trump from the Oval Office said it will be
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Speaker 1: a lot, and it will be Democrat oriented. They started
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Speaker 1: this thing. So far, more than four thousand employees across
45:32
Speaker 1: the federal government issued layoff notices. Department of Health and
45:36
Speaker 1: Human Services, Energy and Homeland Security, Education, Treasury, Commerce, Housing
45:41
Speaker 1: and Urban Development all taken some hits. More than eleven
45:46
Speaker 1: hundred workers at Health and Human Services multiple different divisions,
45:49
Speaker 1: got the reduction enforced notices on Friday. Some who lost
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Speaker 1: their jobs over the weekend deemed quote at odds with
45:58
Speaker 1: the Trump administrations make them America Healthy Again agenda. That
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Speaker 1: statement from Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for that department. Now
46:07
Speaker 1: it's noted over and over and over again in the
46:10
Speaker 1: reporting that previously during shutdowns. Layoffs have not been part
46:14
Speaker 1: of the resolution. And of course there's already lawsuits filed.
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Speaker 1: Got some senators, Democrat senators saying that reductions in force
46:24
Speaker 1: are not a new power to these bozos get in
46:27
Speaker 1: a shutdown. We can't be intimidated by these crooks. Patty Murray,
46:33
Speaker 1: Senator said, And of course there are going to I
46:38
Speaker 1: mentioned illegal challenges. Also, the White House has previously cut
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Speaker 1: funding for democratic run states and cities. Omb put on
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Speaker 1: a hold on eighteen billion dollars going to New York
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Speaker 1: City for infrastructure work. City of Chicago, well two point
46:53
Speaker 1: one billion dollars was allocated. There has been well cut
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Speaker 1: off and the moves described to impose pain on Democrats
47:03
Speaker 1: and their programs. And why not use the shutdown to
47:06
Speaker 1: engage in this. We'll find out from the courts whether
47:07
Speaker 1: or not it's lawful and legal. But I always go
47:11
Speaker 1: back to the fact that you know, the rest of
47:13
Speaker 1: us out here in the real world face this kind
47:16
Speaker 1: of like issue every day. We're all subject to get
47:21
Speaker 1: in the acts. Everybody, is your job going to be
47:25
Speaker 1: impacted by artificial intelligence? Can your job be saved in
47:28
Speaker 1: the face of artificial intelligence?
47:29
Speaker 4: Maybe not.
47:31
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be upset if you get laid off,
47:33
Speaker 1: of course, but nobody's gonna weep for you, and nobody's
47:35
Speaker 1: gonna run into court saying I'm sorry, you can't fire
47:38
Speaker 1: this person spite of the fact that this artificial intelligence
47:40
Speaker 1: has rendered their job to be pointless. I doubt that
47:45
Speaker 1: a court of law is going to entertain that argument.
47:47
Speaker 1: How is it then it works for the federal government employees.
47:50
Speaker 1: Do they have extra protections? I know they've unionized with
47:53
Speaker 1: their in line. Part of the challenge of getting ridy
47:55
Speaker 1: and rid of and right sizing a government that just
47:58
Speaker 1: grows and rows and grows every single year. And going
48:07
Speaker 1: back to something that Brian James is going to talk about,
48:09
Speaker 1: our interest payment on the National Bet has exceeded a
48:13
Speaker 1: trillion dollars. We've got mandatory spending programs that takes up
48:20
Speaker 1: to I guess two thirds of all the government outlays.
48:23
Speaker 1: But there is a third out there that apparently is
48:26
Speaker 1: not mandatory, which means it's discretionary, which means maybe there's
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Speaker 1: some areas of government we can resize. How many times
48:34
Speaker 1: has your business gone through a reorganization to stream line,
48:39
Speaker 1: to get rid of the fat quite often middle management
48:42
Speaker 1: of the ones that are the target of these reorgs.
48:45
Speaker 1: When I was over at Anton, Blue Cross and Blue Shield,
48:47
Speaker 1: I think I went through three of them and lots
48:49
Speaker 1: of people lost jobs. And I'm sure they've gone through
48:51
Speaker 1: more of those since then. I've seen countless articles about
48:54
Speaker 1: reorganizations and private corporations with thousands of people, quite often
48:58
Speaker 1: in the tech sector, losing their jobs. They're not guaranteed employment.
49:04
Speaker 1: And the reason the private sector does that is because
49:07
Speaker 1: they realize they have inefficiencies. And when your goal is
49:10
Speaker 1: profit and improving your bottom line, quite often a duty
49:13
Speaker 1: that's a fiduciary duty owed by the board of directors
49:16
Speaker 1: to you, the shareholder, that has to happen. Why doesn't
49:22
Speaker 1: it happen in government? Don't we want the most, the
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Speaker 1: leanest and most efficient government we can. This is our
49:28
Speaker 1: money that keeps it going. And you know, I'm sorry.
49:32
Speaker 1: The thirty seven trillion and growing national debt shows that
49:34
Speaker 1: it's way too big. Six twenty five, I know state
49:41
Speaker 1: in the obvious local stories coming up absent phone calls,
49:44
Speaker 1: We're going to go with local stories. I want to
49:46
Speaker 1: first go with USA Instilation, this talk station. It's six
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Speaker 1: twenty nine here fifty about Kerosene de Talk Station Monday,
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Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman Monday Money Monday, and Eric Trump of his
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Speaker 1: book Underseat. You'll joined the program at eight forty talk
50:01
Speaker 1: about the new book. Over to the phones, you can
50:03
Speaker 1: feel free to call on. I love hearing from listeners
50:05
Speaker 1: and Jay engaging in a conversation. Of course, you can
50:07
Speaker 1: steer the direction of the conversation and have to rely
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Speaker 1: on me to be the editorial director of five one, three, seven, four,
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Speaker 1: nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight two three talk.
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Speaker 1: Let's see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the show.
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Speaker 7: Happy Monday, Brian, how was your weekend?
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Speaker 1: Fantastic weekend. I hope you can say the same.
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, everything went well. Hope everybody had a nice
50:28
Speaker 7: weekend and hopefully this week will turn out well. And
50:33
Speaker 7: be careful where you walk in Cincinnati. I mean, you
50:35
Speaker 7: know they'll run you down and nobody knows who they are.
50:38
Speaker 7: They don't check any cars. And you say like that,
50:41
Speaker 7: let alone the stabbings and the couple shootings we had
50:44
Speaker 7: over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Well, according to a have tab provol and his re
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Speaker 1: election for mayor materials our safety is under attack by
50:53
Speaker 1: MAGA bullies. Bobby, didn you realize you were safe down there?
50:57
Speaker 1: And that if we went with Corey Bowman, who apparently
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Speaker 1: has been designated as a member of MAGA by AFTAB
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Speaker 1: pro Ball, he might get in touch in control of
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Speaker 1: the things, and this safety that we're enjoying right now
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Speaker 1: might be torn apart. According to AFTAB pro.
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Speaker 7: Ball, I wouldn't listen to one word Man said.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not listening to him. I'm not believing him.
51:22
Speaker 1: I'm just using the phrasing of his own words against
51:25
Speaker 1: him because it doesn't make any damn sense. We're gonna
51:27
Speaker 1: be talking about this out at the top of there
51:29
Speaker 1: news before we get to Christopher Smithman. Thank you brother,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bobby. Have a great day. Oh and there's
51:34
Speaker 1: a glock article out of a California Maybe I'll get
51:38
Speaker 1: a chance to take a look at it. Since you
51:41
Speaker 1: are a fellow Second Amendment fan exercising that right. Keviner
51:45
Speaker 1: Newsom just signed a law banning the sale of new
51:50
Speaker 1: glock pistols, the most ubiquitous handgun around. He's got an
51:54
Speaker 1: interesting and bizarre reason for claiming he has the right
51:58
Speaker 1: to ban them. Just get your popcorn out wait for
52:01
Speaker 1: the litigation that will ensue. Councilman Greendale, Indiana arrested on
52:05
Speaker 1: Friday for multiple felony theft related charges following a three
52:09
Speaker 1: month investigation. Indiana State Police in a release said Brett Hamilton,
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Speaker 1: forty six, suspected of stealing thousands of dollars from the
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Speaker 1: Dillsboro Civic Club he was president. Investation investigation began in
52:21
Speaker 1: July this year, led by the ISP detective to Tim Denby,
52:27
Speaker 1: discovered Hamilton allegedly stole from the Dillsborough Civic Club's funds,
52:31
Speaker 1: using the money for personal gain between twenty eighteen and
52:33
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Dearborn County Prosecutor's Office reviewed the case
52:37
Speaker 1: decided to file charges against him this past Friday. Rest
52:40
Speaker 1: warrant issued for felony charges of theft, fraud, money laundering,
52:43
Speaker 1: cor op business influence, and official misconduct. Arrested by Lawrenceburg
52:48
Speaker 1: Police on Friday afternoon, being held a Dearborn County jail,
52:51
Speaker 1: penning his first court appearance. Trust in public officials, It
53:04
Speaker 1: is a funny kind of a funny article in these
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Speaker 1: I guess you see dot edu reporting on their website,
53:11
Speaker 1: but they did a price index on inflation on our
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Speaker 1: local called local favorites, iconic brands, specifically like Skyline Chili. Hey, Joe,
53:21
Speaker 1: do you ever you e to go grocery shopping? You
53:23
Speaker 1: ever pay attention to the cost of a can of
53:24
Speaker 1: Skyline Chili in these inflationary times? Not really. That's one
53:29
Speaker 1: of the ones I kind of keep an eye on.
53:31
Speaker 1: Oh my god, mind blowingly expensive compared to what it
53:34
Speaker 1: used to be just a couple of years ago. I
53:36
Speaker 1: guess price of beef has dramatically increased the cost of
53:38
Speaker 1: Skyline Chili. That's one of the ones that was identified
53:40
Speaker 1: in this You See Enquirer Price Index. They track costs
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Speaker 1: the thirty local goods, and they have since the spring
53:47
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three. There's a professor Rashimi Advol who
53:52
Speaker 1: follows this. He said, overall trend is up for most
53:56
Speaker 1: items on the list. Prices are finally beginning to bite
53:59
Speaker 1: and showing over increase. Latest data shows prices for certain
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Speaker 1: items that Skyline the Roses are well catching up to
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Speaker 1: or out pacing inflation. So this you See enquire Price
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Speaker 1: Index with these thirty specific local favorites jumped nine point
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Speaker 1: nine percent since twenty twenty three. The national average of
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Speaker 1: inflation is seven point three percent. They say six out
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Speaker 1: of the thirty items have stayed the same price during
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Speaker 1: that period of time, including Frank's Red Hot Bottles, clostrom
54:32
Speaker 1: In Big White Bread, and original tide Pods, Truth by
54:35
Speaker 1: Ryin Guy, six packs, two percent milk from UDF, and
54:38
Speaker 1: a pint of Christian Morlins re ad Ale. Everything else
54:44
Speaker 1: up nine and change. Basically, two people were dead following
54:48
Speaker 1: a three vehicle crash Middletown. Happened on Saturday. Middletown Division
54:51
Speaker 1: and Police reporting that officers called to the State Route
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Speaker 1: one twenty two and Dixie Highway for the crash about
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Speaker 1: six pm. Three people taking Atrium Medical Center for life
54:58
Speaker 1: threatening injuries, one per sadly pronounced dat and arrival. Officers
55:03
Speaker 1: say that two others were then flowing to Miami Valley Hospital,
55:05
Speaker 1: where one person later died. Other person remains in critical condition.
55:10
Speaker 1: Please say they do not believe speed and impairment played
55:13
Speaker 1: a factor in the crash, at least presently. It is
55:15
Speaker 1: still under investigation, but if you have information, I guess
55:19
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk to Christopher Smithman about after
55:44
Speaker 1: Purvoll's latest effort. I don't know if he's worried or not.
55:51
Speaker 1: His materials are just side splittingly funny. He doesn't even
55:54
Speaker 1: refer to Cory Bowman. He refers to his opponent JD
55:56
Speaker 1: Vance's brother, of course, and then keeps going Maga magam
55:59
Speaker 1: magham mega, maga macamega as if that has any impact
56:02
Speaker 1: on Corey Bowman or what he has envisioned for the
56:05
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56:15
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning show and a very happy Monday
56:17
Speaker 1: to you.
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Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, Brian. How are you.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I hope you can say the same.
56:22
Speaker 8: I can thank you a great show today. Thank you sir,
56:25
Speaker 8: I just thought it was I just thought it was
56:26
Speaker 8: funny and very interesting about the whole mayorial race right now.
56:31
Speaker 8: A group that I belong to in Madisonville, we have
56:33
Speaker 8: been reporting potholes as a quality of life issue and
56:36
Speaker 8: a lot of other things besides that. But lately I
56:40
Speaker 8: have not had to report a pothole in over thirty days.
56:44
Speaker 8: All the potholes are repaired.
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Speaker 1: Interesting, and they tell you.
56:47
Speaker 8: They tell you that when you called that. They don't
56:50
Speaker 8: send people out to look for potholes anymore. They rely
56:53
Speaker 8: on the public to do this. But I have not
56:55
Speaker 8: had to report one in over thirty days. It's probably
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Speaker 8: more like forty forty five. I thought that was very unusual.
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Speaker 1: You think this has anything at all to do with
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Speaker 1: the upcoming election?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I'm not sure about that.
57:10
Speaker 1: Has anybody dropped the dime on and reported Sunset Avenue
57:14
Speaker 1: my favorite illustration, deteriorating road.
57:18
Speaker 8: I hear you, I hear you talk about that all
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Speaker 8: the time.
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Speaker 1: Something you know, somedaytime they're going to fix it, and
57:23
Speaker 1: then I won't have that to complain about it anymore.
57:25
Speaker 1: I don't know why it has been fixed. It has
57:27
Speaker 1: looked like that for years and years and years. There's
57:30
Speaker 1: gotta be a reason for it.
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Speaker 8: The real because maybe it's because the city doesn't listen
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Speaker 8: to you.
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Speaker 1: Well, true, repair them, but so many people have to
57:41
Speaker 1: break down. You do the same, Tom appreciate that going back. Yeah, progress, Hey,
57:46
Speaker 1: that's some of the progress that after that probably gonna
57:47
Speaker 1: hang his out on. Now you had to wait for
57:49
Speaker 1: it until the month before the election, but hey, look
57:51
Speaker 1: you had a month without having to report a pothod
57:53
Speaker 1: a bottle in your neighborhood. What how has the years
57:58
Speaker 1: got the attention and real quick care. I just want
58:00
Speaker 1: to let you know about something. You know, we have
58:02
Speaker 1: Keith Tenfeld and George Brownman on on the on the
58:06
Speaker 1: the Health episode, we spend an hour talking about health trends.
58:09
Speaker 1: He got Maha movement in RFK Junior and a lot
58:12
Speaker 1: of people starting to really pay attention to consider what
58:14
Speaker 1: they're eating. And we've taken a go at that. In
58:16
Speaker 1: my house preservatives and additives. Now ever since I won
58:20
Speaker 1: on my diet the whole you know, we haven't been
58:22
Speaker 1: buying any processed foods. But I like breakfast sausage, and
58:28
Speaker 1: you eating the old Bob Evans breakfast sausage and I
58:31
Speaker 1: know that's got preservatives, additives and nitrates and all that
58:33
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And I thought to myself, you know
58:34
Speaker 1: what breakfast sausage. It's just ground pork and spices. You
58:37
Speaker 1: can look it up. There's a recipe for you know,
58:39
Speaker 1: breakfast sausage spices out there. So I bought two pounds
58:43
Speaker 1: of just plain old ground pork, got them for four
58:45
Speaker 1: dollars and twenty cents or something a pound. That's two pounds.
58:50
Speaker 1: It made twelve, maybe sixteen breakfast patties after I seasoned them,
58:56
Speaker 1: put them in a cryback bag, frozen, had them for
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Speaker 1: breakfast over the weekend. It was outstanding and saved a
59:02
Speaker 1: ton of money. I looked up bob Evans. It's ten ounces.
59:05
Speaker 1: If you get those links or the patties, ten ounces
59:08
Speaker 1: is going to set you back like six dollars ten ounces.
59:14
Speaker 1: So I get a pound of ground port for four
59:18
Speaker 1: to twenty nine and about two cents worth of spice
59:20
Speaker 1: is thrown in there. I've got a pound of breakfast
59:23
Speaker 1: sausage for a little over four dollars versus the six
59:26
Speaker 1: I would have paid for ten ounces of bob Evans.
59:29
Speaker 1: So I'm just throwing it out there and little trick
59:31
Speaker 1: of the trade I found out when I made it.
59:33
Speaker 1: The recipe I saw said add if you would like
59:36
Speaker 1: a little sweetness to it, maple syrup or some brown sugar.
59:40
Speaker 1: I chose the former because we have maple syrup that
59:42
Speaker 1: we got out of our trees or maple trees on
59:44
Speaker 1: the in the yard. Last year. It made fantastic maple syrup.
59:47
Speaker 1: And boy, that sausage turned out great. So save yourself money,
59:50
Speaker 1: get rid of the preservatives. And added is make your
59:53
Speaker 1: own just thought I mentioned that, and buy bulk coffee
59:58
Speaker 1: and don't go to Starbucks if you're saving trying to
1:00:00
Speaker 1: save some money. Coffee has gone through the absolute blanket roof.
1:00:04
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you something you already know. Son, take
1:00:06
Speaker 1: a break here. Coming up, I just I do want
1:00:08
Speaker 1: to mention this. Gavin Newsom having a go at the
1:00:12
Speaker 1: Second Amendment again, this is crazy. Before we get to
1:00:15
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Speaker 1: just got a kick out of this. You know that's
1:00:39
Speaker 1: Democrats desperate to take away your guns and and so
1:00:41
Speaker 1: trying to take away your guns. They never really take
1:00:43
Speaker 1: them away, because, let's face it, there are hundreds of
1:00:45
Speaker 1: millions of firearms out there, ones that never were subject
1:00:49
Speaker 1: to a band, and ones that will still be out
1:00:51
Speaker 1: there even in the aftermath of the glock band legislation,
1:00:56
Speaker 1: which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday, Assembly
1:00:59
Speaker 1: Bill eleven seven, labeled by the National Shooting Sports Foundation
1:01:06
Speaker 1: as a glock ban, This will take effect July of
1:01:09
Speaker 1: next year, which means probably a whole bunch of people
1:01:12
Speaker 1: running around buying clocks right now before the band goes
1:01:14
Speaker 1: into effect. And I'm sure this will be stopped by
1:01:16
Speaker 1: some court, but it bans the sale of new Glock
1:01:20
Speaker 1: brand pistols on the heels of glock days over twenty
1:01:23
Speaker 1: two three this past Saturday, Did you go and get one?
1:01:28
Speaker 1: Glock band? Described as a Democrat sponsored legislation fashioned as
1:01:31
Speaker 1: a response to the use of illegal glock switches. You
1:01:38
Speaker 1: buy a little piece of plastic, you apparently can easily
1:01:40
Speaker 1: install it on a glock gun and it turns into
1:01:42
Speaker 1: fully automatic even who loves these gangsters, most notably gangsters
1:01:45
Speaker 1: who have no idea to hit what they're aiming at.
1:01:47
Speaker 1: It's spray and pray, and of course the prayer by
1:01:50
Speaker 1: the gang banger is to maybe hit something that they're
1:01:53
Speaker 1: aiming at. I find these things to be ridiculous and stupid.
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Speaker 1: I'd never own one, but they are illegal, so I would.
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Speaker 1: I can own one anyway, I'm not inclined to break
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Speaker 1: the law. They are federally prohibited block switches, popular among
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Speaker 1: gangs and street criminals. As I point out, democrats are
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Speaker 1: banning new sales of one of the most popular handguns
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Speaker 1: in the world because some are fitted with glock switches.
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Speaker 1: They are machine gun convertible. You go and buy a
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Speaker 1: glock handgun. It complies with all laws. It is not
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Speaker 1: a fully automatic firearm. It is semi automatic. One trigger
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Speaker 1: pull shoots one bullet, repeat process to shoot another. Clock
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Speaker 1: switches unload a hole magazine in a matter of a
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Speaker 1: moment's time. They're really stupid fast and makes a handgun
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Speaker 1: very difficult to control too my subjective opinion, You can
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Speaker 1: draw your own conclusions. Go ahead and try one. Out
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Speaker 1: sometime if you want to run the risk of getting
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Speaker 1: arrested for having one. Court to the legislation, a machine
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Speaker 1: gun convertible pistol, in other words, one that has not
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Speaker 1: been converted into a new machine gun. They define it
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Speaker 1: as any any semi automatic pistol with a cruciform trigger
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Speaker 1: bar that can be readily converted by hand or with
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Speaker 1: common household tools into a machine gun by the installation
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Speaker 1: or attachment of a pistol converter as specified, and pistol
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Speaker 1: converter as any device or instrument that, when installed or
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Speaker 1: attach to the rear of a slide of a semi
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Speaker 1: automatic pistol, replaces the backplate interfering with the trigger mechanism,
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Speaker 1: enabling the pistol to shoot automatically. The point of all
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Speaker 1: that is you're doing something and converting a legal firearmy
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Speaker 1: into something illegal. Already illegal to own one of those,
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Speaker 1: it's on the book. So that's not quite good enough.
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Speaker 1: So let's see if we can get rid of all
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Speaker 1: of them. This is the reaction banning the most popular
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Speaker 1: handgun in the world because it can be made illegal.
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Speaker 1: It makes the mind kind of wonder how many firearms
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Speaker 1: out there can be turned into something unlawful because you're
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Speaker 1: tinkering with it, and then so tinkering subject yourself to
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Speaker 1: federal prosecution. This bill would expand the above definition of
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Speaker 1: machine gun to include any machine gun convertible pistol equipped
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Speaker 1: with a pistol converter. So basically, boil down a brand
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Speaker 1: new semi automatic block pistol in the mind of Gavin
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Speaker 1: Newsom and the Democrats in California, is actually a machine gun.
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Speaker 1: So we're talking about orwell and sort of rename and
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Speaker 1: relabeling the world in which we find ourselves, sort of
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Speaker 1: upending the traditional norms and understanding definitionally of what is
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Speaker 1: and what isn't a machine gun. This one just change
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Speaker 1: the definition anyway. I think we'll see that one in
1:05:06
Speaker 1: court very very quickly with good reason. Ah, but they're
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Speaker 1: coming for your guns. Just always remember the reason the
1:05:15
Speaker 1: founding fathers incorporated the right to keep him bare arms
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Speaker 1: into the Constitution. It wasn't for hunting. Coming up, Christopher Smith,
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Speaker 1: well you got to dive onto some of the details
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Speaker 1: of aftab Purvols. I don't know. Is it an act
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Speaker 1: of desperation, is a reflection of him worrying about where
1:05:32
Speaker 1: he is relative to Cory Bowman, Does Corey Bowman have
1:05:34
Speaker 1: a chance? See may don't know if there's any internal
1:05:36
Speaker 1: polling out there that's been released. Also, if you have
1:05:39
Speaker 1: any information on early voting. I know the Republicans were
1:05:41
Speaker 1: ahead in Hamilton County and early voting. Is that still
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Speaker 1: the case. If you have that kind of information, I
1:05:46
Speaker 1: love to hear from you. But you know, the idea
1:05:48
Speaker 1: that aftab Purvole has launched this maga campaign, I think
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Speaker 1: maybe he is reflective of the fact that he may
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Speaker 1: be in a little bit of concern about his job.
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Speaker 1: But don't worry. Everything's fine in the city. Says they
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Speaker 1: have to have PERVALL. We don't want those evil Maga
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Speaker 1: folks upending all of this progress that's been made under
1:06:13
Speaker 1: the Pervall administration. So, in addition to that other information
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for, can you come up with something that
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Speaker 1: you would hang your hat on if you are AFT
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Speaker 1: have PERVALL that demonstrates progress considering how many lane miles
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Speaker 1: were behind in terms of repaving, Considering the equipment problems
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Speaker 1: we face, lack of fire department equipment, the lack of
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Speaker 1: snow removal equipment, the fact that a lot of this
1:06:35
Speaker 1: stuff is out of commission. We could go on and
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Speaker 1: on and on about the problems that you and I
1:06:39
Speaker 1: have identified in downtown Cincinnati, but can you come up
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Speaker 1: with something that you would characterize as true progress. A
1:06:46
Speaker 1: note in his materials asking you for money. He didn't
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Speaker 1: specifically say anything, which is kind of puzzling. Six fifty
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Speaker 1: five fifty five K sit the talk station. Be back
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Speaker 1: with that plus Smithman coming up at seven to twenty.
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Speaker 1: I hope you can stick around today's top stories seven
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Speaker 1: oh six here fifty five car see de Talks Nation,
1:07:19
Speaker 1: Happy Monday, looking forward to seven twenty. This hour, as
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Speaker 1: always Monday means Christopher Smithman and the Monday Morning smith
1:07:25
Speaker 1: avent gonna get money money with Brian James one hour
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Speaker 1: from now. Tariffs are way up. Interest on the debt
1:07:32
Speaker 1: over a trillion dollars in Doge apparently didn't do much.
1:07:35
Speaker 1: That's topic one or topics one. Update on Social Security
1:07:38
Speaker 1: number two and coming to number three credit unions versus banks.
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Speaker 1: He's promised a discussion on that. We get it today.
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Speaker 1: Eric Trump returned, Oh wow. Shows up at the fifty
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Speaker 1: five Carsey Morning Show. Eight forty You've talked about his
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Speaker 1: new book under siege. Yes that Eric Trump over to
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Speaker 1: the phones, will go five on three, seven, four, nine
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Speaker 1: fifty five, eight hundred and eight two three talk. Let's
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Speaker 1: see what Rich has got this morning. Rich, happy Monday,
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Speaker 1: thanks for calling.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 9: How are you doing this morning?
1:08:03
Speaker 1: For a Monday? I can say I'm pretty good shape.
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Speaker 1: I hope you can say the same.
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Speaker 9: Yeah. Well, just like you say that, maybe Newsom, since
1:08:10
Speaker 9: he likes to ban things that you know are illegal,
1:08:14
Speaker 9: maybe he should ban all cars because they kill more
1:08:19
Speaker 9: people every year than guns to and the fact that
1:08:23
Speaker 9: you can also break the law with a car by
1:08:26
Speaker 9: pushing your foot too hard on that gas pedal. Yes,
1:08:30
Speaker 9: and then you are breaking the law. Yeah, maybe every
1:08:35
Speaker 9: every car should just be equipped with it has to
1:08:38
Speaker 9: keep reading those.
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Speaker 5: Signs and say fifty five, twenty.
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Speaker 9: Five whatever it is, and you could not push it
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Speaker 9: the pedal and go any faster.
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Speaker 1: You know, trust me that technology exists.
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Speaker 8: Rich.
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Speaker 1: A speed limitter. We all know about those, even around forever. Yeah,
1:08:54
Speaker 1: all you have is a used manufacturer car that cannot
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Speaker 1: exceed the highest posted speed limit in any given state. Yeah.
1:09:01
Speaker 1: Why because people can go faster and break the law
1:09:04
Speaker 1: with the car. Yes, people can buy a clock and
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Speaker 1: then break the law when you turn it into the
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Speaker 1: fully automatic firearm. Yes, you can kill somebody with a
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Speaker 1: baseball bat and a bass guitar at some point, just
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Speaker 1: swing it hard enough and hit them in the head
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Speaker 1: with it. That's a crime. We don't need to ban
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Speaker 1: guitars or baseball bats or anything else you can murder
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Speaker 1: someone with, including cutlery see England. Yeah, it's just control, control, control, control,
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Speaker 1: and dumb, dumb efforts to control. And then you can't
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Speaker 1: unring the bell. The fact that the glock handgun is
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Speaker 1: the most popular one out there. I would love to
1:09:36
Speaker 1: know how many glockhandguns exist in California alone, you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean, are you gonna take them off the streets
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Speaker 1: or no? All those can be converted fully automatic, but
1:09:48
Speaker 1: they're still out there. Why because you bought them when
1:09:50
Speaker 1: they were legal. Yeah, that's going nowhere. Rich, it's going nowhere.
1:09:53
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right. Added to the list. Since here's
1:09:57
Speaker 1: the message from as we approach christ Smithlman. I. I
1:10:01
Speaker 1: was scratching my head over this, and we'll see if
1:10:03
Speaker 1: we can't find reasons to degree or disagree with AFTAB
1:10:05
Speaker 1: pur Ball re lucked AFTAB for mayor keep MAGA out
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. It's like a blaring headline in bold, dear friend,
1:10:16
Speaker 1: Cincinnati stands at a crossroads. Everything we've remember. This is
1:10:21
Speaker 1: Aftab pur of Ball speaking, or maybe friends of par
1:10:23
Speaker 1: Ball or someone representing the interest of Aftab pur Ball.
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Speaker 1: Everything we've fought for, our progress, our unity, our safety
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Speaker 1: is under attack now as I was doing I was
1:10:40
Speaker 1: stopping as I read through this and going back to
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Speaker 1: the comments at the close of the last hour. What
1:10:47
Speaker 1: is he talking about? What specific progress? And don't look
1:10:53
Speaker 1: to the materials to identify anything. He just states things
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Speaker 1: in broad language without any specific support for what he's
1:11:00
Speaker 1: referring to. I don't know what progress he's referring to.
1:11:03
Speaker 1: I certainly don't know what unity he's referring to. And
1:11:06
Speaker 1: of course safety a real problem for the residents of
1:11:08
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati. We have a safety problem. I
1:11:12
Speaker 1: don't believe it's just a perception. As I read about
1:11:17
Speaker 1: fatal stabbing in bond Hill yesterday and one person died
1:11:20
Speaker 1: in a shooting in mount Airy yesterday, he goes on, Maga,
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Speaker 1: bullies are trying to tear apart the community we've worked
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Speaker 1: so hard to build, and I will not let that
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Speaker 1: happen all right, Well, clearly he is referring to Donald
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Speaker 1: or JD. Vance's brother because he brings that up. And
1:11:42
Speaker 1: I know politicians been the truth or flat out why
1:11:46
Speaker 1: but you know, ahead, listen to last week's conversation with
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman. Where does he come across as maga. When
1:11:53
Speaker 1: has he said he embraces Donald Trump's policies or when
1:11:56
Speaker 1: has he gone around and actually campaign the fact that
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Speaker 1: he happens to be Corey JD Vance's half brother. He
1:12:02
Speaker 1: tries to avoid that. He does not want to be
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Speaker 1: mixed up with JD. Vans or Donald Trump. He's his
1:12:06
Speaker 1: own man, He's got his own vision for the city. Anyway,
1:12:09
Speaker 1: back to pervol our city has always been defined by respect, inclusivity,
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Speaker 1: and fairness. I thought we live in an inherently racist,
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Speaker 1: irredeemable city nation. I thought the police were a vile,
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Speaker 1: racist force that need to be dealt with and rethought,
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Speaker 1: reimagined or defunded. He goes on, but those values are
1:12:41
Speaker 1: under a threat from forces both near and far, intent
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Speaker 1: on undoing what we've achieved together. I go back to
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Speaker 1: my out loud question, what specifically is he referring to
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Speaker 1: that he's so proud that his administration has brought to
1:12:52
Speaker 1: the residents of the city. He goes on my opponent, JD.
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Speaker 1: Vance's brother has already put us on the stage and
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Speaker 1: is backed by billionaires. His only goal is to reverse
1:13:03
Speaker 1: our hard won victories for their own gain. Well, considering
1:13:06
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman's campaign raising, I'm not quite sure that there
1:13:08
Speaker 1: are multi billionaires or billionaires out there funding his campaign.
1:13:12
Speaker 1: Maybe you can identify someone who has written him a check.
1:13:17
Speaker 1: I think Provol's got a nice padded account himself. But
1:13:22
Speaker 1: what of these hard won victories. If we let them
1:13:28
Speaker 1: gain a foothold, we risk our safety there it is
1:13:31
Speaker 1: again that safety word, our community and everything that makes
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati the place we love. He's leaving it to your
1:13:40
Speaker 1: imagination what specifically he's talking about. The moment for action
1:13:44
Speaker 1: is here. The moment is now. Let's stand together, fight
1:13:47
Speaker 1: back and protect what we've built. Early voting started yesterday
1:13:51
Speaker 1: and we are building a unified defense with my grassroots
1:13:54
Speaker 1: supports like you can you rush a contribution now of
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Speaker 1: twenty five dollars to show that Team AFT we will
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Speaker 1: mobilize and band together and refuse to allow Magga to
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Speaker 1: destroy what we have built. We have built. There's those
1:14:07
Speaker 1: words again. Actually in one paragraph he used that twice
1:14:11
Speaker 1: oh paragraph following that sounds a little familiar to We
1:14:16
Speaker 1: must come together as a community and refuse to let
1:14:18
Speaker 1: division and fear take rout. What we have built is
1:14:23
Speaker 1: valuable and worth protecting, and we will not allow it
1:14:25
Speaker 1: to be sacrificed to those who thrive on chaos and control.
1:14:30
Speaker 1: The pot called the kettle black a little bit who's
1:14:32
Speaker 1: thriving on chaos and control. We would be antifi Black
1:14:36
Speaker 1: Lives Matter groups, the defund the police folks, the iris
1:14:40
Speaker 1: Rawley's getting out and interfering with police officers doing their
1:14:43
Speaker 1: job and looking out for the community. That team aft
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Speaker 1: to have will mobilize and band together and refuse to
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Speaker 1: allow Maggot to destroy what we have built. Didn't realize
1:14:54
Speaker 1: we were in the throes of a Maga assault. Folks
1:14:57
Speaker 1: didn't quite understand that. So I'm going what I've been
1:15:00
Speaker 1: saying this morning, What in the hell is he talking about?
1:15:06
Speaker 1: Look out your window, how's your road doing? Do you
1:15:10
Speaker 1: have gunfire in your neighborhood regularly? Is there a lack
1:15:15
Speaker 1: of police presence in your neighborhood? A problem that's been
1:15:17
Speaker 1: brewing for a long long time, one which Aftab Purbo
1:15:20
Speaker 1: only recently came out to try to address, at least verbally,
1:15:24
Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the late July brutal beatings that did,
1:15:28
Speaker 1: in fact put Cincinnati in the national spotlight. Wasn't so
1:15:31
Speaker 1: much jd Vance's half brother that one made headlines across
1:15:37
Speaker 1: the country. The video of Holly getting punched in the
1:15:40
Speaker 1: face is what brought Cincinnati to the national focus AFTAB
1:15:47
Speaker 1: seven fifteen if five care City Talk station, I suspect
1:15:50
Speaker 1: Christopher might have a word or two about that. We
1:15:52
Speaker 1: will collectively learn what's on Christopher's mind. With the Smith
1:15:55
Speaker 1: event coming up next. First, no odor exit won't get
1:15:58
Speaker 1: rid of the stench of politic hegar. Not only is
1:16:02
Speaker 1: it the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth
1:16:04
Speaker 1: of the United States Navy. More importantly, it's Joe Strecker's birthday.
1:16:08
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Joe Strecker, and welcome back also an important
1:16:11
Speaker 1: day every Monday, it's this time we hear from the
1:16:13
Speaker 1: former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, candidate for
1:16:16
Speaker 1: SININNY City Council worth the vote, Christopher Smitheman. Welcome back,
1:16:19
Speaker 1: my friend's always great having you on the show.
1:16:22
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you so much, Brian. I'm honored to be
1:16:26
Speaker 4: here every morning or every Monday to talk to you.
1:16:30
Speaker 4: And what a historic day to listen to our president,
1:16:34
Speaker 4: President Trump addressing the Parliament of Israel saying we have
1:16:40
Speaker 4: peace and that a peace deal has been broken in
1:16:45
Speaker 4: hostages as you and I are having this conversation are
1:16:50
Speaker 4: coming home. Twenty of them still alive, and the bodies
1:16:55
Speaker 4: if it were my daughter or my son Christopher Malcolm Isaac,
1:17:01
Speaker 4: I want their body back so that I could have
1:17:04
Speaker 4: closure and put my child to rest. And that also
1:17:08
Speaker 4: is happening, which is a part of his peace deal,
1:17:10
Speaker 4: which is dignity, and Israel is releasing prisoners. I think
1:17:15
Speaker 4: over two thousand of them back in there being reunited
1:17:20
Speaker 4: with their families, and you see joy on that side.
1:17:23
Speaker 4: And this is about peace. And you know, I've been
1:17:28
Speaker 4: amazed at watching Brian Thomas former administrations, and I'm going
1:17:33
Speaker 4: to name them who've just been unwilling to say, good
1:17:37
Speaker 4: job America, good job President Trump, good job his administration.
1:17:42
Speaker 4: When you're brokering peace in the world. Have we gone
1:17:46
Speaker 4: so far community where we can't even say good job
1:17:52
Speaker 4: to a president and his administration, no matter who they are,
1:17:55
Speaker 4: an American president who is brokering a piece that has
1:17:58
Speaker 4: eluded me any previous administrations. What's wrong with us? And
1:18:04
Speaker 4: how far have we thought? I was disappointed when I
1:18:07
Speaker 4: saw some of the statements from the different leaders. I mean,
1:18:11
Speaker 4: I was glad to see, for example, Hillary Clinton, former
1:18:15
Speaker 4: Secretary of State, say President Trump did a great job.
1:18:18
Speaker 4: I was proud to see Condalisa Rights say good job,
1:18:22
Speaker 4: this was a great scenario. I don't know what her
1:18:25
Speaker 4: position is on President Trump, because Condollisa Rights has always
1:18:29
Speaker 4: been very guarded and very cautious. I think she'd make
1:18:33
Speaker 4: a great president, by the way, but I was disappointed
1:18:36
Speaker 4: when former President Barack Obama didn't just say he had
1:18:40
Speaker 4: a beautiful statement about peace. It was wonderful, but he
1:18:42
Speaker 4: didn't say congratulations to this administration. I don't know what
1:18:46
Speaker 4: is going on out here in the political atmosphere of
1:18:49
Speaker 4: the ecosystem, but we have got to change direction and
1:18:54
Speaker 4: get some civility in this country. Our neighbors are not
1:18:58
Speaker 4: our enemies. Other communities on our enemies. We have to
1:19:02
Speaker 4: be able to day in this moment for Israel and
1:19:06
Speaker 4: for the Palestinian people, not Hamas. Hamas is different. Hamas
1:19:10
Speaker 4: is a terrorist organization, and anybody who's unwilling to say
1:19:15
Speaker 4: that needs to get their heads screwed on rights. We're
1:19:18
Speaker 4: not talking about Hamas. We're talking about the Palestinian people
1:19:22
Speaker 4: are getting peace today, and so are the Israelis, and
1:19:25
Speaker 4: we should commend this administration, commend America for brokery peace
1:19:30
Speaker 4: in this country.
1:19:31
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I even gave credit to Jimmy Carter
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Speaker 1: with the Camp David peace Accords. He negotiated a settlement
1:19:37
Speaker 1: between Israel and Egypt which ended a lot of bloodshed
1:19:40
Speaker 1: and ANDed to some land occupation by Israel. Widely supported
1:19:43
Speaker 1: except for the terrorists who are upset about the peace agreement.
1:19:47
Speaker 1: Then they blew up uh when it was at Monock
1:19:50
Speaker 1: and bag and they blew up anwar sadad if I
1:19:52
Speaker 1: recall correctly, but any of it, I mean there you
1:19:54
Speaker 1: give credit where credits due. Do I like Jimmy Carter? No,
1:19:57
Speaker 1: But he didn't negotiate a framework for peace there, you know,
1:20:00
Speaker 1: I mean you got to give credit where credits due.
1:20:03
Speaker 1: Does Donald Trump deserve all this credit? Well, he wasn't
1:20:05
Speaker 1: sitting there at the table. He had his appointees to it,
1:20:08
Speaker 1: but it's within the realm of the Trump administration, so
1:20:10
Speaker 1: his people were able to go over there and do it,
1:20:13
Speaker 1: and the world leaders are all giving him damn credit
1:20:15
Speaker 1: for it. So yeah, the silence from some folks, and
1:20:18
Speaker 1: I guess the ongoing criticism from some is never going
1:20:21
Speaker 1: to go away. Christopher. You know they all have TDS
1:20:23
Speaker 1: Trump arrangement syndrome.
1:20:26
Speaker 4: But here's what I'm saying to you, Brian Thomas. What
1:20:28
Speaker 4: leaders do is they a point people around them that
1:20:32
Speaker 4: are smarter than them.
1:20:34
Speaker 1: Yeah.
1:20:34
Speaker 4: Good leaders are like, hey man, I've got to put
1:20:37
Speaker 4: the right people in place in order to make the
1:20:40
Speaker 4: things happen for this country a world. That's what good
1:20:44
Speaker 4: leaders do. And that's why I give and I said,
1:20:47
Speaker 4: the Trump administration and the President get credit for this
1:20:52
Speaker 4: historic peace deal. They've been at war for two years, man,
1:20:55
Speaker 4: Kyla Sini and kids are getting killed every single day.
1:20:58
Speaker 4: Let's stop the bloodshet it. And people elected him. There
1:21:02
Speaker 4: are a lot of people that have said to me
1:21:04
Speaker 4: they elected him because they wanted the wars to stop.
1:21:06
Speaker 4: They wanted peace. These are Americans who were saying they
1:21:09
Speaker 4: didn't want this more get deeper into wars and be
1:21:12
Speaker 4: this global police. He saying, this president is saying I
1:21:16
Speaker 4: want peace. I don't want more war. All I'm saying
1:21:19
Speaker 4: to you is that to the public, if you're a
1:21:21
Speaker 4: person that is waking up and you just can't say,
1:21:25
Speaker 4: I give this administration and this president credit for this
1:21:29
Speaker 4: historic moment, there's something wrong with your politics. I'm trying
1:21:34
Speaker 4: to love on you right now and say, please, please,
1:21:37
Speaker 4: when you go out on social media, be willing to
1:21:40
Speaker 4: just say, this is a great day for our country.
1:21:43
Speaker 4: We showed leadership in the world. This was a great
1:21:46
Speaker 4: peace deal. It's a first step. We don't know whether
1:21:49
Speaker 4: there's going to be other steps here, you know, I
1:21:51
Speaker 4: mean something that break out and things go awrived. Oh,
1:21:54
Speaker 4: but at least give them credit in this moment. That's
1:21:57
Speaker 4: all I'm saying, Brian Thomas, and I don't see why
1:21:59
Speaker 4: that is difficult.
1:22:00
Speaker 1: Bullets are not flying, people are being reunited with their families.
1:22:04
Speaker 1: The border with Egypt is open to allow humanitarian relief
1:22:07
Speaker 1: and aid and also for Palestinians to either re enter
1:22:10
Speaker 1: Gaza or exit Gaza, as the case may be. They
1:22:13
Speaker 1: got the devil in the details to work on. How
1:22:15
Speaker 1: much land is going to is Israel going to vacate
1:22:18
Speaker 1: from who's going to be the arbiters of peace as
1:22:20
Speaker 1: we move forward with the rebuilding effort, A lot of
1:22:23
Speaker 1: details and will Hamas disarm. As of right now, bullets
1:22:28
Speaker 1: are not flying, people are not losing lives, and people
1:22:31
Speaker 1: have been reunited on both sides of the war. I
1:22:35
Speaker 1: think we can all and I want to.
1:22:36
Speaker 4: Embrace that we can't Brian, And let me say this,
1:22:39
Speaker 4: this move right here for anybody and everybody that's listening,
1:22:42
Speaker 4: please listen to me what I'm saying. This piece, this
1:22:46
Speaker 4: is a great step for also Russia and Ukraine. Meaning
1:22:50
Speaker 4: when Russia and Ukraine they're watching this peace right here,
1:22:53
Speaker 4: don't you want a little of this piece? I see
1:22:56
Speaker 4: a lot of Ukrainian flags as I go door to
1:22:58
Speaker 4: door and talk to shit. There's lots of Americans that
1:23:01
Speaker 4: are very concerned about that war. I'm saying. They might
1:23:05
Speaker 4: not understand, or they do understand and appreciate this is
1:23:09
Speaker 4: momentum also for peace in other parts of our of
1:23:13
Speaker 4: our world, starting with Russia and starting with Ukraine. This
1:23:17
Speaker 4: might be their step two to say, you know what,
1:23:19
Speaker 4: we want a little piece of that love. We want
1:23:21
Speaker 4: a little piece, We want a little a piece of
1:23:23
Speaker 4: peace for our communities, and maybe Brian Thomas they take
1:23:27
Speaker 4: the step. I'm just saying, let's get to the point
1:23:30
Speaker 4: in our country where we can say vote yes for America,
1:23:35
Speaker 4: Yes for momentum in our country. No matter who is
1:23:38
Speaker 4: the President of the United States, no matter who the
1:23:40
Speaker 4: administration is, I'm rooting for this country. I'm rooting for
1:23:45
Speaker 4: our progress. And if you don't like that, you got
1:23:48
Speaker 4: to kind of re examine your own head because this
1:23:51
Speaker 4: is a this is this is historic and it's going
1:23:54
Speaker 4: to go down historic in the history books, whether someone
1:23:57
Speaker 4: gives him the Nobel Peace Prize or not. I'm sharing
1:24:00
Speaker 4: with our community this moment in this day is historic.
1:24:05
Speaker 1: More with Christopher Smithment. It's seven twenty eight right now
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Speaker 1: vice mayor candidate for Cincinnai's City Council. Open voting right now,
1:24:21
Speaker 1: Get in there and vote. How Man County Board of
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1:24:25
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Speaker 1: in and cast your vote. You don't have to wait
1:24:29
Speaker 1: till election day, Christopher Smithman, and you have the floor,
1:24:32
Speaker 1: my friend.
1:24:34
Speaker 4: Look, brother, I watched the debate this past week for
1:24:38
Speaker 4: mayor and probably one of the most important elections because
1:24:44
Speaker 4: our city is on the wrong track and no matter
1:24:47
Speaker 4: what door I knock on, whether it's in Mount Lookout
1:24:50
Speaker 4: or High Park, or whether it's in bond Hill or
1:24:52
Speaker 4: Rosebonn or Evingston, there's a consensus out there that the city,
1:24:57
Speaker 4: the City Council and the Mayor's office are on the
1:25:00
Speaker 4: wrong track. This is really important because the mayor most
1:25:04
Speaker 4: likely is out there doing polls and he's finding out
1:25:09
Speaker 4: people do not like the direction of the city. The
1:25:12
Speaker 4: tabs are showing there's concern. So what you see this
1:25:16
Speaker 4: mayor doing is going into the culture war. This is
1:25:20
Speaker 4: really important community, meaning he can't run on the substance
1:25:25
Speaker 4: of potholes not being fixed, or your snow of failure
1:25:29
Speaker 4: of its removal this last winter where you couldn't get
1:25:32
Speaker 4: your kids to school. Our garbage pickup are the number
1:25:36
Speaker 4: one issue crime, whether somebody's getting carjacked, are the possibility
1:25:41
Speaker 4: of being carjacked in Hyde Park? Are the murders every
1:25:45
Speaker 4: other day in our community? Of black men shooting each other,
1:25:48
Speaker 4: whether it's in downtown, whether it's in Price Hill, whether
1:25:52
Speaker 4: it's in Bond Hill or Roseline, whatever neighborhood, Avondale. We've
1:25:56
Speaker 4: got a murder rate and a murder problem, and the
1:25:59
Speaker 4: ages are ropping, thirteen and fourteen year olds walking around
1:26:02
Speaker 4: with guns. A mayor with no plan at the beginning
1:26:06
Speaker 4: of the summer to abate the crime that we know
1:26:09
Speaker 4: is going to happen in our summer months in our cores.
1:26:11
Speaker 4: We've got shootings down on Fountain Square. None of these
1:26:15
Speaker 4: things are lies. Brawls downtown where a woman almost lost
1:26:18
Speaker 4: her life by the name of Holly punched it in
1:26:20
Speaker 4: the faith. You know. We've got a woman whose daughter,
1:26:24
Speaker 4: this is Cassandra, when we haven't even caught the guy
1:26:27
Speaker 4: who shot her daughter in the back, just walking at
1:26:30
Speaker 4: nine o'clock at night. Five children left for Grandma Ronda
1:26:34
Speaker 4: Win to raise on her own. My point view is
1:26:37
Speaker 4: I could go list a Sarah Henry Jerk and her
1:26:41
Speaker 4: beautiful husband Patrick who was murdered in otr fitting in
1:26:44
Speaker 4: their home, laying in their home sleep. Guy comes in
1:26:48
Speaker 4: kills her husband. He's done two tours, he's a military vet,
1:26:52
Speaker 4: Patrick did two tours Brian Thomas and lost his life.
1:26:56
Speaker 4: We had a mayor in a debate that wanted to
1:27:00
Speaker 4: boil it all the way down to MAGA. He started
1:27:03
Speaker 4: talking about MAGA and Trump and all of this divisive language.
1:27:10
Speaker 4: If we take the bait community, that tells you just
1:27:13
Speaker 4: how scared he is. He doesn't have a record to
1:27:17
Speaker 4: run on. So now what he's doing is he's trying
1:27:19
Speaker 4: to tie the federal national politics to our local politics.
1:27:25
Speaker 4: That is a very dangerous thing community. And it turned
1:27:29
Speaker 4: me off so much, Brian Thomas, because it was an
1:27:32
Speaker 4: opportunity for this mayor to stand before us and say,
1:27:35
Speaker 4: at best, here's what I'm going to do different, here's
1:27:39
Speaker 4: my plan for this, here's the direction I want to
1:27:42
Speaker 4: take the city of Cincinnati. Here's my hopeful message. It
1:27:45
Speaker 4: wasn't that at all. It was let's divide us culturally.
1:27:48
Speaker 4: Let's make our neighbors even more suspicious of each other,
1:27:51
Speaker 4: don't like each other because of where your political persuasion is.
1:27:55
Speaker 4: It was insane to me, and I was so disappointed
1:27:58
Speaker 4: in him, his team and anybody that had him go
1:28:01
Speaker 4: out there and do that to us. Brian Thomas, we
1:28:04
Speaker 4: don't need more division in our city. We need somebody
1:28:07
Speaker 4: who's wanting to bring us together and make things good
1:28:11
Speaker 4: and then solve the big problems that we have in
1:28:14
Speaker 4: our city. To compromise hard work, thoughtfulness, kindness, that kind
1:28:19
Speaker 4: of stuff. That's my observation, and I think that the
1:28:23
Speaker 4: inquirer here got it wrong. I think they opened up
1:28:27
Speaker 4: with it's our perception that crime is bad. It's our perception.
1:28:31
Speaker 4: The numbers are down. What are they talking about? Man,
1:28:34
Speaker 4: If you talk to anybody in our fifty two neighborhoods,
1:28:37
Speaker 4: no one believes what is happening is a perception. This
1:28:40
Speaker 4: is our reality, Brian Thomas. The crime is out of control.
1:28:44
Speaker 4: It is spreading like cancer out of our core and
1:28:48
Speaker 4: pouring into the other fifty two neighborhoods. And anybody that
1:28:51
Speaker 4: is watching this knows it. I'm telling you, if you're
1:28:53
Speaker 4: on the sidelines and you're a registered voter and you're
1:28:56
Speaker 4: listening to this conversation and you don't get up off
1:28:59
Speaker 4: your couch, go in and vote for somebody, make a choice,
1:29:03
Speaker 4: make a decision. You are part of the problem. Elections
1:29:07
Speaker 4: have consequences, and it takes people who do things, take actions.
1:29:11
Speaker 4: They're not just on the radio talking about this and
1:29:14
Speaker 4: talking about that we have an election, Brian Thomas, it's
1:29:17
Speaker 4: time now for the jury box. Those are the citizens
1:29:20
Speaker 4: of Cincinnati, to say, what's the record of this current administration,
1:29:24
Speaker 4: what is the record of this current council, and let's
1:29:27
Speaker 4: make a decision to take a different direction in our
1:29:30
Speaker 4: city that's better for all of us. I don't care
1:29:33
Speaker 4: about what the national politics are when it comes to potholes.
1:29:36
Speaker 4: I don't care what the national politics are when it
1:29:39
Speaker 4: comes to making sure that our police officers have what
1:29:42
Speaker 4: they need and the support that they need to get.
1:29:45
Speaker 4: I don't want four more years of defunding the police,
1:29:48
Speaker 4: reimagining the police, sending counselors out on nine to one
1:29:51
Speaker 4: one calls, making sure that our fire department their support.
1:29:55
Speaker 4: I don't want an FP that has to take a
1:29:58
Speaker 4: vote saying we don't trust the mess, meaning they have
1:30:01
Speaker 4: taken a no confidence vote in our current mayor. If
1:30:04
Speaker 4: you were listening to that debate, you would think that
1:30:07
Speaker 4: this mayor was cozy with President Kober. You would think
1:30:10
Speaker 4: that he was lined up with our Cincinnati Police department.
1:30:13
Speaker 4: He's not. The Cincinnati Police Department has said we have
1:30:18
Speaker 4: no confidence in this mayor and no confidence in this administration.
1:30:23
Speaker 4: If you're a voter out there and you're hearing that,
1:30:25
Speaker 4: and crime is your number one issue, why wouldn't you
1:30:28
Speaker 4: say I want to do something different.
1:30:30
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas A great question. Will pause, bring Christopher back
1:30:33
Speaker 1: for a few more words. Let's give me an opportunity
1:30:36
Speaker 1: to mention Zimmer heating and cooling for more than I'm
1:30:38
Speaker 1: a box station right at seven point two here fifty
1:30:46
Speaker 1: five care City Talks station, enjoying my conversation with Christopher Smithman.
1:30:50
Speaker 1: Always do at Christopher. I'm sure I had commented on
1:30:55
Speaker 1: this keep Maga out of Cincinnati campaign. I have to
1:30:57
Speaker 1: have purvols out there with a need to send him
1:31:00
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars to support his campaign. He keeps referring
1:31:05
Speaker 1: to that our safety is under attack. We all this
1:31:08
Speaker 1: progress that we've we've reached so far, we've achieved it,
1:31:13
Speaker 1: and he's gonna and jd Vance's brother is gonna do
1:31:16
Speaker 1: undo it. He's going to reverse our hard won victories.
1:31:20
Speaker 1: He's gonna risk our safety. I mean, I'm just pulling
1:31:22
Speaker 1: out his words. We need to protect what we've built,
1:31:26
Speaker 1: and he mentions what we have built multiple times, lacking
1:31:29
Speaker 1: in this this campaign solicitation, Christopher is anything of substance.
1:31:33
Speaker 1: What the hell is he talking about? He doesn't incite,
1:31:36
Speaker 1: he's I mean, Brian, this.
1:31:39
Speaker 4: Is what I'm saying. They're sending this literature all across
1:31:42
Speaker 4: the all across our city, meaning like there's an ultra
1:31:46
Speaker 4: reality meaning the mayor can't run on his record, so
1:31:50
Speaker 4: now he's running on cultural divisive or divisive seems it's
1:31:54
Speaker 4: a bad sign if you're a voter out there, Brian,
1:31:58
Speaker 4: You've got to be going, oh my god, I'm dodging
1:32:00
Speaker 4: potholes so bad in our city that I look like
1:32:03
Speaker 4: I have a duy. You're just running around trying to
1:32:05
Speaker 4: miss a pothole around our city. There's just a tremendous failure.
1:32:09
Speaker 4: And that is after the cell of the railroad, which
1:32:11
Speaker 4: was a terrible decision that the mayor got behind. All
1:32:15
Speaker 4: I'm saying public all the things that Brian Thomas just
1:32:18
Speaker 4: read is showing you that at the beginning of my
1:32:22
Speaker 4: screen that I wasn't lying, I wasn't exaggerating, right, am
1:32:26
Speaker 4: I lying? Brian Thomas? This is where this guy is
1:32:29
Speaker 4: taking the election because he has nothing to run on,
1:32:32
Speaker 4: and we all have to be concerned about it. That's
1:32:34
Speaker 4: why I'm so fired up this morning. And I tell
1:32:37
Speaker 4: you we have a nine X system. That's what it's called.
1:32:39
Speaker 4: I've been preaching, I've been begging. Look, we can do,
1:32:43
Speaker 4: we can change council. Here under vote, don't vote for
1:32:47
Speaker 4: nine people, vote for four or five people and stop
1:32:52
Speaker 4: whoever your four or five people are right. But if
1:32:55
Speaker 4: you want to see a difference in city council, you
1:32:58
Speaker 4: can't go in there voting for nine people. There aren't
1:33:00
Speaker 4: nine people out of the twenty something people that are
1:33:03
Speaker 4: running to vote for. Just vote for four or five
1:33:05
Speaker 4: and watch what happens if High Park comes out. For example,
1:33:09
Speaker 4: most turnouts right now in the city, Brian Thomas is
1:33:12
Speaker 4: twenty percent right. That means eight out of ten voters
1:33:16
Speaker 4: are staying home. No, this is about voter turnout. You
1:33:19
Speaker 4: and I talk about this. We have one hundred million
1:33:22
Speaker 4: dollars bond issues that are being determined by thirteen percent
1:33:26
Speaker 4: of the voters who are showing up and participating. This
1:33:29
Speaker 4: is an issue of participation. So it doesn't matter whether
1:33:31
Speaker 4: you're in Westwood or High Park, or Clifton or Price Hill,
1:33:35
Speaker 4: our camp. It doesn't matter what part of the city
1:33:38
Speaker 4: you're in North Side. We have an issue with voters
1:33:41
Speaker 4: who are unwilling to show up. They're registered, they're focused
1:33:44
Speaker 4: on the national They show up for the national elections,
1:33:48
Speaker 4: but they don't show up for the local elections. And
1:33:51
Speaker 4: then wonder why crime is spiking potholes, your snow isn't
1:33:55
Speaker 4: being removed, garbage issues. We have a very dirty city.
1:33:59
Speaker 4: In my opinion, I travel, I admire cities when I
1:34:02
Speaker 4: go around. I'm not exaggerating here. You go under our
1:34:05
Speaker 4: underpasses and it looks crazy. The city of Cincinnati is
1:34:09
Speaker 4: so dirty. My point to you is that I want
1:34:11
Speaker 4: to change the direction of this city. We have to
1:34:14
Speaker 4: vote smart. They're good people that are running. Their hearts
1:34:17
Speaker 4: are in the right direction. They're passionate about local politics.
1:34:20
Speaker 4: They just want to serve you public. But you have
1:34:23
Speaker 4: to do a better job of not trying this maga
1:34:26
Speaker 4: craziness that the mayor is pushing to divide us from
1:34:30
Speaker 4: our neighbors. Brian Thomas, it has nothing to do with
1:34:33
Speaker 4: this local election. It is such a disappointment to me
1:34:36
Speaker 4: that that's where he took this debate. It made my
1:34:39
Speaker 4: stomach sick.
1:34:40
Speaker 1: Well, I can only hope that a lot of people
1:34:42
Speaker 1: watched that debate or went back and watched it, you know,
1:34:45
Speaker 1: after the debate and saw it online, and you know,
1:34:48
Speaker 1: by all accounts, Corey Bowman did a really great job
1:34:51
Speaker 1: and he's got great character. In this whole push to
1:34:55
Speaker 1: label him MAGA and JD Vens's half brother, it's just
1:34:59
Speaker 1: so obst heard. If you've got a record, run on it.
1:35:02
Speaker 1: If you want to talk about your accomplishments, state them,
1:35:05
Speaker 1: articulate them. If it wasn't for me Mayor have to
1:35:08
Speaker 1: have provo, then you wouldn't have fill in the blank.
1:35:11
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything that you could use. And
1:35:13
Speaker 1: to fill that sentence, Christopher, what is he going to
1:35:15
Speaker 1: say that he accomplished in this past four years? And
1:35:19
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be a complete jerk. I know
1:35:21
Speaker 1: I'm on the opposite side of the political spectrum, but
1:35:23
Speaker 1: I'm hard pressed to come up with something.
1:35:25
Speaker 4: I mean, he's how many interviews did this Mayor give
1:35:29
Speaker 4: you over the last four years?
1:35:30
Speaker 1: Yeah? Zero? How many times are you trying to take
1:35:33
Speaker 1: credit for the Brents Ben's Bridge project? I mean, how
1:35:35
Speaker 1: Barack Obama campaign in front of that? People have been
1:35:38
Speaker 1: in elected officials and people behind the scenes have been
1:35:41
Speaker 1: working to get the funding for that now for literally decades.
1:35:44
Speaker 1: He shows up and just happens to be mayor when
1:35:46
Speaker 1: they finally put the final you know, puzzle pieces together
1:35:50
Speaker 1: on it move forward with it. He can't take credit
1:35:52
Speaker 1: for that.
1:35:53
Speaker 4: He took credit for the for the fire training center, which,
1:35:58
Speaker 4: by the way, John Cranley and I negotiated works with
1:36:02
Speaker 4: Local forty eight, very hard on them to get the
1:36:05
Speaker 4: first ten million dollars of capital money. Anybody from Local
1:36:08
Speaker 4: forty eight who's listening to this, they know that what
1:36:10
Speaker 4: I'm saying is true. He cut the rimon acts like
1:36:13
Speaker 4: it was his project and it was really John Crawley.
1:36:16
Speaker 4: And the reality for me, what made me so frustrated
1:36:18
Speaker 4: is he blamed the previous administration. He was blaming the
1:36:21
Speaker 4: city manager, Paula Balks Music in the last debate, and
1:36:24
Speaker 4: the previous administration, who he said handed him a very
1:36:27
Speaker 4: bad situation. What is he talking about. We left him
1:36:31
Speaker 4: flush with money, We left a balanced budget. We left
1:36:34
Speaker 4: him sixteen point twenty five contributions to the Cincinnati retirement system.
1:36:38
Speaker 4: We were on a pathway of recruitment. Morale was up
1:36:41
Speaker 4: within the police department. He inherited a great situation for
1:36:46
Speaker 4: four years because he's a show horse and not a workhorse.
1:36:49
Speaker 4: He has just been sitting back watching our city perish.
1:36:52
Speaker 4: That's the problem with this guy. It's incredibly dangerous stuff.
1:36:56
Speaker 4: In my opinion, We've got to get out and vote
1:36:58
Speaker 4: and be serious. Look whether whoever you're voting for mayor
1:37:02
Speaker 4: right in your mind, you better think about a checking
1:37:05
Speaker 4: balance at city Hall with a council. So we could
1:37:08
Speaker 4: elect five members of council that will check him like
1:37:12
Speaker 4: a good'n or a Linda Matthews are a Keeping, a
1:37:16
Speaker 4: Lakita Cole, a Dreehouse, a Smitherman. There are lots of
1:37:20
Speaker 4: good people that are running that are not on this
1:37:22
Speaker 4: current council. Matter of fact, I would say there's an
1:37:25
Speaker 4: argument not to vote for any of them. Look for
1:37:28
Speaker 4: somebody doing something different. I mean, what do you have
1:37:31
Speaker 4: to lose, Brian Thomains. My point is we can do better.
1:37:34
Speaker 4: The election is here. The polls are not open today
1:37:37
Speaker 4: because of this holiday, but they will be open again tomorrow.
1:37:40
Speaker 4: Brian Thomas, and I'm just suggesting with people are walking
1:37:43
Speaker 4: in there to vote, that give us the thumbs up.
1:37:46
Speaker 4: Us show the people that are out there standing that
1:37:49
Speaker 4: you've got a thumbs up there that you're willing to
1:37:51
Speaker 4: take a chance and do something. Please different, Brian Thomas.
1:37:56
Speaker 1: I love you.
1:37:56
Speaker 4: I know that I am way beyond my time, and
1:37:59
Speaker 4: I appreciate you. I'll be watching the debate this Wednesday.
1:38:02
Speaker 4: It's on Channel twelve, It's going to be on TV.
1:38:05
Speaker 4: This is going to be another mayorial debate. I suggest
1:38:09
Speaker 4: everybody sit back and listen to the mayor's language. Is
1:38:13
Speaker 4: he going to give us solutions or is he going
1:38:15
Speaker 4: to use divisive language just to divide us. I don't
1:38:19
Speaker 4: need any more division. I don't want a division in
1:38:21
Speaker 4: my home. I don't want it in my neighborhood where
1:38:23
Speaker 4: I live, and I certainly don't want it in my politics.
1:38:26
Speaker 4: I want somebody who has solutions, who's willing to work,
1:38:28
Speaker 4: not a show horse. I don't want to see more
1:38:30
Speaker 4: moose in his hair. I don't want to see a suit.
1:38:33
Speaker 4: I don't want to see a tie. I don't want
1:38:34
Speaker 4: to see a guy that wants to go to Washington,
1:38:36
Speaker 4: DC and not really be the mayor of the city.
1:38:39
Speaker 4: I want somebody like a John Cranley who wants to
1:38:42
Speaker 4: roll up his sleeves make hard decisions. Listen to our
1:38:45
Speaker 4: fifty two neighborhoods and get us on the right direction.
1:38:48
Speaker 4: That's what I'm looking for. And I don't care where,
1:38:50
Speaker 4: what corner of the earth I get that on. I
1:38:52
Speaker 4: love Cincinnati. I've been raised. Here is where I grew up.
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1:39:26
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Speaker 1: regularly just to cling to Brian James words on investment
1:39:37
Speaker 1: strategies and today about tariffs being up, the interest on
1:39:41
Speaker 1: our national death Doge apparently didn't accomplish much, Social Security
1:39:44
Speaker 1: and the topic we've been waiting for credit unions versus
1:39:48
Speaker 1: Banks a lot to pile in for a few segments,
1:39:50
Speaker 1: Brian James, Welcome back and Happy Monday in spite of
1:39:53
Speaker 1: the Bengals loss.
1:39:54
Speaker 10: Happy Monday, and go Mariners, including all the former Reds
1:39:57
Speaker 10: who are still playing.
1:39:59
Speaker 3: That's all we have to at this point.
1:40:01
Speaker 1: Hey, you got something there, Brian, go, Luis.
1:40:03
Speaker 10: Castillo and Auhanio Suarez and a handful of other ones.
1:40:07
Speaker 3: Right, it's something that's better than nothing. Will hang on
1:40:10
Speaker 3: to that.
1:40:10
Speaker 1: It is something, and something that is tariffs. I know
1:40:13
Speaker 1: so far, you know, I mean draw your conclusions whether
1:40:17
Speaker 1: we have been collectively scathed in our economy. But apparently
1:40:20
Speaker 1: at some point they say they were going to catch
1:40:22
Speaker 1: up to us, and it looks like they may be
1:40:24
Speaker 1: catching up. And I know China has just put some huge,
1:40:27
Speaker 1: huge prohibitions on the trading of the rare earth minerals
1:40:31
Speaker 1: that we rely on them almost exclusively for. So what's
1:40:34
Speaker 1: going on with the tariff Brian?
1:40:36
Speaker 10: Well, the tariffs have had their impact. So interestingly, our
1:40:39
Speaker 10: deficit is basically flat at one point eight trillion. Now
1:40:42
Speaker 10: that would be a fantastic headline in any other environment. However,
1:40:46
Speaker 10: what's happening is it's just the surge from the tariffs.
1:40:49
Speaker 10: So the cash that's coming in from that, that's keeping
1:40:52
Speaker 10: the deficit from running up. So on one hand, anytime
1:40:57
Speaker 10: the deficit doesn't increase, that would be I can't remember
1:40:59
Speaker 10: the last time that was a headline. But all it
1:41:01
Speaker 10: is is the cash that's coming from these tariffs, which
1:41:03
Speaker 10: is probably somewhat temporary as the market continues to settle
1:41:07
Speaker 10: itself out as countries decide whether they're willing to continue
1:41:10
Speaker 10: or if they fight back, or if they find different
1:41:13
Speaker 10: markets entirely to sell to. So customs duties hit almost
1:41:17
Speaker 10: two hundred billion dollars, that's more than double last year,
1:41:20
Speaker 10: and it's still only three point seven percent of federal revenue.
1:41:24
Speaker 10: So Trump had the President Trump had this big goal
1:41:27
Speaker 10: of we're going to reduce income taxes, reliance on income taxes,
1:41:31
Speaker 10: and increase reliance on external taxes, meaning these tariffs. That's
1:41:34
Speaker 10: how we're going to run the country. So these tariffs,
1:41:37
Speaker 10: even now at two hundred billion from these duties, is
1:41:40
Speaker 10: still only three point seven percent of federal revenue. Individual
1:41:43
Speaker 10: income taxes still make up fifty one percent of it.
1:41:46
Speaker 10: So we got a long way to go if these
1:41:48
Speaker 10: tariffs are going to truly remove our income taxes.
1:41:50
Speaker 1: Which I have bad news. They are not fair enough
1:41:54
Speaker 1: on that. I guess tariffs, by all arguments, can raise
1:41:59
Speaker 1: the price of it's here in the United States. So
1:42:02
Speaker 1: one could argue if your income tax does stay down,
1:42:05
Speaker 1: the money still has to be collected some way. This way,
1:42:08
Speaker 1: at least, anybody who buys something is kind of sharing
1:42:10
Speaker 1: in the responsibility. It's kind of like a increase in
1:42:13
Speaker 1: sales tax that deal with fewer tax dollars coming in
1:42:15
Speaker 1: by way of income tax.
1:42:16
Speaker 3: It's quite literally that.
1:42:17
Speaker 10: I mean, it's no there's nothing that says that any
1:42:21
Speaker 10: company or country that is selling into the United States
1:42:25
Speaker 10: has to eat these tariffs. There are no rules that
1:42:27
Speaker 10: say that they must keep their prices the same and
1:42:29
Speaker 10: just eat the tariffs. There's really no way to put
1:42:32
Speaker 10: that in place. They can simply decide to walk away
1:42:34
Speaker 10: from the market, or they can raise their prices. It's
1:42:36
Speaker 10: really no different than you know, if you're renting an
1:42:38
Speaker 10: apartment and you feel like the landlord is going to
1:42:42
Speaker 10: bear the brunts of the property tax increases, that is
1:42:45
Speaker 10: not the case. They're simply going to raise the rent.
1:42:47
Speaker 10: The renter is the one who ultimately pays everything. That's
1:42:50
Speaker 10: why they call us consumers. We're at the bottom of
1:42:52
Speaker 10: the at the bottom of the chain, and we are
1:42:54
Speaker 10: the ones who consume all the goods and services that
1:42:57
Speaker 10: are out there, and that means we have to eat
1:42:59
Speaker 10: whatever is. The only way you can avoid these price
1:43:01
Speaker 10: increases is to truly change your lifestyle and not need
1:43:04
Speaker 10: these things anymore. And that's simply not an option for
1:43:06
Speaker 10: most of the stuff we have to deal with now.
1:43:08
Speaker 1: For most of the stuff, there are a lot of
1:43:09
Speaker 1: things on I think our collective budget margins that if
1:43:12
Speaker 1: we really gave a long, hard thought, we know we
1:43:15
Speaker 1: could do without them. So that's up to an individual
1:43:17
Speaker 1: families choices, and people are going to be forced to
1:43:19
Speaker 1: make those kind of choices. Interest revealing that the interest
1:43:23
Speaker 1: rate on our debt is now over one trillion dollars,
1:43:26
Speaker 1: meaning that is I guess more than even defense spending
1:43:29
Speaker 1: usually coming into like number one. But that's because we
1:43:32
Speaker 1: have a spending problem in government. I know Donald Trump's
1:43:34
Speaker 1: done some took some steps with the OMB on Friday
1:43:38
Speaker 1: to start firing people. But when they fire people that
1:43:42
Speaker 1: whether it impacts you and me in our day to
1:43:44
Speaker 1: day lives, it's certainly not going to be a sizable
1:43:46
Speaker 1: enough chunk of government cuts to actually accomplish something. So
1:43:49
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. But also, we had huge hopes
1:43:52
Speaker 1: for the Doge Department, and that apparently is kind of
1:43:55
Speaker 1: fizzled out. So where are we with this debt? And
1:43:58
Speaker 1: of course the DOGE cuts.
1:44:00
Speaker 10: So yeah, the big concern there with the size of debt.
1:44:04
Speaker 10: So debt is it's just like anything else. You have
1:44:07
Speaker 10: a mortgage out there, you have a bunch of credit
1:44:08
Speaker 10: card debts, then you are impacted directly by interest rates.
1:44:12
Speaker 10: And now that we're literally writing checks for a trillion
1:44:14
Speaker 10: dollars as a country, that's just for the interest. Remember
1:44:18
Speaker 10: some if we're writing a check for a trillion dollars,
1:44:20
Speaker 10: somebody might go, oh, great, we're paying down a principle.
1:44:22
Speaker 3: No we're not.
1:44:23
Speaker 10: We're simply maintaining what we already have. We are treading water.
1:44:26
Speaker 10: So that net interest of a trillion dollars is now
1:44:29
Speaker 10: bigger than medicare or defense. Based on some calculations, roughly
1:44:33
Speaker 10: about a dollar of every five dollars in revenue. And
1:44:36
Speaker 10: again remember half of that comes from our own income taxes.
1:44:38
Speaker 10: A dollar out of every five dollars goes to these
1:44:41
Speaker 10: interest payments. This is coming from the higher rates and
1:44:44
Speaker 10: the fact that we have just more debt than we've
1:44:45
Speaker 10: ever had before. Of course, so the issue here, the
1:44:49
Speaker 10: concern is that we were likely going to head into
1:44:52
Speaker 10: a higher for longer type of a situation with regard
1:44:55
Speaker 10: to interest rates staying where they are. Remember, we're not
1:44:58
Speaker 10: always only talking about the Federal and what it wants
1:45:01
Speaker 10: to do with interest rates. We're often talking about what
1:45:03
Speaker 10: the market. The market has an impact on rates too,
1:45:06
Speaker 10: whatever it's sensitive to, whatever the market thinks of the
1:45:10
Speaker 10: credit quality of the United States, can it continue to
1:45:12
Speaker 10: pay its debts and so forth, that will also have
1:45:14
Speaker 10: an impact on interest rates. That means Washington is going
1:45:18
Speaker 10: to be super sensitive to interest rate moves. Even if
1:45:20
Speaker 10: the Fed makes gradual cuts, Brian, the rolling over debt
1:45:24
Speaker 10: that's still out there is going to keep these average
1:45:26
Speaker 10: interest costs elevated. And that means we need to make
1:45:29
Speaker 10: some cautious mortgage and refi assumptions, and we need to
1:45:32
Speaker 10: be stress testing our budgets for these higher rates. For
1:45:34
Speaker 10: those of you what that means out there, For those
1:45:36
Speaker 10: of you perhaps on an adjustable rate mortgage, you need
1:45:39
Speaker 10: to take a look at what that might be if
1:45:41
Speaker 10: you did it five years ago at a really low rate. Well,
1:45:43
Speaker 10: that's going to be sneaking up on you very soon.
1:45:45
Speaker 10: You need to make sure you can handle whatever the
1:45:48
Speaker 10: increased payment is going to be when that adjustable rate
1:45:50
Speaker 10: mortgage adjusts.
1:45:51
Speaker 1: Well, doesn't the interest rate that repair, I mean, doesn't
1:45:53
Speaker 1: the debt interest which we have to pay more than
1:45:56
Speaker 1: a trillion year and that keeps growing. Doesn't that necessarily
1:46:00
Speaker 1: have a restrictive force on the growth of government. I mean,
1:46:03
Speaker 1: if they're not bringing in any additional tax dollars, you
1:46:05
Speaker 1: run the risk of digging us further into a deficit
1:46:07
Speaker 1: hole which increases that trillion dollars to something north of it.
1:46:11
Speaker 1: Or you have to say, listen, we got all this
1:46:13
Speaker 1: debt service we've got to pay. We no longer can
1:46:15
Speaker 1: afford to fill in the blank. Maybe we need to
1:46:18
Speaker 1: reduce the size of that department. Maybe we just say
1:46:20
Speaker 1: no to something new by way of you know, oh,
1:46:22
Speaker 1: I don't know, expanding health care for illegal immigrants or something.
1:46:25
Speaker 1: But something's got to give. Brian.
1:46:27
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's true for any household as well as it's
1:46:30
Speaker 10: true for the for our country as a whole. And
1:46:33
Speaker 10: that's that's what Doge was intended to do. Yeah, that
1:46:35
Speaker 10: didn't really quite you know, a little segue into that
1:46:38
Speaker 10: topic since you mentioned it. When DOZE was originally set up,
1:46:41
Speaker 10: remember this is the Department of Governmental Efficiency run by
1:46:44
Speaker 10: Elon Musk briefly that was going to come in and
1:46:47
Speaker 10: just clean house and figure out exactly where all the
1:46:49
Speaker 10: waste is and get rid of it all. And they
1:46:51
Speaker 10: were going to achieve two trillion dollars in savings. That
1:46:54
Speaker 10: was the brochure that we all read. But so far
1:46:57
Speaker 10: that hasn't been the case. Not to mention, Elon Musk
1:46:59
Speaker 10: stepped down a few months ago and we really haven't
1:47:01
Speaker 10: heard much ever since. So total spending excluding interest rose
1:47:04
Speaker 10: about two hundred and twenty billion dollars or four percent
1:47:07
Speaker 10: for that entire year. That would have been bigger except
1:47:10
Speaker 10: for in September twenty five when the Trump administration put
1:47:14
Speaker 10: in a non cash spending reduction based on modifications to
1:47:17
Speaker 10: student loans.
1:47:18
Speaker 3: That knocked it down a little bit.
1:47:19
Speaker 10: But other than student loans, the only the only major
1:47:22
Speaker 10: categories where the Congressional Budget Office said spending actually declined
1:47:26
Speaker 10: was the FDIC, which, if you think about this, all
1:47:28
Speaker 10: that means is we didn't have scary headlines about banks failure,
1:47:32
Speaker 10: which is that's a good thing. But we can't count
1:47:34
Speaker 10: it as a victory small Business Administration because we had
1:47:36
Speaker 10: a similar situation where we didn't have to lay out
1:47:39
Speaker 10: the kind of money that we normally do for disaster
1:47:41
Speaker 10: related loans that do come out of the Small Business Administration.
1:47:44
Speaker 10: So so far, we can't really say that DOJ has
1:47:47
Speaker 10: had all that much of an impact despite the blusters
1:47:50
Speaker 10: coming out of that department.
1:47:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really had some hope for that department up right.
1:47:54
Speaker 3: It made sense, right, didn't it. It sounds like something
1:47:56
Speaker 3: responsible countries do. It still does.
1:47:59
Speaker 1: I guess the question is why isn't it accomplishing what
1:48:02
Speaker 1: we had expected? It just seems so strange.
1:48:05
Speaker 3: But I'll give you my opinion.
1:48:06
Speaker 10: I think my opinion is because anything that's truly going
1:48:10
Speaker 10: to fix anything involves necessarily someone telling us as a
1:48:14
Speaker 10: society that we must sacrifice. I don't think that our
1:48:17
Speaker 10: current political leadership believes that we have that in us,
1:48:20
Speaker 10: And I definitely don't believe that anybody who is in
1:48:22
Speaker 10: that position to make those types of changes thinks that
1:48:25
Speaker 10: they can win a reelection the next time around.
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Speaker 1: with all of financials. Brian James. All Right, I mentioned
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Speaker 1: one of the third rails of politics, something that could
1:49:29
Speaker 1: probably stand to use some reform in the name of
1:49:32
Speaker 1: saving our financial future. Here in the United States of America,
1:49:35
Speaker 1: the third rail social Security, and people always argue, I
1:49:38
Speaker 1: paid into what I paid in when I'm entitled, I'm entitled.
1:49:40
Speaker 1: But the structure of social Security doesn't really work out
1:49:43
Speaker 1: in the taxpayer's favor because people now live a hell
1:49:46
Speaker 1: a lot longer than they used to. You retire at
1:49:49
Speaker 1: say sixty two or sixty five, you're around until like
1:49:52
Speaker 1: eighty five. Now, when its Social Security started, most people
1:49:55
Speaker 1: didn't live past like late sixties, so you were only
1:49:57
Speaker 1: on it for a few years. They're also fifteen I
1:50:00
Speaker 1: think workers to every one person receiving it. That number
1:50:03
Speaker 1: has dropped precipitously, So the money that's going into the
1:50:06
Speaker 1: program is a lot less than it used to. It
1:50:09
Speaker 1: sounds like it needs some sort of reform. Brian James.
1:50:11
Speaker 1: Where are we on social security?
1:50:14
Speaker 3: So where we are on social Security? There is a
1:50:16
Speaker 3: hole in the bucket. Brian Thomas.
1:50:18
Speaker 10: The math doesn't quite math very well. And this has
1:50:21
Speaker 10: everything to do with what you had mentioned, of course,
1:50:24
Speaker 10: with people living longer and so forth. It used to
1:50:26
Speaker 10: be you'd live maybe three five years and get soci
1:50:28
Speaker 10: security payments. Now there's thirty years worth of that. Along
1:50:32
Speaker 10: the way, we have added enhanced benefits for spouses, which
1:50:34
Speaker 10: I don't think is a bad thing, because you can't
1:50:37
Speaker 10: ice your spouse out or your ex spouse or whatever.
1:50:41
Speaker 10: We have to have some kind of safety net for
1:50:44
Speaker 10: those folks who maybe didn't have their own earnings record
1:50:47
Speaker 10: because they were home raising kids and then a divorce happened,
1:50:49
Speaker 10: all that kind of stuff. Those kinds of things, as
1:50:51
Speaker 10: well as the eight percent increase in delayed retirement credits,
1:50:54
Speaker 10: which simply means if you don't file for it, you
1:50:57
Speaker 10: get an eight percent increase. Before nineteen seventy seven, and
1:51:00
Speaker 10: that was one percent per year, and then in nineteen
1:51:04
Speaker 10: seventy seven through nineteen eighty three they basically locked in
1:51:07
Speaker 10: an eight percent increase for anyone who was born in
1:51:09
Speaker 10: nineteen forty three or later, which is essentially everybody who's
1:51:12
Speaker 10: thinking about this right now. So basically, by two thousand
1:51:15
Speaker 10: and eight, everybody reaching seventy aged seventy had access to
1:51:18
Speaker 10: that full eight percent annual delayed retirement increase. Remember this
1:51:22
Speaker 10: is if I'm sixty two and I choose not to
1:51:23
Speaker 10: file for it, my payment's going to go up by
1:51:26
Speaker 10: a full eight percent. That has nothing to do with inflation,
1:51:28
Speaker 10: nothing to do with interest rates. It's just a codified,
1:51:31
Speaker 10: concrete eight percent mathematical increase. So those are the reasons
1:51:35
Speaker 10: that the math don't math. But let's talk about where
1:51:37
Speaker 10: we are right now. So we've had a we get
1:51:40
Speaker 10: every so often we get a new Trustees report, and
1:51:42
Speaker 10: earlier this year, the twenty twenty five report showed that
1:51:46
Speaker 10: the full benefits are projected to be payable only for
1:51:48
Speaker 10: about nine more years without adjustments, trust funds expected to
1:51:52
Speaker 10: be depleted by twenty thirty four. Now I want to
1:51:54
Speaker 10: unpack that because somebody just heard me say that Social
1:51:57
Speaker 10: Security is going away in twenty thirty four.
1:52:00
Speaker 1: Is not No, they didn't hear that. They weren't listening
1:52:02
Speaker 1: to the words you use, Brian James exactly.
1:52:04
Speaker 10: Words are important, aren't they, Brian Thomas. So what this means, though,
1:52:08
Speaker 10: is the trust fund reserves. What that means is that
1:52:11
Speaker 10: we're simply bringing in more than more than we're paying
1:52:13
Speaker 10: out currently, and that situation is going to last for
1:52:15
Speaker 10: nine more years. I will be sitting in this chair
1:52:18
Speaker 10: in twenty thirty four, and my paycheck at that time
1:52:21
Speaker 10: will have a FIKA entry on it which is how
1:52:23
Speaker 10: taxes are extracted from my paycheck and sent directly to beneficiaries.
1:52:27
Speaker 10: The point of all that is that FICA taxes right
1:52:29
Speaker 10: now are more than what is actually being paid out
1:52:32
Speaker 10: to beneficiaries. But that amount that surplus goes down every year.
1:52:35
Speaker 10: It's got nine years left, so is it going to zero?
1:52:38
Speaker 5: No?
1:52:39
Speaker 10: But if they change nothing, then the current estimate is
1:52:41
Speaker 10: that Social Security is incoming revenue from those FICA taxes
1:52:44
Speaker 10: or otherwise known as payroll taxes, that's going to cover
1:52:47
Speaker 10: only about eighty one percent of scheduled benefits. Meaning if
1:52:50
Speaker 10: you go to SSA dot gov and set up your
1:52:53
Speaker 10: my Social Security profile, then you should knock off, say
1:52:57
Speaker 10: twenty percent of whatever that report tells you if you
1:53:00
Speaker 10: want to adjust your plan.
1:53:01
Speaker 3: I would do it both ways.
1:53:02
Speaker 10: Run your plan with the original numbers and then run
1:53:04
Speaker 10: it again with a twenty percent reduction in your Social
1:53:06
Speaker 10: Security just so you can see what the impact might be.
1:53:09
Speaker 1: Well, and a financial planner will do those number crunches
1:53:12
Speaker 1: for you, right. I mean, you can put any scenario
1:53:14
Speaker 1: into your like thousand point you know what the future
1:53:17
Speaker 1: might look like program correct?
1:53:18
Speaker 5: Oh?
1:53:18
Speaker 10: Absolutely, this is just one topic. You know, we might
1:53:21
Speaker 10: even rephrase this and just say, hey, look, look what
1:53:23
Speaker 10: if you spend twenty percent more than you think you're spending.
1:53:25
Speaker 3: This is just the math part.
1:53:27
Speaker 10: The things that the little stories and anecdotes that trigger
1:53:30
Speaker 10: the math is what gets our attention. But the math
1:53:32
Speaker 10: is still just math.
1:53:33
Speaker 1: Well, and we've all been warned about this. That sheet
1:53:36
Speaker 1: you get annually from Social Security telling you what your
1:53:39
Speaker 1: expected payment will be given when you retire, whether it's
1:53:43
Speaker 1: sixty two, sixty five, or you hold off till later.
1:53:47
Speaker 1: It always it says right there on the front, this
1:53:48
Speaker 1: is not a guarantee you're going to get the money.
1:53:51
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, hey, here's a flag you might
1:53:53
Speaker 1: not want to count on this because our elected officials
1:53:55
Speaker 1: don't do anything to try to salvage the program.
1:53:58
Speaker 3: That's right, So let's talk about that a little bit.
1:54:00
Speaker 3: So it's it's not that we don't try to fix it.
1:54:03
Speaker 10: It's that it's that we just are not in a
1:54:05
Speaker 10: political mood and I don't see it coming anytime soon
1:54:07
Speaker 10: where we are willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary.
1:54:11
Speaker 10: So there were we did this a study of just
1:54:14
Speaker 10: a few weeks ago, and there have been one hundred
1:54:16
Speaker 10: and forty three different attempts to that have hit the
1:54:19
Speaker 10: floor of Congress to hopefully fix this problem. But every
1:54:22
Speaker 10: last one of them is some flavor of either reducing
1:54:25
Speaker 10: benefits on current retirees or increasing taxes on workers. There's
1:54:29
Speaker 10: a million ways you can do that, but that's all
1:54:31
Speaker 10: we're all we're doing here. You have to trust adjust
1:54:33
Speaker 10: the inflows or the outflows period, end of story. We
1:54:36
Speaker 10: are not at a place where we're willing to allow
1:54:39
Speaker 10: either side to win. It's very easy to shoot this
1:54:41
Speaker 10: stuff out of the sky. Democrats come with, let's raise
1:54:44
Speaker 10: taxes on workers. Republicans say, you can't do that. These
1:54:46
Speaker 10: people work too hard. Republicans come with, let's lower the benefits,
1:54:49
Speaker 10: and Democrats say, you can't do that. These people work
1:54:52
Speaker 10: for these dollars, and it gets shot down instantaneously. That's
1:54:55
Speaker 10: the cycle that we're in, and I'm going to predict
1:54:57
Speaker 10: we're going to be in it for most of the
1:54:58
Speaker 10: next decade until our backs are again the wall. Brian,
1:55:00
Speaker 10: and we have no choice except to elect somebody who
1:55:03
Speaker 10: will actually speak to us like adults.
1:55:05
Speaker 3: We're not ready to do that.
1:55:06
Speaker 1: We're not ready to do that. Eight twenty four. Right, Now,
1:55:08
Speaker 1: take a minute early break because we're going to get
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Speaker 1: two credit unions versus bank by request. Topic will continue
1:55:13
Speaker 1: with Brian James after these brief words. Fifty five krc
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Speaker 4: My five KRCD talk station.
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Speaker 1: Eight twenty eight to fifty five KRCD talk station buy
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Speaker 1: request topics you can do those and a lot of
1:55:31
Speaker 1: folks wanted to know what the difference is between a
1:55:32
Speaker 1: credit union and a bank, and Brian James from all
1:55:34
Speaker 1: Worth Financial is gonna dive on into the details on that.
1:55:37
Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed banking with Emery now share facts over
1:55:39
Speaker 1: the years, Brian, most notably the wonderful experience of being
1:55:42
Speaker 1: able to refinance my house by just signing a single
1:55:45
Speaker 1: sheet of paper, not going through the whole process of refinancing,
1:55:48
Speaker 1: not having to pay a dime. The rates dropped. They
1:55:51
Speaker 1: had a paper that said, okay, you went from what
1:55:53
Speaker 1: four down to three? My signature, boom, my rate was
1:55:56
Speaker 1: down to three. They keep the paper in house at
1:55:59
Speaker 1: least at in share facts and I like that. That's
1:56:02
Speaker 1: one thing that I know from personal experience.
1:56:04
Speaker 10: Yeah, simplified processes, those kinds of things, there's pros and
1:56:07
Speaker 10: cons to each one of them. Of course, but I
1:56:10
Speaker 10: do want to shout out a quick thanks to our
1:56:12
Speaker 10: our mysterious listener group of females who are interested in
1:56:16
Speaker 10: financial topics and apparently have been listening to us for
1:56:18
Speaker 10: a long time. And good lady Pacific question, thank you
1:56:22
Speaker 10: again for listening, and let's dive into this. So, okay,
1:56:25
Speaker 10: banks versus credit unions. At the end of the day,
1:56:27
Speaker 10: if you need loans, checking accounts, savings depository, you're not
1:56:30
Speaker 10: going to notice much difference. Functionally, they are pretty much
1:56:33
Speaker 10: the same. So the difference is between them. So a
1:56:35
Speaker 10: bank is a for profit entity. They're owned by the shareholders,
1:56:39
Speaker 10: and the goal, like any other business, as a generator
1:56:41
Speaker 10: return for those owners. Having spent two fifteen years in
1:56:44
Speaker 10: the banking industry, I can assure you that the customers
1:56:47
Speaker 10: come third, shareholders first, regulator second, and then we'll get
1:56:51
Speaker 10: around to worrying for the customers. This isn't I'm not
1:56:53
Speaker 10: painting the banks and a bad bed light. It's just reality.
1:56:57
Speaker 10: If you've got shareholders out there, they come first. Because
1:56:59
Speaker 10: we are the United States of profit. Profit margin credit unions,
1:57:03
Speaker 10: on the other hand, are nonprofit financial cooperatives. They are
1:57:05
Speaker 10: owned by their members. The members do want their profits,
1:57:08
Speaker 10: but they come in the form of the dividends. That's
1:57:11
Speaker 10: why if you if for those of you who have
1:57:12
Speaker 10: a credit union account and a bank account, the way
1:57:15
Speaker 10: that they label those interest payments is a little bit different. Yeah,
1:57:18
Speaker 10: the banks will call it a you know, an interest payment.
1:57:21
Speaker 10: Credit unions will call it like a share or something
1:57:23
Speaker 10: like that. Exact are the owner of it as an
1:57:25
Speaker 10: account holder. So that's why the difference. Now, if any
1:57:28
Speaker 10: one of them was mathematically, you know, identifiably calculably more
1:57:33
Speaker 10: beneficial than the other in terms of really low interest
1:57:35
Speaker 10: rates and really high depository rates, then the other would
1:57:38
Speaker 10: not exist. It doesn't work that way, So don't look
1:57:40
Speaker 10: for massive opportunities one direction or the other.
1:57:43
Speaker 3: So, but let's talk about what is the difference here.
1:57:46
Speaker 10: So first and foremost, safety first, if you've got a
1:57:49
Speaker 10: pile of money somewhere, you want to know it's going
1:57:50
Speaker 10: to be there. If you're holding money in a bank,
1:57:52
Speaker 10: that's of course ensured by the fdi C. But at
1:57:55
Speaker 10: a credit union there is a similar organization that most
1:57:58
Speaker 10: people aren't familiar with. It's called the ENDS, the National
1:58:02
Speaker 10: Credit Union Association, and it pretty much serves the same purpose.
1:58:05
Speaker 3: As the FDI.
1:58:06
Speaker 10: See, even those coverage limits are pretty much the same.
1:58:09
Speaker 10: It's two hundred and fifty thousand dollars per institution, per
1:58:12
Speaker 10: account category. Right, there's lots of games you can play
1:58:14
Speaker 10: with that. On both sides. You can have an individual account,
1:58:17
Speaker 10: you can have a joint account with your spouse, you
1:58:19
Speaker 10: can have accounts that are have your kids listened as beneficiaries.
1:58:22
Speaker 10: Each of those has its own two hundred and fifty
1:58:24
Speaker 10: thousand dollars coverage. But the point is your money is
1:58:27
Speaker 10: largely no more safe in one versus the other. It's
1:58:30
Speaker 10: just different organizations that are backing that up.
1:58:34
Speaker 1: Well. And I know the credit union, you're considered an owner,
1:58:37
Speaker 1: a shareholder. Going back to your point about shares, that
1:58:40
Speaker 1: that that's your slice of the part. That's how like,
1:58:43
Speaker 1: for example, in my refinancing situation, yes, the credit union
1:58:47
Speaker 1: collective is making less money and interest payment on the loan,
1:58:52
Speaker 1: but everybody benefits from the lower interest rate, which is
1:58:55
Speaker 1: why you're making less of a profit. So you're getting
1:58:58
Speaker 1: three percent when you used to get four or five.
1:59:00
Speaker 1: The mortgage would have required you to continue to pay
1:59:03
Speaker 1: that higher interest rate, which of course in yours to
1:59:05
Speaker 1: the bank's benefit, which is why. I guess they charge
1:59:07
Speaker 1: you to go through the refinancing process. But it's just
1:59:10
Speaker 1: a nice little perk being a quote unquote shareholder or owner.
1:59:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:59:14
Speaker 10: Absolutely, And if if you're truly about the if you
1:59:17
Speaker 10: want to know where the money's flowing, you got me,
1:59:22
Speaker 10: Mike died there. Y, Yes, you said flowing.
1:59:24
Speaker 1: I got all that. Where the money is flowing, go ahead.
1:59:26
Speaker 3: Where the money's going.
1:59:27
Speaker 10: And you can literally participate if you if you want,
1:59:29
Speaker 10: you can run to be a trustee of the of
1:59:31
Speaker 10: the credit union and you could really get into the
1:59:33
Speaker 10: into the dirt of how this stuff works.
1:59:35
Speaker 3: You can't really do that with with your big publicly
1:59:37
Speaker 3: traded banks.
1:59:38
Speaker 1: Unless you buy shares.
1:59:39
Speaker 10: Yes, but you've got to buy an awful lot of shares.
1:59:41
Speaker 10: You're going to get invited to that table.
1:59:44
Speaker 3: So so and this isn't you know.
1:59:45
Speaker 10: I feel like we're leaning toward the credit union side
1:59:47
Speaker 10: pretty strongly there and that those are the good reasons.
1:59:50
Speaker 10: A little more transparency and you can be you can
1:59:52
Speaker 10: be a little lot more comfortable that the decisions that
1:59:54
Speaker 10: are being made are really for your benefit because they're
1:59:57
Speaker 10: being made by other members just like you versus a
2:00:00
Speaker 10: board of directors who is really only focused on the
2:00:02
Speaker 10: on the shareholders. Now, So what's the downside of a
2:00:05
Speaker 10: credit US. Well, in a lot of cases, you're going
2:00:07
Speaker 10: to be giving up some on say technology. They're not
2:00:10
Speaker 10: going to have the flashiest internet interfaces and mobile apps
2:00:14
Speaker 10: out there, and that's I do enjoy that use. I
2:00:16
Speaker 10: use my mobile banking apps all the time because I
2:00:18
Speaker 10: don't want to see the inside of a bank branch. Ever, again,
2:00:21
Speaker 10: bigger banks, of course, will have wider branch and ATM
2:00:24
Speaker 10: networks where credit unions often will will participate in some
2:00:28
Speaker 10: kind of shared arrangement with some other network that you
2:00:30
Speaker 10: might not be familiar with.
2:00:31
Speaker 3: Don't let that rule it out.
2:00:32
Speaker 10: Do the research if you if it's a little tiny
2:00:35
Speaker 10: credit union that you're not all that familiar with, understand
2:00:38
Speaker 10: what that ATM network looks like and you can figure out.
2:00:40
Speaker 10: You know a lot of them will have places in
2:00:42
Speaker 10: random store chains like UDF or or that's P and C.
2:00:47
Speaker 10: But but some of the gas station chains will have
2:00:50
Speaker 10: some financial organization you've never heard of, and your local tiny,
2:00:53
Speaker 10: little credit union may be a member of that. So
2:00:55
Speaker 10: you don't necessarily have to rely on all they've only
2:00:58
Speaker 10: got three branches, so therefore I only have three eighty.
2:01:00
Speaker 10: That's not how that works. But on the other hand,
2:01:03
Speaker 10: you're not going to have as much flexibility on promotional bonuses,
2:01:08
Speaker 10: right because banks are publicly traded entities. They want to
2:01:10
Speaker 10: be able to show they're bringing on new customers all
2:01:12
Speaker 10: the time. You'll get better bonuses for opening new accounts.
2:01:15
Speaker 10: We talked about the more sophisticated online stuff, you're never
2:01:19
Speaker 10: going to see, for example, a fantastic credit card reward
2:01:23
Speaker 10: program coming out of a credit union. You won't get
2:01:25
Speaker 10: that that's going to come out of your publicly traded banks,
2:01:27
Speaker 10: who have a lot more resources to do things like
2:01:29
Speaker 10: that to drive business, and they have different incentives to
2:01:33
Speaker 10: go drive new business and bring in new customers than
2:01:35
Speaker 10: a credit union does. So the different things that there
2:01:37
Speaker 10: are differences in the things that they will do to
2:01:39
Speaker 10: attract you in the first place.
2:01:40
Speaker 1: Great, so you've given out a list of items, do
2:01:42
Speaker 1: your work, do your homework, do the math, and figure
2:01:45
Speaker 1: out what is in your best interest because it could
2:01:47
Speaker 1: be a big bank, but it also could be a
2:01:48
Speaker 1: federal credit union, depending upon you know where your desires
2:01:52
Speaker 1: lie and you know the interest rates that you're paying
2:01:54
Speaker 1: in that kind of thing. Appreciate the breakdown Brian James
2:01:57
Speaker 1: is very helpful exercise. And of course I appreciate the
2:01:59
Speaker 1: comment station we have every week, and salute to the
2:02:02
Speaker 1: ladies group that listens every Monday and Monday intently to
2:02:05
Speaker 1: Brian James, you do great work. Brian, will have you
2:02:08
Speaker 1: on next Monday. Have a great week, my friend.
2:02:09
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thanks for the time, and thank you ladies.
2:02:12
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Eric Trump of the book Under Siege,
2:02:14
Speaker 1: You'll be on next. This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1: His Brian Thomas happy to welcome to the fifty five
2:02:21
Speaker 1: Casey Morning Show. You know him, I know him, and
2:02:24
Speaker 1: he is now an author of the book Under Siege,
2:02:26
Speaker 1: My Family's Fight to Save the Nation by my guest.
2:02:29
Speaker 1: Eric Trump, Yes, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization,
2:02:33
Speaker 1: leading the global operations one of the most iconic real
2:02:36
Speaker 1: estate empires in the world overseas. The expansive portfolio including
2:02:40
Speaker 1: the Trump Hotels, Trump Golf. You can go on and
2:02:42
Speaker 1: on and on about the real estate holdings. He is
2:02:44
Speaker 1: responsible for the company's expansion into emerging industries. He also
2:02:48
Speaker 1: happens to be the target of a lot of political
2:02:50
Speaker 1: attacks and just by virtue of his membership of the
2:02:52
Speaker 1: Trump family. That's what the book about. At least I
2:02:55
Speaker 1: understand Eric Trump. It's great to have you on the
2:02:56
Speaker 1: fifty five Casey Morning shows. I sat here and contemplated
2:03:01
Speaker 1: the last say ten years, and I guess you've lived
2:03:04
Speaker 1: with this microscope focus your entire life. I mean, would
2:03:08
Speaker 1: that be accurate before the Trump political era came in?
2:03:11
Speaker 11: Yeah, but never anything like this. Brian and a'moso honored
2:03:14
Speaker 11: the book. You know, Underseags went to number one on Amazon.
2:03:16
Speaker 11: It's doing incredible. And then clearly people are you know,
2:03:19
Speaker 11: clearly people in the country and making a statement because
2:03:21
Speaker 11: so many of us have been targeted. It's not just
2:03:22
Speaker 11: Trump family. I mean, Underseage is kind of the story
2:03:24
Speaker 11: of this entire country, the entire Magat movement, all of us,
2:03:27
Speaker 11: I mean all of us were deep platforms, debanks, and
2:03:29
Speaker 11: mean the second my father went down that escalator, it
2:03:31
Speaker 11: took twelve minutes before the Washington Post wrote wrote an article,
2:03:34
Speaker 11: this is when the impeachment of Donald Trump began. And they,
2:03:37
Speaker 11: I mean they did everything right. They impeached him twice.
2:03:40
Speaker 11: They made up the dirty dot CAAs they you know,
2:03:43
Speaker 11: accused us of having secret servers in the basement of
2:03:45
Speaker 11: Trump Tower communicating with the Kremlin in Russia. They weaponized
2:03:49
Speaker 11: every DA and every age, whether it's in New York
2:03:52
Speaker 11: City or Washington, Dcor or Fulton County, Georgia, they weaponized
2:03:56
Speaker 11: all of them against our family and my father. I mean,
2:03:58
Speaker 11: they took him off the ballot in Maine, they took
2:04:00
Speaker 11: him off the ballot in Colorado. They stripped him of
2:04:02
Speaker 11: all his social media. I mean, if you tried to
2:04:05
Speaker 11: type in Trump into YouTube, you couldn't find him. And
2:04:07
Speaker 11: they threw him off of Twitter, and threw him off
2:04:09
Speaker 11: of x and threw him off of Facebook. I became
2:04:12
Speaker 11: the most impement person in American history. I've never gotten
2:04:14
Speaker 11: so much as a traffic ticket. They did everything they
2:04:17
Speaker 11: could to destroy our family. They raided mar Alago, they
2:04:20
Speaker 11: raided Milania's room, they raided Baron's room, and then they
2:04:24
Speaker 11: tried to kill him in Butler, Pennsylvania. And then they
2:04:26
Speaker 11: tried to kill him again, you know, eight weeks later
2:04:29
Speaker 11: at the golf course in Florida. They tried to put
2:04:31
Speaker 11: our family and our country under siege because they didn't
2:04:34
Speaker 11: like what my father was saying, and they didn't like
2:04:36
Speaker 11: the fact that we had created the greatest political movement
2:04:38
Speaker 11: in history. And Brian, the story had to be told.
2:04:41
Speaker 11: It had to be told from kind of an insider view,
2:04:44
Speaker 11: as a guy sitting in the courtroom, as a guy
2:04:45
Speaker 11: receiving those subpoenas, as a guy fighting like hell for
2:04:49
Speaker 11: our entire family and really holding that family together outside
2:04:52
Speaker 11: of Washington, DC, because I was in charge of you know,
2:04:54
Speaker 11: everything that you just listed, you know, and the story
2:04:56
Speaker 11: had to be told to the American people. And by
2:04:59
Speaker 11: the way, the greatest part of this Ryan, we won.
2:05:01
Speaker 11: I mean, we beat the mainstream media. We beat them
2:05:04
Speaker 11: in embarrassing fashion. They're totally irrelevant and independent voices like
2:05:07
Speaker 11: yours are all of a sudden, you know, winning the
2:05:09
Speaker 11: day where you know, ten years ago, I think that
2:05:11
Speaker 11: was very different. NBC and ABC and CBS were the
2:05:15
Speaker 11: trusted voice of this nation. They are no longer. And
2:05:19
Speaker 11: you know, and we had the greatest victory in political history,
2:05:21
Speaker 11: winning the popular vote, winning every swing state and so on.
2:05:25
Speaker 11: And so it's a beautiful story, but man, was it
2:05:27
Speaker 11: a hell of a fight.
2:05:28
Speaker 1: Do you take any comfortable at the big win? Because
2:05:31
Speaker 1: to me, that sort of suggested that, you know, We're
2:05:33
Speaker 1: smarter out here in the unwashed masses than the Democrats
2:05:36
Speaker 1: perceived us to be. We saw what happened to Donald Trump.
2:05:40
Speaker 1: We knew that Steele dossier was paid for by the
2:05:42
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, created whole cloth full of lives for the
2:05:45
Speaker 1: purpose of keeping Donald Trump from getting elected. Enter Hillary
2:05:49
Speaker 1: Clinton's debacle. She lost her own campaign. I think on that.
2:05:51
Speaker 1: Then they used that Steele doci to continue to perpetuate
2:05:54
Speaker 1: this myth that the Russia was involved in the collusion,
2:05:56
Speaker 1: to go through the whole investigation find out there is
2:05:58
Speaker 1: nothing there. This was all a lie, that was all
2:06:01
Speaker 1: done to undermine your dad getting anything accomplished in his
2:06:05
Speaker 1: first four years. And Lord Almighty, it was non stop
2:06:09
Speaker 1: under siege. It was the biggest political distraction from getting
2:06:12
Speaker 1: work done that I've ever witnessed in my sixty years
2:06:14
Speaker 1: of life.
2:06:16
Speaker 11: You know what, I'll never forget thinking of my desk
2:06:17
Speaker 11: at Trump Tower and I get a call, and the
2:06:19
Speaker 11: first calls from the New York Times, the second calls
2:06:21
Speaker 11: from the Washington Post. Eric, I hear you have secret
2:06:23
Speaker 11: servers in the basement of Trump Tower that are communicating
2:06:26
Speaker 11: with the Kremlin. I almost spit my drink out on
2:06:28
Speaker 11: my desk. I was laughing so hard, right, I mean, like,
2:06:30
Speaker 11: give me a secret servers is. We hardly knew what
2:06:32
Speaker 11: a delegate was, Brian. You know, we're real estate people.
2:06:35
Speaker 11: You know, we had gotten into the political thing. I mean,
2:06:37
Speaker 11: you want to talk about winging it, We were like
2:06:39
Speaker 11: the definition of winging it. We weren't smart enough to
2:06:40
Speaker 11: communicate with with with Russia or collude with Russia. I
2:06:44
Speaker 11: mean I started laughing and I said to them, you
2:06:46
Speaker 11: want to come over here right now, and if you
2:06:47
Speaker 11: over here in five minutes, I'll give you a I'll
2:06:49
Speaker 11: give you a tour of the basement of Trump Tower.
2:06:50
Speaker 11: You can look for the quote unquote secret servers.
2:06:53
Speaker 4: Right.
2:06:54
Speaker 11: They knew it was a lie. The FBI knew it
2:06:56
Speaker 11: was a lie, and they led it percolate for three years.
2:07:00
Speaker 11: At first, they wanted it to be our October surprise
2:07:02
Speaker 11: so Hillary Clinton could get three extra votes, you know,
2:07:04
Speaker 11: and hopefully win the election. And they even defined the
2:07:06
Speaker 11: October surprise as something that is so damaging, you know,
2:07:10
Speaker 11: but somebody doesn't have enough time to disprove, so the
2:07:13
Speaker 11: damage is done by the time they disprove it. Right then,
2:07:16
Speaker 11: after they lost in such embarrassing passion against a group
2:07:19
Speaker 11: of quote unquote misfits who didn't know anything about politics
2:07:22
Speaker 11: and were at a five to one fundraising deficit. They
2:07:25
Speaker 11: continued the narrative to allow Hillary to stay faced, and
2:07:28
Speaker 11: by doing so, they literally pitted the two biggest nuclear
2:07:31
Speaker 11: superpowers against each other, which hampered communication for a three
2:07:35
Speaker 11: year period of time. I mean, you know how awkward
2:07:37
Speaker 11: those conversations were as they were accusing us of Russia
2:07:40
Speaker 11: collusion between my father and and and Putin and again
2:07:44
Speaker 11: also Hillary, you know, some greedy woman could get could
2:07:47
Speaker 11: get you know, three extra votes in a campaign which
2:07:49
Speaker 11: he otherwise lost, or try and stay faced. Why why
2:07:51
Speaker 11: the Clinton dynasty, you know, who actually knew something about
2:07:54
Speaker 11: politics and had actually been to Washington, DC before, you know,
2:07:59
Speaker 11: lost to effectively my father and myself and Don who
2:08:02
Speaker 11: are really the only three people who were standing on
2:08:04
Speaker 11: that stage at that time, because no one else believed
2:08:05
Speaker 11: in us. And that's how damaging this is. And they
2:08:08
Speaker 11: knew it, and they allowed it to continue for the
2:08:11
Speaker 11: sake of the Democratic Party, even though everybody knew who
2:08:13
Speaker 11: was a lie.
2:08:14
Speaker 1: My guess said, Hey, Eric Truv, author of Underseieged My
2:08:17
Speaker 1: Family's fight to save our nation. Eric got to ask
2:08:20
Speaker 1: you what was rather perplexing for me the entire time,
2:08:23
Speaker 1: Although I can understand him just sitting back and saying,
2:08:26
Speaker 1: I'm not going to touch this with a ten foot
2:08:27
Speaker 1: poll let me watch them self destruct. How come Vladimir
2:08:30
Speaker 1: Putin didn't chime in at any given time? Since we're
2:08:33
Speaker 1: talking about him and what he did, you'd think maybe
2:08:35
Speaker 1: just maybe he'd interject, maybe a comment or two, but
2:08:38
Speaker 1: never happened.
2:08:39
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's chaos and other countries that our adversaries are
2:08:41
Speaker 11: probably beneficial to Russia and China, right, I mean, I think,
2:08:45
Speaker 11: I think if you look at the playbook of most
2:08:47
Speaker 11: adversaries to the United States, right, And I don't want
2:08:50
Speaker 11: to try and pitch two countries against each other right
2:08:51
Speaker 11: now by saying this, But no, I mean they're not
2:08:54
Speaker 11: exactly you know, China doesn't exactly want harmony in the
2:08:57
Speaker 11: United States, right, They don't want exactly sunshine and lollipops
2:09:00
Speaker 11: and rainbows. You know, these guys are popping the popcorn
2:09:03
Speaker 11: watching us tear each other apart, you know, based on
2:09:07
Speaker 11: Miss Trews and probably laughing all the way to the bank.
2:09:10
Speaker 11: I mean, that's how that's how real life works as
2:09:13
Speaker 11: as sick and deranged as that is. And so you
2:09:15
Speaker 11: know that's why he didn't say anything. And you know, Harraham,
2:09:17
Speaker 11: I probably won't say anything.
2:09:18
Speaker 1: Yeah. I figured that was a direct answer to the question.
2:09:21
Speaker 1: Of course, we know the Chinese Communist Party is stirring
2:09:23
Speaker 1: the pot of division in this country through social media, though,
2:09:25
Speaker 1: and actively engage in that. Yeah. One of the more
2:09:28
Speaker 1: troubling issues of are illustrations of lawfare. And you know,
2:09:31
Speaker 1: I practice laws of litigation attorney for sixteen years before
2:09:34
Speaker 1: it came on the Morning Show, so I have a
2:09:35
Speaker 1: little bit of background in terms of the uh, the
2:09:38
Speaker 1: straight face test that you have to pass when you
2:09:40
Speaker 1: file a lawsuit the real estate claims against Donald Trump
2:09:43
Speaker 1: in New York that somehow he overvalued the real estate.
2:09:46
Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about major banks that have their
2:09:50
Speaker 1: own legal departments, that do their own real estate valuations.
2:09:53
Speaker 1: They are experts at this. This was an arms length transaction.
2:09:56
Speaker 1: If your dad said the place is worth a trillion dollars,
2:09:58
Speaker 1: they would have laughed and said, no, we did our
2:10:00
Speaker 1: own evaluation. It's worth acts and they can haggle over that.
2:10:03
Speaker 1: But they either accepted his calculations, recognizing that there was
2:10:06
Speaker 1: enough this, I mean, he was going to pay it back.
2:10:08
Speaker 1: They weren't damaged. There was no justiciable controversy that that laws.
2:10:14
Speaker 11: And I could go into this for four hours because
2:10:16
Speaker 11: this is what I do. I run the Trump organization.
2:10:18
Speaker 11: Not only were they not damaged, they made hundreds of
2:10:20
Speaker 11: millions of dollars and they testify saying that they were
2:10:23
Speaker 11: we were the best borrower they've ever had, meaning you know,
2:10:26
Speaker 11: they were literally they had emails which is, how do
2:10:28
Speaker 11: we loan Trump more money? Because he's literally the best borrower.
2:10:30
Speaker 11: They called us the big whale and the platinum borrower, right,
2:10:33
Speaker 11: and then letsitsie James comes in and says that we
2:10:36
Speaker 11: somehow defrauded banks. We defrauded Deutsche Banks, the most sophisticated
2:10:39
Speaker 11: real estate lender on planet Earth. And the great irony
2:10:43
Speaker 11: of it is they did every year they did their
2:10:45
Speaker 11: own appraisers, you know, appraisals on the assets, and they
2:10:48
Speaker 11: had to meet some LTV test and every single year
2:10:51
Speaker 11: they plot, you know, they passed with flying colors, so
2:10:53
Speaker 11: that collateral to the actual loan was the property itself.
2:10:58
Speaker 11: With every year they were appraise and it was passing
2:11:01
Speaker 11: the very test. There was never a default. There was
2:11:04
Speaker 11: never a mispayment. There was never There wasn't there was
2:11:07
Speaker 11: never a breach of contract. You know, there was nothing.
2:11:10
Speaker 11: There was nothing. And they came in and they literally
2:11:12
Speaker 11: testified in court. I was sitting there ten feet away
2:11:15
Speaker 11: from the guy from Deutsche Bank. These are some of
2:11:17
Speaker 11: the best real estate as, these are some of the
2:11:18
Speaker 11: most honest people. We've never had a problem with them,
2:11:20
Speaker 11: We've loved the relationship. We consider them a platinum borrower.
2:11:24
Speaker 11: And then all of a sudden, the verdict comes down
2:11:25
Speaker 11: five hundred and sixty million dollars paid immediately, you know,
2:11:28
Speaker 11: and and let Dan, Eric and Don and Donald Trump
2:11:31
Speaker 11: from ever doing business in New York City again.
2:11:34
Speaker 1: It was insane.
2:11:35
Speaker 11: Now, thankfully, Brian, the Appellate Court through the thing out,
2:11:38
Speaker 11: including the presiding Judge of New York States, through the
2:11:40
Speaker 11: entire thing out at a five zero decision. But this
2:11:44
Speaker 11: is the lawfare that we were against. But they didn't care.
2:11:46
Speaker 11: They found a crooked judge and they wanted to try
2:11:49
Speaker 11: and bankrupt our company, bankrupt our family, no different than
2:11:52
Speaker 11: the gag orders they put on my father every single day,
2:11:55
Speaker 11: which is why I was on the courthouse steps yelling
2:11:57
Speaker 11: and screaming because you know, in some of the cases
2:11:59
Speaker 11: I wasn't so I was the only Trump voice who
2:12:01
Speaker 11: could go out there and communicate a message. It's what
2:12:04
Speaker 11: they wanted to do. They wanted to silence us. They
2:12:05
Speaker 11: wanted to destroy us. They wanted to ruin the company.
2:12:08
Speaker 11: They want to bankrupt our family. They wanted to take
2:12:10
Speaker 11: my father out using any means possible, which is the
2:12:13
Speaker 11: exact definition of a siege. That's why I called the
2:12:16
Speaker 11: book under Siege, because you know they lay siege to
2:12:18
Speaker 11: not only our family, but to all of us and
2:12:21
Speaker 11: our entire nation.
2:12:22
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the emotions you had to go through.
2:12:25
Speaker 1: I mean, basically, from the moment he walked down the
2:12:27
Speaker 1: steps of pronouncing his presidency, you woke up and are
2:12:29
Speaker 1: living a Kofka novel.
2:12:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe worse.
2:12:32
Speaker 11: Honestly, if you were to ask you if you read
2:12:35
Speaker 11: Under Siege, you know at the end of it you'd say,
2:12:37
Speaker 11: it almost can't be true. But we know it is
2:12:40
Speaker 11: because every American lived parts of it in their own life.
2:12:44
Speaker 11: I mean, if somebody did it in a fictional novel,
2:12:46
Speaker 11: you'd say, you know, that's a little extreme, but this
2:12:48
Speaker 11: is what they did. I would have never thought that
2:12:50
Speaker 11: could have been the United States of America. I mean,
2:12:52
Speaker 11: I could have never thought that an FBI director Tomey
2:12:55
Speaker 11: and it was spending his time leaking memos to the
2:12:57
Speaker 11: New York Times. I mean, aren't FB eye directors. You know,
2:13:01
Speaker 11: maybe I'm old school, but like I want an FBI
2:13:03
Speaker 11: director to focus on, you know, not having planes fly
2:13:05
Speaker 11: into buildings, make sure terrorists aren't shooting up subway stations,
2:13:09
Speaker 11: making sure that our streets are safe, making sure that
2:13:11
Speaker 11: they're no serial killers. Like even that what most people
2:13:14
Speaker 11: think of an FBI director as doing, meaning protecting the homeland.
2:13:17
Speaker 11: Instead this guy, you know, this guy's buddies with everybody
2:13:19
Speaker 11: over at you know, in your Times, leaking memos every
2:13:22
Speaker 11: single day involving conversations that he had with the President
2:13:25
Speaker 11: of the United States. Like do we not as a
2:13:27
Speaker 11: country deserve so much better than that, you know, And
2:13:31
Speaker 11: it's it's it's crazy, Like this isn't the best of government.
2:13:34
Speaker 11: This is the worst of government. This is the worst
2:13:36
Speaker 11: way you could spend your task. Pare money and and
2:13:38
Speaker 11: just all of us, everybody listening, every civilian in this
2:13:42
Speaker 11: in this nation, demands better from these people.
2:13:45
Speaker 1: Eric Trump, you and of course, your father, Donald Trump,
2:13:47
Speaker 1: showed the value of sticking it out, fighting against this nonsense,
2:13:51
Speaker 1: constant attack regularly twenty four to seven a day. They
2:13:54
Speaker 1: managed to persevere. And I really truly salute you and
2:13:58
Speaker 1: your father for sticking it out and you know, showing
2:14:01
Speaker 1: the strength. It was necessary because very few among us
2:14:04
Speaker 1: could show it. But then again, very few among us
2:14:06
Speaker 1: could afford the legal charges and fees that you got
2:14:09
Speaker 1: build monthly to deal with this lawfair It would have
2:14:11
Speaker 1: broken the average American. So it's a red flag for
2:14:14
Speaker 1: everybody there. But for the grace of God, go i.
2:14:16
Speaker 1: Eric Trump, author of Underseas, The Families Fight or My
2:14:19
Speaker 1: Famili's Fight to Save Our Nation, Eric Wedmit it easy
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Speaker 1: for my listeners get a copy. It's on my blog
2:14:23
Speaker 1: page fifty five Cadsey dot com, and I will strongly
2:14:26
Speaker 1: encourage them to get a copy of this book, read it,
2:14:28
Speaker 1: and also share it with their friends.
2:14:29
Speaker 11: Brian really appreciate you, my friends. It was a great
2:14:31
Speaker 11: honor to be on you. You go get a copy,
2:14:33
Speaker 11: send it to your liberal friends, and it's on Amazon.
2:14:35
Speaker 1: It's number one.
2:14:36
Speaker 11: We're doing great, so I'm very proud of it.
2:14:37
Speaker 1: Eric Trump, keep up the great worth